Quantum Information and Condensed Matter Physics

Programme

Slides and abstracts for some of the presentations are available through the links below

Monday, September 14

- 1100 Arrival and Welcome
- 1115 Mathias Troyer, Anyonic lattice systems I
- 1400 Mathias Troyer, Anyonic lattice systems II
   A repository of useful slides on this subject is at Simon Trebst's webpage

Tuesday, September 15

- 1015 Bénoit Estienne, Relating Jack wavefunctions to WAk-1 theories (Abstract/ Slides)
- 1100 Rahul Roy, Topological Insulators I
- 1400 Rahul Roy, Topological Insulators II

Wednesday, September 16

- 1015 Liza Huijse, Quantum phases of a supersymmetric model of lattice fermions (Abstract/ Slides)
- 1100 Jiri Vala, Kitaev honeycomb lattice model: from A to B and beyond (Slides)

- 1400 Enrique Rico, Valence-bond states: Link models (Abstract/ Slides)
- 1500 Charles Nash, Dimers and the phase diagram of the Kitaev honeycomb model

Thursday, September 17

- 1015 Werner Nahm, Edge states of graphene-like systems
- 1100 Joost Slingerland, Anyonic interferometry; the current status (Slides)
- 1400 Gunnar Möller, Skyrmions in the nu=5/2 state (Abstract/ Slides)
- 1500 Steve Simon, Chainmail : The geometry of Topological Lattice Models. (Abstract/ Slides)

Friday, September 18

- 1015 Ville Lahtinen Non-Abelian statistics as a Berry phase in the honeycomb lattice model (Slides)
- 1100 Thomas Busch, Quantum Information in Strongly Correlated Quantum Systems (Abstract/ Slides)