Programme
IAS Frontiers Workshop on Quantum Geometric Advantage
All talks will be held in SPMS-LT1 (21 Nanyang Link, Singapore 637371), including the Nobel Public Lecture.
| Monday 14 July 2025 | |
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| 08: 00 | Bus pick-up for speakers from Orchard Rendezvous Hotel |
| 08: 45 | Registration |
| 09: 00 | Welcome Message |
| Session Chair: Justin Song (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) | |
| 09: 15 | F. Duncan M. Haldane (Princeton University, USA) Quantum geometry of incompressible quantum hall states Talk slides |
| 09: 45 | M. Zahid Hasan (Princeton University, USA) New frontiers in topological quantum matter |
| 10: 15 | Group Photo |
| 10: 30 | Coffee & Tea Break |
| Session Chair: Qiong Ma (Boston College, USA) | |
| 11: 00 | Ritesh Agrawal (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Exploring the role of quantum geometry in materials via wave vector-engineered photogalvanic spectroscopy |
| 11: 30 | Hsin Lin (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Feature spectrum topology |
| 12: 00 | Keneth Burch (Boston College, USA) The hidden ferro-rotational density wave and axial Higgs from RTe3’s quantum geometry |
| 12: 30 | Lunch |
| Session Chair: Hsin Lin (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) | |
| 14: 00 | Justin Song (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) A tale of two geometries: Cooper and Wannier |
| 14: 30 | Ajit Srivastava (Emory University, USA; University of Geneva, Switzerland) Momentum-space gravity from quantum geometry and entropy of bloch electrons |
| 15: 00 | Anders Sandvik (Boston University, USA) Topological defects in quantum annealing of the 2D Ising model |
| 15: 30 | Coffee & Tea Break |
| Session Chair: Su Ying Quek (National University of Singapore, Singapore) | |
| 16: 00 | Hans Hilgenkamp (University of Twente, Netherlands) Exploring devices based on quantum materials in unconventional geometries |
| 16: 30 | Michael Fuhrer (Monash University, Australia) Revealing the excitonic condensate order parameter in topological exciton insulator WTe2 |
| 17: 00 | Poster Session & Buffet Dinner |
| 18: 30 | End of Day 1 / Bus back to Orchard Rendezvous Hotel |
| Tuesday 15 July 2025 | |
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| 08: 00 | Bus pick-up for speakers from Orchard Rendezvous Hotel |
| Session Chair: Junichiro Kono (Rice University, USA) | |
| 09: 00 | Yoshinori Tokura (Riken, Japan) Emergent electric field generation by spin dynamics in topological magnets |
| 09: 30 | Gerrit Bauer (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Tohoku University, Japan) On magnons and ferrons |
| 10: 00 | Mathias Kläui (University of Mainz, Germany) Topological spin structures - from topological phase transitions to unconventional computing |
| 10: 30 | Coffee & Tea Break |
| Session Chair: Timothy Liew (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) | |
| 11: 00 | Hyunsoo Yang (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Nonlinear spintronics |
| 11: 30 | Pinaki Sengupta (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Time crystal of topological magnons |
| 12: 00 | Su Ying Quek (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Quantum geometric features of excitons in nonlinear optics |
| 12: 30 | Lunch |
| Session Chair: Rui Su (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) | |
| 14: 00 | Junichiro Kono (Rice University, USA) Quantum materials in chiral cavities with broken time reversal symmetry |
| 14: 30 | Guillaume Malpuech (CNRS, France) Microcavities as universal simulators of 2D two bands systems |
| 15: 00 | Netanel Lindner (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) Modulated Floquet parametric driving of plasmons and magnons |
| 15: 30 | Coffee & Tea Break |
| Session Chair: Hyunsoo Yang (National University of Singapore, Singapore) | |
| 16: 00 | Alexander Poddubny (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) Disorder-robust synchronization of laser lattices with dirac dispersion |
| 16: 30 | Pavlos Lagoudakis (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Russia) Computing with quantum fluids of light |
| 17: 00 | Sanghoon Chae (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Electrically tunable ferroelectric NbOBr2-integrated nonlinear photonics |
| 18: 00 | End of Day 2 / Buffet Dinner Bus to Banquet (for speakers) |
| Wednesday 16 July 2025 | |
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| 08: 00 | Bus pick-up for speakers from Orchard Rendezvous Hotel |
| Session Chair: Sanghoon Chae (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) | |
| 09: 00 | Qiong Ma (Boston College, USA) A new topological monolayer |
| 09: 30 | Yoshihiro Iwasa (RIKEN, Japan) Unidirectional surface transport |
| 10: 00 | Nanlin Wang (Peking University, China) Nonequilibrium and nonlinear terahertz spectroscopy study on superconducting collective modes in YBa2Cu3O6+x and MgB2 |
| 10: 30 | Coffee & Tea Break |
| Session Chair: Ajit Srivastava (Emory University, USA; University of Geneva, Switzerland) | |
| 11: 00 | Trithep Devaul (Stanford University, USA) The origin of correlated Chern insulators in rhombohedral graphene |
| 11: 30 | Renshaw, Xiao Wang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Electrical control of nonreciprocal transport in low dimensional systems |
| 12: 00 | Antonio Helio Castro Neto (National University of Singapore, Singapore) From 2D to 3D: from semiconductors to cement |
| 12: 30 | Lunch |
| 14: 00 | Bo Yang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Geometric excitations of topological quantum fluids in partially filled Chern bands |
| 14: 30 | Panel Discussion (Moderator: Bo Yang) F. Duncan M. Haldane, Antonio Helio Castro Neto, Michael Fuhrer, Hans Hilgenkamp, Qiong Ma |
| 15: 45 | Poster Award Ceremony |
| 16: 00 | Fruit Fiesta |
| 17: 00 | Nobel Public Lecture F. Duncan M. Haldane (Princeton University, USA) Modern quantum mechanics is 100 years old this year: why is there so much excitement? |
| 18:30 | Buffet Dinner |
| 19:30 | End of Workshop / Bus back to Orchard Rendezvous Hotel |