University of Minnesota Center for Quantum Materials,

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, & Argonne National Laboratory

University of Minnesota | June 9-10, 2021

Schedule

All times shown are U.S. Central Time

June 9, 2021

9:40 am: Connection

9:50 am: Welcome and Introduction: Martin Greven View Slides

Session 1: Magnetism/Structure and Dynamics

Session Chair: Dan Phelan

10:00 am: Collin Broholm (Johns Hopkins University), Rare Earth Magnetism in Non-centrosymmetri Semi-metals View Slides

10:30 am: Despina Louca (University of Virginia), Exotic Magnetoresistive Materials

11:00 am: Peter Littlewood (University of Chicago), Long Range Dynamical Correlations Near Structural Phase Transitions in Ferroelectrics and Ferroelastics View Slides

11:30 am: Ray Osborn (Argonne National Laboratory), More is Different: Real Space Maps of Structural Correlations in Quantum Materials View Slides

Lunch Break from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Session 2: Structure and Dynamics/Magnetism

Session Chair: Mark Lumsden

1:00 pm: Simon Billinge (Columbia University), When Hard Materials Act Soft: Local Symmetry Breaking in Quantum Material, How to Find It, and Why You Should Care About It View Slides

1:30 pm: Bruce Gaulin (McMaster University), Quantum Spin Liquid States and the Dipole-Octuple Pyrochlore Ce2Zr2O7

2:00 pm: Natalia Perkins (University of Minnesota), Magnon-spinon Dichotomy in the Kitaev Hyperhoneycomb β-Li2IrO3 View Slides

Break from 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm

3:00 pm: Martin Mourigal (Georgia Institute of Technology), Magnon Pairing, Interactions, and Decay in the Spin-orbital Magnet FeI2

3:30 pm: Kate Ross (Colorado State University), Microscopics of Quantum Annealing in the Disordered Dipolar Ising Ferromagnet LiHoxY1-xF4 View Slides

June 10, 2021

9:50 am: Connection

Session 3: Superconductivity and Vortices

Session Chair: Martin Greven

10:00 am: Morten Eskildsen (University of Notre Dame), Broken Time-reversal Symmetry in the Topological Superconductor UPt3 View Slides

10:30 am: Sebastian Mühlbauer (Technische Universität München), Vortex Matter Beyond the Standard SANS Approach View Slides

11:00 am: John Tranquada (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Neutron Scattering Reveals a Spatially-modulated Spin Gap in Cuprate Superconductors View Slides

11:30 am: Damjan Pelc (University of Zagreb), Structural Inhomogeneity in Oxide Superconductors View Slides

Lunch Break from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Session 4: Mott and Unconventional States

Session Chair: Chris Leighton

1:00 pm: Stephen Wilson (University of California, Santa Barbara), Neutron Scattering Insights into Unconventional Metals Neighboring Mott Instabilities in Thin Film Titanates View Slides

1:30 pm: Sajna Hameed (University of Minnesota), Nature of the Phase Transitions in La-substituted and Ca-Doped YTiO3 View Slides

1:45 pm: Zhentao Wang (University of Minnesota), Strain-tunable Metamagnetic Critical End-point in Mott Insulating Rare-earth Titanates View Slides

2:00 pm: Alan Tennant (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), New Ways to Look at Quantum Materials with Neutrons: From Entanglement Witnesses to Machine Learning View Slides

Break from 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Session 5: Topology

Session Chair: Chris Leighton

3:00 pm: Alexander Grutter (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Unraveling Proximity and Topology at Interface with Next Generation Neutron Reflectometry View Slides

3:30 pm: Mingda Li (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Intelligent Scattering Probes for Emergent Topological Materials View Slides

4:00 pm: Wrap Up