
New Insights into Quantum Materials: Scattering, Other Probes, and Theory
This workshop is sponsored by the US Department of Energy, through the UMN Center for Quantum Materials, and by the Simons Foundation, through the UMN Fine Theoretical Physics Institute.
Program
New Insights into Quantum Materials: Scattering, Other Probes, and Theory
May 21-23, 2024
The workshop will be held in Kenneth H. Keller Hall 3-180
Tuesday, 5/21 ~ Wednesday, 5/22 ~ Thursday, 5/23
Tuesday, 5/21
8:30 - 8:55 am
Light Breakfast
Session Chair - Chris Leighton, University of Minnesota
8:55 - 9:00 am
Introduction
Martin Greven
9:00– 9:35 am
Physics of delafossite metals
Andrew Mackenzie
Max-Planck-Institute, Dresden
9:35 – 10:10 am
Chirality switching in a van der Waals multiferroic
Riccardo Comin
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10:10 – 10:40 am
Coffee Break
10:40 – 11:15 am
Long and short range magnetic order in 2D layered van der Waals materials
Stuart Calder
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
11:15– 11:50 am
Thermal Hall effect in insulating van der Waals magnets
Xianglin Ke
Michigan State University
11:50 – 1:20 pm
Lunch Break (on your own)
Session Chair: Turan Birol, University of Minnesota
1:20 – 1:55 pm
Modulated phases in quantum ferroelectrics
Peter Littlewood
The University of Chicago
1:55 – 2:30 pm
Unraveling the electron-phonon coupling in strontium titanate
Damjan Pelc
University of Zagreb, Croatia
2:30 – 3:05 pm
Spatiotemporal Orders in Driven Ferroelectrics
Premala Chandra
Rutgers University
3:05 – 3:35 pm
Coffee Break
3:35 – 4:10 pm
The Role of Structural Correlations in Electronic Phase Transitions
Raymond Osborn
Argonne National Laboratory
4:10 – 4:45 pm
Under the Nano-Lens: Imaging Quantum Materials through Near-field Optics
Alexander McLeod
University of Minnesota
4:45 - 6:15 pm
Poster Session
Tuesday, 5/21 ~ Wednesday, 5/22 ~ Thursday, 5/23
Wednesday, 5/22
8:30 - 9:00 am
Light Breakfast
Session Chair: Peter Littlewood, The University of Chicago
9:00 – 9:35 am
Fairly convincing evidence of the existence of Pair-Density-Wave order in certain cuprate high-temperature superconductors with particularly low Tcs
Steven Kivelson
Stanford University
9:35 – 10:10 am
Filling constraints in systems with conserved dipole moment: generalizing the Lieb-Schultz-Mattis theorem to higher multipole moments
Fiona Burnell
University of Minnesota
10:10 – 10:40 am
Coffee Break
10:40 – 11:15 am
Magnetic excitations in uranium ditelluride
Nicholas Butch
University of Maryland
11:15 – 11:50 am
Intertwined charge density waves in TiSe2
Maria Navarro Gastiasoro
Donostia International Physics Center, Spain
11:50 – 1:20 pm
Lunch Break (on your own)
Session Chair: Ray Osborn, Argonne National Laboratory
1:20 – 1:55 pm
Magnetic molecular orbitals observed with neutron scattering
Yuan Li
Peking University
1:55 – 2:30 pm
Sleuthing spin liquidity in cerium based pyrochlores with neutrons and beyond
Hitesh Changlani
Florida State University and
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
2:30 – 3:05 pm
Quantum fluctuations on triangular lattices of Ising spins
Collin Broholm
Johns Hopkins University
3:05 – 3:35 pm
Coffee Break
3:35 – 4:10 pm
Neutron scattering and muSR studies on the phases of Na2Co2TeO6
Jie Ma
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
4:10 – 4:45 pm
The theoretical framework of "Su(n)ny”
Cristian Batista
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
We suggest visiting the Weisman Art Museum (free admission) before the dinner.
6:00 pm
Workshop Banquet
McNamara Alumni Center
University Hall
200 Oak St. SE
Tuesday, 5/21 ~ Wednesday, 5/22 ~ Thursday, 5/23
Thursday, 5/23
8:30 - 9:00 am
Light Breakfast
Session Chair: Collin Broholm, Johns Hopkins University
9:00 – 9:35 am
Fluctuation-driven phenomena in the kagome-net magnets RMn6Sn6
Igor Mazin
George Mason University
9:35 – 10:10 am
Geometrically and magnetically driven ferroelectricity in perovskite crystals
Xianghan Xu
Princeton University; University of Minnesota - fall 2024
10:10 – 10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:15 am
Flat Bands in Bulk Quantum Materials
Ming Yi
Rice University
11:15 – 11:50 am
Symmetry breaking in Kagome metal systems probed by electronic Raman spectroscopy
Girsh Blumberg
Rutgers University

Boris Shklovskii
Fine Theoretical Physics Institute
School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Minnesota
Please see our Google drive folder for workshop photos.