20w5064 Home Confirmed Participants Schedule Workshop Videos Final Report (PDF)

Fractons and Beyond

Videos from BIRS Workshop

Jeongwan Haah, Microsoft Research

Monday Jan 27, 2020 08:59 - 09:39

An Exactly Solvable Model for a 4+1D Beyond-Cohomology Symmetry Protected Topological Phase

Watch video | Download video: 202001270859-Haah.mp4 (198M)

Video: Jeongwan Haah, "An Exactly Solvable Model for a 4+1D Beyond-Cohomology Symmetry Protected Topological Phase" http://www.birs.ca/events/2020/5-day-workshops/20w5064/videos/watch/202001270859-Haah.html

Dominic Williamson, Yale University

Monday Jan 27, 2020 09:40 - 10:19

Fun with fractons

Watch video | Download video: 202001270940-Williamson.mp4 (159M)

Video: Dominic Williamson, "Fun with fractons" http://www.birs.ca/events/2020/5-day-workshops/20w5064/videos/watch/202001270940-Williamson.html

Michael Pretko, University of Colorado Boulder

Monday Jan 27, 2020 10:51 - 11:32

Fractons: the road to reality

Watch video | Download video: 202001271051-Pretko.mp4 (168M)

Video: Michael Pretko, "Fractons: the road to reality" http://www.birs.ca/events/2020/5-day-workshops/20w5064/videos/watch/202001271051-Pretko.html

Leo Radzihovsky, University of Colorado at Boulder

Monday Jan 27, 2020 14:21 - 15:01

Quantum smectic fracton order

Watch video | Download video: 202001271421-Radzihovsky.mp4 (159M)

Video: Leo Radzihovsky, "Quantum smectic fracton order" http://www.birs.ca/events/2020/5-day-workshops/20w5064/videos/watch/202001271421-Radzihovsky.html

Wilbur Shirley, Caltech

Monday Jan 27, 2020 15:33 - 16:04

Entanglement renormalization of fractonic gauge theories

Watch video | Download video: 202001271533-Shirley.mp4 (137M)

Video: Wilbur Shirley, "Entanglement renormalization of fractonic gauge theories" http://www.birs.ca/events/2020/5-day-workshops/20w5064/videos/watch/202001271533-Shirley.html

Kevin Slagle, Caltech

Monday Jan 27, 2020 16:05 - 16:47

TQFT of Fracton Orders

Watch video | Download video: 202001271605-Slagle.mp4 (173M)

Video: Kevin Slagle, "TQFT of Fracton Orders" http://www.birs.ca/events/2020/5-day-workshops/20w5064/videos/watch/202001271605-Slagle.html

Yizhi You, Princeton University

Tuesday Jan 28, 2020 09:00 - 09:40

Emergent fractons and algebraic quantum liquid from plaquette melting transitions

Watch video | Download video: 202001280900-You.mp4 (177M)

Video: Yizhi You, "Emergent fractons and algebraic quantum liquid from plaquette melting transitions" http://www.birs.ca/events/2020/5-day-workshops/20w5064/videos/watch/202001280900-You.html

Frank Pollmann, Technical University of Munich

Tuesday Jan 28, 2020 09:40 - 10:21

Ergodicity-breaking arising from Hilbert space fragmentation in dipole-conserving Hamiltonians

Watch video | Download video: 202001280940-Pollmann.mp4 (157M)

Video: Frank Pollmann, "Ergodicity-breaking arising from Hilbert space fragmentation in dipole-conserving Hamiltonians" http://www.birs.ca/events/2020/5-day-workshops/20w5064/videos/watch/202001280940-Pollmann.html

Andrei Bernevig, Princeton University

Tuesday Jan 28, 2020 10:52 - 11:43

Watch video | Download video: 202001281052-Bernevig.mp4 (172M)

Video: Andrei Bernevig, "TBA" http://www.birs.ca/events/2020/5-day-workshops/20w5064/videos/watch/202001281052-Bernevig.html

Sagar Vijay, Harvard University

Tuesday Jan 28, 2020 13:32 - 14:12

Watch video | Download video: 202001281332-Vijay.mp4 (204M)

Video: Sagar Vijay, "TBA" http://www.birs.ca/events/2020/5-day-workshops/20w5064/videos/watch/202001281332-Vijay.html

Wojciech de Roeck, KU Leuven

Tuesday Jan 28, 2020 14:14 - 14:55

Watch video | Download video: 202001281414-deRoeck.mp4 (188M)

Video: Wojciech de Roeck, "TBA" http://www.birs.ca/events/2020/5-day-workshops/20w5064/videos/watch/202001281414-deRoeck.html

Igor Lesanovsky, University of Tübigen

Tuesday Jan 28, 2020 15:20 - 15:59

Facilitation constraints in interacting Rydberg gases

Watch video | Download video: 202001281520-Lesanovsky.mp4 (156M)

Video: Igor Lesanovsky, "Facilitation constraints in interacting Rydberg gases" http://www.birs.ca/events/2020/5-day-workshops/20w5064/videos/watch/202001281520-Lesanovsky.html

Sheng-Jie Huang, University of Maryland

Wednesday Jan 29, 2020 09:01 - 09:30

Non-Abelian Fracton Phases

Watch video | Download video: 202001290901-Huang.mp4 (110M)

Video: Sheng-Jie Huang, "Non-Abelian Fracton Phases" http://www.birs.ca/events/2020/5-day-workshops/20w5064/videos/watch/202001290901-Huang.html

Hao Song, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Wednesday Jan 29, 2020 09:33 - 10:12

Twisted fracton models and error thresholds for fracton codes

Watch video | Download video: 202001290933-Song.mp4 (140M)

Video: Hao Song, "Twisted fracton models and error thresholds for fracton codes" http://www.birs.ca/events/2020/5-day-workshops/20w5064/videos/watch/202001290933-Song.html

Taylor Hughes, University of Illinois

Wednesday Jan 29, 2020 10:53 - 11:36

Electric multipole insulators

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Video: Taylor Hughes, "Electric multipole insulators" http://www.birs.ca/events/2020/5-day-workshops/20w5064/videos/watch/202001291053-Hughes.html

Michael Hermele, University of Colorado Boulder

Thursday Jan 30, 2020 09:01 - 09:42

Watch video | Download video: 202001300901-Hermele.mp4 (195M)

Video: Michael Hermele, "TBA" http://www.birs.ca/events/2020/5-day-workshops/20w5064/videos/watch/202001300901-Hermele.html

Nicolas Regnault, Ecole Normale Superieure Paris CNRS

Thursday Jan 30, 2020 09:42 - 10:16

Watch video | Download video: 202001300942-Regnault.mp4 (114M)

Video: Nicolas Regnault, "TBA" http://www.birs.ca/events/2020/5-day-workshops/20w5064/videos/watch/202001300942-Regnault.html

Maissam Barkeshli, University of Maryland

Thursday Jan 30, 2020 10:44 - 11:24

Watch video | Download video: 202001301044-Barkeshli.mp4 (143M)

Video: Maissam Barkeshli, "TBA" http://www.birs.ca/events/2020/5-day-workshops/20w5064/videos/watch/202001301044-Barkeshli.html

Fakher Assaad, U. Wurzburg

Thursday Jan 30, 2020 11:25 - 12:03

Exotic phases and phase transitions: quantum Monte Carlo studies

Watch video | Download video: 202001301125-Assaad.mp4 (133M)

Video: Fakher Assaad, "Exotic phases and phase transitions: quantum Monte Carlo studies" http://www.birs.ca/events/2020/5-day-workshops/20w5064/videos/watch/202001301125-Assaad.html

Andrey Gromov, Brown University

Thursday Jan 30, 2020 13:30 - 14:10

Multipole gauge theories

Watch video | Download video: 202001301330-Gromov.mp4 (163M)

Video: Andrey Gromov, "Multipole gauge theories" http://www.birs.ca/events/2020/5-day-workshops/20w5064/videos/watch/202001301330-Gromov.html

Cenke Xu, University of California, Santa Barbara

Thursday Jan 30, 2020 14:11 - 14:52

Interacting Valley Chern insulator in Moiré systems and avoidable quantum critical points

Watch video | Download video: 202001301411-Xu.mp4 (154M)

Video: Cenke Xu, "Interacting Valley Chern insulator in Moiré systems and avoidable quantum critical points" http://www.birs.ca/events/2020/5-day-workshops/20w5064/videos/watch/202001301411-Xu.html

Han Ma, Univ of Colorado - Boulder

Thursday Jan 30, 2020 15:24 - 15:59

Tensor gauge theory at Lifshitz transition

Watch video | Download video: 202001301524-Ma.mp4 (146M)

Video: Han Ma, "Tensor gauge theory at Lifshitz transition" http://www.birs.ca/events/2020/5-day-workshops/20w5064/videos/watch/202001301524-Ma.html

Barry Bradlyn, University of Illinois

Thursday Jan 30, 2020 16:00 - 16:40

Watch video | Download video: 202001301600-Bradlyn.mp4 (135M)

Video: Barry Bradlyn, "TBA" http://www.birs.ca/events/2020/5-day-workshops/20w5064/videos/watch/202001301600-Bradlyn.html

Daniel Bulmash, University of Maryland

Thursday Jan 30, 2020 16:59 - 17:34

Type-II Fractons from Defects in Topological Order

Watch video | Download video: 202001301659-Bulmash.mp4 (126M)

Video: Daniel Bulmash, "Type-II Fractons from Defects in Topological Order" http://www.birs.ca/events/2020/5-day-workshops/20w5064/videos/watch/202001301659-Bulmash.html