Group Meetings Schedule 2015
Jan 7, No group meeting ( ARO/AFOSR Program Review @ Rice )
Jan 14, Max Arzamasovs, Wednesday 7:00 pm (pitt time)
Topology in time-dependent systems
Jan 21, Jinlong Yu, Wednesday 7:00 pm (pitt time)
Measuring the Chern number of Hofstadter bands with ultracold bosonic atoms Ref: M. Aidelsburger, M. Lohse, C. Schweizer, M. Atala, J. T. Barreiro, S. Nascimbène, N. R. Cooper, I. Bloch, N. Goldman, arXiv:1407.4205
Jan 28, Jiyao Chen, Wednesday 7:00 pm (pitt time)
SU(3) spin liquid and its projective construction
Feb 4, Zhenyu Zhou, Wednesday 7:00 pm (pitt time)
Tensor Network States and PEPS realization
Feb 11, Ahmet Keles, Wednesday 7:00 pm (pitt time)
Functional renormalization group theory for dipolar fermions
Feb 18, Jianhui Zhou, Wednesday 7:00 pm (pitt time)
Valley-Selective Optical Stark Effect in Monolayer WS2 Ref: E.J.Sie, et al, Nature Materials (2014).
Feb 25, Long Liang (ITP, Beijing), Wednesday 7:30 pm (pitt time) (postdoc candidate talk)
Distinct-symmetry spin-liquid states and phase diagram of the Kitaev-Hubbard model
Mar 4, No group meeting (March meeting @San Antonio, TX)
U.S. time change
Mar 11,Hoi-Yin Hui (University of Maryland), Wednesday 8:00 pm (pitt time) (8:00 am Beijing time) (postdoc candidate talk)
Majoranas in a ferromagnetic chain on the surface of a superconductor
Mar 18, Bo Liu, Wednesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)
Observation of many-body localization of interacting fermions in a quasi-random optical lattice Ref: arxiv: 1501.05661
Mar 25, Zhifang Xu, Wednesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)
Superradiance in a degenerate Fermi gas
Apr 1, Haiyuan Zou, Wednesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)
Tensor network states for a compass model
Apr 8, Max Arzamasovs, Wednesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)
Topological invariants in Floquet Topological Insulators D’Alessio, Rigol, http://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.6319.pdf
Apr 15, Jinlong Yu, Wednesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)
Synthetic Gauge Fields in Synthetic Dimensions
Apr 22, Jiyao Chen, Wednesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)
Symmetry breaking and geometry of reduced density matrix
Apr 29, Ahmet Keles, Wednesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)
Engineering the Weyl Hamiltonian using the superconducting super-lattice structures
Summer 2015
Meet on every 4 week Wednesday 8pm Pittsburgh time (Thur. 8:00 am Beijing time) unless noted otherwise.
May 6, Bo Liu, Wednesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)
Quantum magnetism with ultracold atoms
Jun 3, Haiyuan Zou, Wednesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)
Phase transitions in a compass model
July 1, no group meeting
July 29, Max Arzamasovs, Wednesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)
Fall 2015
Meet on every Wednesday 8pm Pittsburgh time (Thur. 8:00 am Beijing time) unless noted otherwise
Aug 26, Jinlong Yu , Wednesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)
Generating topological optical flux lattices for ultracold atoms by modulated Raman and radio-frequency transitions
Sep 2, no group meeting
Sep 9, Jiyao Chen, Wednesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)
Geometry of reduced density matrix for symmetry-protected topological phase
Sep 16, Ahmet Keles, Wednesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)
Competing instabilities in 2D spinless Dipolar Fermi Gas
Sep 23, Bo Liu, Wednesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)
Exotic magnetic structures in a spin-orbit coupled Fermi gas
Sep 30, Haiyuan Zou, Wednesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)
Fractionalized Fermi liquid on the surface of a topological Kondo insulator Ref: A. Thomson, S. Sachdev, arxiv:1509.03314
Oct 7, Max Arzamasovs, Wednesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)
exotic quantum phases in spin-orbit coupled spin-1 bosons
Oct 14, Jinlong Yu, Wednesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)
Two Experiments on Many-Body Localization
Ref: 1. I. Bloch group, Science 349, 842 (2015). 2. C. Monroe group, arXiv:1508.07026.
Oct 21, Jiyao Chen, Wednesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)
Oct 28, Ahmet Keles, Wednesday 8:00 pm (pitt time)
Nematicity and quantum paramagnetism in FeSe Fa Wang,Steven A. Kivelson& Dung-Hai Lee Nature Physics 3456 (2015)
U.S. time change
Meet on every Wednesday 7pm Pittsburgh time (Thur. 8:00 am Beijing time) unless noted otherwise.
Nov 4, Bo Liu, Wednesday 7:00 pm (pitt time)
Orbital interaction induced Feshbach resonance
Nov 11, Haiyuan Zou, Wednesday 7:00 pm (pitt time)
A Quantum Dipolar Spin Liquid N.Yao,M.Zaletel,D.Stamper-Kurn&A.Vishwanash Arxiv:1510.06403
Nov 18, Max Arzamasovs, Wednesday 7:30 pm (pitt time)
Statistical transmutation in Floquet driven optical lattice
Nov 25, no group meeting(thanksgiving)
Dec 2, Jinlong Yu, Wednesday 7:00 pm (pitt time)
When an optical lattice meets a cavity Ref: Tilman Esslinger group @ ETH, arXiv:1511.00007
Dec 9, Ahmet Keles, Wednesday 7:00 pm (pitt time)
Direct probing of the Mott crossover in the SU(N) Fermi-Hubbard model Ref: Bloch Group arXiv:1511.07287
Dec 16-Dec 31, no group meeting (winter break)
