The KITS 2017 Forum: New Horizons in Condensed Matter Physics
27-29 March 2017, Beijing, China
The Kavli Institute of Theoretical Sciences (KITS) at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing will hold a three-days conference titled “The KITS 2017 Forum: New Horizons in Condensed Matter Physics” in Beijing from March 27 to March 29, 2017. This is a kickoff conference for the KITS, the newly reformulated Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, China (KITPC). The KITS is expected to be a platform for a fruitful dialogue among all scientists worldwide.
Theme
New important developments and emergent fields in condensed matter physics including topological phases and matters, quantum spin liquid states, high-temperature superconductors and many-body numerical methods.
Objective
To present and share the latest in condensed matter physics, discuss future directions and develop working partnerships among scientists in China and oversea.
Program
| Time | Speaker | Title | ||
| 27 March | ||||
| 09:00-09:30 | Fu-Chun Zhang KITS, UCAS | Opening Session, Introduction to KITS | Slides | |
| 09:30-09:55 | Allan MacDonald UT Austin | New Horizons in Spintronics | Slides | |
| 09:55-10:20 | Dung-Hai Lee UC Berkeley | Landau Versus Topological Phase Transitions | Slides | |
| 11:00-11:25 | Andrei Bernevig Princeton | Topological Quantum Chemistry | ||
| 11:25-11:50 | Yong-Shi Wu Utah / Fudan | Correspondence between 2D Fixed-point Tensor Network and 3D Topological Quantum Field Theory | Slides | |
| 13:30-13:55 | Zhong Fang IOP, CAS | Topological Electronic States and Materials | Slides | |
| 13:55-14:20 | Yong Chen Purdue | Charge, Spin and Thermal Transport in Topological Insulators: Some New Surprises | Slides | |
| 14:20-14:45 | Jin-Feng Jia Shanghai Jiaotong Univ. | Observation of Majorana Fermions in the Vortex on Topological Insulator -Superconductor Heterostructure Bi2Te3/NbSe2 | ||
| 14:45-15:10 | Wang Yao HKU | Valley-spintronics in 2D Semiconductors: From Monolayer to Heterobilayer Moire | ||
| 15:40-16:05 | Cen-Ke Xu UC Santa Barbara | Bosonic Topological Insulator and Self-Dual Quantum Critical Point: From Theory to Experimental Platform | Slides | |
| 16:05-16:30 | Zheng-Cheng Gu CUHK | A Topological World: From Topological Phases of Quantum Matter to the Origin of Elementary Particles | ||
| 16:30-16:55 | Donna Sheng California State Univ. Northridge | Interaction Driven Topological Phases in Strongly Correlated Systems | Slides | |
| 16:55-17:20 | Hong Yao Tsinghua | Edge Quantum Criticality and Emergent Supersymmetry in 2D Interacting Topological Phases | ||
| 28 March | ||||
| 09:00-09:25 | Maw-Kuen Wu IOP, Academia Sinica | Fe Vacancies and Superconductivity in FeSe-based Materials | ||
| 09:25-09:50 | Nan-Lin Wang Peking Univ. | Revealing Extremely Low Energy Amplitude Modes in the CDW LaAgSb2 | Slides | |
| 09:50-10:15 | Robert Joynt Wisconsin Madison | Kerr Rotation in Unconventional Superconductors | Slides | |
| 10:45-11:10 | Tao Xiang IOP, CAS | Lanczos Optimization of Tensor Network States | Slides | |
| 11:10-11:35 | Ying Ran Boston College | Symmetric Tensor Networks and Topological Phases | Slides | |
| 11:35-12:00 | Hong Ding IOP, CAS | Emergent Fermions in Solid State “Universe” | ||
| 13:30-13:55 | Zhi-Xun Shen Stanford | Cooperative Interactions as a Route to High Temperature Superconductivity | ||
| 13:55-14:20 | Qi-Kun Xue Tsinghua | On the Superconducting Mechanism of Unconventional High Temperature Superconductor Materials | Slides | |
| 14:20-14:45 | Shin-ichi Uchida Tokyo | Experimental Search for Preformed Pairs in Pseudogap Phase of Cuprates | Slides | |
| 14:45-15:10 | Ya-Yu Wang Tsinghua | Electronic Structure and Electronic Order in Lightly Doped Cuprates Studied by STM | ||
| 15:40-16:05 | T. Maurice Rice ETH-Zurich | The Transformation of the Superconducting Gap into an Insulating Pseudogap at a Critical Hole Density in the Cuprates | Slides | |
| 16:05-16:30 | Ting-Kuo Lee IOP, Academia Sinica | Spectra of Intertwined-Order States in the Strongly Correlated Model | Slides | |
| 16:30-16:55 | Jiang-Ping Hu IOP, CAS/KITS, UCAS | Genes of Unconventional High Temperature Superconductors | Slides | |
| 16:55-17:20 | Xing-Jiang Zhou IOP, CAS | Laser ARPES on High Tc Superconductors & Topological Materials | Slides | |
| 29 March | ||||
| 09:00-09:25 | Jainendra Kumar Jain Penn State | Density Functional Theory of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect | ||
| 09:25-09:50 | Rui-Rui Du Peking Univ. | Probing Composite Fermions by Thermopower & Nernst Measurements | ||
| 09:50-10:15 | Vic Law HKUST | Effects of Domain Walls in Quantum Anomalous Hall Insulator/Superconductor Heterostructures | ||
| 10:45-11:10 | Natan Andrei Rutgers | Quench Dynamics in Integrable Quantum Models of Many Body Systems | Slides | |
| 11:10-11:35 | Yu-Peng Wang IOP, CAS | On the Topological Quantum Integrable Systems | Slides | |
| 11:35-12:00 | Yuji Matsuda Kyoto | BCS-BEC Crossover, Preformed Pairs and Highly Spin Polarized Superconducting Phase in FeSe | ||
| 13:30-13:55 | Shun-Qing Shen HKU | Chiral Anomaly and Anomalous Finite-Size Conductivity in Graphene | ||
| 13:55-14:20 | Dong-Lai Feng Fudan | Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy Study of Cuprates and a Topological Superconductor | Slides | |
| 14:20-14:45 | Frederic Mila Lausanne | Majorana Edge States and Level Crossings in Chains of Co Adatoms | Slides | |
| 14:45-15:10 | Qiang-Hua Wang Nanjing Univ. | Prediction of Superconductivity in Cr-based Pnictides Mirroring Fe-based Pnictides | ||
| 15:40-16:05 | Qing-Ming Zhang Renmin Univ. | Exploring Quantum Spin-Frustrated Materials | Slides | |
| 16:05-16:30 | Zi-Qiang Wang Boston College/IOP, CAS | Hidden Spin-orbit Entangled Electronic Order in Parent and Electron-doped Perovskite Iridates Ir2SrO4 | ||
| 16:30-16:55 | Sadamichi Maekawa JAEA, Japan | Mechanical Effects on Spintronics | Slides | |
| 16:55-17:20 | Zhi-Xun Shen Stanford | Edge States and Domain Walls in Non-trivial Phases of Matter | ||
| 17:20-17:35 | Lu Yu IOP, CAS | Concluding Remarks | Slides |