Mini-Workshop on Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics

Physics Department, Seminar Room
9:20 – 9:30 Opening
9:30 – 10:00 Two-channel Kondo physics due to As vacancies in the layered compound ZrAs1.58Se0.39 Stephan Kirchner, Center for Correlated Matter, Zhejiang University
10:00 – 10:30 Solitary Qubits: a novel quantum information platform in Bose-Einstein condensates Hugo Terças, IPFN and IT, IST
11:00 – 11:30 Boltzmann-Gibbs states in many-body systems: fidelity and Uhlmann parallel transport analysis of phase transitions Bruno Mera, CeFEMA, IST
11:30 – 12:00 Topological Photonics in a Continuum Mário G. Silveirinha, Electrical Engineering Dep and IT, IST
12:00 – 12:30 Topological insulating phases from two and three-dimensional nodal loop semimetals Miguel Araújo, CeFEMA, IST and University of Évora
14:00 – 14:30 Theory of Fully-Quantum Networks Alireza Tavanfar, Physics of Information and Quantum Technologies Group, IST
14:30 – 15:00 Implications of non-Markovian quantum dynamics for the Landauer bound Marco Pezzutto, Physics of Information and Quantum Technologies Group, IST
15:30 – 16:00 Symmetry protected entanglement between gravity and matter Nikola Paunković, SQIG-IT, IST
16:00 – 16:30 The distribution of work performed on a NIS junction Jaime Santos, Centro de Física da Universidade do Minho