Quantum Connections in Sweden-2 Workshop

3 Jul 2017, 09:00 → 7 Jul 2017, 18:00 Europe/Stockholm

AlbaNova University Center, Sweden

Antti Niemi, Egor Babaev (KTH), Frank Wilczek, Thors Hans Hansson

A week of workshops at the frontiers of quantum physics. Hosted by Frank Wilczek in collaboration with Stockholm University, Nordita and Wilczek Quantum Center at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Group photo outside the Nobel Museum, 6 July, 2017. [Click photo for higher resolution]
Back row, from left: Qi Zhang, Irina Shnyra, Xin Wang, Siddhardh Morampudi, Ahmet Keles, Xiaoqun Wang, Zi Cai, Antti Niemi
Third row: Marcin Nowakowski, Biao Wu, Ying Jiang, Soonwon Choi, Zheng-Xin Liu, Peng Zhang, Norman Yao, Alexander Molochkov
Second row: Michael Stone, Anne Dominic, Vincent Liu, Frank Wilczek, Elizabeth Yang, Soucheng Zhang, Anna Sinelnikova, Jordan Cotler, Xi Lin, Egor Babaev, Dai Jing
Front row: Åsa Storm, Betsy Devine

More photos from the conference

Venue

Nordita, Stockholm, Sweden

Invited Participants (tentative)

Alexander Altland Zi Cai Gang Chen Yan Chen Soonwon Choi Jordan Cotler Qing-Dong Jiang Ying Jiang Ahmet Keles Bo Liu Vincent Liu Zhenxin Liu Xi Lin Mikhail Lukin

Cristiane Morais Smith Siddhardh Morampudi Chetan Nayak Marcin Nowakowski Al Shapere Xiaoqun Wang Biao Wu Hongwei Xiong Minghui Xu Norman Yau Peng Zhang Qi Zhang Shoucheng Zhang ...and others.

Program

Daily Program (PDF)

NOTE: The audience space is limited – those who have not registered are kindly requested to respect that registered participants should have priority. With this limitation, the workshop is open for all colleagues.

Application

Participation is by invitation only. Those interested in participating should contact Antti Niemi at antti.niemi@su.se

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Monday 3 July

09:00 → 09:45 Registration / Coffee / Discussion

09:45 → 10:00 Opening of the meeting

Speakers: Frank Wilczek, Hans Hansson

10:00 → 11:00 Introduction to Spin Liquids

Speaker: Frank Wilczek

11:00 → 12:00 This Time will be Different: Time Crystals in Quantum Systems

Speaker: Chetan Nayak

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch served at Nordita East Building

13:30 → 14:30 Long-range prethermal and dissipative classical time crystals

Speaker: Norman Yao

14:30 → 15:30 Topological superfluid of interacting cold gases in optical lattices

Speaker: Vincent Liu

15:30 → 16:30 Coffee / Discussion

16:30 → 17:00 Kibble-Zurek mechanism for open quantum phase transitions

Speaker: Jonas Larson

17:00 → 17:30 Field induced quantum spin liquid states on Honeycomb lattice

Speaker: Zhengxin Liu

18:00 → 21:00 Get-together / BBQ

Tuesday 4 July

09:00 → 09:30 Searching for Dirac's magnetic monopole in quantum spin ices

Speaker: Gang Chen

09:30 → 10:00 Center of Mass Momentum Dependent Interaction Between Ultracold Atoms

Speaker: Peng Zhang

10:00 → 11:00 Coffee / Discussion

11:00 → 12:00 Quantum Sequential Hamiltonian Algorithm

Speaker: Biao Wu

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch served at Nordita East Building

13:30 → 14:30 Anyonic statistics from threshold spectroscopy

Speaker: Siddhardh Morampudi

14:30 → 15:00 Coffee / Discussion

15:00 → 16:00 TBA

Speaker: Christiane Morais Smith

16:00 → 16:30 Approximating quantum many-body wave-functions using artificial neural networks

Speaker: Zi Cai

Wednesday 5 July

09:30 → 10:30 Quantum many-body dynamics in strongly interacting dipolar spin systems: from time-crystals to quantum metrology

Speaker: Soonwon Choi

10:30 → 11:00 Odd-frequency Pairing in Driven Superconductors

Speaker: Christopher Triola

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee / Discussion

11:30 → 12:30 Breakdown of type-I/type-II dichotomy of superconducting states: theory and experimental evidence

Speaker: Egor Babaev

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch served at Nordita East Building

13:30 → 21:00 Afternoon / Evening at Gröna Lund (including dinner)

Thursday 6 July

09:00 → 10:00 Some Simple Realizations of Time Crystals

Speaker: Al Shapere

10:00 → 10:30 TBA

Speaker: Jordan Cotler

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee / Discussion

11:00 → 12:00 Quantum Entanglement in Time - Is that real?

Speaker: Marcin Nowakowski

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch served at Nordita East Building

13:30 → 14:00 Logistic Growth of Skyrmions in 3D Chiral Magnets

Speaker: Ying Jiang

14:00 → 15:00 Discovery of the chiral Majorana fermion

Speaker: Shoucheng Zhang

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee / Discussion

15:30 → 21:00 Transfer to Nobel Museum - tour and dinner starting at 17:00

Friday 7 July

09:30 → 10:30 Spin frustration and spin liquid on a triangular lattice

Speaker: Xiaoqun Wang

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee / Discussion

11:00 → 12:00 The dynamics of massless spinning particles

Speaker: Michael Stone

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch served at Nordita East Building

13:30 → 14:30 Exploring non-equilibrium quantum dynamics with strongly interacting atom arrays

Speaker: Mikhail Lukin

14:30 → 15:00 Coffee / Discussion

15:00 → 15:30 Diagrammatic simulation of strongly correlated systems

Speaker: Johan Carlström

15:30 → 16:00 Anomalous Even Denominator Fractional Quantum Hall Plateaus in Samples of Confined Geometry

Speaker: Xi Lin

16:00 → 16:20 Closing remarks

Speaker: Frank Wilczek

16:20 → 19:20 Cocktails - End of program