Conference on Weyl Fermions in Materials | (smr 3157) (23-27 October 2017)

Administration

Description

The aim of this conference is to bring together the main experts in the field of Weyl-semimetal physics. It will be a venue to discuss the most recent developments, both from the theoretical and experimental viewpoints, and at the same time it will provide a comprehensive overview to scientists who wish to enter this field.

TOPICS:

Electronic-structure and ab-initio calculations
Material realisations
Transport properties of chiral systems
Experimental detection of Weyl quasiparticles
Physics of unconventional surface states
Interaction and disorder effects in topological systems
Hetero- and hybrid-structures
Electrodynamics in Weyl materials
Quantum-field-theory approaches
Applications and devices
Beyond Dirac and Weyl fermions

Material

Poster Programme general information group photo list of participants

Conference on Weyl Fermions in Materials | (smr 3157)

Go to day

Monday, 23 October 2017
- 09:00 - 21:00 Monday, 23 October
  - 09:00 Registration & morning tea 1h30'
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On Monday morning (or upon arrival in the following days), Faculty and   participants not staying in the
ICTP Guest Houses are kindly requested to 
complete registration formalities with the Secretariat
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  - 10:30 Opening 10'
  - 10:40 Topological insulators to Weyl semimetals and more: Discovery and the new frontier 45'
    
    Speaker: M. Zahid Hasan (Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, Princeton University, USA)
  - 11:25 Strongly disordered Weyl semimetals: the low-energy field theory perspective 45'
    
    Speaker: Dmitry Bagrets (University of Cologne, Germany)
  - 12:10 Metal-semimetal transition in Weyl fermions as a self-focusing phenomenon in non-linear diffusion 25'
    
    Speaker: Ivan Balog (Institute of Physics, Croatia)
  - 12:35 Lunch break 1h55' ( )
  - 14:30 Disorder and interaction in Dirac-Weyl materials 45'
    
    Speaker: Sankar Das Sarma (University of Maryland, USA)
  - 15:15 Coffee break 30' ( )
  - 19:00 Welcome Reception 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
Tuesday, 24 October 2017
- 09:00 - 10:40 Tuesday, 24 October: Session 1
  
  Convener: Ady Stern
  - 09:00 Equilibrium chiral magnetic effect in a Weyl superconductor 45'
    
    Speaker: Carlo Beenakker (Instituut-Lorentz, Leiden University, the Netherlands)
  - 09:45 Time-Reversal and rotation symmetry breaking superconductivity in Dirac materials 25'
    
    Speaker: Luca Chirolli (Instituto Madrileno de Estudios Avanzados - IMDEA Nanoscience, Spain)
  - 10:10 Coffee break 30' ( )
- 10:40 - 14:30 Session 2
  
  Convener: Reza Asgari
  - 10:40 Dirac Superconductors 45'
    
    Speaker: Fan Zhang (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
  - 11:25 Andreev reflection in time-reversal symmetric Weyl semimetals 25'
    
    Speaker: Jens Schulenborg (Chalmers University Of Technology, Sweden)
  - 11:50 From Anisotropic Magnetoresistance to Topological Antiferromagnets 45'
    
    Speaker: Libor Smejkal (Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany)
  - 12:35 Lunch break 1h55' ( )
- 14:30 - 15:45 Session 3
  
  Convener: Francesco Pellegrino
  - 14:30 Geometric theory of nonlocal transport in metals with nontrivial band geometry 45'
    
    Speaker: Dmytro Pesin (University of Utah, USA)
  - 15:15 Coffee break 30' ( )
Wednesday, 25 October 2017
- 10:00 - 11:20 Wednesday, 25 October: Session 1
  
  Convener: Dmitry Bagrets
  - 10:00 Anomalous thermal Hall effect in a disordered Weyl ferromagnet 25'
    
    Speaker: Atsuo Shitade (Center for Emergent Matter Science, RIKEN, Japan)
  - 10:25 Topologically protected Landau level in the vortex lattice of a Weyl superconductor 25'
    
    Speaker: Inanc Adagideli (Sabanci University, Turkey)
  - 10:50 Coffee break 30' ( )
- 11:20 - 14:00 Session 2
  
  Convener: Hongming Weng
  - 11:20 Helicons in Weyl semimetals 25'
    
    Speaker: Francesco Pellegrino (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy)
  - 11:45 Quasi-particle interference and non-symmorphic symmetry 45'
    
    Speaker: Ady Stern (Weizmann Institute, Israel)
  - 12:30 Lunch break 1h30'
- 16:30 - 18:00 ICTP Colloquium
  
  Location: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall
  - 16:30 ICTP Colloquia 2017: Majorana edge modes in topological superconductors 1h30' ( Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall )
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    Speaker: Carlo Beenakker (Instituut-Lorentz, Leiden University, the Netherlands)

Thursday, 26 October 2017

09:00 - 10:40 Thursday, 26 September: Session 1

Convener: Michael Fuhrer
- 09:00 Spontaneous Ferroelectric Distortion Driven Weyl Semimetal in Oxide HgPbO3 45'
  
  Speaker: Hongming Weng (Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China)
- 09:45 Large optical conductivity of Dirac semimetal Fermi arc surfaces states 25'
  
  Speaker: Likun Shi (Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), Singapore)
- 10:10 Coffee break 30' ( )

10:40 - 15:00 Session 2

Convener:

Carlo Beenakker

10:40 Nonlinear electrodynamics in Weyl semimetals: Floquet bands and photocurrent generation 45'

Speaker:	Chris Ching-Kit Chan (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
Material:	Slides

11:25 Weyl nodal surfaces 25'

Speaker: Sergej Moroz (Technical University Munich, Germany)
11:50 Electronic Properties of Epitaxial Topological Dirac Semimetal Thin Films 45'

Speaker: Michael Fuhrer (Monash University, Australia)
12:35 Lunch break 1h55' ( )

15:00 - 18:30 Session 3
- 15:00 Participants' presentations of posters 1h0'
- 16:00 Coffee break 30' ( )
- 16:30 Poster Session 2h0' ( )

Friday, 27 October 2017
- 10:00 - 12:25 Friday, 27 October 2017
  
  Convener: Michele Governale
  - 10:00 Quantum non-local theory of topological Fermi arc plasmons in Weyl semimetals 45'
    
    Speaker: Marco Polini (IIT, Italy)
  - 10:45 Coffee break 30' ( )
  - 11:15 Materials using topological quantum chemistry 45'
    
    Speaker: Maia Garcia Vergniory (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
  - 12:00 Functional renormalization group approach to interacting three dimensional Weyl semimetals 25'
    
    Speaker: Anand Sharma (ITP Frankfurt, Germany)