2025 Spring CMT Symposium!

2 Day internal conference 2/21/25 – 2/22/25

8:20-8:50 – Light breakfast

Session 1 (Chair Coleman)
8:50-9:00 – John Hughes, Department Chair
Opening Remarks

9:00-9:40 – Gabriel Kotliar
Quantum Embedding Methods in and Out of Equilibrium

9:40-10:20 – David Apigo (Nokia Bell Labs)
Advanced Thermal Management Utilizing Two-Phase Fluid Physics-Based Approaches

10:20-10:40 – Coffee Break

Session 2 (Chair Haule)
10:40-11:20 – Ananda Roy
Variational Quantum Circuits for Quantum Field Theories

11:20-12:00 – Yueqing Chang
Electronic anisotropy and rotational symmetry breaking at a Weyl semimetal/spin ice interface

12:00-12:40 – Sang Hyuk Lee
Optical force generated by complex vortex beams and its application to soft matter systems

12:40-1:40 – Lunch

Session 3 (Chair Pixley)
1:40-2:00 – Yicheng Tang (short talk)
Fractionalized Edge modes in AFM Spin Chains

2:00-2:40 – Andreas Gleis
Intrinsic strange metal due to a heavy fermion quantum critical point

2:40-3:20 – Daniel Seleznev
Inducing topological flat bands in bilayer graphene with electric and magnetic superlattices

3:20-3:40 – Coffee Break

3:40-4:00 – Aaditya Panigrahi (short talk)
Fractionalization Approach to Understanding Pair Density Waves

4:00-4:40 – Shriram Ramanathan (ECE department)
Quantum materials-neuroscience-AI interface

4:40-5.20 – Pradip Kattel
Equilibrium and non-equilibrium aspects of boundary conformal symmetry breaking in critical spin chains

Poster Session
5:20-6:20 (light beverages provided)

9:30-10:00 – Light breakfast

Session 1 (Chair Chandra)
10:00-10:40 – Shaowen Chen (Rutgers CMX)
Visualizing hidden states using atomic quanutm sensors

10:40-11:20 – Shiwei Zhang (Flatiron)
Ground-state phases of the 2D electron gas with or without moire potential

11:20-11:40 – Coffee break

Session 2 (Chair Yuzbashyan)
11:40-12:20 – Saikat Banerjee
Axionic behavior in the Kondo Insulator SmB6

12:20-1:00 – Andrea Urru
Natural optical activity in solids: an ab initio approach based on Wannier interpolation

1:00-2:00 – Lunch

Session 3 (Chair Kotliar)
Kevin Lucht
Moire Induced Topological Phase Transitions in Twisted Nodal Superconductors

2:20-2:40 – Trey Cole (short talk)
Reduced Wannier Representation for Topological Bands

2:40-3:20 – Haining Pan
Classical and quantum phase transitions in adaptive quantum circuit

3:20-3:50 – Coffee break

3:50-4:10 – David Rogerson (short talk)
Bringing Classical States on Quantum Hardware using Differentiable Tensor Networks

4:10-4:50 – Daniel Kaplan
Rhombohedral stacking beyond graphene

4:50-5:30 – Premi Chandra
Light-Induced Orderings that Oscillate in Space and in Time