Author Archives: Beth McCleary

Time/Venue Friday, March 17 at 2 pm in 402 Physics South and via Zoom:https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/99523499113pwd=REovb3pyam03WXQwbEhrU3dqNHZvdz09Meeting ID: 995 2349 9113 Passcode: 600704Host Dan Borgnia, Moore Research GroupTitle Topological pumping in optical quasiperiodic latticesAbstract Cold atoms have become a rich platform for realising topological phases of … Continue reading →

Time/Venue Friday, March 17 at 10:00 am in CQCS conference room (101 Campbell Hall) and via Zoom:https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/99523499113pwd=REovb3pyam03WXQwbEhrU3dqNHZvdz09Meeting ID: 995 2349 9113 Passcode: 600704Host Joel Moore/Ehud AltmanTitle Quantum criticality and topology under weak measurement and decoherence Abstract We discuss the effect of decoherence/weak measurement on strongly entangled … Continue reading →

Time/Venue Thursday, March 16 at 11 am in Physics North 251 and via Zoom:https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/99523499113pwd=REovb3pyam03WXQwbEhrU3dqNHZvdz09Host Mike ZaletelTitle Quantum Spin Lakes: NISQ-Era Spin Liquids from Non-Equilibrium DynamicsAbstract While many-body quantum systems can in principle host exoticquantum spin liquid (QSL) states, realizing them as ground … Continue reading →

Time/Venue Wednesday, March 15 at 2 pm Pacific time in Physics South 402 and via Zoom:https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/99523499113pwd=REovb3pyam03WXQwbEhrU3dqNHZvdz09Meeting ID: 995 2349 9113 Passcode: 600704Host Joel MooreTitle Topological amorphous solids:  from flat-bands to chiral spin liquidsAbstract Topological materials are often predicted using crystal symmetries, although they don’t rely on … Continue reading →

Time/Date Wednesday, March 15 at 11:00 am PST in Physics South 402 and via Zoom:https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/99523499113pwd=REovb3pyam03WXQwbEhrU3dqNHZvdz09Meeting ID: 995 2349 9113 Passcode: 600704(Please note: we will enter 402 after a class ends at 2 pm.)Host Joel Moore Title Probing Band Topology in Theory … Continue reading →

Time/Venue Wednesday, February 15 at 2:00 pm PST in Physics South 402 Host Bob BirgeneauSpeaker 1 Zhi-Qiang Gao (Dung-Hai Lee Group)Title Is the Coherence Peak Modulation in Eu-1144 Iron Pnictide Superconductor Due to Pair Density Wave?Abstract Coherence peak modulation has been … Continue reading →

Time/Venue Tuesday, February 14 at 2:00 pm Pacific Time in 375 Physics North and via Zoom:https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/99523499113pwd=REovb3pyam03WXQwbEhrU3dqNHZvdz09Meeting ID: 995 2349 9113 Passcode: 600704Host Joel Moore/ Alp SipahigilTitle Identification of Massively Entangled Many-Body StatesAbstract Entanglement of quantum many-body systems is one of the key concepts in quantum science … Continue reading →

Time/Venue Monday, February 13 at 2:30 pm Pacific time in Physics North, Lecture Hall #3 and via Zoom: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/93923628683Host Joel MooreTitle Bulk photospin effectAbstract We know, e.g., from the bulk photovoltaic effect, that nonlinear transport is sensitive to the geometry of the electron wave function … Continue reading →

Time/Venue Thursday, February 9 at at 1:30 pm in 325 Physics South and via Zoom:https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/99523499113pwd=REovb3pyam03WXQwbEhrU3dqNHZvdz09Meet James Analytis and Joel MooreTitle Gapless topology and electron correlationsAbstract Electrons in a crystal behave as waves that interfere with one another. Accordingly, an electronic system can … Continue reading →