Quantum Matter: Emergence & Entanglement 3

Quantum Matter: Emergence & Entanglement 3

 

 

Wednesday Apr 24, 2019
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The Hallmark of strongly entangled quantum phases is an intrinsic impossibility to describe them locally in terms of microscopic degrees of freedom. Two popular methods that have been developed to analytically describe these exotic states are known as (1) ‘parton construction’ and (2) ‘coupled-wire approach’. The former provides a constructive route for determining which non-trivial phases may arise, in principle, for a given set of constituent degrees of freedom and symmetries.

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Wednesday Apr 24, 2019
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We perform both numerical and theoretical studies on the phase diagram of the Kitaev materials in the presence of a magnetic field. We find that a new quantum spin liquid state with neutral Fermi surfaces emerges at intermediate field strengths, between the regimes for the non-Abelian chiral spin liquid state and for the trivial polarized state. We discuss the exotic field-induced quantum phase transitions from this new state with neutral Fermi surfaces to its nearby phases.

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Wednesday Apr 24, 2019

I will describe an infinite set of exotic gauge theories that have recently and simultaneously emerged in several a priori unrelated areas of condensed matter physics such as self-correcting quantum memory, topological order in 3+1 dimensions, spin liquids and quantum elasticity. In these theories the gauge field is a symmetric tensor (not to be confused with higher form, which is an anti-symmetric tensor), or in more exotic situations, the gauge fields do not have a well-defined transformation properties under rotations.

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Tuesday Apr 23, 2019

Two topics have been gaining momentum in different fields of physics: At the intersection of condensed matter and high-energy physics lies the out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC). The OTOC reflects quantum many-body equilibration; chaos; and scrambling, the spread of quantum information through many-body entanglement. In quantum optics and quantum foundations, quasiprobabilities resemble probabilities but can become negative and nonreal. Such nonclassical values can signal nonclassical physics, such as the capacity for superclassical computation.

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Tuesday Apr 23, 2019
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The fine grained energy spectrum of quantum chaotic systems, which are widely believed to be characterized by random matrix statistics. A basic scale in these systems is the energy range over which this behavior persists. We defined the corresponding time scale by the time at which the linearly growing ramp region in the spectral form factor begins. We dubbed this ramp time. It is also referred to as the ergodic or Thouless time in the condensed matter physics community.

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Tuesday Apr 23, 2019
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Recently we pointed out that the black hole interior operators can be reconstructed by using the Hayden-Preskill recovery protocols. Building on this observation, we propose a resolution of the firewall problem by presenting a state-independent reconstruction of interior operators. Our construction avoids the non-locality problem which plagued the "A=RB" or "ER=EPR" proposals. We show that the gravitational backreaction by the infalling observer, who simply falls into a black hole, disentangles the outgoing mode from the early radiation.

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Monday Apr 22, 2019
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In this talk, I will discuss a newly proposed (pseudo-)critical phenomena governed by complex fixed points. I will start with the idea of complex fixed point at complex physical couplings and then introduce the recent conjectured complex conformal field theory with complex conformal data (e.g. central charge and scaling dimensions) which is suggested to describe these complex fixed points. These new concepts are putatively related to many interesting topics, such as the deconfined criticality, walking behavior in the gauge theories, weakly first order phase transitions and so on.

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Monday Apr 22, 2019
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I will present a study of the single-particle properties of hot, lukewarm and cold electrons that coexist in the two-dimensional antiferromagnetic quantum critical metal within a unified theory. I will show how to generalize the theory that describes the interaction of critical spin-density wave fluctuations and electrons near the hot spots on the Fermi surface (hot electrons) by including electrons far away from the hot spots (lukewarm and cold electrons).

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