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
