Correlated Routes to Metal-Insulator Transitions: Wigner, Mott, and Excitonic Systems

Presentations

• Terahertz electrodynamics in a zero-field Wigner crystal

  Oral-In-person

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

  Publication: arXiv:2509.10624

  Presenters

  • Sudi Chen

    • University of California, Berkeley

  Authors

  • Sudi Chen

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Ruishi Qi

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Ha-Leem Kim

  • Qixin Feng

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Ruichen Xia

  • Dishan Abeysinghe

  • Jingxu Xie

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Takashi Taniguchi

    • National Institute for Materials Science

  • Kenji Watanabe

    • National Institute for Materials Science

  • Dunghai Lee

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • feng wang

    • University of California, Berkeley

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• Crystallization of the transdimensional electron liquid

  Oral-In-person

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

  Publication: I.V.Bondarev, A.Boltasseva, J.B.Khurgin, and V.M.Shalaev, Crystallization of the transdimensional electron liquid, E-print arXiv: 2503.05165 (2025).

  Presenters

  • Igor Bondarev

    • North Carolina Central University

  Authors

  • Igor Bondarev

    • North Carolina Central University

  • Alexandra Boltasseva

    • Purdue University

  • Jacob Khurgin

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • Vladimir Shalaev

    • Purdue University

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• Nonequilibrium resistive phase transition by exciting Goldstone modes

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 12:24 PM – March 18, 2026, 12:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Xi Chen

    • State Univ of NY - Buffalo

  Authors

  • Xi Chen

    • State Univ of NY - Buffalo

  • Jong Han

    • State Univ of NY - Buffalo

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• A universal description of Mott insulators: Characterizing quantum phases beyond broken symmetries

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 12:36 PM – March 18, 2026, 12:48 PM

  Publication: arXiv:2510.14951

  Presenters

  • Matheus Samuel Martins de Sousa

    • Shanghai Jiaotong University

  Authors

  • Matheus Samuel Martins de Sousa

    • Shanghai Jiaotong University

  • Wei Ku

    • Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ

  • Zhiyu Fan

    • Shanghai JiaoTong university

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• Persistent Mottness in electron-doped 1T-TaS₂

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 12:48 PM – March 18, 2026, 1:00 PM

  Publication: Submitted manuscript "Disorder-induced Mottness in a doped Mott insulator"

  Presenters

  • Hyungryul Yang

    • Yonsei University

  Authors

  • Hyungryul Yang

    • Yonsei University

  • Gyeongbo Kim

  • Byeongin Lee

    • Yonsei University

  • Dirk Wulferding

  • Bo Gyu Jang

  • Doohee Cho

    • Yonsei University

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• Z_2 Universality of the Mott Transition

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 18, 2026, 1:00 PM – March 18, 2026, 1:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Jinchao Zhao

    • The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  Authors

  • Jinchao Zhao

    • The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  • Peizhi Mai

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Philip Phillips

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Gaurav Tenkila

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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• Mott transition and correlation effects on strictly localized states in an octagonal quasicrystal

  Oral-In-person

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

  Publication: arXiv:2505.15498

  Presenters

  • Mehmet Oktel

    • Bilkent University

  Authors

  • Mehmet Oktel

    • Bilkent University

  • Efe Yelesti

  • Onur Erten

    • Arizona State University

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• Shot noise reveals correlated multi-electron origin of the "failed insulator" state

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Mateusz Szurek

    • Emory University

  Authors

  • Mateusz Szurek

    • Emory University

  • Yiou Zhang

    • Emory University

  • Sergei Urazhdin

    • Emory University

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• Strong-coupling expansion and many-body interpolation approach for strongly correlated systems

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Yuanran Zhu

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Yuanran Zhu

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Yang Yu

    • University of Michigan

  • Efekan Kökcü

    • Lawrence berkeley National Laboratory

  • Zhen Huang

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Chao Yang

    • Lawrence Berkeley Lab

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• Antiferromagnetic metal-insulator transition of NiS_2-xSe_x: DFT+DMFT study

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Ina Park

    • CCQ, Flatiron Institute

  Authors

  • Ina Park

    • CCQ, Flatiron Institute

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• Recipe for Flat Bands in Pyrochlore Materials: A Chemist's Perspective

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

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

  Publication: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.5c04593

  Presenters

  • Fatmagul Katmer Barotov

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Fatmagul Katmer Barotov

    • Princeton University

  • Milena Jovanovic

    • North Carolina State University

  • Jennifer Cano

    • Stony Brook University

  • Lukas Muechler

    • Pennsylvania State University

  • Leslie Schoop

    • Princeton University

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• Field-tunable correlated states in H-stacked twisted MoS2.

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Xiaoxiao Yu

    • University of Texas at Austin

  Authors

  • Xiaoxiao Yu

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Zhida Liu

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Hongtao Yan

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Xiangcheng Liu

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Xiaohui Liu

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Kai Hao

    • University of Chicago

  • Kenji Watanabe

    • National Institute for Materials Science

  • Takashi Taniguchi

    • National Institute for Materials Science

  • Chih-Kang Shih

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Keji Lai

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Mit Naik

  • Xiaoqin Elaine Li

    • University of Texas at Austin

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