Twistronics, Quantum Geometry & Berry Curvature Control

Presentations

• Tuning the Berry curvature dipole in the non-centrosymmetric materials MM'Te4

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 12:00 PM – March 16, 2026, 12:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Christopher Badolian

    • University of California, Irvine

  Authors

  • Christopher Badolian

    • University of California, Irvine

  • Samah Alawfi

    • (University of California, Irvine)

  • Jinyu Liu

  • Luis Jauregui

    • University of California, Irvine

  • Angelina Paolucci

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• Fano Line Shape and Chiral Phonons in Thin Films of Weyl Semimetal TaAs.

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 12:12 PM – March 16, 2026, 12:24 PM

  Presenters

  • SAUMIKA BANDOPADHYAY

    • Howard University

  Authors

  • SAUMIKA BANDOPADHYAY

    • Howard University

  • Ashutosh .

    • Howard University

  • Vineet Kumar Sharma

  • Maria Munoz

  • Riccardo Torsi

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

  • Kirstin Alberi

    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

  • Ian Leahy

  • Anthony Rice

    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

  • Antonio Levy

    • Howard University

  • Sugata Chowdhury

    • Howard University

  • Prabhakar Misra

    • Howard University

  • Angela Hight Walker

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

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• Movable Dirac Points with Ferroelectrics: Kink States and Berry Curvature Dipoles

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 12:24 PM – March 16, 2026, 12:36 PM

  Publication: K. S. Denisov, Y. Liu and I. Žutić, Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 246602 (2025)

  Presenters

  • Konstantin Denisov

    • State Univ of NY - Buffalo

  Authors

  • Konstantin Denisov

    • State Univ of NY - Buffalo

  • Yuntian Liu

    • State Univ of NY - Buffalo

  • Igor Zutic

    • State Univ of NY - Buffalo

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• Attaining the Obstructed Atomic Limit in an Orbital-Filtered Planar Kagome Monolayer

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 16, 2026, 12:36 PM – March 16, 2026, 12:48 PM

  Publication: Bing Liu, Manish Verma, Arka Bandyopadhyay, Jonas Erhardt,Tim Wagner, Jing Qi, Kilian Strauß, Domenico Di Sante, Carmine Ortix, Simon Moser, J¨org Sch¨afer, Ronny Thomale, Giorgio Sangiovanni, Ralph Claessen, "Obstructed atomic limit in an in-plane p-orbital decorated Kagome monolayer" (manuscript prepared, to be submitted - 2025)

  Presenters

  • Arka Bandyopadhyay

    • Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

  Authors

  • Bing Liu

  • Manish Verma

  • Arka Bandyopadhyay

    • Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

  • Domenico Di Sante

    • University of Bologna

  • Carmine Ortix

  • Ronny Thomale

    • Julius-Maximilians University of Wuerzburg

  • Giorgio Sangiovanni

    • Julius-Maximilians University of Wuerzburg

  • Ralph Claessen

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• Emergence and Control of Dirac and Weyl Fermions in Twistronic Platforms

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 16, 2026, 12:48 PM – March 16, 2026, 1:24 PM

  Publication: [1] J. H. Pixley, Pavel A. Volkov, arXiv:2503.23683
  [2] Kevin P. Lucht, J. H. Pixley & Pavel A. Volkov, arXiv:2511.15708
  [3] Kevin P. Lucht, J. H. Pixley & Pavel A. Volkov, npj Quantum Materials 10, 10 (2025)
  [4] J. Siriviboon & Pavel A. Volkov, in preparation

  Presenters

  • Pavel Volkov

    • University of Connecticut

  Authors

  • Pavel Volkov

    • University of Connecticut

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• Modeling of Weyl semimetals via Automatic Differentiation

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 1:24 PM – March 16, 2026, 1:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Yuta Furusho

    • Kyushu University

  Authors

  • Yuta Furusho

    • Kyushu University

  • Koji Kobayashi

  • Kentaro Nomura

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• Symmetry-Enforced Dirac Fermions and Semimetal–Semiconductor Transition in Pentagonal XTe₂ Monolayers

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 1:36 PM – March 16, 2026, 1:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Manoj Gadtoula

    • University of Missouri-Columbia

  Authors

  • Manoj Gadtoula

    • University of Missouri-Columbia

  • Clayton Conner

  • Avinash Sah

    • University of Missouri-Columbia

  • Guang Bian

    • University of Missouri

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• Axion electrodynamics and giant magnetic birefringence in Weyl excitonic insulators

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 1:48 PM – March 16, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Publication: Anna Grigoreva, Anton Andreev, Leonid Glazman, Axion electrodynamics and giant magnetic birefringence in Weyl excitonic insulators, arXiv:2502.20456

  Presenters

  • Anna Grigoreva

    • University of Washington

  Authors

  • Anna Grigoreva

    • University of Washington

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• Magneto-transport theory of the second Stiefel–Whitney class in a Z₂ nodal-line semimetal

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 16, 2026, 2:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Aravind Karthigeyan

    • University of Texas at Austin

  Authors

  • Aravind Karthigeyan

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Junyeong Ahn

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