KIAS Workshop on "Emergent Quantum Phases in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems"

at Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), Korea

• Open Questions (compiled by T. Senthil)


• Conference Photo


• Organizers
  T. Senthil (MIT/Indian Institute of Science) - senthil (at) mit.edu
  Yong Baek Kim (Univ of Toronto/KIAS) - ybkim (at) physics.utoronto.ca


• Tentative List of Invited Speakers
  Talk #1 (workshop), Talk #2 (Conference)

  Matthew Fisher (ITP/UC Santa Barbara)	1. Algebraic vortex liquid in spin-1/2 triangular antiferromagnets: Scenario for Cs2CuCl4? 2. A Vortex Metal phase near the "superconductor-insulator" transition in thin films?
  Qimiao Si (Rice Univ)	1. Kondo lattices: What do we learn from microscopics? 2. Heavy fermion metals: Global phase diagram, local quantum criticality and experiments
  Leon Balents (UC Santa Barbara)	1. Frustrating Mott transitions of bosons on the triangular lattice 2. Is there room for exotica in Cs2CuCl4 and ACr2O4 (A=Cd,Hg)?
  T. Senthil (MIT/IISc)	1. Competing orders, sigma models, and topological terms in quantum magnets 2. Neel order, quantum spin liquids, and quantum critical scaling in underdoped cuprates
  Ashvin Vishwanath (UC Berkeley)	1. Thermoelectric transport at quantum critical points - Widermann-Franz law violation and other non-fermi liquid properties at a z=2 critical point. 2. Theory of the partial order state in the helical ferromagnet MnSi.
  Masaki Oshikawa (Tokyo Inst of Tech)	1. Fractionalization and quasiparticle statistics 2. Gauge invariance and topological order in quantum many-particle systems
  Akira Furusaki (RIKEN)	1. Competing insulating phases in one-dimensional extended Hubbard models 2. One-dimensional approach to frustrated magnets

  
  

  Tae-Won Noh (SNU)	The role of orbitals in the optical and magnetic properties of RMnO3 (R=rare earth ions)
  Sung-Ik Lee (POSTECH)	Coexistence and Competition of Superconductivity and Magnetism in Ho(1-x)DyxNi2B2C
  Je-Geun Park (SKKU)	Physics of multiferroic hexagonal manganites
  Chang-Young Kim (Yonsei)	Photoemission evidences for (pi,pi) ordering in electron doped high temperature superconductors
  Kee-Hoon Kim (SNU)	Nexus between Field-induced Quantum Criticality and Phase Formation in Heavy Fermion Compounds U(Ru,Rh)2Si2
  Han-Yong Choi (SKKU)	Effects of spin triplet pairing components in the bilayer and trilayer junctions of superconductor, ferromagnet, and normal metal
  Yun-Kyu Bang (Chonnam Nat'l Univ)	A new high-Tc superconductor PuCoGa5 and its implications to Cuprate SC.
  Jaejun Yu (SNU)	O(N) LDA+U Approach to the Nanoscale Correlated Materials
  Hyun-Cheol Lee (Sogang)	On two descriptions of disordered phase of 2D quantum antiferromagnets: monopole plasma and Kalb-Ramond field
  Jung-Hoon Han (SKKU)	Lattice-induced valence-bond order in triangular antiferromagnet
  Kwon Park (KIAS)	Quantum Antiferromagnetism and High Temperature Superconductivity: a Close Connection between the t-J model and the Projected BCS Hamiltonian
  Gun-Sang Jeon (SNU)	Electron-Vortex Binding and Inter-Composite-Fermion Interaction in the Fractional Quantum Hall States



• Tentative Time Table
  
  International Conference Hall at the 1st floor (Mon-Tue, Thur-Sat)
  Room 1423 at the 4th floor (Wed)
  
  Workshop
  

  	Mon(24)	Tue(25)	Wed(26)	Thu(27)
  10:00-11:00	T. Senthil	Ashvin Vishwanath	Leon Balents	Masaki Oshikawa
  11:00-11:30	Tea time	Tea time	Tea time	Tea time
  11:30-12:30	Kwon Park	Matthew Fisher	Akira Furusaki	Yun-Kyu Bang
  12:30-2:30	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
  2:30-3:30	Gun-Sang Jeon	Han-Yong Choi	Free Time	Jaejun Yu
  3:30-4:00	Tea Time	Tea Time	Free Time	Tea Time
  4:00-5:00	Qimiao Si	Hyun-Cheol Lee	Free Time	Jung-Hoon Han

  
  Conference
  

  	Fri(28)	Sat(29)
  9:30-10:15	Sung-Ik Lee	T. Senthil
  10:15-10:30	Tea time	Tea time
  10:30-11:15	Tae-Won Noh	Je-Geun Park
  11:15-12:30	Matthew Fisher	Qimiao Si
  12:30-2:30	Lunch	Lunch
  2:30-3:15	Akira Furusaki	Leon Balents
  3:15-4:00	Masaki Oshikawa	Ashvin Vishwanath
  4:00-4:30	Tea time	Tea time
  4:30-5:15	Kee-Hoon Kim	Chang-Young Kim

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