One focus of the workshop is on the strange metals and their theoretical description. Prominent strange-metal behavior appears in a variety of forms, such as a dynamical Planckian (ħω over kBT) scaling, a T-linear resistivity and its potential connection with the notion of Planckian dissipation, singularities in thermodynamic quantities and, often, an accompanying “large” to “small” Fermi-surface reconstruction with implications for a localization-delocalization transition. Another focus of the workshop concerns how the amplified quantum fluctuations of strange metals drive the formation of new quantum phases, with unconventional or high-temperature superconductivity being the most prominent candidate.
The workshop will bring together key players interested in this overarching subject on a variety of platforms, including:
- Copper- and iron-based high temperature superconductors
- Heavy-fermion metals
- Moiré structures
- Cold atoms
- Broader systems and contexts
The total number of invited speakers will be about 25.
Registration fee is $50.00 for Rice Attendees, and $200.00 for non-Rice Attendees.
Dates: October 31-November 2, 2022
Invited talk: 20 + 10 minutes
Contributed talk: 12 + 3 minutes
Sunday, October 30
Arrival
6:00--8:00pm Welcome Reception for Speakers and RCQM PIs
-at Intercontinental Hotel, Houston Medical Center
Monday, October 31
-at Bioscience Research Collaborative building, Rice University Campus
Coffee, light breakfast and registration (8:30am-8:45am)
Welcome Session
8:45-9:00 Opening Remarks
Ramamoorthy Ramesh (Vice President for Research, Rice University)
Thomas Killian (Dean, Wiess School of Natural Sciences, Rice University)
Session I – Heavy fermion strange metals
(Chair: Ming Yi, Rice U.)
9:00-9:30 Silke Paschen (TU Vienna, Austria) – “Strange metal behavior in heavy fermion compounds”
9:30-10:00 Piers Coleman (Rutgers U.) – “Strange metal behavior in a pure ferromagnetic Kondo Lattice”
10:00-10:30 Haoyu Hu (Donostia IPC, Spain) (Backup: Qimiao Si) – “Quantum Critical Metals: From Loss of Quasiparticles to High-Tc Superconductivity”
Haoyu Hu: Quantum Critical Metals: From Loss of Quasiparticles to High-Tc Superconductivity
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
Session II -- Moiré and heavy fermions
(Chair: David Abergel, Nature Physics)
11:00-11:30 Jie Shan (Cornell U.) - “Emergence of heavy fermions in a moiré lattice”
11:30-12:00 Ajesh Kumar (MIT) – “Moiré simulation of heavy-fermion quantum criticality”
Ajesh Kumar: Moire Stimulation of Heavy-fermion Quantum Criticality
12:00-12:15 Blitz poster preview (1 minute per poster)
12:15-2:15 Lunch and Poster Session I
Session III – Cuprate strange metals
(Chair: Meigan Aronson, UBC)
2:15-2:45 Brad Ramshaw (Cornell U.) – “Experimental evidence for well-defined quasiparticles with Planckian lifetimes”
2:45-3:15 Subir Sachdev (Harvard U.) - " Strange Metals: Strongly Correlated Quantum Matter with Spatially Random Interactions”
Subir Sachdev: Strange Metals Strong Correlated Random Interactions
3:15-3:45 Philip Phillips (UIUC) – “Strange Metals and Anomalous Dimensions for Conserved Currents from Noether's Second Theorem”
Philip Phillips: Strange Metals from Mottness
3:45-4:15 Coffee break
Session IV – Flat band strange metals + Nature Physics
(Chair: Allan MacDonald, UT Austin)
4:15-4:45 Gabriel Aeppli (PSI/ETH Zürich, Switzerland) - "Strange metallicity of a kagomé ferromagnet”
4:45-5:15 Linda Ye (Stanford U.) - "A flat band-induced correlated kagome metal”
5:15-5:45 David Abergel (Nature Physics) – “Inside Nature Physics”
David Abergel: Inside Nature Physics
Tuesday, November 1
-at Bioscience Research Collaborative building, Rice University Campus
Coffee, light breakfast and registration (8:30am-8:45am)
Session V – Moiré structures
(Chair: Hanyu Zhu, Rice U.)
8:45-9:15 Andrea Young (UCSB) - “Magnetism and superconductivity in crystalline graphite“
Andrea Young: Magnetism and superconductivity in crystalline graphite
9:15-9:45 Emanuel Tutuc (UT Austin) – “Interlayer Coherence in Twist-Controlled van der Waals Heterostructures”
9:45-10:15 Andrei Bernevig (Princeton U.) – “Interactions in Flat Bands with and without Touching points: Topological Heavy Fermions Beyond Twisted Bilayer Graphene“
10:15-10:45 Coffee break
Session VI – Ultracold atoms
(Chair: Han Pu, Rice U.)
10:45-11:15 Randy Hulet (Rice U.) - “Spin-Charge Separation with 1D Atomic Fermions”
Randy Hulet: Spin-Charge Separation with 1D Atomic Fermions
11:15-11:45 Martin Zwierlein (MIT) – “Fermion pairing and transport in strongly interacting Fermi gases”
Martin Zwierlein: Fermion pairing and transport in strongly interacting Fermi gases
11:45-12:00 Short talk: Sunny Gupta (Lawrence Livermore) – “Designing 1D correlated-electron states by non-Euclidean topography of 2D monolayers”
Sunny Gupta: Designing 1D correlated-electron states by non-Euclidean topography of 2D monolayers
12:00-12:15 Blitz poster preview (1 minute per poster)
12:15-2:15 Lunch and Poster Session II
Session VII – Heavy fermions and strong correlations
(Chair: Silke Paschen, TU Vienna)
2:15-2:45 Meigan Aronson (UBC, Canada) – “Quantum Critical Points in Ti4MnBi2”
Meigan Aronson: Quantum Critical Points in Ti4MnBi2
2:45-3:15 Liyang Chen (Rice U.) – “Shot noise indicates the lack of quasiparticles in a strange metal”
Liyang Chen: Shot noise indicates the lack of quasiparticles in a strange metal
3:15-3:45 Filip Ronning (LANL) - “Developing materials specific tractable Hamiltonians for f-electron systems”.
Filip Ronning: Developing materials specific tractable Hamiltonians for f-electron systems
3:45-4:15 Coffee break
Session VIII – Organic strange metals + Open discussion
(Chair: Qimiao Si, Rice U.)
4:15-4:45 Kazushi Kanoda (Tokyo U., Japan) - "Quantum criticality and BEC-BCS crossover in a doped spin liquid candidate”
Kazushi Kanoda: Quantum criticality and BEC-BCS crossover in a doped spin liquid candidate
4:45-5:45 “Open discussion”
Wednesday, November 2
-at Duncan Hall, Rice University Campus
Coffee, light breakfast and registration (8:30am-8:45am)
Session IX – Flat bands
(Chair: Jun Kono, Rice U.)
8:45-9:15 Pengcheng Dai (Rice U.) - "Discovery of charge order in a Kagome lattice antiferromagnet”
9:15-9:45 Elaine Li (UT Austin) - “Quantum magnetism of moire Chern bands”
9:45-10:15 Ming Yi (Rice U.) - "Emergent phases in flat band systems”
Ming Yi: Emergent phases in flat band systems
10:15-10:45 Coffee break
Session X – Ultracold atoms
(Chair: Kevin Slagle, Rice U.)
10:45-11:15 Randy Hulet (Rice U.) - “Spin-Charge Separation with 1D Atomic Fermions”
Randy Hulet: Spin-Charge Separation with 1D Atomic Fermions
11:15-11:45 Erich Mueller (Cornell U.) - “Quantum Transport in Fermi Hubbard Models”
Erich Mueller: Quantum Transport in Fermi Hubbard Models
11:45-12:00 Short talk: Xiaoyu Wang (NHMFL) - “Unusual magnetotransport in twisted bilayer graphene from strain-induced open Fermi surfaces”
Xiaoyu Wang: Unusual magnetotransport in twisted bilayer graphene from strain-induced open Fermi
12:00-12:15 Short talk: T. C. Wu (Rice U.) - “Quantum interference of hydrodynamic modes in the dirty marginal Fermi liquid”
T.C. Wu: Quantum interference of hydrodynamic modes in the dirty marginal Fermi liquid
12:15-1:45 Lunch
Session XI – Correlated metals across platforms
(Chair: Doug Natelson, Rice U.)
1:45-2:15 Andrew Huxley (U. Edinburgh, U.K.) - "Extended non-fermi liquid phases”
Andrew Huxley: Extended non-fermi liquid phases
2:15-2:45 Amalia Coldea (Oxford U., U.K.) - “Fermi surfaces and quasiparticle effective masses in the high-pressure phase of superconducting iron-chalcogenides, FeSe1-xSx”
2:45-3:15 Takeshi Kondo (Tokyo U., Japan) - “Unveiling doped Mott states of high-Tc cuprate superconductors with disorder removed”
Takeshi Kondo: Unveiling doped Mott states of high-Tc cuprate superconductors with disorder removed
3:15-3:45 Peter Abbamonte (UIUC) – “DeGennes narrowing in the density fluctuation spectrum of a strange metal”
Peter Abbamonte: DeGennes narrowing in the density fluctuation spectrum of a strange metal
Location: Rice University
Invited Speakers:
Platform I: Copper- and iron-based superconductors
- Amalia Coldea (Oxford U., U.K.)
- Pengcheng Dai (Rice U.)
- Takeshi Kondo (Tokyo U., Japan)
- Philip Phillips (U. Illinois)
- Brad Ramshaw (Cornell U.)
- Subir Sachdev (Harvard U.)
- Ming Yi (Rice U.)
Platform II: Heavy-fermion metals
- Meigan Aronson (UBC, Canada)
- Liyang Chen (Rice U.)
- Piers Coleman (Rutgers U.)
- Haoyu Hu (Rice U.)
- Andrew D. Huxley (U. Edinburgh, U.K.)
- Silke Paschen (TU Vienna, Austria)
- Filip Ronning (Los Alamos National Lab.)
- Frank Steglich (MPI-CPfS, Germany)
Platform III: Moire structures
- Andrei Bernevig (Princeton U.)
- Ajesh Kumar (UT Austin)
- Elaine Li (UT Austin)
- T. Senthil (MIT)
- Jie Shan (Cornell U.)
- Emanuel Tutuc (UT Austin)
- Andrea Young (UCSB)
Platform IV: Ultracold atoms + Broader contexts
- Gabriel Aeppli (PSI/ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
- Eugene Demler (ETH Zürich)
- Randy Hulet (Rice U.)
- Kazushi Kanoda (Tokyo U., Japan)
- Erich Mueller (Cornell U.)
- Linda Ye (Stanford U.)
- Martin Zwierlein (MIT)
Format:
The workshop will last for nearly three days, incorporating invited speaker slots as well as two poster sessions. We expect to select several contributed talks from contributed abstracts. The program will start in the morning on Monday, October 31, and conclude by mid-Afternoon on Wednesday, November 2.
Organizers:
Allan H. MacDonald (UT Austin)
Doug Natelson (Rice University)
Han Pu (Rice University)
Qimiao Si (Rice University)
Photos:
Rice University Covid Safety and Guidelines
Rice University’s protocols for responding to the COVID-19 pandemic have been rooted in the safety for our students, faculty, staff and other community partners and visitors. We are continuing to follow guidelines provided by the CDC as well as local and state protocols and requirements.
We strongly encourage everyone to wear masks while indoors during the workshop. For people who have special health concerns or want a higher level of protection, a well-fitted KN95 mask offers good protection for the user. Please feel free to stop by the registration table and we will be happy to provide you with a KN95 mask when requested.
If you are not feeling well, please do not attend the workshop that day and let the coordinators know. We will arrange for you to attend the workshop virtually. We have purchased a stock of Covid test kits, which we will drop off at the hotel front desk where you are staying.
Intercontinental Hotel Houston
A safe, comfortable hotel experience is central to the True Hospitality we offer at the InterContinental Houston – Medical Center. Throughout our response to Covid-19, the health, safety and wellbeing of our guests, colleagues, and community has been our top priority.
The InterContinental ® Houston – Medical Center is the first hotel to use the innovative Integrated Viral Protection (IVP) Bio Defense Indoor Air Protection Filtration System.
The IVP Air heated-air filtration system is a mobile, plug-and-purify device designed to eliminate SARS-CoV-2, anthrax spores and other airborne contaminants through a heated filter that does not impact the temperature of the ambient air. Building on a comprehensive set of procedures and protocols in place with the IHG Way of Clean program, the use of this technology marks yet another enhancement that General Manager Jorge Landa and the InterContinental Houston – Medical Center hotel team are offering to guests and colleagues to provide further confidence in the hotel experience.
For questions on the scientific program, please contact one of the organizers.
Registrations: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rcqm-workshop-on-strange-metals-emergent-phases-in-materials-structures-tickets-356660179197
University Event Page: https://rcqm.rice.edu/events/120/
Sample Abstract:
If Speaker or Poster Presenter, please include abstract in registration. If interested in contributing, all participants are encouraged to submit titles and abstracts. Sample abstract: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cCEqroeZG1-QdQhhg2YobCTSoMOlDzoZ?usp=sharing
Hotel and Ground Transportation Information
Invited Speaker Hotel (Preferred Event Hotel)
INTERCONTINENTAL HOUSTON – MEDICAL CENTER
6750 Main Street, Houston
Texas 77030 USA
713-422-2779
Rice University will make hotel reservations at the Intercontinental for invited speakers and provide transportation from the hotel to Rice University for the workshop.
Visitor Parking
All parking on campus is accessed by credit card. Use the same credit card to exit at the end of the day. All-day parking costs $12. For additional information go to Parking for Visitors.
Other Hotels Near Rice University
Hilton Houston Plaza/Medical Center (Rice Rates Available)
6633 Travis Street
Houston, TX 77030 USA
Phone: 1-713-313-4000 Fax: 1-713-313-4660
Wyndham Houston – Medical Center Hotel and Suites
6800 Main Street
Houston, TX 77030 USA
Phone: 1-713-528-7744
Hotel Zaza
5701 Main Street
Houston, TX 77005 USA
Phone: 1-713-526-1991 / 888-880-3244 Fax: 1-713-526-0359
Crowne Plaza Medical Center
8686 Kirby Drive
Houston, TX 77054 USA
Phone: 1-713-748-3221 Fax: 1-713-796-9371
Residence Inn, Marriott – West University
2939 Westpark Drive
Houston, TX 77005
Phone: 713 661-4660
Transportation from Hotels
Most hotels offer free shuttles that will drop you off at the Rice University. Please arrange shuttle service with the hotel well in advance of when you need it. (Please note transportation from the Intercontinental Houston Medical Center Hotel to Rice University will be provided for Invited Speakers. If other workshop attendees book a room at the Intercontinental Houston Medical Center Hotel they may board the bus with the invited speakers.)
Other ground transportation option for workshop attendees
Uber & Lyft
Uber and Lyft operate in Houston
Limo & Cab Service
Merlo’s Limousines & Charters
Phone: 866-367-5466
Email: Reservations@merloscharters.com
Yellow Cab 713-236-1111
Fiesta Cab 713-225-2666
United Cab 713-699-0000
