Emergence and Entanglement II

This is the second workshop of the Perimeter Institute series “Emergence and Entanglement”, which started in May 2010. Recent advances in our understanding of many-body entanglement have led to significant progress in the characterization and classification of phases of quantum matter. Tensor network states have emerged as a natural language to describe highly entangled ground states and classify the distinct patterns of long-range entanglement that characterize e.g. the possible forms of topological order. On the numerical front, after decades of impasse, several two-dimensional lattice models for frustrated antiferromagnets have finally been shown to support gapped spin liquid phases with topological order. While most of the recent results on classification and realization of phases refer to gapped systems, there has also been significant progress in our understanding of entanglement in gapless systems, e.g. through AdS/CFT calculations of entanglement and the proposal of holographic tensor networks for critical systems.

Participation in this conference is by invitation only.  However, researchers from Southern Ontario are welcome to register their interest to participate.  Applicants will be reviewed and contacted personally with regard to acceptance.

Speakers:

Leon Balents, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
Maissam Barkeshli, Stanford University
Ganapathy Baskaran, Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Erez Berg, Harvard University
Hector Bombin, Perimeter Institute
Oliver Buerschaper, Perimeter Institute
Fiona Burnell, University of Oxford
Xie Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lukasz Cincio, Perimeter Institute
Philippe Corboz, ETH Zurich
Glen Evenbly, California Institute of Technology
Matthew Fisher, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
Tarun Grover, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
Zhengcheng Gu, California Institute of Technology
Duncan Haldane, Princeton University
Yong Baek Kim, University of Toronto
Sung-Sik Lee, McMaster University
Michael Levin, University of Maryland
Hong Liu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John McGreevy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Roger Melko, University of Waterloo
Xiaoliang Qi, Stanford University
Subir Sachdev, Harvard University
Norbert Schuch, Aachen University
Brian Swingle, Harvard University
Tadashi Takayanagi, Kyoto University
Senthil Todadri, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Frank Verstraete, University of Vienna
Ashvin Vishwanath, University of California, Berkeley
Zhenghan Wang, Microsoft
Steve White, University of California, Irvine
William Witczak-Krempa, Perimeter Institute
Cenke Xu, University of California, Santa Barbara
Peng Ye, Perimeter Institute

Participants:

Dima Abanin, Perimeter Institute
John Berlinsky, Perimeter Institute
Subhro Bhattacharjee, University of Toronto & McMaster University
Eugenio Bianchi, Perimeter Institute
Ke Cai, Perimeter Institute
Anushya Chandran, Princeton University
Yangang Chen, Perimeter Institute
Debanjan Chowdhury, Harvard University
Lauren Hayward, University of Waterloo
Tim Hsieh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Janet Hung, Harvard University
Stephen Inglis, University of Waterloo
Tyler Jackson, University of Guelph
Nick Jones, Perimeter Institute
Ann Kallin, University of Waterloo
Jun Yong Khoo, Perimeter Institute
Arthur Lee, Perimeter Institute
Ciaran Lee, Perimeter Institute
Luis Lehner, Perimeter Institute
Jimmy Fangzhou Liu, Perimeter Institute
Peter Lunts, Perimeter Institute
Gabriel Magill, Perimeter Institute
Heidar Moradi, Perimeter Institute
Daniel Ogburn, Perimeter Institute
Hirotada Okawa, Instituto Superior Técnico
Paolo Pani, Instituto Superior Técnico
Robert Pfeifer, Perimeter Institute
Marie Rider, Perimeter Institute
Robert Schaffer, University of Toronto
John Selby, Perimeter Institute
Eric Sorensen, McMaster University
Dominique Soutire, Perimeter Institute
Miles Stoudenmire, University of California, Irvine
Yigit Subasi, University of Maryland
Evelyn Tang, Perimeter Institute & Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ruben Verresen, Perimeter Institute
Juven Wang, Perimeter Institute & Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nicole Yunger Halpern, Perimeter Institute
Lucy Liusu Zhang, Perimeter Institute
Huangjun Zhu, Perimeter Institute

Organizers:

Guifre Vidal
Xiao-Gang Wen