Boulder School 2025: Lecture Notes

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Welcome and School Introduction

Slides

Peter Armitage

(1) Optics for quantum materials

(2) Nonlinear optics for quantum materials

(3) Quantum Optics for quantum materials

Debanjan Chowdhury, Planckian transport in correlated metals

Andrey Chubukov, Unconventional Superconductivity

  1. Saurabh Maiti, Andrey V. Chubukov,   Superconductivity from repulsive interaction arXiv:1305.4609
  2. A. Chubukov   Pairing mechanism in Fe-based superconductors,  arXiv:1110.0052   (RG analysis)  
  3. Artem Abanov, Andrey V. Chubukov,  Interplay between superconductivity and non-Fermi liquid at a quantum-critical point in a metal. I: arXiv:2004.13220  
  4. A. V. Chubukov, C. M. Varma,  Quantum-criticality and superconductivity in twisted transition metal di-chalcogenides, arXiv:2410.10038
  5. Artem Abanov, Shang-Shun Zhang, Andrey Chubukov,  Non-BCS behavior of the pairing susceptibility near the onset of superconductivity in a quantum-critical metal arXiv:2412.03698
Luca Delacretaz, Hydrodynamic EFTs and Transport Bounds
 

Dan Dessau, ARPES

Mike Hermele, Beyond spin liquids: fracton quantum matter

Philip Kim

(1) Electric, thermal and thermoelectric transport measurement in the mesocopic quantum materials

(2) AC transport measurement in flat band systems

(3) Coherence and correlation measurement in the van der Waals heterostructure

Steven Kivelson, Progress in understanding the essential physics of the cuprate high temperature superconductors

Minhyea Lee, A short review of thermal transport experiments on magnetic insulators

Leonid Levitov, Electron fluids

Andy Lucas

Allan MacDonald, Moire Materials

Dmitrii Maslov, Transport in correlated electron systems: Fermi liquid and beyond

Brendan Mcbennett, Nanoscale Phonon Transport (Murnane II)

Umang Mehta, High-dimensional Bosonization

Margaret Murnane

(1) Putting Attosecond high harmonic sources to work for probing strongly correlated electronic systems

(2) Ultrafast spin transfer and spin textures probed using extreme UV light (

  • see Brendan Mcbennett lecture

(3) Attosecond ARPES: Revealing the many-body interactions underlying ground state orders,

Public Lecture: Building the Quantum Microscopes of the Future: from Star Wars to quantum sculpting

Frank Pollmann

(1) Introduction to Tensor Networks,

(2) Basic Algorithms: TEBD and DMRG,

(3) Simulation of Quantum Many-Body Dynamics,

(4) Tensor Network inspired Quantum Algorithms

Subir Sachdev, From a critical quantum spin liquid to the phase diagram of the cuprate high temperature superconductors

(1) Parton theory of spin liquids on the square lattice

(2) Confinement of the pi-flux liquid, and d-wave superconductivity

(3) Fractionalized Fermi liquids (FL*) in Kondo lattice and single band models

(4) SYK models and strange metals

T. Senthil 

(1) The landscape of quantum matter

(2) How might a Fermi surface die?

(3) Anyonic quantum matter

Jie Shan

(1) Optical spectroscopy of 2D materials

(2) Optical sensing of correlated and topological states in 2D

(3) Towards high temperature exciton condensation in 2D atomic double layers