With my departure from UvA, there is a new CMT Journal Club website.
The Journal Club is now organized by Jans Henke & Bart de Klerk.
Timetable 2019
Time, Place: Mondays 11-12 in the Theory Lounge.
2019/09/16 – Neil Robinson – Planning and intro to RIXS ([Ref 1])
2019/09/23 – Vladimir Gritsev – Homotopy and defects
2019/09/30 – Alvise Bastianello – the Kane-Fisher Problem
2019/10/07 – Wouter Buijsman – Random Unitary Circuits
2019/10/14 – Bart van Voorden – Quantum Supremacy
2019/10/21 – Axel Cortes Cubero – Resurgent transseries in quantum physics
2019/10/28 – Schelto Crone – Neural Networks in many-body quantum physics
2019/11/04 – Jasper van Wezel – Topology in non-Hermitian systems
2019/11/11 – Bart de Klerk – Deriving the Lieb-Liniger model for cold atoms
2019/11/18 – Daniel Chernowitz – Fisher Zeros and Lee-Yang Theorem
2019/11/25 – Koen Groenland – Quantum walks
2019/12/02 – Jans Henke
2019/12/09 – Jiri Minar
2019/12/16 – Patrick Vlaar
Suggested topics
The recent topics, check the Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics, with useful commentaries on recent impactful works. The Editor’s Suggestion List from Physical Review B might also serve as a source of inspiration.
Some potential “classical topics”, which are often regarded as common knowledge and/or regularly crop up in seminars include:
- Luttinger’s Theorem ([Ref 1] [Ref 2])
- RG for Fermi liquids ([Ref 1])
- Random singlet phases ([Ref 1] [Ref 2])
- The x-ray edge problem/orthogonality catastrophe ([Ref 1])
- The Coulomb gap ([Ref 1])
- Rokshar-Kivelson quantum dimer models ([Ref 1])
- Weak localisation and conductance fluctuations ([Ref 1] [Ref 2])
- Lieb-Robinson bounds ([Ref 1] [Ref 2])
- Coulomb gas methods (e.g., Ch. 9 of the “Big Yellow Book”)
- Anderson Localisation ([Ref 1])
- Coulomb phase in frustrated systems ([Ref 1])
- Large deviations ([Ref 1] [Ref 2])
- Dimer packing ([Ref 1] [Ref 2] [Ref 3])
- Griffith’s phases ([Ref 1])
- Replica symmetry and it’s breaking ([Ref 1])
- Lifshitz tails: bound states in random potentials ([Ref 1])
- Anderson-Higgs mechanism in superconductors ([Ref 1])
- Chalker-Coddington Model for integer QHE ([Ref 1])
If you have other suggestions, please let me know!
Recently covered topics (since 2018)
- Luttinger Liquids (intro of Giamarchi’s book)
- Goldstone modes and Mermin-Wagner theorem
- AKLT model [Ref 1]
- Lieb-Mattis Theorem [Ref 1]
- Introduction to holography/Maldacena’s conjecture
- Lieb-Schultz Mattis Theorem [Ref 1]
- Large-S mapping of spin chain to NLSM [Ref 1]
- Random matrix theory for quantum transport [Ref 1]
- 2D Ising Model (Onsager’s Solution, etc) [Ref 1]
- The Haldane Conjecture [Ref 1] [Ref 2] [Ref 3]
- Anyons
- CDWs and the Kohn Anomaly
- Spin liquids
- Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene
- Metal/Superconductor Junctions
- Time crystals
- Quantum Many-Body Scars
- ARPES and the cuprate strange metal
- The Boubenko model
- TKNN (quantised Hall conductance) [Ref 1] [Ref 2] [Ref 3]
- The Kondo problem and poor man’s scaling [Ref 1] [Ref 2] [Ref 3]
- Exciton condensation and the exciton insulator [Ref 1] [Ref 2]
- Pseudo-integrability
- BKT transition [Ref 1] [Ref 2]
- Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS) [Ref 1]
- Homotopy and defects ([Ref 1])
- the Kane-Fisher Problem
- Random Unitary Circuits
- Quantum supremacy
- Resurgent transseries in quantum physics
- Topology in non-Hermitian systems
- Deriving the Lieb-Liniger model for cold atoms
- Lee-Yang and Fisher zeroes ([Ref 1])
- Quantum walks