Quantum Connections in Sweden-4 Workshop: "Quantum Topology and Time"

25 Jun 2018, 09:00 → 29 Jun 2018, 18:00 Europe/Stockholm

132:028 (Nordita, Stockholm)

Antti Niemi, Biao Wu, Egor Babaev, 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 in front of the Nordita West building [Click to see larger image]	Group photo in the Vasa Museum 28 June 2018 [Click to see larger image]

Venue

Nordita, Stockholm, Sweden

Program

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 25 June

1 Coffee and discussion

2 Opening of the meeting

Speakers: Frank Wilczek, Hans Hansson

3 Quantum simulation and computation with ultra-cold atoms

Speaker: Jian-Wei Pan

4 Phenomenological theory for pseudogap state in underdoped high temperature superconducting copper-oxides

Speaker: Fuchun Zhang

11:30 Lunch, followed by informal discussions

5 Discovery of the chiral Majorana fermion ands its application to topological quantum computing

Speaker: Soucheng Zhang

6 TBA

Speaker: Yu-Ao Chen

15:15 Coffee

7 Spontaneous symmetry breaking of time translational invariance in open quantum systems

Speaker: Carlos Navarrete-Benlloch

8 Tensor networks for continuum field theories

Speaker: Jordan Cotler

9 General discussion

18:00 Get-together, BBQ

Tuesday 26 June

10 Stability of Dirac liquids against strong Coulomb interaction

Speaker: Nikolai Prokof'ev

11 Magic-angle graphenem a new platform for strongly correlated physics

Speaker: Pablo Jariillo-Herrero

11:30 Lunch, followed by informal discussions

12 TBA

Speaker: Norman Yao

13 Normal state of cuprates, an emergent Bose liquid?

Speaker: Wei Ku

15:30 Coffee

14 Quantum ergodicity and mixing

Speaker: Biao Wu

15 TBA

Speaker: Xiangjun Xing

Wednesday 27 June

16 TBA

17 Hamiltonian time crystals

Speaker: Antti Niemi

18 Topological aspects of non-Hermitian systems

Speaker: Emil Bergholtz

11:45 Lunch, followed by informal discussions

19 Quantum convolutional neural network

Speaker: Soonwon Choi

20 TBA

Speaker: Cristiane Morais-Smith

14:30 Afternoon and evening at Gröna lund, with dinner at 18.00

Thursday 28 June

21 Metallic quantum critical phenomena: the case of the nematic

Speaker: Steven Kivelson

22 TBA

Speaker: Vincent Liu

11:30 Lunch, followed by informal discussions

23 TBA

Speaker: Pawel Horodecki

24 Bound entanglement detection and activation; super-additivity of two quantum information resources

Speaker: Mohammed Bourenanne

15:30 Coffee

25 TBA

Speaker: Qing-Dong Jiang

26 Out-of-time-order correlators in open quantum systems: the Feynman-Vernon influence functional approach

Speaker: Jan Tuziemski

19:00 Vasa museum: tour and dinner

Friday 29 June

27 Anomalies, knots and currents in chiral matter

Speaker: Dmitri Kharzeev

28 Axion-photon conversion caused by dielectric interfaces: quantum field calculation

Speaker: Alexander Molochkov

29 TBA

Speaker: Xiaoqun Wang

11:45 Lunch, followed by informal discussions

30 Algebraic time crystallization in a two-dimensional superfluid

Speaker: Boris Svistunov

31 Low-energy physics of a superfluid vortex lattice

Speaker: Sergej Moroz

32 Axion-photon conversion caused by dielectric interfaces: quantum field calculation

Speaker: Alexander Millar

33 Concluding remarks

16:00 Cocktails, end of program