The Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute looks forward to hosting the Max Planck-UBC-U Tokyo annual meeting for the Centre for Quantum Materials, 2022.

This year’s meeting will be a three-day event, with talks presented by renowned scholars from Max Planck Institutes, University of Stuttgart, University of Tokyo and UBC.

Primary Venue: Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre, UBC

6163 University Boulevard, Vancouver, BC

Program

Day 1, September 19, Monday

Morning Session

Location: Jack Poole Hall

Opening and Introduction

9:00 – 10:30 MP-UBC-UT Centre and Joint PhD

Andrea Damascelli (UBC), Matthew Evenden (UBC), Bernhard Keimer (MPI Stuttgart), Wolfram Ressel (UStuttgart), Makoto Gonokami (RIKEN – UTokyo), Teruo Fujii (UTokyo)
Musical Performance
Makoto Gonokami (RIKEN – UTokyo) – The Role of Academia as a Platform for Social Change
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee-break

Quantum Matter

11:00 – 11:30 Martin Dressel (UStuttgart)
Molecular Quantum Materials: gapped magnetic ground state in κ-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu2(CN)3
11:30 – 12:00 Tim Langen (UStuttgart)
Dipolar supersolids: From magnetic atoms to molecules
12:00 – 12:15 Raphael Haenel (UBC – MPI Stuttgart – UStuttgart)
Spectroscopy of Higgs and Collective Modes of the Superconducting Condensate

12:15 – 13:30 Lunch break

Afternoon session

Location: Robert H. Lee Family Boardroom

Non-Equilibrium

13:30 – 14:00 Ryo Shimano (UTokyo)
Study of superconductivity from nonequilibrium
14:00 – 14:15 Sydney Dufresne (UBC)
Electron-lattice interplay in the candidate excitonic insulator Ta2NiSe5
14:15 – 14:45 Dirk Manske (MPI Stuttgart)
Theory of Higgs spectroscopy: latest results
14:45 – 15:15 Coffee break

Nickelates

15:15 – 15:45 Kateryna Foyevstova (UBC)
Elusive Fermi surface of infinite-layer nickelates
15:45 – 16:15 George Sawatzky *by video* (UBC)
Stabilization of singlet hole-doped state in infinite-layer nickelate superconductors
16:15 – 16:30 Johannes Falke (MPI Dresden)
Bulk-sensitive ARPES on LaNiO3 single crystals
16:30 – 16:45 Rebecca Pons (MPI Stuttgart – UStuttgart – UBC)
Rare-Earth Nickelates: from Perovskite to Infinite-Layer
16:45 – 17:00 Simon Godin (UBC)
Favored orbital orientation in anion-doped nickel oxide

Evening session

Location: Brimacombe Building

18:00 – 20:00 Evening Cocktail Reception and Poster Session Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute (2355 East Mall, Vancouver)

Day 2, September 20, Tuesday

Morning Session

Location: Robert H. Lee Family Boardroom

Spectroscopy

9:00 – 9:30 Bernhard Keimer (MPI Stuttgart)
Resonant x-ray scattering from quantum materials
9:30 – 9:45 Daisuke Takegami (MPI Dresden)
Orbital imaging using hard x-ray photoemission
9:45 – 10:00 Andrea Marino (MPI Dresden)
Resonant and non-resonant inelastic x-ray scattering on uranium compounds
10:00 – 10:30 Yusuke Morita (UTokyo)
Lyman induced absorption imaging of an exciton condensate in cuprous oxide using a dilution refrigerator
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

Topology

11:00 – 11:30 Ziliang Ye (UBC)
Sliding avalanche in 3r-MoS2 exfoliation
11:30 – 12:00 Benjamin Zhou (UBC)
Non-Abelian topological superconductivity in maximally twisted double-layer spin-triplet valley-singlet superconductors
12:00 – 12:30 Satoru Nakatsuji (UTokyo)
Electrical and strain control of a magnetic Weyl semimetallic state
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break

Afternoon Session

Location: Robert H. Lee Family Boardroom

13:30 – 14:00 Sarah Burke (UBC)
Quasiparticle interference observation of the topologically nontrivial drumhead surface state in ZrSiTe Materials
14:00 – 14:30 Solveig Aamlid (UBC)
Phase stability in entropy stabilized oxides with the α-PbO2 structure
14:30 – 15:00 Liu Hao Tjeng (MPI Dresden)
Imaging the orbital switching in VO2 and Ti2O3 across the metal- insulator transition
15:00 – 16:00 Business Meeting (Board Members)

Evening Session

Various locations

16:00 – 17:00 Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute Lab Tour
Location: Brimacombe Building, 2355 East Mall, Vancouver
17:00 – 19:00 President’s Dinner (on invitation only)
University of Stuttgart – UBC Joint PhD Program
19:00 – 21:00 Chan Centre for Performing Arts (RSVP required)
Orchestral Performance
Location: 6265 Crescent RD, Vancouver

Day 3, September 21, Wednesday

Morning Session

Location: Robert H. Lee Family Boardroom

Spin-Orbit Coupling

9:00 – 9:30 Hidenori Takagi (MPI Stuttgart – UTokyo – UStuttgart)
Magneto-thermal transport in quantum materials
9:30 – 9:45 Niclas Heinsdorf (UBC – MPI Stuttgart – UStuttgart)
Topology of Magnetic Excitations
9:45 – 10:00 Valentin Zimmermann (MPI Stuttgart – UStuttgart – UBC)
Propagating Spin-Orbit Excitons in a Correlated Metal
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break

Transport

10:30 – 11:00 Masaki Oshikawa (UTokyo)
Unified framework for nonlinear conductivities
11:00 – 11:30 Graham Baker (UBC)
Non-local microwave electrodynamics in ultra-pure PdCoO2
11:30 – 12:00 Kensuke Kobayashi (UTokyo)
Mesoscopic physics and quantum sensing

12:00 Closing