Organizers:
Jennifer Cano, Stony Brook University
Martin Claassen, University of Pennsylvania
Qimiao Si, Rice University
Maia Vergniory, University of Sherbrooke
There is increasing recognition that the traditionally separate fields of quantum materials, topology and strongly correlations, are rapidly converging into an organic and intertwined single field. The 2D community, historically concerned with topology, is now focused on high temperature superconductivity and heavy fermions. Meanwhile, the bulk correlated community, usually focused on strange metallicity, has trained their sight on correlation-driven metallic topology. Yet, the long-existing barrier continues to impede cross-fertilization.
This workshop will break the barriers between these communities, thereby accelerating the convergence between topology and strongly correlations. Topics include superconductivity and fractional Chern insulators (and their coexistence), correlated topological semimetals, topological heavy fermions, strange metallicity, Mott insulators, and emergent Kondo effects in flat band systems. A central theme will be common theoretical methods and modeling across material platforms.
Summer Workshops
The summer program, running for 16 weeks from late-May to mid-September, emphasizes exciting open problems at the cutting edge. Two or three concurrent workshops, each with a specific focus selected for timeliness and the potential for breakthroughs and of two to five weeks in length, establish the main themes of each week, with twelve or thirteen different workshops each summer, balanced across fields including particle physics, string theory, astrophysics and hard and soft condensed matter physics, as well as emerging areas including biological physics, ultra-cold atom physics, quantum information, and physical mathematics. Additional researchers participate in small working groups or as individual researchers. This framework is designed to maximize informal interactions and free discussion within each area and to promote cross-fertilization between different areas via the common language of theoretical physics. Participation in the summer program of the Aspen Center for Physics is by application and subsequent invitation only. View past workshops.
