Preliminary Program - Spin Dynamics in the Dirac Systems

Tuesday, June 6th

08:30 – 09:00 Registration

Morning session: Topological materials and Weyl physics

09:00 – 09:10 Opening Remarks
09:10 – 10:00 Shuichi Murakami (Tokyo)
Topology and symmetry in topological semimetals
10:05 – 10:30 Ulrich Zuelicke (Wellington)
Quantum capacitance and spin susceptibility of HgTe quantum wells
10:30 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 11:10 Pascal Simon (Orsay)
Engineering topological superconductivity: from Shiba to Majorana states
11:15 – 11:40 Jairo Sinova & Libor Šmejkal (JGU Mainz)
Topological Antiferromagnetic Spintronics: from Néel spin-orbit torques to Dirac fermions
11:45 – 12:10 Shinsei Ryu (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Many-body topological invariants for topological insulators and superconductors
12:10 – 13:15 Lunch Break

Afternoon session: Topological materials and Weyl physics

13:15 – 13:40 Haruki Watanabe (Tokyo)
Complete Theory of Symmetry-based Indicators of Band Topology
13:45 – 14:10 Titus Neupert (Uni Zürich)
One-dimensional edge modes of three-dimensional topological insulators
14:15 – 14:40 F. Sebastian Bergeret (CSIC/UPV)
Anomalous supercurrents in structures with spin-dependent fields
14:45 – 15:05 Break
15:05 – 15:30 Yoichi Ando (Köln)
Exotic Phenomena in Topological Insulators and Superconductors
15:35 – 16:00 Alexander Zyuzin (Basel)
Second harmonic generation in Weyl semimetal
16:05 – 16:30 Ronny Thomale (Uni Würzburg)
Topolectrical circuits
18:30 – 20:00 Dinner

Wednesday, June 7th

Morning session: Topological materials and Weyl physics

09:00 – 09:50 Andrei Bernevig (Princeton)
Topological Quantum Chemistry
09:55 – 10:20 Alberto Morpurgo (DQMP, Genève)
Inducing strong spin-orbit interaction using van der Waals interfaces
10:25 – 10:40 Break
10:40 – 11:05 Joseph Maciejko (Alberta, Canada)
Superconducting Dirac fermions and mirror symmetry
11:10 – 11:35 Yuli Nazarov (TU Delft)
Topological singularities of Andreev spectrum in multi-terminal Josephson junction
11:40 – 12:05 Mikhail Titov (Radboud Uiversity)
Microscopic theory of torques and Gilbert dampings in Rashba ferromagnets and Dirac systems
12:10 – 13:15 Lunch Break

Afternoon session I: Quantum magnetism

13:15 – 13:40 Stephan Rachel (TU Dresden)
Exotic Landau Levels
13:45 – 14:10 Hidenori Takagi (MPI Stuttgart)
Quantum Liquid state of Jeff=1/2 isospins in complex Ir oxides
14:15 – 14:35 Break

Afternoon session II: Topological materials and Weyl physics

14:35 – 15:25 Ali Yazdani (Princeton)
Distinguishing a Majorana zero mode using spin resolved measurements
15:30 – 15:55 Ralph Claessen (Würzburg)
Bismuthene on a SiC substrate: A candidate material for a new high-temperature quantum spin Hall paradigm
16:00 – 18:00 Poster session
18:30 – 20:00 Conference Dinner

Thursday, June 8th

Morning session I: Topological materials and Weyl physics

09:00 – 09:50 Nai Phuan Ong (Princeton)
Two directions in Topological Quantum Matter: The chiral anomaly and glide-symmetry protected states
09:55 – 10:20 Alfredo Levy Yeyati (Madrid)
Interactions and Transport in Majorana Wires
10:25 – 10:40 Break

Morning session II: Quantum magnetism

10:40 – 11:05 Natasha Perkins (Minnesota)
Fingerprints of fractionalized excitations in inelastic light scattering probes of quantum spin liquids
11:10 – 11:35 Philipp Gegenwart (Augsburg)
Frustrated quantum magnets with large spin-orbit coupling
11:40 – 12:05 Dmitry Abanin (University of Geneva)
Many-body localization and dynamics in disordered magnetic materials
12:10 – 13:15 Lunch Break

Afternoon session I: Spintronics in graphene

13:15 – 14:05 Alexey Kaverzin (University of Groningen)
Recent developments in graphene spintronics
14:10 – 14:35 Christoph Stampfer (Aachen)
Spin lifetimes exceeding 10 ns in graphene nonlocal spin valve devices
14:40 – 15:00 Break

Afternoon session II: Topological materials and Weyl physics

15:00 – 15:50 Alexander Balatsky (NORDITA, Sweden)
Dirac Materials and Magnetism
15:55 – 16:20 Rui-Rui Du (Rice University)
Large-Gap Quantum Spin Hall Insulator in Strained-Layer InAs/GaInSb

Afternoon session III: Quantum magnetism

16:25 – 16:50 Claudia Felser (MPI Dresden)
Topology – from the materials perspective
18:30 – 20:00 Dinner

Friday, June 9th

Morning session I: Spintronics in graphene

09:00 – 09:50 Vladimir Fal'ko (Manchester University)
Spin relaxation and quantum transport in 2D materials
09:55 – 10:20 Ivan Vera Marun (Manchester University)
Novel architectures for graphene spintronics
10:25 – 10:40 Break
10:40 – 11:05 Stephan Roche (ICN2, Barcelona)
Proximity effects and Spin dynamics in Dirac Matter

Morning session II: Topological materials and Weyl physics

11:10 – 12:00 Laurens W. Molenkamp (Würzburg)
Topological Physics in HgTe-based Quantum Devices
12:05 – 12:15 Wrap-up and closing remarks
12:15 – 13:20 Lunch