Background
Since the discovery of high temperature superconductivity, correlated electron systems have been intensively studied during the past three decades. According to Anderson’s RVB scenario for quantum spin liquid, a superconducting ground state will naturally develop upon doping. To systematically understand the properties of potential quantum spin liquid states of frustrated magnets, Xiao-Gang Wen created the framework of the projective symmetry group (PSG) and proposed many different types of quantum spin liquid states. In particular, it has been shown that the gapped quantum spin liquid can be described by a new kind of order-topological order.
Experimentally, the investigation of quantum spin liquid and quantum criticality has been extended to other frustrated magnets systems. Of the many interesting candidates, quantum spin-liquid-like behavior has been observed experimentally in Herbertsmithite ZnCu3(OH)6Cl2, and it was believed that a simple Kagome antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model with a small Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction term might capture the relevant low energy physics.
Unfortunately, so far there are no controlled analytical and numerical method that can help us to reveal the essential physics of realistic strongly correlated electron systems. In this mini-workshop, word leading scientists will discuss the most up to date developments of this subfield.
Date
January 10-18, 2019
Venue
Room G26, G/F., Science Centre North Block, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
Invited Speakers
Prof. Xiao-Gang Wen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Prof. Weiqiang Chen, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
Prof. Gang Cheng, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Prof. Shoushu Gong, Beihang University, China
Prof. Jiangping Hu, Institute of Physics, CAS, China
Prof. Hai-Qing Lin, Beijing Computational Science Research Center, China
Prof. Tai-Kai Ng, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Prof. Yang Qi, Fudan University, China
Prof. Didier Poilblanc, University of Toulouse and CNEF, France
Prof. Chenjie Wang, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Prof. Zi-Qiang Wang, Boston College, USA
Prof. Zhengyu Weng, Tsinghua University, China
Prof. Tao Xiang, Institute of Physics, CAS, China
Organizing Committee
Prof. Zhengcheng Gu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Prof. Chenjie Wang, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Prof. Xiao-Gang Wen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Registration
Free (lunch and dinner are only for invited speakers)
Organizer
Department of Physics and Institute of Theoretical Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Sponsor
Department of Physics and Institute of Theoretical Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
For Enquiries
Please contact Ms. P. Y. Ho at pyho@phy.cuhk.edu.hk.