Author Archives: Beth McCleary

Shuqiu Wang (Oxford) Time/Venue Monday, May 22 at 11 am in 375 Physics North and via Zoom:https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/99523499113pwd=REovb3pyam03WXQwbEhrU3dqNHZvdz09Meeting ID: 995 2349 9113 Passcode: 600704Host Dung-Hai Lee and Ehud AltmanTitleVisualizing the Surface States of Spin-Triplet Superconductor UTe2Abstract Spin-triplet topological superconductors should exhibit many unprecedented electronic … Continue reading →

Time/Venue Friday, May 19 at 11 am in 375 Physics North and via Zoom:https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/99523499113pwd=REovb3pyam03WXQwbEhrU3dqNHZvdz09Meeting ID: 995 2349 9113 Passcode: 600704Host Johannes Mitscherling / Joel MooreTitle Taming energy dissipation in driven topological systemsAbstract In this talk, I will discuss energy dissipation and heating … Continue reading →

Time/Venue Thursday, May 18 at 11:00 pm in 402 Physics South and via Zoom: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/99523499113pwd=REovb3pyam03WXQwbEhrU3dqNHZvdz09Meeting ID: 995 2349 9113 Passcode: 600704Host Ehud AltmanTitle Quantum impurities in cold atoms and beyondAbstract The problem of an impurity interacting with an environment of quantum objects … Continue reading →

Time/VenueWednesday, May 17 in 402 Physics South and via Zoom:https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/99523499113pwd=REovb3pyam03WXQwbEhrU3dqNHZvdz09Meeting ID: 995 2349 9113 Passcode: 600704Host Joel MooreTitle Local Topological Markers in Odd Spatial Dimensions and Their Application to Amorphous Topological MatterAbstract Local topological markers, topological invariants evaluated by local … Continue reading →

Time/Venue Thursday, May 11 at 11:00 pm in 375 Physics North and via Zoom:https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/99523499113pwd=REovb3pyam03WXQwbEhrU3dqNHZvdz09Meeting ID: 995 2349 9113 Passcode: 600704Host Ehud Altman Title Exact Quantum Algorithms to Recognize Quantum Phases of MatteAbstract In this talk, we explore the relationship between renormalization group (RG) flow and error correction by … Continue reading →

Title Time/Venue Wednesday, May 10 at 11 am in 325 Physics South and via Zoom:https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/99523499113pwd=REovb3pyam03WXQwbEhrU3dqNHZvdz09Meet Joel MooreTitle A topological principle for photovoltaicsAbstract For a non-centrosymmetric semiconductor driven out of equilibrium, the steady photovoltaic current is contributed by real-space displacements (or ‘shifts’) of … Continue reading →

Time/Venue Wednesday, May 10 at 2:00 pm PST in Physics South 402Host Bob BirgeneauSpeaker 1  Peter Meisenheimer (Ramesh Group)Title  Electrostatic control of ordering in polar topologiesAbstract  Complex topological configurations are fertile ground for exploring emergent phenomena and exotic phases in … Continue reading →

Time/Venue Tuesday, May 2 at 11 am in tba conference room and via Zoom:https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/99523499113pwd=REovb3pyam03WXQwbEhrU3dqNHZvdz09Host Ehud AltmanTitle Universal Lindblad Equation for Open Quantum SystemsAbstract We develop a Markovian master equation in the Lindblad form that enables the efficient study of a wide range … Continue reading →

Time/Venue Wednesday, April 26 at 2 pm in Physics South 402 and via Zoom:https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/99523499113pwd=REovb3pyam03WXQwbEhrU3dqNHZvdz09Host Johannes Mitscherling / Joel MooreTitle Vortices and para-hydrodynamics in ultraclean WTe2 flakesAbstract Electron hydrodynamics, which is the viscous flow of current in mesoscopic high-mobility devices, has become a valuable … Continue reading →

Time/Venue Tuesday, April 25 at 4:00 pm in Campbell Hall 101 and via Zoom:https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/99523499113pwd=REovb3pyam03WXQwbEhrU3dqNHZvdz09Host Mike ZaletelTitle Josephson junction arrays as a platform for topological phases of matterAbstract The search for low-dimensional topological superconductivity is fueled by the promise of new and exotic physics, … Continue reading →