FTPI Workshop
We are pleased to announce the workshop, "New Platforms for Topological Quantum Matter" sponsored by the Simons Foundation through the William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute (FTPI) at the University of Minnesota. This exciting event will be held in Minneapolis from Tuesday May 20, 2025 to Thursday, May 22, 2025. Our hope is to bring together folks from a broad spectrum of the topological phases, correlated electrons, and quantum information communities, with close to even representation from theory and experiment.
Tuesday, May 20th
8:40 - 8:55 am
Check in
8:55 - 9:00 am
Introduction
Session 1: Rhombohedral graphene
9:00 - 9:35 am
Chiral superconductivity in graphene
Long Ju
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9:35 - 10:10 am
Unveiling Magnetic Order in the Symmetry Broken Phases of Rhombohedral Graphene
Trevor Arp
University of California, Santa Barbara
10:10 - 10:40 am
Coffee break
10:40 - 11:15 am
TBA
Trithep Devakul
Stanford University
11:15 - 11:50 am
Chern insulators and superconductivity in graphene moiré lattices
Matthew Yankowitz
University of Washington
11:50 - 12:25 pm
TBA
Daniel Parker
University of California, San Diego
12:30 - 2:00 pm
Lunch Break (on your own)
Session 2: Topological phases in disordered and open systems
2:00 - 2:35 pm
TBA
Carolyn Zhang
Harvard University
2:35 - 3:10 pm
Digital quantum magnetism at the frontier of classical simulations
Andrew Potter
Quantum Matter Institute, University of British Columbia
3:10 - 3:40 pm
Coffee break
3:40 - 4:15 pm
TBA
Ruben Verresen
University of Chicago
4:15 - 4:50 pm
TBA
Zhen Bi
Pennsylvania State University
4:50 pm
Welcome Reception
Keller Hall Atrium
Tuesday, 5/20 ~ Wednesday, 5/21 ~ Thursday, 5/22
Wednesday, May 21st
Session 1: Correlations and quantum geometry in 2d materials
9:00 - 9:35 am
Imaging supermoire relaxation in helical trilayer graphene
Ben Feldman
Stanford University
9:35 - 10:10 am
Quantum geometry in metals
Nishchhal Verma
Columbia University
10:10 - 10:40 am
Coffee break
10:40 - 11:15 am
How symmetry selects flavor ferromagnetism in multi-valley electron fluids
Vladimir Calvera
Stanford University
11:15 - 11:50 am
Topologically enabled superconductivity: possible implications for rhombohedral graphene
Elio Konig
University of Wisconsin-Madison
11:50 - 12:25 pm
Strong interactions at a Weyl semimetal-spin ice interface
Jedediah Pixley
Rutgers University
12:30 - 2:00 pm
Lunch Break (on your own)
Session 2: TMDs
2:00 - 2:35 pm
Correlation-driven Topological Phase Diagram of Twisted MoTe2
Heonjoon Park
University of Washington
2:35 - 3:10 pm
Dynamical exciton sensing and coherent electrodynamics in a monolayer semiconductor
Andrew Pierce
Cornell University
3:30 - 4:00 pm
Coffee break
4:00 - 4:35 pm
TBA
Zhurun (Judy) Ji
SLAC National Lab; MIT- fall 2025
4:35 - 5:10 pm
Microwave impedance microscopy of topological states
Monica Allen
University of California, San Diego
6:00 pm
Reception and dinner
McNamara Alumni Center
200 Oak Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Tuesday, 5/20 ~ Wednesday, 5/21 ~ Thursday, 5/22
Thursday, May 22nd
Mini-session: AMO systems
9:00 - 9:35 am
Local probes of correlated matter in atomic and molecular quantum simulators
Zoe Yan
University of Chicago
9:35 - 10:10 am
Engineering topological matter with ultracold atoms
Richard Fletcher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10:10 - 10:45 am
Ordering the topological order in the fractional quantum Hall effect
Seth Musser
University of Maryland, College Park
10:45 - 11:15 am
Coffee break
11:15 - 11:50 am
Encapsulated Chemistry and Quantum Engineering of Superconductivity in Moire Stacks
Sanfeng Wu
Princeton University
11:50 - 12:25 am
Composite fermion tunnelling at moiré TMD/superconductor interfaces
Alex Thomson
University of California, Davis
12:25 - 1:00 pm
Superconductivity and the Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall effect
Senthil Todadri
Massachusetts Institute of Technology