Condensed matter theory journal club

Condensed matter theory journal clubHelp

The aim for the Oxford Physics condensed matter theory journal club is that each week during term time,
somebody presents a classic paper or results on a topic in condensed matter theory.

For HT '23 we will meet on Tuesdays at 12:00 pm in the Simpkins Lee Seminar Room.

Schedule for HT '23

  • Wk. 1, 17th Jan - No Journal Club
  • Wk. 2, 24th Jan - Riccardo Senese, "Area laws for entanglement entropy in and out of equilibrium"
  • Abstract: "We will start by reviewing, following [1], the main known results for area laws of entanglement entropy in ground states of quantum many-body systems in both 1D and higher dimensions. We will highlight the connections between these results and the possibility of efficiently simulate interacting systems. We will then focus on out-of-equilibrium settings and in particular prove, following [2][3][4], that systems evolving according to local finite-dimensional Hamiltonians still satisfy, for finite times, an area law for the entanglement entropy."
    [1] Eisert, Cramer, Plenio - Colloquium: Area laws for the entanglement entropy
    [2] Bravyi, Hastings, Vestraete - Lieb-Robinson Bounds and the Generation of Correlations and Topological Quantum Order
    [3] Dur, Vidal, Cirac, Linden, Popescu - Entanglement Capabilities of Nonlocal Hamiltonians
    [4] Childs, Leung, Vidal - Reversible simulation of bipartite product Hamiltonians
  • Wk. 3, 31st Jan - No Journal Club
  • Wk. 4, 7th Feb - Talk by Prof. Steve White
  • Wk. 5, 14th Feb - No Journal Club
  • Wk. 6, 21th Feb - Takato Yoshimura, "Macroscopic fluctuation theory"
  • Abstract: "Macroscopic fluctuation theory (MFT) is a large deviation theory that allows us to study important dynamical properties, such as current fluctuations, of the diffusive many-body system based on hydrodynamics. In this talk I will illustrate the basic idea of MFT by applying it to compute the total current cumulant generating function. I will also briefly touch upon the recent development on the exact solution of MFT for the symmetric simple exclusion process."
    [1] B. Derrida - J. Stat. Mech. (2007) P07023.
    [2] L. Bertini, A. De Sole, D. Gabrielli, G. Jona-Lasinio, and C. Landim - Rev. Mod. Phys. 87, 593 (2015).
    [3] P. L. Krapivsky, K. Mallick, and T. Sadhu - J. Stat. Phys. 160, 885 (2015).
    [4] K. Mallick, H. Moriya, and T. Sasamoto - Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 040601 (2022).
  • Wk. 7, 28th Feb - Yuchi He
  • Wk. 8, 7th Mar - Attila Szabó
  • Schedule for MT '22

  • Wk. 1, 18th Oct - Jonathan Classen-Howes, "Effective dimension, level statistics, and integrability of Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev-like models"
  • Abstract: In this paper [1], the authors introduce a random-interaction all-to-all fermionic model, which they dub the “Wishart-Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev” (WSYK) model. The model possesses large degeneracies in its spectrum which grow exponentially with increasing system size. The authors proceed to demonstrate that this model is a particular case of the Richardson-Gaudin model, and is hence integrable. In my talk, I will review the main results and derivations of the paper and contrast the integrable WSYK model with the original chaotic SYK model of which it is a variant. In the process, I will introduce a number of concepts relevant to contemporary research in condensed matter physics, such as level statistics and quantum integrability.
    [1] Eiki Iyoda et al. - Effective dimension, level statistics, and integrability of Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev-like models
  • Wk. 2, 25th Oct - Abhishodh Prakash, "The decorated domain wall construction"
  • Abstract: I will review a construction [1] to produce wave functions invariant under symmetry. A common mechanism to restore symmetry is by condensing symmetry-breaking domains starting from an ordered state. This typically produces a trivial symmetry unbroken paramagnetic product state. If, however, the domain walls are bound to lower-dimensional symmetric wavefunctions, this condensate can produce more exotic wavefunctions, eg: which can host gapless surface states. I will demonstrate this using simple examples and state some general pictures.
    [1] Xie Chen et al. - Symmetry-protected topological phases from decorated domain walls
  • Wk. 3, 1st Nov - Minghao Li, "Critical fermi surfaces and non-fermi liquid metals"
  • Abstract: In this paper, Senthil examined a possible scenario where non-Fermi liquids occurred. By tuning Fermi surfaces to criticality, he showed that the scaling ansatz of the spectral functions lead to consequences that are in accordance with certain phenomena observed in the normal states of cuprates. In this journal club talk, I will walk through the hypotheses and the arguments made in the paper, and if time permits, I will present a mean field slave particle calculation in the paper, which provides some evidences for the notion of critical Fermi surface.
    T. Senthil. - Critical fermi surfaces and non-fermi liquid metals
  • Wk. 4, 8th Nov - Jacob Robertson, "Free Fermions via Graph Invariants"
  • Abstract: I will review two papers which present a graph theoretic characterisation of when spin ½ Hamiltonians can be represented in terms of free fermions. I will primarily focus on [1] in which the authors focus on mappings between elements of the Pauli algebra spanned by the terms in the Hamiltonian and fermionic bilinears, which thus form generalized Jordan-Wigner mappings. The authors show that mappings of this kind are possible if and only if the associated frustration graph of the Hamiltonian is the line graph of a reference graph R, which is to be thought of as describing the hoppings of the fermions. I will discuss some examples of this construction. If time permits I will turn to the newer results in [2] which show that relaxing the conditions in [1] we can capture examples where the map to fermions depends upon the coupling strengths and moreover that if the frustration graph has the weaker property of containing no 'claw' subgraphs, that the original spin model is integrable.
    [1] S.J. Elman et al. - Characterization of solvable spin models via graph invariants
    [2] S.J. Elman et al. - Free fermions behind the disguise
  • Wk. 5, 15th Nov - Jovan Jovanovic, "Mobile non-Abelian anyons in a qubit stabilizer code"
  • Abstract: In this paper [1] Lensky and collaborators offer a theoretical supplement to a recent experimental study [2] done on the Google’s sycamore chip where the main results was the observation of the non-Abelian anyon braiding statistics in the Toric code with lattice dislocations. This paper presents a substantial elaboration on the original proposal made by Bombin in his 2010 paper [3] along side a physically motivated reinterpretation.
    [1] Yuri Lensky et al. - Graph gauge theory of mobile non-Abelian anyons in a qubit stabilizer code
    [2] Google Quantum AI - Observation of non-Abelian exchange statistics on a superconducting processor
    [3] H. Bombin - Topological order with a twist: Ising anyons from an abelian model
  • Wk. 6, 22th Nov - Konstantinos Vasiliou, "Effective action for strongly correlated fermions from functional integrals"
  • Abstract: In this paper [1], Schulz introduces a new method to analyse the Hubbard Model that manages to reproduce both the correct Hartree-Fock saddle point, and the massless fluctuations around it. This method is then used to study the problem of a nearly half filled Hubbard model, recovering results that were previously introduced via semi-phenomenological arguments by Shankar[2]. In the talk I will also mention the potential uses of a generalization of this method in a broader context.
    [1] H.J. Schultz - Effective action for strongly correlated fermions from functional integrals
    [2] R. Shankar - Holes in a quantum antiferromagnet: New approach and exact results
  • Wk. 7, 29th Nov - No Journal Club
  • Wk. 8, 6th Dec - No Journal Club
  • Schedule for HT '20

  • Wk. 1, 21st Jan - no session
  • Wk. 2, 28th Jan - Michele, Exact S-matrices (arXiv:hep-th/9810026)
  • Wk. 3, 4th Feb - available
  • Wk. 4, 11th Feb - Sam, DMPK equation
  • Wk. 5, 18th Feb - no session
  • Wk. 6, 25th Feb - no session
  • Wk. 7, 3rd March - Aleksandra, Asymmetric Exclusion Process
  • Wk. 8, 10th March - Greg, Constructive Bosonization
  • Schedule for MT '19

  • Wk. 1, 15th Oct - no session
  • Wk. 2, 22nd Oct - Glenn Wagner, "The SYK model"
  • Wk. 3, 29th Oct - no session
  • Wk. 4, 5th Nov - Yichen Hu, "Cellular automata and their application to topological phases of matter"
  • Cellular automata and their applications in studying topological phases of matter, or "Something non-trivial in dimension three."
    Jeongwan Haah, Clifford Quantum Cellular Automata:Trivial group in 2D and Witt group in 3D
    Jeongwan Haah, Commuting Pauli Hamiltonians as Maps between Free Modules
    Jeongwan Haah, Lukasz Fidkowski, and Matthew B. Hastings, Nontrivial Quantum Cellular Automata in Higher Dimension
  • Wk. 5, 12th Nov - Yves Kwan, "Twisted bilayer graphene"
  • "Continuum Model of Twisted Bilayer Graphene"
  • Rafi Bistritzer and Allan H. MacDonald, "Moiré bands in twisted double-layer graphene" -- https://www.pnas.org/content/108/30/12233
  • Grigory Tarnopolsky, Alex Jura Kruchkov, and Ashvin Vishwanath, "Origin of Magic Angles in Twisted Bilayer Graphene" -- https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.106405
  • Hoi Chun Po, Liujun Zou, Ashvin Vishwanath, and T. Senthil, "Origin of Mott Insulating Behavior and Superconductivity in Twisted Bilayer Graphene" -- https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.8.031089
  • Wk. 6, 20th Nov - Etienne Granet, "Introduction to Algebraic Bethe Ansatz"
  • Wk. 7, 26th Nov - Sounak Biswas, " Key ideas of modern real-space renormalization methods"
  • Wk. 8, 3rd Dec - Felix Flicker, "p-adic numbers"
  • Schedule for TT '19

  • Wk. 1, 30th April - Michele Fava, "Classification of 1d gapped phases using Matrix Product States"
  • Wk. 2, 7th May - no session
  • Wk. 3, 14th May - Joe Huxford, "Fractional exclusion statistics"
  • Wk. 4, 21st May - Yuri van Nieuwkerk, Elliot Bentine and Adam Barker (Clarendon, Prof. Foot's group), "Probing the BKT transition with pairs of 2d bose gases (part 1)"
  • Wk. 5, 28th May - Glenn Wagner, "Category theory and TQFTs"
  • Wk. 6, 4th June - Elliot Bentine and Adam Barker, "Probing the BKT transition with pairs of 2d bose gases (part 2)"
  • Wk. 7, 11th June - Samuel Garratt, "Melting of two-dimensional solids"
  • Wk. 8, 18th June - no session
  • Schedule for HT '19

  • Wk. 1, 15th Jan - Thorsten Wahl, "What is Topological about Topological Insulators?" Refs.
  • A. P. Schnyder, S. Ryu, A. Furusaki, and A. W. W. Ludwig (2008), "Classification of topological insulators and superconductors in three spatial dimensions"
    A. Kitaev (2009), "Periodic table for topological insulators and superconductors"
    A. P. Schnyder, S. Ryu, A. Furusaki, and A. W. W. Ludwig (2009), "Classification of Topological Insulators and Superconductors"
    M. Nakahara (2003), "Geometry, Topology and Physics"
  • Wk. 2, 22nd Jan - Glenn Wagner, left-overs from wk 1, anomalous quantum hall effect, spin-hall effect
  • Wk. 3, 29th Jan - Steve Simon, Density Functional Theory
  • Wk. 4, 5th Feb - John Chalker, The Orthogonality Catastrophe
  • Wk. 5, 12th Feb - Henrik Roising, Majorana bound states in p-wave superconductors
  • Wk. 6, 19th Feb - Yves Kwan, Newman-Moore model of glassy dynamics
  • Wk. 7, 26th Feb - Edward O'Brien, RG for the Coulomb Gas
  • Wk. 8, 5th Mar - Samuel Garratt, Valence Bond States
  • Schedule for MT '18

  • Wk. 1, 9th Oct: no journal club
  • Wk. 2, 16th Oct: Sthitadhi Roy, "Continuous weak measurements on quantum systems: stochastic Schrödinger equations and Lindblad dynamics".
  • Wk. 3, 23rd Oct: Yuri van Nieuwkerk, "Coordinate Bethe Ansatz for the Lieb-Liniger model".
  • Wk. 4, 30th Oct: Andrea de Luca, "Generalized Hydrodynamics".
  • Wk. 5, 6th Nov: Jack Kemp, "Constructing Hamiltonians from Eigenstates".
  • Wk. 6, 13th Nov: Abishek Kulshreshtha, "Forward scattering approximation to Anderson localization".
  • Wk. 7, 20th Nov: Eric Vernier, "Quantum integrable field theories -- what is special about 1+1d".
  • Wk. 8, 27th Nov: Samuel Garratt, "Quantum Phase Transition in the Transverse-Field Ising Chain".
  • Schedule for TT '18

  • Wk. 1, 25th April: Samuel Garratt, "Why Only Quadratic Irrationalities Are Observed in Quasicrystals?" Refs.
  • Wk. 2, 2nd May: Glenn Wagner, TKNN Refs.
  • Thouless, Kohmoto, Nightingale, and den Nijs (1982), "Quantized Hall Conductance in a Two-Dimensional Periodic Potential"
  • Wk. 3, 9th May
  • Wk. 4, 16th May
  • Wk. 5, 23th May: Henrik Roising, Unconventional Superconductivity Refs.
  • W. Kohn and J. M. Luttinger, PRL 15, 12, 1965, "New Mechanism for Superconductivity",
    J. M. Luttinger, Phys. Rev. 150, 1, 1966, "New Mechanism for Superconductivity".
  • Wk. 6, 30th May
  • Wk. 7, 6th June: Aleksandra Ziolkowska, Open Quantum Systems Refs.
  • G. Lindblad, Comm. Math. Phys. 48 (1976), 119-130, "On the generators of quantum dynamical semigroups",
    V. Gorini, A. Kossakowski, and E. C. G. Sudarshan, J. of Math. Phys. 17, 821 (1976), "Completely positive dynamical semigroups of N-level systems",
    T. Prosen, New Journal of Physics 10 (2008) 043026, "Third quantization: a general method to solve master equations for quadratic open Fermi systems".
  • Wk. 8, 13th June: Edward O'Brien
  • Schedule for HT '18

  • Wk. 1, 17th January
  • Wk. 2, 24th January
  • Wk. 3, 31st January: Tianhan Liu, Luttinger Theorem Refs.
    1. Original paper: Phys Rev 119 4. J.M.Luttinger. (1960) ,

    2. Two papers on non-perturbative approaches:
      • 1D: PRL 78 10 M.Oshikawa et al. (1996)
      • 2D: PRL 84 15 M.Oshikawa. (1999)
    3. Luttinger theorem according to the notion of Luttinger surface: PRB 68 085113 I.Dzyaloshinskii (2003) ,

    4. Relation between the Luttinger theorem and the zeros of the single particle Green function: PRL 110, 090403 K.B. Dave, P.W.Phillips and C.L. Kane (2013).

    5. And some of its applications in strongly correlated systems.
  • Wk. 4, 7th February: Nick Jones (Univ. Bristol), Discrete holomorphy and statistical mechanics Refs.
  • Wk. 5, 14th February: Thorsten Wahl, Introduction to Tensor Network States Refs.
  • Useful references to learn about the subject:
    https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.1130,
    https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.3318,
    https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.2164.
    For parent Hamiltonians and the topological classification using tensor networks (more advanced), see
    https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0608197,
    https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.2223,
    https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.3732,
    https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.3807.
  • Wk. 6, 21st February: Eric Vernier, Temperley-Lieb Algebras Refs.
  • [1] N. Temperley, E. Lieb, Proceedings of the Royal Society Series A 322 (1971), 251-280.
    [2] Integrable lattice models and quantum groups. H. Saleur, J.B. Zuber (1990), Lectures given at Conference: C90-04-23 (Trieste Spring School 1990:0001-54).
    [3] Logarithmic Conformal Field Theory: a Lattice Approach. A.M. Gainutdinov, J.L. Jacobsen, N. Read, H. Saleur, R. Vasseur, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 46 (2013) 494012
  • Wk. 7, 28th February: Dung Nguyen Xuan, Quantum Computation and Quantum Information Refs.
  • "Quantum Computation and Quantum Information" by Niesel and Chuang
  • Wk. 8, 7th March: Yuri van Nieuwkerk, Quantum Sine-Gordon Equation as the Massive Thirring Model Refs.
  • Schedule for MT '17

  • Wk. 1, 11th October: Dmitry Kovrizhin, Quantum Breaking of Elastic String Refs.
  • Levitov, Shytov, and Yakovets, Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 370 (1995)
  • Wk. 2, 18th October: Mario Collura, Matrix Product States Refs.
  • (1) Main reference: G. Vidal, “Classical simulation of infinite-size quantum lattice systems in one spatial dimension”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 070201 (2007) or on Arxiv,
    (2) If time allows it: R. Orús and G. Vidal, “Infinite time-evolving block decimation algorithm beyond unitary evolution”, Phys. Rev. B 78, 155117 (2008),
    (3) Technical review of MPS and MPO: U. Schollwoeck, “The density-matrix renormalization group in the age of matrix product states”, Annals of Physics 326, 96 (2011),
    (4) Non-technical introduction to MPS and MPO: R. Orús, “A Practical Introduction to Tensor Networks: Matrix Product States and Projected Entangled Pair States”, Annals of Physics 349 (2014) 117-158.
  • Wk. 3, 25th October: Yuan Wan, Falling Cat problem Refs.
  • Cats can land on their feet when they are held upside down and released from rest. Divers can perform multiple twists before hitting the water. In both cases, a deformable body with zero total angular momentum rotates itself by executing a sequence of deformations. Following Shapere and Wilczek [1], I will show that the kinematics of reorientation is naturally understood in terms of non-Abelian Berry phase in the space of shapes. As an application of their theory, I analyze the falling cat problem following Montgomery's treatment [2]. I will demonstrate that the shape space of Kane-Scher cat (a simplistic model of cat kinematics) is homeomorphic to the real projective plane and its self-rotation sequence maps to a non-contractible loop that picks up a pi flux.
    [1] Alfred Shapere and Frank Wilczek ``Gauge Kinematics of Deformable Bodies'' in Geometric Phases in Physics, World Scientific, 1989.
    [2] Richard Montgomery ``Gauge Theory of the Falling Cat'', Fields Institute Communications 1, 193 (1993).
    Journal Club notes by Yuan himself.
  • Wk. 4, 1st November: Will Berdanier, Floquet CFT Refs.
  • On the one hand, there has been a recent surge of interest in periodically driven (“Floquet”) systems, in particular how they can realize phases and excitations not found in equilibrium. On the other, conformal field theory (CFT), which describes a broad class of quantum critical points with emergent conformal symmetry, has become a pillar of condensed matter physics in the last few decades. Given their naturalness in studying so-called “quantum quenches” and other non-equilibrium phenomena, CFTs have proven to be a useful playground for studying non-equilibrium dynamics. We will give a lightning introduction to both CFTs and to Floquet systems, ending with an overview of our recent work on CFTs subject to a periodic boundary drive.
    W. Berdanier, M. Kolodrubetz, R. Vasseur, and J. E. Moore. ``Floquet Dynamics of Boundary-Driven Systems at Criticality.'' Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 260602 (2017)
  • Wk. 5, 8th November: Stefan Groha, Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis Refs.
  • (1) L. D’Alessio, Y. Kafri, A. Polkovnikov and M. Rigol, “From Quantum Chaos and Eigenstate Thermalization to Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics”, Advances in Physics Vol. 65, No. 3, 239-362 (2016) or on Arxiv,
    (2) M. Srednicki, “Chaos and Quantum Thermalization”, Phys. Rev. E 50, 888 (1994) ,
    (3) J.M. Deutsch, “Quantum statistical mechanics in a closed system”, Phys. Rev. A 43, 2046 (1991).
  • Wk. 6, 15th November: Brayden Ware, Haah's Cubic Code Refs.
  • Topologically ordered phases in two dimensions can be used as quantum memories that are insensitive to local errors. but are not protected from thermal errors due to the tendency of local excitations to spatially separate. Haah's cubic code is a 3D topologically ordered Hamiltonian where local excitations cannot be separated without paying a large energy cost, and so gains an enhanced robustness to thermal errors. In this talk, I will introduce the stabilizer code formalism that allowed for this Hamiltonian to be found, discuss the "fractal-like" structure of excitations in Haah's code, and discuss the thermal protection that results.
    (1) Haah Local stabilizer codes in three dimensions without string logical operators (2011)
    (2) Prem, Haah, Nandkishore Glassy quantum dynamics in translation invariant fracton models (2017)
  • Wk. 7, 22nd November: Richard Fern, Quantum Hall Edges Refs.
  • I'll look at deriving the linearised structure of quantum Hall edges in a few ways, each of which has its own merits. (1) I'll begin with Wen's hydrodynamics approach before (2) moving on to a more rigorous microscopic derivation of the edge structure. If time permits I'll also discuss (3) the description in terms of Chern-Simons theories. (NB: Given the limited preparation time this may be subject to last-minute changes)
    (1) Xiao-Gang's paper and Chang's paper in Geometric Phases in Physics, World Scientific, 1989.
    (2) Macdonald's notes, among others.
    (3) David Tong's lecture notes.
  • Wk. 8, 29th November: Andrea de Luca, Many-body-localized engine Refs.
  • I will review the main aspects of the many-body localisation transition and analyse some well-understood quantities, useful to quantitatively distinguish MBL from ETH. Recently the athermality of the MBL phase has been proposed as an important feature with possible thermodynamic applications. In particular, I will show how the different spectral statistics between MBL and ETH can be used to devise a quantum version of the thermodynamic Otto cycle. In this case, a many-body quantum system is cyclically ramped from the localised to the ergodic phase extracting work after each period. MBL can then be used to enhance the overall efficiency of the protocol.
    (1) Many-body localization: an introduction and selected topics, https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.03145.
    (2) MBL-mobile: Many-body-localized engine https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.07008.

    Schedule for TT '17

  • Week 1, 26th April: Thomas Veness, Quasi-adiabtic continuation Refs.
  • Lecture notes by M. Hastings, arXiv:1008.5137
    M. Hastings, arXiv:1008.5137
    M. B. Hastings, X.-G. Wen Phys. Rev. B 72 045141 (2005)
    E. H. Lieb, D. W. Robinson, Commun. math. Phys. 28, 251-257 (1972)
    Application arXiv:1506.03455
  • Week 2, 3rd May: Amos Chan, Random Matrix Theory Refs.
  • Week 3, 10th May
  • Week 4, 17th May
  • Week 5, 24th May:
  • Week 6, 31st May
  • Week 7, 7th June: Edward O'Brien
  • Week 8, 14th June: Henrik Røising
  • Schedule for HT '17

  • Week 7, 1st March: Yuri van Nieuwkerk Refs.
  • Schedule for MT '16

  • Week 1, 12th October: John Chalker, Network models
  • Week 2, 19th October:
  • Week 3, 26th October: Thomas Veness, Quantum dimer models Refs.
  • D. S. Rokhsar and S. A. Kivelson, Phys. Rev. Lett. 61, 2376 (1988)
    R. Moessner, K. S. Raman, arXiv:0809.3051
    Notes from the session
  • Week 4, 2nd November: Arijeet Pal, Floquet time crystals/𝜋-spin glass Refs.
  • V. Khemani, A. Lazarides, R. Moessner, S. L. Sondhi, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 250401 (2016)
    D. V. Else, B. Bauer, C. Nayak Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 090402 (2016)
    D. Abanin, W. De Roeck, F. Huveneers, W. W. Ho arXiv:1509:05386
    D. V. Else, B. Bauer, C. Nayak arXiv:1607.05277
  • Week 5, 9th November: Stefan Groha, Replica symmetry breaking Refs.
  • Castellani, Cavagna - Spin-Glass Theory for Pedestrians
    Mezard, Parisi, Virasoro - Spin-Glass Theory and Beyond
  • Week 6, 16th November: Roberto Bondesan, Integrable Lattice Models From Gauge Theory Refs.
  • E. Witten, Integrable Lattice Models From Gauge Theory, arXiv:1611.00592
    Annotated version of notes
    Background slides
  • Week 7, 23rd November: Dima Kovrizhin, Lifshitz tails Refs.
  • Theory of Bound States in a Random Potential, J. Zittartz and J. S. Langer, Phys. Rev. 148, 741 (1966)
  • Week 8, 30th November: Zohar Ringel, neural networks Refs.
  • Schedule for TT '16

  • Week 1, 27th April: No meeting; signing up MMathPhys students
  • Week 2, 4th May: John Chalker, Feynman wavefunctions in liquid Helium
  • Week 3, 11th May: Amos Chan, SU(N) Schwinger Bosons for Antiferromagnetism Refs.
  • D. P. Arovas and A. Auerbach, Phys. Rev. B 38, 316 (1988)
    A. Auerbach, Interacting Electrons and Quantum Magnetism, Springer, 1994, Ch.16-18
    A. Auerbach and D. P. Arovas, Schwinger Bosons Approaches to Quantum Antiferromagnetism, Ch. 14 in Introduction to Frustrated Magnetism
  • Week 4, 18th May:
  • Week 5, 25th May: Group discussion, "A bound on chaos" Refs.
  • J. Maldacena, S. H. Shenker, D. Stanford, arXiv:1503.01409
    Talk by D. Stanford on YouTube
  • Week 6, 1st June: No meeting due to Warwick AGM
  • Week 7, 8th June: Group discussion, SYK Model Refs.
  • Video of Kitaev's talk at KITP
    Slides from Kitaev's talk
  • Week 8, 15th June:
  • Schedule for HT '16

  • Week 1, 22nd January:
  • Week 2, 29th January: Thomas Scaffidi, Griffiths phases Refs.
  • Chapter 8 of John Cardy's book "Scaling and Renormalization in Stat. Phys."
    Section 4 of this review article from Thomas Vojta arXiv:1301.7746
  • Week 3, 5th February:
  • Week 4, 12th February:
  • Week 5, 19th February: Thomas Veness, AKLT Refs.
  • Week 6, 26th February:
  • Week 7, 4th March: Stefan Groha, Exact S-matrices Refs.
  • Patrick Dorey, Exact S-matrices, arxiv:hep-th/9810026
    Mussardo (1992), Phys. Rep. 218, 215-379
    Mussardo, Giuseppe. Statistical field theory. Oxford Univ. Press, 2010.
    Zamolodchikov, A.B. and Zamolodchikov, Al.B. (1979), Ann. Phys. 120, 253-291
  • Week 8, 11th March: Jack Kemp, Parafermions Refs.
  • J. Alicea and P. Fendley, ‘Topological phases with parafermions: theory and blueprints’, arXiv:1504.02476
    P. Fendley, ‘Parafermionic edge zero modes in Z_n-invariant spin chains’, J. Stat. Mech. Theor. Exp. (2012), 11, P11020
    A. S. Jermyn, R. S. K. Mong, J. Alicea, and P. Fendley, ‘Stability of zero modes in parafermion chains’, Phy. Rev. B (2014), 90

    Schedule for TT '15

  • Week 1, 1st May: No meeting due to symposium
  • Week 2, 8th May: Richard Fern, Hofstadter Model Refs.
  • Week 3, 15th May: Thomas Veness, Large deviations Refs.
  • A review and introductory paper by Hugo Touchette: arXiv:1106.4146 , arXiv:0804.0327
    Some more mathematical notes by Richard Ellis here
    An accessible review of some of the key results here
    Notes from the session
  • Week 4, 22nd May:
  • Week 5, 29th May: Phil Derry, Numerical Renormalisation Group Refs.
  • Ken Wilson's original NRG for the Kondo Model (lots of interesting background, but quite expansive!): Rev. Mod. Phys. 47, 773 (1975)
    A significantly clearer, detailed "instruction manual" for NRG for the Anderson Impurity Model: Phys. Rev. B 21, 1003 (1980)
    Ralf Bulla's 2008 NRG review - now the standard NRG reference, with good discussion of applications: Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 395 (2008)
    NRG formulated in terms of tensor networks/ MPS: Phys. Rev. B 86, 245124 (2012)
    Notes from the session
  • Week 6, 5th June: William Berdanier, CFT in FQH systems
  • Week 7, 12th June: John Chalker, Orthogonality catastrophe Refs.
  • Week 8, 19th June: Stefan Groha, Bosonization Refs.
  • Bosonization for Beginners --- Refermionization for Experts by J. von Delft, H. Schoeller
    An introduction to bosonization by D. Sénéchal
    Notes from the session

    Schedule for HT '15

  • Week 1, 23rd January:
  • Week 2, 30th January:
  • Week 3, 6th February: Thomas Scaffidi, Coulomb gas methods in statistical mechanics Refs.
  • Chapter 9 of "The big yellow book" (Conformal Field Theory by Di Francesco et al)
    2. Chapter 14 (pages 347-424) of "Polygons, Polyominoes and Polycubes" by Jesper Jacobsen, available here
  • Week 4, 13th February:
  • Week 5, 20th February: John Chalker, Anderson localisation in 1D Refs.
  • A short and important background paper is the one by Thouless here, this paper only covers a specific aspect.
    A more general review of theory is by Beenakker here
  • Week 6, 27th February: Stefanie Thiem, Bond propagation methods Refs.
  • Week 7, 6th March: No journal club due to March meeting
  • Week 8, 13th March: Dillon Liu, Coulomb phases in frustrated systems Refs.
  • Review paper here
    Spin liquid lecture notes here

    Schedule for MT '14

  • Week 3, 29th October: Thomas Veness, Calogero-Sutherland models Refs.
  • Original paper here
    Notes by Vincent Pasquier arXiv:hep-th/9405104
  • Week 4, 5th November: Steve Simon, entanglement entropies and entanglement spectra
  • Week 5, 12th November: Gabor Halasz, Kitaev honeycomb model
  • Week 6, 19th November: Fenner Harper, quantum double models Refs.
  • The main reference is the paper by Kitaev arXiv:quant-ph/9707021
    Also be using some chapters from Pachos’ book, Introduction to Topological Quantum Computation. The relevant sections of the book may be found in the lecture notes here
  • Week 7, 26th November: Zohar Ringel, SPTs
  • Week 8, 3rd December: Bruno Bertini, algebraic Bethe Ansatz for the Heisenberg XXX model Refs.
  • The main reference is the lecture notes by Faddeev arXiv:hep-th/9605187

    Schedule for TT '14

  • Week 2, 9th May: John Chalker, weak localisation and conductance fluctuations Refs.
  • The most physical and concise introduction to weak localisation that I know of is by Khmelnitskii here
    Those who would prefer something more detailed (and with better type-setting) should look at a standard review by Lee and Ramakrishnan Rev. Mod. Phys. 57, 287 (1985)
    The original papers on conductance fluctuations are Altshuler and Lee & Stone
  • Week 3, 16th May: Thomas Scaffidi, Floquet theory Refs.
  • A general introduction: arXiv:1211.5623
    Detailed calculations: PRB 84, 235108
  • Week 4, 23rd May: Gabor Halasz, Kondo effect in quantum dots Refs.
  • This review paper up to Sec. 6.3
  • Week 5, 30th May: Steve Simon, Haldane exclusion statistics Refs.
  • FDM Haldane, Fractional Statistics in Arbitrary Dimension PRL 67, 937 (1991)
    Yong-Shi Wu, Statistical Distribution for Generalized Ideal Gas of Fractional Statistics Particles PRL 73. 922 (1994)
    If one were careful about giving credit where it is due, I note that some of the key results of the Y-S Wu paper were published earlier here PRD 45, 4706 (1992)
  • Week 6, 6th June: Zohar Ringel, Quantum cryptography Refs.
  • Following the review paper
  • Week 7, 13th June: Fenner Harper, Lieb-Robinson bounds Refs.
  • The original paper by Lieb and Robinson
    A more recent approach taken by Hastings
    Consequences of the Lieb-Robinson bounds that are given in this set of lecture notes (also by Hastings)
  • Week 8, 20th June: Paul McClarty, Chern-Simons theories Refs.
  • Roughly follow Chapters 1-3 in the lecture notes by Gerald Dunne arXiv:hep-th/9902115
    References to the original literature are given at the end of these notes.

    Schedule for HT '14

  • 7th Feb: Zohar Ringel, Chiral anomaly in 1+1QED Refs.
  • (i) Peskin, An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, Section 19.1.
    (ii) Fujikawa, PRL 42, 1195 (1979) http://prl.aps.org/pdf/PRL/v42/i18/p1195_1
  • 21st Feb: Thomas Veness, Kibble-Zurek Refs.
  • TWB Kibble 1976 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 9 1387
    WH Zurek Nature 317, 505 (1985)
    Notes from the session
  • 14 March: Dillon Liu, Grover's algorithm Refs.
  • Mostly based on the papers below by Grover and Ch. 6 of Nielsen and Chuang.
    arXiv:quant-ph/9706033 (L. K. Grover, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 325 (1997))
    arXiv:quant-ph/9605043

    Schedule for MT '13

  • Week 1: John Chalker, Random matrix theory Refs.
  • Pages 1-15 of arXiv:cond-mat/9707301
    The first few chapters of the book by Mehta
  • Week 2: Neil Robinson, Peierls instability and Peierls proof of order in 2D Ising Refs.
  • Peierls instability - see Chapter 2 of 'More Surprises in Theoretical Physics' by Peierls
    Peierls proof of order in the Ising model - see R. B. Griffiths, Phys. Rev. 136, A437 (1964)
  • Week 3: Stefanie Thiem, Electronic structure of quasiperiodic systems Refs.
  • Week 4: Curt von Keyserlingk, Quantum dimer models Refs.
  • Week 5: Jesper Romers, DMRG Refs.
  • Week 6:
  • Week 7: Paul McClarty, Exotic superconducting orders Refs.
  • Week 8:
  • Schedule for TT '13

  • Week 1:
  • Week 2:
  • Week 3:
  • Week 4:
  • Week 5: Dima Kovrizhin, the X-ray edge problem Refs.
  • Exact solution for the X-ray absorption and emission of metals: Phys. Rev. 178, 1097 (1969)
  • Week 6: Imke Schneider, the Kondo problem
  • Week 7: Darren Tan, Efros-Shkolvskii Coulomb gap Refs.
  • Week 8: Fenner Harper, TKNN Refs.
  • Schedule for HT '13

  • Week 1: Eliot Kapit, RG for fermi liquids Refs.
  • Week 2: Gabor Halasz, Homotopy and defects Refs.
  • Week 3: Thomas Scaffidi, Griffiths, Imry and Ma Refs.
  • Week 4: Fenner Harper, Quantum Friction Refs.
  • Week 5: Bruno Bertini, Random singlet phases Refs.
  • Week 6:
  • Week 7: Darren Tan, AKLT Refs.
  • Week 8: Dima Kovrizhin, Kondo and poor man's scaling Refs.
  • Exact results for the Kondo problem I: Phys. Rev. B 1, 1522 (1969)
    Exact results for the Kondo problem II: Phys. Rev. B 1, 4464 (1970)
    A poor man's derivation of scaling laws for the Kondo problem: J. Phys. C: Solid State Phys. 3 2436 (1970)

    Schedule for MT '12

  • Week 1: Fiona Burnell, Fradkin-Shenker
  • Week 2: John Chalker, 2D Ising Refs.
  • Week 3: Steve Simon, Kohn Sham
  • Week 4: Jesper Romers, Duality
  • Week 5: Neil Robinson, Luttinger's theorem Refs.
  • Week 6: Simon Davenport, Feynman wavefns Refs.
  • Feynman on liquid Helium: Phys. Rev. 94,262 (1954) and Phys. Rev. 138, A442 (1965)
    Antiferromagnetic spin chains: Annals of Physics 16, 407-466 (1961)
  • Week 7: Adam Nahum, Landauer Refs.
  • Week 8: Curt von Keyserlingk, Haldane conjecture Refs.

  • Suggested list of topics

  • Lee-Yang and Fisher zeroes Refs.
  • Exact S matricesRefs.
  • Hall viscosity
  • Fibre bundles in CMP
  • Many-body localisation
  • Parafermions
  • Quantum groups
  • TKNN
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