Author Archives: Beth McCleary

Time/Venue Thursday at 10:00 am in 325 Physics South and via Zoom: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/99523499113pwd=REovb3pyam03WXQwbEhrU3dqNHZvdz09Meeting ID: 995 2349 9113 Passcode: 600704Host Ehud AltmanTitle Programmable adiabatic demagnetization on NISQ devicesAbstract We propose a simple, robust protocol to prepare a low-energy state of an arbitrary Hamiltonian on a quantum computer … Continue reading →

Time/Venue Wednesday, April 19 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 Discovery of a topological quantum linkAbstract Quantum materials exhibit a spectacular variety of emergent properties, with unusual connections to mathematics and … Continue reading →

Time/Venue Wednesday, April 12 at 2:00 pm PST in Physics South 402Host Bob BirgeneauSpeaker Junyi Shan (Ma Group)Title Non-thermal optical engineering of quantum material propertiesAbstract Light is a powerful tool to engineer the electronic, magnetic, and optical properties of quantum materials. However, heating … Continue reading →

Time/Venue Wednesday, April 5 at 2 pm Pacific time in Physics South 402 in and via Zoom:https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/99523499113pwd=REovb3pyam03WXQwbEhrU3dqNHZvdz09Meeting ID: 995 2349 9113 Passcode: 600704Host James AnalytisTitle Van der Waals Topological Magnets and CircuitsAbstract: The breaking of time-reversal symmetry in topological insulators leads to novel … Continue reading →

Time/Venue Thursday, March 30 at 2 pm in Pacific time in Physics South 325 and via Zoom:https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/99523499113pwd=REovb3pyam03WXQwbEhrU3dqNHZvdz09Meeting ID: 995 2349 9113 Passcode: 600704Host Bartholomew Andrews, Zaletel GroupTitle s-wave paired composite fermions in quantum Hall bilayers. Abstract The half-filled Landau level is well described by a … Continue reading →

Time/Venue Wednesday, March 22 at 2 pm in Pacific time in Physics South 402 and via Zoom:https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/99523499113pwd=REovb3pyam03WXQwbEhrU3dqNHZvdz09Meeting ID: 995 2349 9113 Passcode: 600704Host Joel MooreTitle When is a phase diagram not a phase diagram? Lessons learned from Sr2RuO4Abstract I will review recent developments in … Continue reading →

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 →