2025 Spring CMT Symposium!
2 Day internal conference 2/21/25 – 2/22/25
Physics and Astronomy (Serin) Room 330W
Day 1: Friday, February 21st, 2025
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
Session 3 (Chair Andrei)
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)
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Kemal Aziz, Magic and Entanglement Transitions in All-to-All Quantum Circuits
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Harender Dhattarwal, Hidden electronic disorder behind diffusion in solid state electrolytes
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Tamal Dey, Imaging of Synaptic Plasticity in Hydrogenated Perovskite Nickelates using KPFM
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Siddharth Kumar, Large tuning of optical properties of NdNiO3 via electron doping.
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Ranjan Kumar Patel, High-Speed Sensors For RF Radiation
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Liam L.H. Lau, Topological Mixed Valence Physics in Twisted Bilayer Graphene
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Shivam Patel, Quantum Information Processing With Multimode Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics
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Xue Sun, Dynamics in one-dimensional staggered lattice
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Elizaveta Trunina, Probabilistic Control on Kicked Rotor
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Xuhao Wan, High-throughput search of metallic altermagnets by eDMFT
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Yueyi Wang, Variational Diagrammatic Monte-Carlo Built on Dynamical Mean-Field Theory
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Abay Zhakenov, Impurity effects on the spin-s Heisenberg chain
Day 2: Saturday, February 22nd, 2025
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
Session 3 (Chair Vanderbilt)
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