Quantum Phase Transitions and Criticality in Topological Matter

Presentations

• Spectral signatures of charge density wave reorientation in ErTe₃ under continuously tunable uniaxial strain

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 17, 2026, 3:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Thomas Hulse

    • Rice University

  Authors

  • Thomas Hulse

    • Rice University

  • Yucheng Guo

    • Rice University

  • Yichen Zhang

    • Rice University

  • Josh Leeman

  • Ziqin Yue

    • Rice University

  • Makoto Hashimoto

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  • Donghui Lu

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  • Chun Lin

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  • Aaron Bostwick

  • Eli Rotenberg

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Chris Jozwiak

  • Leslie Schoop

    • Princeton University

  • Jennifer Cano

    • Stony Brook University

  • Rafael Fernandes

    • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • Kenneth Burch

    • Boston College

  • Ming Yi

    • Rice University

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• ScV₆Sn₆ under c-axis uniaxial pressure

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 17, 2026, 3:42 PM – March 17, 2026, 3:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Sean Thomas

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  Authors

  • Sean Thomas

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • Fellipe Carneiro

  • M.O. Ajeesh

  • A.R. Gonzaga

  • Diego Barlettani

  • C.D. Dashwood

  • Caitlin Kengle

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Clement Girod

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • Daniel Porter

  • Larissa Veiga

  • Gabriel Freitas

  • Pascaol Pagliuso

  • Eduardo Bittar

  • Priscila Rosa

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

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• Boundary Criticality for the Gross-Neveu-Yukawa Models  

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 3:54 PM – March 17, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Publication: H. Jiang, Y. Ge, and S.-K. Jian, Boundary Criticality for the Gross-Neveu-Yukawa Models, Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 141602 (2025).

  Presenters

  • Huan Jiang

    • Department of Physics, Tulane University

  Authors

  • Huan Jiang

    • Department of Physics, Tulane University

  • Yang Ge

    • Tulane University

  • Shao-Kai Jian

    • Tulane University

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• Effects of quantum geometry on exciton condensation

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 17, 2026, 4:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Junyi Zhang

    • Johns Hopkins University

  Authors

  • Junyi Zhang

    • Johns Hopkins University

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• Boundary Criticality in Correlated Gapless Topological Matters in 2D and 3D

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 4:18 PM – March 17, 2026, 4:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Shaokai Jian

    • Tulane University

  Authors

  • Shaokai Jian

    • Tulane University

  • Huan Jiang

    • Department of Physics, Tulane University

  • Zhiming Pan

  • Xue-Jia Yu

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• Geometric structure of unnecessary quantum critical points and their connection to SPT phase boundaries

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 4:30 PM – March 17, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Basudeb Mondal

    • Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

  Authors

  • Basudeb Mondal

    • Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

  • Vijay Shenoy

    • Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

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• Non-Invertible Interfaces Between Symmetry-Enriched Critical Phases

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 17, 2026, 4:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Saranesh Prembabu

    • Harvard University

  Authors

  • Saranesh Prembabu

    • Harvard University

  • Ruben Verresen

  • Shu-Heng Shao

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• Exploring Magnetocaloric Response in Low-Dimensional Spin Systems

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 4:54 PM – March 17, 2026, 5:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Anguie Xiomara Gonzalez Duque

    • University of Florida

  Authors

  • Anguie Xiomara Gonzalez Duque

    • University of Florida

  • Alexander Donald

    • University of Florida

  • Shuyi Li

    • University of Florida

  • Rasul Gazizulin

    • University of Florida

  • Chunjing Jia

    • University of Florida

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• Open system probes of many-body environments: Effects of quantum backaction

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 5:06 PM – March 17, 2026, 5:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Andrew Keefe

    • University of Massachusetts Lowell

  Authors

  • Andrew Keefe

    • University of Massachusetts Lowell

  • Zeyu Ma

    • Harvard University

  • Brenden Bowen

    • University of Massachusetts Lowell

  • Albion Lawrence

    • Brandeis University

  • Nishant Agarwal

    • University of Massachusetts Lowell

  • Archana Kamal

    • Northwestern University

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• Structure factors at and near weak-to-strong pairing quantum Hall phase transitions

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 5:18 PM – March 17, 2026, 5:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Ruchira Mishra

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Ruchira Mishra

    • University of Chicago

  • Dam Son

    • University of Chicago

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• Anyon superconductivity from topological criticality

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 5:30 PM – March 17, 2026, 5:42 PM

  Publication: [1] S. Divic, T. Soejima, V. Crépel, M. P. Zaletel, and A. Millis, arXiv:2406.15348.
  [2] S. Divic, V. Crépel, T. Soejima, X.-Y. Song, A. J. Millis, M. P. Zaletel, and A. Vishwanath, PNAS, vol. 122, no. 33, e2426680122, 2025.
  [3] C. Kuhlenkamp*, S. Divic*, M. P. Zaletel, T. Soejima, and A. Vishwanath, arXiv:2509.02675.

  Presenters

  • Stefan Divic

    • University of Pennsylvania

  Authors

  • Stefan Divic

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Valentin Crépel

    • University of Toronto

  • Clemens Kuhlenkamp

  • Tomohiro Soejima

  • Xue-Yang Song

    • MIT

  • Andrew Millis

    • Columbia University

  • Michael Zaletel

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Ashvin Vishwanath

    • Harvard University

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• Boundary criticality in two-dimensional correlated topological superconductors

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 5:42 PM – March 17, 2026, 5:54 PM

  Publication: Y. Ge, H. Jiang, H. Yao, and S.-K. Jian, Boundary Criticality in Two-Dimensional Correlated Topological Superconductors, arXiv:2510.05230.

  Presenters

  • Yang Ge

    • Tulane University

  Authors

  • Yang Ge

    • Tulane University

  • Huan Jiang

    • Department of Physics, Tulane University

  • Hong Yao

    • Tsinghua University

  • Shao-Kai Jian

    • Tulane University

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• Hunting for superconductivity in doped triangular lattice Kitaev magnets

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 5:54 PM – March 17, 2026, 6:06 PM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16720

  Presenters

  • Andrew Koehler Hardy

    • University of Toronto

  Authors

  • Andrew Koehler Hardy

    • University of Toronto

  • Ryan Levy

    • Simons Foundation (Flatiron Institute)

  • Arun Paramekanti

    • University of Toronto

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