Program
last update: 30/07/2013
Please click on the title to see the abstract (if available).
Talks during the first and third week (seminar) are 50 min + 10 minutes discussion.
| Monday, July 15 | |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Alexander Seidel (Washington University in St. Louis) |
| Parent Hamiltonians and correlation functions for the nearest neighbor resonating valence bond state on the Kagome lattice | |
| Tuesday, July 16 | |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Bela Bauer (Microsoft Research Station Q) |
| to be announced | |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Eun-Ah Kim (Cornell University) |
| Superconducting proximity effect in topological metal | |
| Wednesday, July 17 | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Shoucheng Zhang (Stanford University) |
| Three cheers for the quantum Hall trio | |
| Thursday, July 18 | |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Dmytro Pesin (University of Utah) |
| Probing the chiral anomaly with nonlocal transport in Weyl semimetals | |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Oleg Starykh (University of Utah) |
| Spin-current and other unusual phases in magnetized triangular lattice antiferromagnets | |
| Friday, July 19 | |
| discussions & group work | |
| Workshop Overview |
| Sunday, July 21 | |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | registration |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | welcome reception |
| Monday, July 22 | |
| 08:45 - 09:00 | opening |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Giniyat Khaliullin (MPI for Solid State Physics) |
| Magnetic order and excitations in layered iridium oxides | |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Radu Coldea (University of Oxford) |
| Spin dynamics in layered honeycomb iridates: Implications for Kitaev physics | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Roderich Moessner (MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems) |
| Dynamics of a quantum spin liquid: The dynamical structure factor of the Kitaev model | |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Roser Valenti (University of Frankfurt) |
| Hexagonal iridates and rhodates: An ab initio analysis | |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | lunch |
| 14:30 - 15:15 | Roman Lutchyn (Microsoft Research Station Q) |
| Effects of interactions on tunneling conductance in topological superconductor/nanowire devices | |
| 15:15 - 16:00 | Pavel Ostrovsky (MPI for Solid State Research) |
| Superconducting proximity effect in quantum wires without time-reversal symmetry and localization of Majorana fermions | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | SPORE13 Colloquium |
| Achim Rosch (University of Cologne) | |
| Skyrmions and monopoles in chiral magnets | |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | dinner |
| 20:00 - 21:30 | poster session |
| Tuesday, July 23 | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Satoru Nakatsuji (University of Tokyo) |
| Quantum fluctuations and anomalous semi-metallic behavior in Pr based spin ices | |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Stephan Rachel (Technical University Dresden) |
| Topological and magnetic phases in monolayers of Na2IrO3 | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Yong-Baek Kim (University of Toronto) |
| Topological phases, non-Fermi liquid, and anomalous Hall effect with strong spin-orbit coupling | |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Arun Paramekanti (University of Toronto) |
| Spin-orbital locked electronic states and magnetic excitations in double perovskites | |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | lunch |
| 14:30 - 15:15 | Andreas Rüegg (University of California, Berkeley) |
| Wedge-disclinations in graphene-based topological insulators | |
| 15:15 - 16:00 | Karyn Le Hur (CNRS & Ecole Polytechnique) |
| Topological insulators and Mott physics in materials with anisotropic spin-orbit coupling | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:15 | Patrik Recher (Technical University Braunschweig) |
| Creation and detection of Majorana Fermions in topological superconductors | |
| 17:15 - 18:00 | Daniel Loss (University of Basel) |
| Exotic quantum matter at the edge | |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | dinner |
| 19:00 - 19:30 | Tobias Meng (University of Basel) |
| Spiral Luttinger liquids and nuclear spin order in multi subband quantum wires | |
| 19:30 - 20:00 | Andreas Schnyder (MPI for Solid State Physics) |
| Protected boundary states in topological superconductors | |
| 20:00 - 20:30 | Sebastian Huber (ETH Zürich) |
| Lattice effects on vortex dynamics in strongly correlated electron systems | |
| Wednesday, July 24 | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Greg Fiete (University of Texas, Austin) |
| Topological phases in transition metal oxides | |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Fakher Assaad (University of Würzburg) |
| Quantum phase transitions in the Kane-Mele Hubbard model | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Lars Fritz (University of Cologne) |
| Interaction effects on almost fat surface bands in topological insulators | |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Anton Akhmerov (Harvard University) |
| Statistical topological insulators | |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | lunch |
| 14:30 - 15:15 | Christian Pfleiderer (Technical University Munich) |
| Emergence, stability and decay of Skyrmions in chiral magnets | |
| 15:15 - 16:00 | Peter Milde (Technical University Dresden) |
| Magnetic force microscopy investigations of skyrmion crystals | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | coffee break |
| 17:00 - 22:00 | social program & dinner |
| Thursday, July 25 | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Laurens Molenkamp (Würzburg University) |
| HgTe as a topological insulator | |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Claudia Felser (MPI for Chemical Physics of Solids) |
| Heusler compounds, spin orbit coupling, topological insulators and new effects | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Olexei Motrunich (CALTECH) |
| Exactly solvable U(1)xU(1) boson models for integer and fractional quantum Hall insulators in two dimensions | |
| to be announced | |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Claudio Chamon (Boston University) |
| Electrons turn into anyons under an elastic membrane | |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | lunch |
| 14:30 - 15:15 | Nicolas Regnault (Princeton University & ENS Paris) |
| Fractional topological insulators: Some news from 2D and beyond | |
| 15:15 - 16:00 | Shinsei Ryu (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) |
| Symmetry-protected topological phases, generalized Laughlin's arguments, and orbifolds | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:15 | Ilya Eremin (Ruhr-University Bochum) |
| Semi-metal-insulator transition on the surface of a topological insulator with in-plane magnetization | |
| 17:15 - 18:00 | Titus Neupert (Paul Scherrer Institute) |
| Time-reversal symmetry breaking in noncentrosymmetric superconductors | |
| 18:00 | dinner |
| Friday, July 26 | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Duncan Haldane (Princeton University) |
| Quantum geometry of the Laughlin state and flat-band models | |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Andrei Bernevig (Princeton University) |
| Truncated conformal field theory and FQH matrix product states | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | George Jackeli (MPI for Solid State Physics) |
| Spin-orbit coupling in Mott insulators: Unusual interactions and possible exotic phases | |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Hidenori Takagi (University of Tokyo) |
| Novel 5d comounds - Exotic magnet, superconductor and excitonic insulator | |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | lunch |
| 14:30 - 15:15 | Daniel Khomskii (University of Cologne) |
| Spontaneous currents, dipoles and monopoles in frustrated Mott insulators | |
| 15:15 - 16:00 | Carmine Ortix (Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden) |
| Surface and edge states in topological insulators | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | coffee break |
| 18:00 | dinner |
| Monday, July 29 | |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Dmitrii Maslov (University of Florida) |
| Theory of a chiral Fermi liquid | |
| Tuesday, July 30 | |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Itamar Kimchi (University of California, Berkeley) |
| Kitaev-Heisenberg models in three dimensions | |
| Wednesday, July 31 | |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Eddy Ardonne (Stockholm University) |
| Topological invariants for superconductors in one dimension | |
| Thursday, August 01 | |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Kirill Shtengel (University of California, Riverside) |
| Fermionic toric code and quantum compass models | |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Matthias Vojta (TU Dresden) |
| Spin-glass order in spin models for doped honeycomb-lattice iridates | |
| Friday, August 02 | |
| discussions & group work | |
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