Symmetries and Interactions in Topological Matter
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Symmetries and Interactions in Topological Matter
WILLIAM I. FINE THEORETICAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE Symmetries and Interactions in Topological Matter May 1st - May 3rd 2015 TABLE OF CONTENTS Program..........................................................................................2 Workshop Banquet info..........................................................4 & 25 Abstracts.........................................................................................9 Wireless Information.....................................................................20 Participant List...............................................................................21 Talk Uploading Instructions..........................................................26 Maps Workshop Banquet Location................................................25 Dining Guide........................................................................27 Additional Locations............................................................28 Poster Presentation List.................................................................29 William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute School of Physics & Astronomy University of Minnesota 116 Church Street SE Minneapolis, MN 55455 Phone: (612) 624-7366 Fax: (612) 626-8606 [email protected] www.ftpi.umn.edu T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S WILLIAM I. FINE THEORETICAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE Symmetries and Interactions in Topological Matter May 1st - May 3rd 2015 Welcome to the Symmetries and Interactions in Topological Matter workshop We are delighted to host the workshop, “Symmetries and Interactions in Topological Matter,” sponsored by the William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute (FTPI), at the University of Minnesota. This exciting event will be held in Minneapolis from the morning of Friday, May 1st, to the afternoon of Sunday, May 3rd, 2015. We will host a workshop dinner on Friday, May 1st and a poster session in the afternoon on Saturday, May 2nd. Scientific Organizing Committee: Andrei Bernevig, Princeton University Fiona Burnell, University of Minnesota Alex Kamenev, University of Minnesota, FTPI 1 WILLIAM I. FINE THEORETICAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE Symmetries and Interactions in Topological Matter May 1st - May 3rd 2015 FRIDAY, MAY 1ST The Commons Hotel, Ballroom 2nd floor 8:40 amREGISTRATION The Commons Hotel – Ballroom 2nd floor - to the right at the top of the escalators 8:55 am Welcome and opening comments Alex Kamenev University of Minnesota 9:00 am Symmetry Protected Topological Semimetals Charles Kane University of Pennsylvania 9:35 am Evidence for the chiral anomaly in a Dirac semimetal N.P. Ong Princeton University 10:10 am COFFEE BREAK 10:45 am Effective field theory of the disordered Weyl semimetal Alexander Altland University of Cologne 11:20 am 2D Topo.Superconductors, Weyl Semimetals and other exotic Cooper Pairing M. Zahid Hasan Princeton University 11:55 am Interplay between Symmetry and Geometry in Topological Phases Taylor Hughes University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 12:30 pm LUNCH BREAK - Lunch is on your own 2 P R O G R A M WILLIAM I. FINE THEORETICAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE Symmetries and Interactions in Topological Matter May 1st - May 3rd 2015 FRIDAY, MAY 1ST Keller Hall 3-180 200 Union Street SE, Minneapolis, MN ***LOCATION CHANGE - KELLER HALL 3-180*** 2:00 pm Braiding statistics and symmetry-protected topological phases Michael Levin University of Chicago 2:35 pm Fractionalization of Faraday lines in generalized compact quantum electrodynamics (CQED) and Symmetry Protected Topological phases and Symmetry Enriched Topological phases of CQED Olexei Motrunich California Institute of Technology 3:10 pm Time reversal invariant gapped boundaries of the double semion state Xie Chen California Institute of Technology 3:45 pm COFFEE BREAK 4:15 pm Metal-insulator transition and beyond in the pyrochlore iridates Leon Balents University of California, Santa Barbara 4:50 pm Novel transport and magnetic phenomena in strongly spin-orbit coupled materials James Analytis University of California, Berkeley 5:25 pm Topological Spin Liquid and Symmetry Characterization for Triangular Lattice Spin 1/2 J1-J2 model Donna Sheng California State University, Northridge 3 WILLIAM I. FINE THEORETICAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE Symmetries and Interactions in Topological Matter May 1st - May 3rd 2015 FRIDAY, MAY 1ST Keller Hall 3-180 200 Union Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 6:00 pm Workshop ends for the day 6:15 pm Non UMN participants - Board bus for departure at 6:30 pm to workshop dinner Bus will pick-up outside of Keller Hall on Union Street East side of Keller Hall 6:30 pm Bus departs for Harriet Island 7:00 pm WORKSHOP DINNER Centennial Showboat Harriet Island West 100 Yacht club road, St Paul MN 55107 10:00 pm Workshop dinner ends. Bus will pick up non UMN participants and drop off at The Commons hotel. 4 P R O G R A M WILLIAM I. FINE THEORETICAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE Symmetries and Interactions in Topological Matter May 1st - May 3rd 2015 SATURDAY, MAY 2ND Keller Hall 3-180 200 Union Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 9:00 am Quantum criticality of 1D topological Anderson insulators Dmitry Bagrets University of Cologne 9:35 am Transport and Josephson phenomena in hybrid superconductor-topological insulator devices Dale Van Harlingen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 10:10 am COFFEE BREAK 10:45 am Search for additional signatures of Majorana fermions in semiconductor nanowires coupled to superconductors Sergey Frolov University of Pittsburgh 11:20 am Majorana takes charge: from teleportation to quantum computation Liang Fu Massachusetts Institute of Technology 11:55 am Progress in the materials science of hybrid nanowires for topological devices Jesper Nygard Neils Bohr Institute 12:30 pm LUNCH BREAK - Lunch is on your own 2:00 pm Topological Superconductivity with Magnetic Atoms Leonid Glazman Yale University 5 WILLIAM I. FINE THEORETICAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE Symmetries and Interactions in Topological Matter May 1st - May 3rd 2015 SATURDAY, MAY 2ND Keller Hall 3-180 200 Union Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 2:35 pm Majorana bound states in ferromagnetic atomic chains on a superconductor Stevan Nadj-Perge California Institute of Technology 3:10 pm Luttinger Behavior in the Ultralow Temperature Transport of InAs/GaSb Edge States Rui-Rui Du Rice University 3:45 pm COFFEE BREAK 4:15 pm Detecting topological orders in an infinite cylinder geometry Frank Pollmann Max Planck Dresden 4:50 pm Light-matters: from Floquet topological insulators to topolaritons Gil Refael California Institute of Technology 5:30 pm POSTER SESSION 6 P R O G R A M WILLIAM I. FINE THEORETICAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE Symmetries and Interactions in Topological Matter May 1st - May 3rd 2015 SUNDAY, MAY 3RD Keller Hall 3-180 200 Union Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 9:00 am Imaging current in quantum spin Hall insulators Katja Nowack Cornell University 9:35 am Topology and quantum coherence in `hot’ matter Ashvin Vishwanath University of California at Berkeley 10:10 am Supercurrent in the edge modes of InAs/GaSb Vlad Pribiag University of Minnesota 10:45 am COFFEE BREAK 11:15 am Composite Dirac liquids: parent states for symmetric surface topological order Jason Alicea California Institute of Technology 11:50 am 3d symmetry protected phases and surface topological order Lukasz Fidkowski Stony Brook 12:25 pm Symmetry-protected topological phases and cross-cap states Shinsei Ryu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1:00 pm Workshop Closing 7 WILLIAM I. FINE THEORETICAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE Symmetries and Interactions in Topological Matter May 1st - May 3rd 2015 SUNDAY, MAY 3RD Keller Hall 3-180 200 Union Street SE, Minneapolis, MN THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION!!! If you are going to the airport from the workshop location and need a taxi please inform the workshop staff. If you will be leaving from the hotel please make arrangements with concierge desk at the hotel or take advantage of the light-rail. 8 P R O G R A M WILLIAM I. FINE THEORETICAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE Symmetries and Interactions in Topological Matter May 1st - May 3rd 2015 ABSTRACTS (alphabetical by speaker) Jason Alicea California Institute of Technology Composite Dirac liquids: parent states for symmetric surface topological order Topological phases of matter often feature boundary physics that naively seems impossible from the viewpoint of systems in one lower dimension. In this talk I will introduce a new class of exotic boundary states known as `composite Dirac liquids’ that can appear at a strongly interacting surface of a 3D electronic topological insulator. Composite Dirac liquids exhibit a gap to all charge excitations but nevertheless feature a single massless Dirac cone built from emergent electrically neutral fermions. These states thus comprise electrical insulators that, interestingly, retain thermal properties similar to those of the non-interacting topological insulator surface. I will show how gapping the neutral fermions via Cooper pairing naturally recovers symmetric non-Abelian surface topological orders captured recently in several works. Alexander Altland University of Cologne Effective field theory of the disordered Weyl semimetal In disordered Weyl semimetals, mechanisms of topological origin lead to the|protection against Anderson localization, and at the same time to different|types of transverse electromagnetic response -- the anomalous Hall, and chiral|magnetic effect. In this talk, we will discuss the|manifestation of these phenomena at length scales which are beyond the scope|of diagrammatic perturbation theory. Specifically we show how an interplay of|symmetry breaking and the chiral anomaly leads to a field theory containing|two types of topological terms. Generating the unconventional response|coefficients of the system, these terms remain largely unaffected by disorder,|i.e. information on the chirality of the system remains visible|even at large length scales. James Analytis University of California, Berkeley Novel transport and magnetic phenomena in strongly spin-orbit coupled materials 9 WILLIAM I. FINE THEORETICAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE Symmetries and Interactions in Topological Matter May 1st - May 3rd 2015 Dmitry Bagrets University of CologneUniversity of Cologne Quantum criticality of 1D topological Anderson insulators In my talk I will present the recent analytic theory of quantum criticality in quasi one-dimensional topological Anderson insulators [1,2]. We describe these systems in terms of two parameters $(g,\ chi)$ representing localization and topological properties, respectively. Certain critical values of $\chi$ (half-integer for Z classes, or zero for Z2 classes) define phase boundaries between distinct topological sectors. Upon increasing system size, the two parameters exhibit flow similar to the celebrated two parameter flow of the integer quantum Hall insulator. However, unlike the quantum Hall system, an exact analytical description of the entire phase diagram can be given in terms of the transfer-matrix solution of corresponding supersymmetric non-linear sigma-models. In Z2 classes we uncover a hidden supersymmetry, present at the quantum critical point. [1]”Topology versus Anderson localization: Non-perturbative solutions in one dimension”, A. Altland, D. Bagrets, and A. Kamenev, PRB 91, 085429 (2015). [2]”Quantum criticality of quasi one-dimensional topological Anderson insulators”, A. Altland, D. Bagrets, L. Fritz, A. Kamenev, H. Schmiedt, PRL 112, 206602 (2014). Leon Balents University of California, Santa Barbara Metal-insulator transition and beyond in the pyrochlore iridates Iridates are interesting materials in which Coulomb repulsion, kinetic energy, and spin-orbit coupling all are comparable. In particular the latter suggests they may be good candidates to observe topological phenomena. The pyrochlore family, with chemical formula A2Ir2O7 (A is a trivalent rare earth), displays both magnetic ordering and a metal-insulator transition. I will discuss theoretical and experimental studies of these materials, focusing on aspects related to topology and correlations, highlighting recent results. Xie Chen California Institute of Technology Time reversal invariant gapped boundaries of the double semion state The boundary of a fractionalized topological phase can be gapped by condensing a proper set of bosonic quasiparticles. Interestingly, in the presence of a global symmetry, such a boundary 10 A B S T R A C T S WILLIAM I. FINE THEORETICAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE Symmetries and Interactions in Topological Matter May 1st - May 3rd 2015 can exhibit different symmetry transformation properties, depending on the details of the condensation. In this talk, I discuss an explicit example of this kind - the double semion state with time reversal symmetry. We find two distinct cases where the semionic excitations on the boundary can transform either as time reversal singlets or as time reversal doublets, depending on the coherent phase factor of the boson condensate. The existence of these two possibilities are demonstrated using both field theory argument and exactly solvable lattice models. Furthermore, we study the domain walls between these two types of gapped boundaries. We find that they carry symmetry protected degeneracies and applying time reversal symmetry tunnels a semion between them. Rui-Rui Du Rice University Luttinger Behavior in the Ultralow Temperature Transport of InAs/GaSb Edge States Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid (LL) is a theoretical model describing the ground state of a correlated one-dimensional (1D) electronic system. Confirmations of this ground state have been examined in various materials, such as carbon nanotubes, semiconductor nanowires, and cleaved-edgeovergrowth 1D channel, as well as fractional quantum Hall edge states, respectively for spinfull or chiral Luttinger liquids. It is theoretically proposed that in the limit of strong electronelectron interaction, the edge states of quantum spin Hall insulator (QSHI) are (spin-less) helical Luttinger liquids (HLL). Motivated by this interesting prospect, we investigate transport of edge states in InAs/GaSb quantum wells (QWs), which shows characteristic nonlinear conductance at ultra-low temperatures. A unique advantage of the 1D electronic system in InAs/GaSb is that the Luttinger parameter K can be controlled by various experimental knobs, such as gates as well as QW parameters. As an example, here the relevant K values can be tuned between ~ 0.24 and ~ 0.13 by gates. We found a scaling relation of conductance vs. eV/kBT, where eV is the voltage bias across the edge length, kBT is the temperature. Lukasz Fidkowski Stony Brook 3d symmetry protected phases and surface topological order I will consider gapped Hamiltonians of generalized spin models, which are invariant under a certain unbroken onsite unitary symmetry group. It is well known that such Hamiltonians can realize topologically ordered phases, which in (2+1)d can be studied with modular tensor categories. When a symmetry is included, the corresponding `symmetry enriched’ phases correspond to a richer mathematical structure - e.g. braided G-crossed categories in (2+1) 11 WILLIAM I. FINE THEORETICAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE Symmetries and Interactions in Topological Matter May 1st - May 3rd 2015 d. However, in systematically constructing such braided G-crossed categories by extending ordinary modular ones one sometimes encounters obstructions. Here we give a physical interpretation for such obstruction, and show that the corresponding topologically ordered theory, though it cannot be realized in 2d in a G-symmetric way, can be realized at the surface of a 3d ‘symmetry protected’ phase. I will try to emphasize the physical interpretation of the various mathematical concepts involved, and I will explain a specific example in detail. Sergey Frolov University of Pittsburgh Search for additional signatures of Majorana fermions in semiconductor nanowires coupled to superconductors I will provide and update on the experiments in InSb nanowires coupled to superconductors. The talk will focus on tunneling experiments and the analysis of zero-bias peaks, induced gaps and methods of the preparation of clean transparent contacts between superconductors and semiconductors. Near term goals include the search for the closing of the topological superconducting gap, correlations between zero-bias features, phase diagrams of the topological states. Liang Fu Massachusetts Institute of Technology Majorana takes charge: from teleportation to quantum computation Leonid Glazman Yale University Topological Superconductivity with Magnetic Atoms Chains of magnetic impurities embedded in a conventional s-wave superconductor may induce the formation of a topologically non-trivial superconducting phase. If such a phase is formed along a chain, then its ends carry Majorana fermions. We investigate this possibility theoretically by developing a tight-binding Bogoliubov-de Gennes description, starting from the Shiba bound states induced by the individual magnetic impurities. While the resulting Hamiltonian has similarities with the Kitaev model for one-dimensional spinless p-wave 12 A B S T R A C T S WILLIAM I. FINE THEORETICAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE Symmetries and Interactions in Topological Matter May 1st - May 3rd 2015 superconductors, there are also important differences, most notably the long-range (powerlaw) nature of hopping and pairing as well as the complex hopping amplitudes. We develop an analytical theory, complemented by numerical approaches, which accounts for the electron long-range pairing and hopping along the chain [1], inhomogeneous magnetic order in the chain of embedded impurities or spin-orbit coupling in the host superconductor, and the possibility of direct electron hopping between the impurity atoms [2]. This allows us to elucidate the domain of parameters favoring the formation of a topological phase and to find the spatial structure [2,3] of Majorana states appearing in that phase. This talk is based on joint work with F. von Oppen, Falko Pientka, and Yang Peng. [1] Falko Pientka, Leonid I. Glazman, and Felix von Oppen, Phys. Rev. B 88, 155420 (2013). [2] Yang Peng, Falko Pientka, Leonid I. Glazman, and Felix von Oppen, preprint arXiv:1412.0151. [3] Falko Pientka, Leonid I. Glazman, and Felix von Oppen, Phys. Rev. B 89, 180505(R) (2014). M. Zahid Hasan Princeton University 2D Topo.Superconductors, Weyl Semimetals and other exotic Cooper Pairing In this talk I plan to present realization of 2D topological superconductors (TSC) with Helical Pairing [1,2] based on a Bi-based topological material and a route to SUSY critical point and then present our experimental discovery (and theory of TaAs) of Weyl semimetal state with Fermi arc surface states in TaAs and other related systems [3-5]. I discuss the progress in realizing exotic Cooper pairing in these systems. ||[1] Hasan & Kane ; RMP 82, 3045 (2010) and Qi & Zhang, RMP 83, 1057 (2011); Fu & Kane, PRL 100, 096407 (2008).|[2] S.-Y. Xu, N. Aldoust et al., Nature Physics 10, 943 (2014).|[3] T. Grover et.al., Science 344, 280 (2014).|[4] S.-Y. Xu, C. Liu, S. Kushwaha et al., Science 347, 294 (2015).|[5] S.-Y. Xu, Belopolski et.al., arXiv:1502.03807 (2015). Taylor Hughes University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Interplay between Symmetry and Geometry in Topological Phases In this talk I will discuss new developments that illustrate the interplay between topology, geometry, and symmetry in topological phases of matter. I will discuss the classification of some topological insulator/superconductor phases via their spatial symmetries and the consequences 13 WILLIAM I. FINE THEORETICAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE Symmetries and Interactions in Topological Matter May 1st - May 3rd 2015 for topological defects such as disclinations and dislocations. Additionally, I will show how spatial symmetries can protect quantized topological responses in topological insulator phases. If time permits, I will discuss how interactions can generate a spatial protected topological phase in a symmetry class which only has trivial phases in the non-interacting limit. Charles Kane University of Pennsylvania Symmetry Protected Topological Semimetals Michael Levin University of Chicago Braiding statistics and symmetry-protected topological phases Symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases can be thought of as generalizations of topological insulators. Just as topological insulators have robust boundary modes protected by time reversal and charge conservation symmetry, SPT phases have boundary modes protected by more general symmetries. In this talk, I will describe a method for analyzing 2D and 3D SPT phases using braiding statistics. More specifically, I will show that 2D and 3D SPT phases can be characterized by gauging their symmetries and studying the braiding statistics of their gauge flux excitations. The 3D case is of particular interest as it involves a generalization of quasiparticle braiding statistics to three dimensions. Olexei Motrunich California Institute of Technology Fractionalization of Faraday lines in generalized compact quantum electrodynamics (CQED) and Symmetry Protected Topological phases and Symmetry Enriched Topological phases of CQED Motivated by ideas of fractionalization and topological order in bosonic models with short-range 14 A B S T R A C T S WILLIAM I. FINE THEORETICAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE Symmetries and Interactions in Topological Matter May 1st - May 3rd 2015 interactions, we consider similar phenomena in formal lattice gauge theory models, which are models where basic constituents are quantum lines. In the first example, we show that a compact quantum electrodynamics (CQED) can have, besides familiar Coulomb and confined phases, additional unusual confined phases where excitations are quantum lines carrying fractions of the elementary unit of electric field strength; specifically, we construct a model that has $N$-tupled monopole condensation and realizes 1/N fractionalization of the quantum Faraday lines. In the second example, we consider a system consisting of two copies of CQED in (4+1)D and engineer condensation of bound states of monopoles (which are quantum lines in four spatial dimensions) and U(1) electric field lines. When the bound states contain a single monopole, we find lattice gauge theory analogs of Symmetry Protected Topological phases, while when the bound states contain multiple monopoles, we find analogs of Symmetry-Enriched Topological phases, where we also have fractionalization of Faraday lines. The distinct character of these “topological” phases of quantum lines is revealed by unusual response properties and physics at a boundary of a spatial region in such a phase. Stevan Nadj-Perge California Institute of Technology Majorana bound states in ferromagnetic atomic chains on a superconductor Majorana bound states are zero-energy excitations predicted to localize at the edge of a topological superconductor, a state of matter that can form when a ferromagnetic system is placed in proximity to a conventional superconductor with strong spin-orbit interaction. With the goal of realizing a one-dimensional topological superconductor, we have fabricated ferromagnetic iron atomic chains on the surface of superconducting lead [1]. Using high-resolution spectroscopic imaging techniques, we show that the onset of superconductivity, which partly gaps the electronic density of states in the bulk of the chains, is accompanied by the appearance of zero-energy endstates. This spatially resolved signature provides evidence, corroborated by other observations and theoretical modeling [2], for the formation of a topological phase and edge-bound Majorana states in this system. Our results demonstrates that atomic chains are viable platform for future experiments to manipulate Majorana bound states [3] and to realize other 1D and 2D topological superconducting phases. [1] S. Nadj-Perge, I. K. Drozdov, J. Li, H. Chen, S. Jeon, J. Seo, A. H. MacDonald, B. A. Bernevig, and A. Yazdani, Science 346, 602 (2014). [2] Jian Li, Hua Chen, Ilya K. Drozdov, A. Yazdani, B. Andrei Bernevig, A.H. MacDonald, Phys. Rev. B 90, 235433 (2014). [3] Jian Li, Titus Neupert, B. Andrei Bernevig, Ali Yazdani, ArXiv:1404.4058 (2014). 15 WILLIAM I. FINE THEORETICAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE Symmetries and Interactions in Topological Matter May 1st - May 3rd 2015 Katja Nowack Cornell University Imaging current in quantum spin Hall insulators Conducting edge modes at the sample boundaries are a key feature of the quantum spin Hall (QSH) state, which was predicted and experimentally demonstrated first in HgTe quantum wells and more recently in InAs/GaSb quantum wells. The existence of the edge modes has been evidenced by conductance measurements on sufficiently small devices. In this talk I will describe how we use scanning superconducting interference device (SQUID) microscopy to directly observe and characterize edge current in both materials. The SQUID measures the out of plane component of the magnetic field generated by current applied to our devices. From these magnetic images, we reconstruct the 2D current density with a spatial resolution of several microns. In HgTe and InAs/GaSb we show that the edges of the devices carry most of the current when, and only when, the devices are tuned into their insulating gaps, directly confirming the presence of the edge modes. In addition to identifying the edge modes, we disentangle conduction through the edges and the interior of a device, allowing us to study the resistance of only the edges even when the interior becomes conductive through either gating or raising the temperature. Our analysis suggests that the edge resistance is constant over a large temperature range implying that those scattering mechanisms which predict a power-law or stronger temperature dependence are likely not dominant. These results deepen the puzzle of what causes backscattering in the nominally dissipationless edge modes. Jesper Nygard Neils Bohr Institute Progress in the materials science of hybrid nanowires for topological devices Semiconductor nanowires are a backbone in proposals for topological quantum computing based on manipulation of Majorana quasiparticles. Experimentally, various techniques exist for synthesis of semiconductor nanowires for quantum transport. For most applications, the fabrication method is not important once the semiconductor growth conditions and quality have been optimised. There are also different routes for forming heterostructures, branched geometries and other advanced nanowire materials. However, we will here focus on a unique process that is particularly promising for topological devices: epitaxial metal/semiconductor heterostructures based on Molecular Beam Epitaxy. Under vacuum conditions, an aluminum shell is grown in-situ onto InAs nanowires, leading to an epitaxially matched interface between the semiconducting core and the metal coating that acts as a superconductor at low temperatures. The perfect superconductor-semiconductor 16 A B S T R A C T S WILLIAM I. FINE THEORETICAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE Symmetries and Interactions in Topological Matter May 1st - May 3rd 2015 interface results in proximity induced superconductivity with a hard gap. The technique is compatible with formation of branched nanostructures and opens up for new directions in nanowire based quantum devices, e.g. transmon qubits and topological systems. N. Phuan Ong Princeton University Evidence for the chiral anomaly in a Dirac semimetal After an introduction to Weyl metals and the chiral anomaly, I will discuss recent transport results showing evidence for the chiral anomaly in the Dirac semimetal Na3Bi. At low temperature, we detect a large conductivity enhancement when the magnetic field is aligned with the current. The enhanced conductivity corresponds to a collimated current plume that can be steered by the magnetic field. The importance of this field locking feature as a signature of the chiral anomaly is emphasized.|*With Jun Xiong, S. Kushwaha, Tian Liang, Wudi Wang, and R. J. Cava Frank Pollmann Max Planck Dresden Detecting topological orders in an infinite cylinder geometry I will show that numerical investigations of a many-body ground state wavefunction using the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) method can yield a remarkably complete characterization of different types of topological orders. A central tool is the entanglement which encodes many of the essential features. First, I will show how characteristic properties of the topological excitations in fractional quantum Hall states can be extracted directly from the ground state wave function. Second, I will consider symmetry protected topological phases for which the characterizing symmetry fractionalization can be determined. Vlad Pribiag University of Minnesota Supercurrent in the edge modes of InAs/GaSb 17 WILLIAM I. FINE THEORETICAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE Symmetries and Interactions in Topological Matter May 1st - May 3rd 2015 Gil Refael California Institute of Technology Light-matters: from Floquet topological insulators to topolaritons In my talk I will discuss how the interaction of light and matter could result in topological behavior. I will first recount the principals behind the Floquet topological insulator in periodically driven systems, and present fresh results on the steady states we expect in Floquet systems. I will then show how topological phenomena emerges even without an external periodic drive in the excitation spectrum of otherwise trivial semiconductors. In particular, I will explain how toconstruct topological polaritons (so-called topolaritons) and topological excitons could be observed in garden-variety solid state systems. Shinsei Ryu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Symmetry-protected topological phases and cross-cap states In this talk, I plan to discuss phases of matter with reflection symmetry (parity symmetry) with interactions. While a systematic analysis is possible for non-interacting fermions, an important challenge is to understand the effects of strong electron correlations. To get some insight into this problem, I will discuss an example where by the effects of interactions the non-interacting classification breaks down. I will also propose a generalization of Laughlin’s thought experiment, a theoretical method which is powerful enough to diagnose topological phases with U(1) symmetry but no other symmetries, to the cases of various symmetry protected topological phases. For the case of parity symmetry, the proposed generalization consists of putting they boundary theories of a SPT phase on an unoriented surfaces, and hence is related to the so-called orientifold quantum field theories. Donna Sheng California State University, Northridge Topological Spin Liquid and Symmetry Characterization for Triangular Lattice Spin 1/2 J1-J2 model We study the spin-1/2 Heisenberg model on the triangular lattice with the antiferromagnetic first(J1 ) and second-neighbor (J2 ) interactions by means of density matrix renormalization group (DMRG). Beside the three sublattice ordered Neel phase and a stripe antiferromagnetic phase at smaller (~0.07) and larger J2 (~0.16) sides, we find a quantum spin liquid in the intermediate 18 A B S T R A C T S WILLIAM I. FINE THEORETICAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE Symmetries and Interactions in Topological Matter May 1st - May 3rd 2015 range of the J2. We show that there are two topological sectors. The odd sector (by pinning spinons at cylinder boundaries) is very robust, while the even topological sector has higher energy for smaller systems possibly due to a competing chiral state. We demonstrate the stabilization of the possible Z2 spin liquid in both sectors with the increase of the system width. We analyze the quantum numbers of different near degenerating states, and discuss the possible characterization of the Z2 spin liquid. Dale J. Van Harlingen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Transport and Josephson phenomena in hybrid superconductor-topological insulator devices We are studying the transport properties of hybrid S-TI-S nanoscale devices fabricated by depositing superconductor electrodes onto the surface of topological insulators. In top-gated Nb-Bi2Se3-Nb junctions, we have measured the Josephson supercurrent and conductance as a function of geometry, temperature, and gate voltage in order to determine the nature of the electronic transport. The supercurrent exhibits a sharp drop as a function of gate doping that may be explained by the relocation of the topological surface state from above to below trivial conducting surface states formed by band-banding near the surface. We find that the magnetic field modulation of the supercurrent in Josephson junctions and dc SQUIDs exhibits anomalous features that are consistent with a 4 -periodic sin( /2)-component in the junction currentphase relation. We consider whether this could arise from the nucleation of Majorana bound states in the junction and explore schemes for manipulating and ultimately braiding these exotic excitations. Ashvin Vishwanath University of California at Berkeley Topology and quantum coherence in `hot’ matter 19 WILLIAM I. FINE THEORETICAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE Symmetries and Interactions in Topological Matter May 1st - May 3rd 2015 WIRELESS ACCESS Workshop guests may access the Hotel Wi-Fi with the following: Network: Commons Convention Password: Symmetries Please see workshop staff for a secure Wi-Fi connection username and password at Keller Hall 20 W I R E L E S S WILLIAM I. FINE THEORETICAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE Symmetries and Interactions in Topological Matter May 1st - May 3rd 2015 WORKSHOP PARTICIPANT LIST David Aasen California Institute of Technology - IQIM [email protected] Alexander Abanov Department of Physics & Astronomy alexandre.abanov@stonybrook. edu Jan Borchmann McGill University [email protected] Terence Bretz-Sullivan University of Minnesota [email protected] Barry Bradlyn Yale University [email protected] Jason Alicea California Institute of Technology [email protected] Fiona Burnell University of Minnesota [email protected] Alexander Altland Institute for theoretical physics [email protected] Vladimir Bychkov University of Minnesota [email protected] James Analytis University of California, Berkeley [email protected] Jiashen Cai University of Minnesota [email protected] Yilikal Ayino University of Minnesota [email protected] Tankut Can Simons Center for Geometry and Physics [email protected] Dmitry Bagrets Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne [email protected] Pak On Chan University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign [email protected] Leon Balents Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics [email protected] Xie Chen California Institute of Technology [email protected] Andrei Bernevig Princeton University [email protected] Tianran Chen West Chester University [email protected] Morten Christensen University of Minnesota and The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen mortenholmchristensen@gmail. com Tianbai Cui University of Minnesota [email protected] Mahendra DC University of Minnesota [email protected] Lingjie Du Rice University [email protected] Rui-Rui Du Rice University [email protected] Maxim Dzero Kent State University [email protected] Alex Edelman University of Chicago [email protected] Chun Chen University of Minnesota [email protected] Chen Fang Massachusetts Institute of Technology [email protected] Jun Chen University of Pittsburgh [email protected] Rafael Fernandes University of Minnesota [email protected] 21 WILLIAM I. FINE THEORETICAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE Symmetries and Interactions in Topological Matter May 1st - May 3rd 2015 Lukasz Fidkowski Stony Brook [email protected] Tobias Gulden FTPI, University of Minnesota [email protected] Sergey Frolov University of Pittsburgh [email protected] Woods Halley University of Minnesota [email protected] Han Fu FTPI, University of Minnesota [email protected] M. Zahid Hasan Princeton Univ., Physics Dept. [email protected] Liang Fu Massachusetts Institute of Technology [email protected] Chris Heinrich University of Chicago [email protected] Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi University of Houston [email protected] Alberto Hinojosa Alvarado University of Minnesota [email protected] Charles Kane Department of Physics and Astronomy [email protected] Jian Kang University of Minnesota [email protected] Fulya Koc University of Minnesota [email protected] Yevhen Kurianovych University of Minnesota [email protected] Michael Laskin University of Chicago [email protected] Leonid Glazman Yale University [email protected] Chang-Tse Hsieh University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign [email protected] Allen Goldman University of Minnesota [email protected] Yichen Hu University of Pennsylvania [email protected] Alex Levchenko Michigan State University [email protected] Roberto Grassi University of Minnesota [email protected] Taylor Hughes University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign [email protected] Michael Levin University of Chicago [email protected] Gino Graziano University of Minnesota [email protected] Andrey Gromov Stony Brook University [email protected] Ilya Gruzberg The Ohio State University [email protected] Thomas Iadecola Boston University [email protected] Yongjin Jiang University of Minnesota [email protected] Alex Kamenev University of Minnesota [email protected] 22 Chris Leighton University of Minnesota [email protected] Mo Li University of Minnesota [email protected] Yangmu Li University of Minnesota [email protected] Mengqun Li University of Minnesota [email protected] P A R T I C I P A N T S WILLIAM I. FINE THEORETICAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE Symmetries and Interactions in Topological Matter May 1st - May 3rd 2015 WORKSHOP PARTICIPANT LIST Chien-Hung Lin University of Chicago [email protected] N. Phuan Ong Princeton Univ [email protected] Konstantin Reich FTPI, University of Minnesota [email protected] Changjiang Liu University of Minnesota [email protected] Peter Orth University of Minnesota [email protected] Rosa Rodriguez Mota McGill University [email protected] Joey Liu University of Minnesota [email protected] Ilana Percher University of Minnesota [email protected] P.Paul Ruden University of Minnesota [email protected] Geremia Massarelli McGill University [email protected]. ca Tami Pereg-Barnea McGill University [email protected] Shinsei Ryu University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign [email protected] Ian Mondragon University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign [email protected] Olexei Motrunich California Institute of Technology [email protected] Stevan Nadj-Perge Delft University of Technology (previously at Princeton University)s.nadj-perge@ tudelft.nl JJ Nelson University of Minnesota [email protected] Katja Nowack Cornell University [email protected] Jesper Nygard Niels Both Institute, University of Copenhagen [email protected] Brent Perreault University of Minnesota [email protected] Dmitry Pikulin University of British Columbia [email protected] Frank Pollmann Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems [email protected] Michael Schuett University of Minnesota [email protected] Marc Schulz University of Minnesota [email protected] Daniel Shaffer University of Minnesota [email protected] Vlad Pribiag University of Minnesota [email protected] Donna Sheng California State Univ. Northridge [email protected] Yang Qi Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics [email protected] Qianhui Shi University of Minnesota [email protected] Armin Rahmani UBC [email protected] Ken Shiozaki Department of Physics, Kyoto University [email protected] Gil Refael California Institute of Technology [email protected] Boris Shklovskii University of Minnesota [email protected] 23 WILLIAM I. FINE THEORETICAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE Symmetries and Interactions in Topological Matter May 1st - May 3rd 2015 Sujeet Shukla Jorn W F Venderbos California Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of [email protected] Technology [email protected] Inti Sodemann Villadiego Massachusetts Institute of Sagar Vijay Technology Massachusetts Institute of [email protected] Technology [email protected] Justin Song California Institute of Technology Ashvin Vishwanath [email protected] University of California, Berkeley Nicolas Tarantino [email protected] Stony Brook University [email protected] Curt von Keyserlingk Princeton Center for theoretical Kunal Tiwari Science McGill University [email protected] [email protected] Yuxuan Wang Alex Turzillo University of WisconsinCalifornia Institute of Technology Madison [email protected] [email protected] Oriol Valls University of Minnesota [email protected] Dale Van Harlingen University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign [email protected] Daniel Varjas University of California, Berkeley [email protected] Zitao Wang California Institute of Technology [email protected] Xiaoyu Wang University of Minnesota [email protected] Yuting Wang University of Minnesota [email protected] 24 Chenjie Wang University of Chicago [email protected] Ruiqi Xing University of Minnesota [email protected] Zedong Yang University of Minnesota [email protected] Xuzhe Ying University of Minnesota [email protected] Mengxing Ye University of Michigan [email protected] Peng Yu University of Pittsburgh [email protected] Jiaming Zheng University of Minnesota [email protected] Michael Zudov University of Minnesota [email protected] P A R T I C I P A N T S WILLIAM I. FINE THEORETICAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE Symmetries and Interactions in Topological Matter May 1st - May 3rd 2015 WORKSHOP DINNER Centennial Showboat, Harriet Island West 100 Yacht club road, St Paul MN 55107 FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: Take I-94 East to 5th St. exit, go straight. Follow 5th St. to Robert Street. Turn right on Robert St. Take Robert to cross river to Fillmore Ave (stoplight after bridge). Turn right onto Fillmore Ave and take a right onto Levee Road. Follow Levee Rd until it ends at the Showboat parking lot. Driving directions - http://www.riverrides.com/pages/misc/mapsb.html 25 WILLIAM I. FINE THEORETICAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE Symmetries and Interactions in Topological Matter May 1st - May 3rd 2015 INSTRUCTIONS FOR UPLOADING TALKS TO THE WORKSHOP WEBSITE Please submit a PDF (preferred format) of your talk slides by Friday, June 5, 2015 to be included in the conference web archive. Please include your name in the file name. 1. Use the following link to access the folder: 2015_Symmetries&Interactions_workshop: https://netfiles.umn.edu/xythoswfs/webview/_xy-17484837_1 2. Click on the “Upload” icon at the top right of the page 3. Select your file and click “Start Upload” The folder page should populte with your file. Alternatively, the screen may display this message: “The document was successfully uploaded to the folder, 2015_ Symmetries&Interactions_Workshop” It may also tell you that the directory is empty, but this just means that you may not have permission to see the files. All submitted talks will be archived online for general access at the University of Minnesota’s Digital Conservancy. By submitting your talk slides you are agreeing to the Digital Conservancy’s Copyright policy. For policy details see the website at: http://conservancy.umn. edu Please note that there will be a delay between your upload and final posting on the workshop website. Once all talks have been submitted, participants will be notified by email. As always, any questions may be addressed to [email protected]. ***If you are having problems uploading your PDF please email it to the workshop email address [email protected]*** 26 U P L O A D I N G T A L K S WILLIAM I. FINE THEORETICAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE Symmetries and Interactions in Topological Matter May 1st - May 3rd 2015 STADIUM VILLAGE DINING GUIDE 27 WILLIAM I. FINE THEORETICAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE Symmetries and Interactions in Topological Matter May 1st - May 3rd 2015 ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS 1) William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute: 116 Church Street SE, 4th floor North building entrance 2) Workshop Location Friday PM - Sunday: Keller Hall 3-180, 200 Union Street SE 3) Workshop Location Friday AM and Workshop Hotel: The Commons Hotel, 615 Washington Ave SE 1) 2) 3) M A P S 28 WILLIAM I. FINE THEORETICAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE Symmetries and Interactions in Topological Matter May 1st - May 3rd 2015 POSTER SESSION Quasi-one-dimensional Fibonacci Physics David Aasen California Institute of Technology - IQIM Entanglement entropy of a disorder spin-orbit coupled superconductor Jan Borchmann McGill University Splitting the topological ground-state degeneracy of parafermions in fractional quantum Hall heterostructures Chun Chen University of Minnesota Zero-bias peak in InSb nanowire Jun Chen University of Pittsburgh Correlation effects in the capacitance of a gated carbon nanotube Han Fu FTPI, University of Minnesota Topological Crystalline Insulators Protected by one Glide Plane Chen Fang Massachusetts Institute of Technology Framing anomaly in fractional quantum Hall states Andrey Gromov Stony Brook University Exactly soluble model of disorder for FQH edge modes Chris Heinrich University of Chicago 29 WILLIAM I. FINE THEORETICAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE Symmetries and Interactions in Topological Matter May 1st - May 3rd 2015 Diagnosing symmetry protected topological phases in crystalline topological insulators and superconductors Chang-Tse Hsieh University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Universal symmetry-protected resonances in a spinful Luttinger liquid Yichen Hu University of Pennsylvania Stroboscopic Symmetry-Protected Topological Phases Thomas Iadecola Boston University Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in a Curved Space: Gravitational Anomaly and Electromagnetic Response Michael Laskin University of Chicago Rashba induced space symmetry broken and scattering processes in graphene Yue Liu University of Minnesota Disorder-induced phase transitions and delocalization in topological insulators Ian Mondragon University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dimensional crossover and cold-atom realization of topological Mott insulators Peter Orth University of Minnesota Floquet topological insulators Tami Pereg-Barnea McGill University 30 p O S T E R S WILLIAM I. FINE THEORETICAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE Symmetries and Interactions in Topological Matter May 1st - May 3rd 2015 POSTER SESSION Spectroscopy of Spin Liquid Dynamics Brent Perreault University of Minnesota Crystal symmetry fractionalization and anomaly on the surface of topological crystalline insulators Yang Qi Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Emergent supersymmetry from interacting Majoranas Armin Rahmani UBC Impact of non-Abelian anyons on criticality Marc Schulz University of Minnesota K-theory classification of topological crystalline insulators with space group symmetry Ken Shiozaki Department of Physics, Kyoto University Stability of tensor network representation of string net states Sujeet Shukla California Institute of Technology Berry curvature induced nonlinear Hall effect in time-reversal invariant materials Inti Sodemann Villadiego Massachusetts Institute of Technology 31 WILLIAM I. FINE THEORETICAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE Symmetries and Interactions in Topological Matter May 1st - May 3rd 2015 Topological Currents in Gapped Dirac Systems Justin Song California Institute of Technology Effects of nonsymmorphic symmetries in crystalline topological insulators and superconductors Daniel Varjas University of California, Berkeley Interaction-induced topological phases in strained TCI and graphene due to partially flat bands Jorn W F Venderbos Massachusetts Institute of Technology A New Kind of Topological Quantum Order: Stationary Excitations and their Mobile Composites Sagar Vijay Massachusetts Institute of Technology Topological invariants for gauge theories and symmetry-protected topological phases Chenjie Wang University of Chicago Topological Surface States of Topological Crystalline Kondo Insulator SmB6 Mengxing Ye University of Michigan 32 p O S T E R S