Topological States in AMO Systems

Presentations

• Nonlinear topological photonics: nested frequency combs and novel phase-matching schemes

  ORAL · Invited

  March 18, 2026, 12:00 PM – March 18, 2026, 12:36 PM

  Publication: [1] S. Mittal, et al. "Topological frequency combs and nested temporal solitons", Nature Physics 17, 1169 (2021).
  [2] C. Flower*, M. Jalali*, L. Xu*, G. Moille, D. Suarez, Y. Chembo, K. Srinivasan, S. Mittal, M. Hafezi, Observation of topological frequency combs, Science 384, 6702 (2024).
  [3] M. Jalali *, L. Xu*, G. Moille, C. Flower, S. Sarkar, A. Padhye, S. Ou, D. G. Suarez-Forero, M. Ghafariasl, Y. Chembo, K. Srinivasan, and M. Hafezi, Multi-timescale frequency-phase matching for high-yield nonlinear photonics, Science 390, 612 (2025).

  Presenters

  • Mohammad Hafezi

    • University of Maryland College Park

  Authors

  • Mohammad Hafezi

    • University of Maryland College Park

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• Topology, interactions, and disorder in neutral-atom quantum simulators

  ORAL · Invited

  March 18, 2026, 12:36 PM – March 18, 2026, 1:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Monika Aidelsburger

    • Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics

  Authors

  • Monika Aidelsburger

    • Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics

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• Classification And Signatures of Multi-gap Band Topologies Far From Equilibrium

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 1:12 PM – March 18, 2026, 1:24 PM

  Publication: arXiv:2507.22874 [cond-mat.quant-gas]
  APS Physical Review Research (under review)

  Presenters

  • Osama A Alsaiari

    • University of Cambridge

  Authors

  • Osama A Alsaiari

    • University of Cambridge

  • Adrien Bouhon

    • Nordita, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University

  • Robert-Jan Slager

    • Univ of Cambridge
    • University of Manchester

  • Nur Unal

    • University of Birmingham

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• Probing symmetry protected topology in and out of equilibrium in an interacting SSH ladder

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 1:24 PM – March 18, 2026, 1:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Lauren H Li

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Lauren H Li

    • Princeton University

  • Cora N Barrett

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Ceren B Dag

    • Harvard University

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• Vortex Dynamics in Strongly Interacting Superfluid

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 1:36 PM – March 18, 2026, 1:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Lorenzo Maffi

    • University of Padua

  Authors

  • Lorenzo Maffi

    • University of Padua

  • Marco Fedele F Di Liberto

    • Universite libre de Bruxelles

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• Quantum Metamorphosis: Topology in Multiscale systems

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 1:48 PM – March 18, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Alireza Parhizkar

    • University of Maryland College Park

  Authors

  • Alireza Parhizkar

    • University of Maryland College Park

  • Mahmoud Jalali Mehrabad

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Lida Xu

    • University of Maryland College Park

  • Mohammad Hafezi

    • University of Maryland College Park

  • Avik Dutt

    • University of Maryland College Park

  • Gregory Moille

    • University of Maryland College Park

  • Daniel Leykam

    • Singapore University of Technology and Design

  • Kartik A Srinivasan

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

  • Dirk Englund

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Columbia University

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• Topological nature of edge states for one-dimensional systems without symmetry protection

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 18, 2026, 2:12 PM

  Publication: Zhong, Janet, et al. "Topological nature of edge states for one-dimensional systems without symmetry protection." Physical Review Letters 135.1 (2025): 016601.

  Presenters

  • Janet zhong

    • Stanford University
    • stanford

  Authors

  • Janet zhong

    • Stanford University
    • stanford

  • Heming Wang

    • Stanford University
    • Stanford

  • Alexander Poddubny

    • Weizmann Institute of Science

  • Shanhui Fan

    • Stanford University

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• Universal Dynamics with Globally Controlled Analog Quantum Simulators

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 2:12 PM – March 18, 2026, 2:24 PM

  Publication: arXiv:2508.19075

  Presenters

  • Hongye Hu

    • Harvard University

  Authors

  • Hongye Hu

    • Harvard University

  • Abigail McClain Gomez

    • Harvard University

  • Liyuan Chen

    • Harvard University

  • Aaron Trowbridge

    • Carnegie Mellon University

  • Andy J Goldschmidt

    • University of Chicago

  • Zachary Manchester

    • Carnegie Mellon University

  • Frederic T Chong

    • University of Chicago
    • Infleqtion
    • The University of Chicago

  • Arthur M Jaffe

    • Harvard University

  • Susanne F Yelin

    • Harvard University

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• Bosonic many-body topological phase with synthetic time dimensions

  ORAL

  March 18, 2026, 2:24 PM – March 18, 2026, 2:36 PM

  Presenters

  • xinyuan zheng

    • University of Maryland College Park

  Authors

  • xinyuan zheng

    • University of Maryland College Park

  • Edo Waks

    • University of Maryland, College Park

  • Mahmoud Jalali Mehrabad

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT

  • Avik Dutt

    • University of Maryland College Park

  • Nathan A Schine

    • University of Maryland College Park

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