Croucher Summer Course "Quantum Entanglement and Topological Order"

Introduction

In the past ten years, the development of quantum information theory has provided us with many useful tools and languages to probe the nature of topological phases of quantum matter. Recently, very important progress has been made toward building up a paradigm for topological phases and phase transitions using the concept of "quantum entanglement". This series of Croucher Summer Course is designed to introduce both the fundamental knowledges and advanced topics in the current frontier of quantum entanglement of topological order to a small group of talent postgraduate students and junior research fellows. Content of the first course, which will be held from June 19-23, 2017, includes tensor category theory, quantum entanglement, topological insulator and topological superconductors in interacting systems, symmetry protected topological phases in interacting systems, quantum geometry and related topics.

Course Director

Professor Zhengcheng Gu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Course Co-Director

Professor Xiaogang Wen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Organizers

Professor Xiaogang Wen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Professor Renbao Liu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Professor Zhengcheng Gu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Lecturers

Professor Xie Chen, California Institute of Technology, USA - Lecture 1 Video | Lecture 2 Video

Professor Xiao-Liang Qi, Stanford University, USA - Lecture 1 Video

Professor Frank Verstraete, University of Vienna, Austria - Lecture 1 Video | Lecture 2 Video | Lecture 3 Video