Announcement
Modern computational and theoretical approaches are playing increasingly important roles in the advances of physics and quantum material research, particularly in quantum many-body systems, where strong correlations among multiple degrees of freedom, including electronic, spin, lattice, and orbital, have rendered conventional methods inadequate. In recent years, a new trend of research, combining modern computational methods, such as exact diagonalization, quantum Monte Carlo, tensor network, neural network and artificial intelligence, and modern theoretical approaches such as conformal field theory and bootstrap analysis as well as topological techniques, has emerged and enabled scientists to thoroughly and in an interdisciplinary manner investigate the highly entangled quantum phases of matter, 2D moire materials, light-matter interaction, quantum simulators and Rydberg atom arrays, etc.
In light of these rapid developments and their lack of systematic introduction and education to senior undergraduate and graduate students and researchers in the Hong Kong and GBA area, we would like to organize the Hong Kong Computational and Theoretical Physics Study Group 2023.
Based on our successful experience in 2019 (Hong Kong Computational Physics Study Group), the Study Group will carry out in an innovative format: with distinguished public lectures, insightful serminars and hands-on tutorials and flexible individual discussions among the leading expert and participants, from March to June 2023. The Study Group will provide complete coverage of modern computational and theoretical techniques and give in-depth understanding and first-hand experience to students and researchers, thus boosting the research activities and developments in quantum many-body systems in Hong Kong and the GBA. The distinguished speakers and lecturers are established and active researchers working in the very front of these fields, and the interactions and potential collaborations between them and participants are strongly encouraged.
Online Registration: https://forms.office.com/r/AyhgE8HSZk
Lectures by Prof. Fakher ASSAAD, Institut für Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg, Germany
Lecture 1: Complexity and topology in quantum matter (Public Lecture)
Date: April 25, 2023 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Venue: CPD-3.28 (Central Podium Levels-Three), Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong
百週年校區 賽馬會教學樓 中心平台三樓3.28室
Online Meeting Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/7523373992
Meeting ID: 752 337 3992, Password: 786060
Lecture 2: The physics of heavy fermions
Date: April 26, 2023 (Wednesday)
Time: 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Venue: CPD-1.21 (Central Podium Levels-One), Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong
百週年校區 賽馬會教學樓 中心平台一樓1.21室
Online Meeting Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/7523373992
Meeting ID: 752 337 3992, Password: 786060
Lecture 3: Exotic phenomena in Dirac systems
Date: April 27, 2023 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Venue: CPD-LG.10 (Central Podium Lower Ground), Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong
百週年校區 賽馬會教學樓 中心平台地下一樓LG.10室
Online Meeting Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/7523373992
Meeting ID: 752 337 3992, Password: 786060
Lectures by Prof. Kai SUN, University of Michigan
Lecture 1: From Nobel Prize Research to the Breakthrough Technologies Transforming our Lives (Public Lecture)
Date: April 26, 2023 (Wednesday)
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Venue: CPD-1.21 (Central Podium Levels-One), Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong
百週年校區 賽馬會教學樓 中心平台一樓1.21室
Online Meeting Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/97799645731
Meeting ID: 977 9964 5731, Password: 480678
Lecture 2: Topological exact flat bands in two dimensional materials under periodic strain
Date: April 28, 2023 (Friday)
Time: 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Venue: CPD-3.29 (Central Podium Levels-Three), Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong
百週年校區 賽馬會教學樓 中心平台三樓3.29室
Online Meeting Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/97799645731
Meeting ID: 977 9964 5731, Password: 480678
Lectures by Prof. Tao XIANG, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Science
Lecture 1: Density Matrix and Tensor Network Renormalization (Public Lecture)
Date: May 2, 2023 (Tuesday) (Cancelled)
Time: 3:30 p.m.- 5:30 p.m. (Cancelled)
Venue:CPD-3.29 (Central Podium Levels-Three), Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong (Cancelled)
百週年校區 賽馬會教學樓 中心平台三樓3.29室
Lecture 2: Concurrent determination of low-energy eigenspectra with matrix product states
Date: May 3, 2023 (Wednesday) (Cancelled)
Time: 1:00 p.m.- 3:00 p.m. (Cancelled)
Venue:CPD-3.29 (Central Podium Levels-Three), Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong (Cancelled)
百週年校區 賽馬會教學樓 中心平台三樓3.29室
Lecture by Prof. Wei LI, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Lecture 1: Tensor Network Approach for Quantum Magnets: Effective Hamiltonian, Exotic Quantum Spin States, and their Applications
Time: 3:30 p.m.- 5:30 p.m.
Venue: CPD-3.29 (Central Podium Levels-Three), Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong
百週年校區 賽馬會教學樓 中心平台三樓3.29室
Online Meeting Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/7625440077
Meeting ID: 762 544 0077
Lectures by Prof. Michael SCHERER, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Lecture 1: Dirac quantum criticality (Public Lecture)
Date: May 4, 2023 (Thursday)
Time: 10:30 a.m.- 11:30 a.m.
Venue: CPD-3.29 (Central Podium Levels-Three), Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong
百週年校區 賽馬會教學樓 中心平台三樓3.29室
Online Meeting Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/6901915607
Meeting ID: 690 191 5607
Lecture 2: Quantum multicriticality, emergent symmetry, and finite-temperature effects of two dimensional Dirac fermions
Date: May 4, 2023 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30 p.m.- 5:30 p.m.
Venue: CPD-3.29 (Central Podium Levels-Three), Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong
百週年校區 賽馬會教學樓 中心平台三樓3.29室
Online Meeting Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/6901915607
Meeting ID: 690 191 5607
Lectures by Dr. Lukas JANSSEN, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Lecture 1: Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Materials (Public Lecture)
Date: May 6, 2023 (Saturday)
Time: 10:00 a.m.- 11:00 a.m.
Venue: CPD-2.42 (Central Podium Levels-Two), Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong
百週年校區 賽馬會教學樓 中心平台二樓2.42室
Online Meeting Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/6510731643
Meeting ID: 651 073 1643, Password: 786060
Lecture 2: Fractionalized Fermionic Quantum Criticality
Date: May 6, 2023 (Saturday)
Time: 1:30 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Venue: CPD-2.42 (Central Podium Levels-Two), Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong
百週年校區 賽馬會教學樓 中心平台二樓2.42室
Online Meeting Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/6510731643
Meeting ID: 651 073 1643, Password: 786060
The Study Group is organized by the Department of Physics, HKU-UCAS Joint Institute of Theoretical and Computational Physics, HK Institute of Quantum Science & Technology and Faculty of Science.