Collective Phenomena, Entanglement and Topology in Quantum Materials

Strong electron correlations lead to a variety of quantum phases from unconventional superconductors, complex magnets, strange metals, and topological phases that go beyond the single-particle intuition. This conference will survey the latest advances in the field - from materials discovery and characterization to theory and modeling as well as the harnessing of such collective phenomena.

In addition to bulk quantum materials, twisted van der Waals heterostructures have now emerged as a single, gate-tunable playground in which insulating, magnetic, superconducting, and topological regimes can be dialed on demand and which furthermore can exhibit entirely new correlation regimes. Driven systems are another promising frontier; ultrafast pulses and Floquet protocols raise the question of when long-range coherence and entanglement can persist far from equilibrium. Complementary insights come from cold-atom simulators and other quantum platforms that realize paradigmatic models with pristine control. The toolbox of experimental probes is evolving just as rapidly, they now can resolve spatial, temporal and even some non-local correlations with unprecedented fidelity. In parallel, theory is being transformed by new conceptual advances as well as numerical methods and machine-learning tools that optimize wave-functions, mine materials databases, and extract information from complex data sets. In addition to these surveying these advances, the meeting will spotlight topological phases that host fractionalized excitations and non-Abelian anyons, and their promise for intrinsically protected quantum computation.

By bringing together experimentalists, theorists, and numericists, the conference will explore the frontiers of entanglement, topology, and collective order in correlated quantum matter.