Past Records of CREST Research Seminar on "Theoretical studies of topological phases of matter"
- Speaker: Tomoki Ozawa
(AIMR, Tohoku University)
- Title: Topological band structure in quantum and classical systems
- Date/Time: 16:00-17:30, Friday, November 27, 2020
- Speaker: Nobuyuki Okuma (YITP, Kyoto University)
- Title: Topology and anomaly in non-Hermitian skin effects: from index theorem to monopole catalysis
- Date/Time: 16:00-17:30, Friday, December 4, 2020
- Speaker: Yosuke Kubota (Shinshu University)
- Title: Coarse geometry and operator algebra in condensed-matter physics
- Date/Time: 16:00-17:30, Friday, January 8, 2021
- Speaker: Yuan Yao (RIKEN)
- Title: Critical parafermionic systems - from bosonization to parafermionization
- Date/Time: 16:00-17:30, Friday, March 26, 2021
- Abstract: In this talk, we will discuss a Zk parafermionization and
bosonization scheme for one-dimensional lattice models and field
theories on a torus, starting from the conventional bosonization for
k=2. The Zk parafermionization enables us to investigate the critical
theories of parafermionic chains whose fundamental degrees of freedom
are parafermionic, and we find that their modular covariance properties
are unconventional in that their partition functions on a torus
transform differently from any conformal field theory when k>2. Several
concrete examples of lattice models will be discussed where
parafermionic statistics can be manifested. This talk is based on the
preprint: arxiv:2012.07529.
- Speaker: Mayuko Yamashita (RIMS, Kyoto University)
- Title: The classification problem of non-topological invertible QFT's and
a physically motivated model for the Anderson duals
- Date/Time: 16:00-17:30, Friday, April 23, 2021
- Abstract: Freed and Hopkins conjectured that the deformation classes of
non-topological invertible quantum field theories are classified by a
generalized cohomology theory called the Anderson dual of bordism
theories. The main difficulty of this problem lies in the fact that we do not have the
axioms for QFT's.
In this talk, I will explain the ongoing work to give a new approach
to this conjecture. We construct a new, physically motivated model for the
Anderson duals.
This model is constructed so that it abstracts a certain property of invertible
QFT's which physicists believe to hold in general.
I will start from basic motivations for the classification problem, report
the progress of our work and explain future directions. This is the joint
work with Yosuke Morita (Kyoto, math) and Kazuya Yonekura (Kyushu,
physics).
- Speaker: Hosho Katsura (the University of Tokyo)
- Title: The SU(N) Hubbard model: some rigorous results
- Date/Time: 16:00-17:30, Friday, May 21, 2021
- Speaker: Ryohei Kobayashi (ISSP, the University of Tokyo)
- Title: Anomalies in (2+1)d fermionic topological phases and
(3+1)d path integral state sums for fermionic SPT phases
- Date/Time: 16:00-17:30, Friday, June 25, 2021
- Speaker: Minkyu Kim (the University of Tokyo)
- Title: Toric code induced by bicommutative Hopf algebras
- Date/Time: 16:00-17:30, Friday, July 30, 2021
- Speaker: Yoshimasa Hidaka (KEK)
- Title: Higher group symmetry in axion electrodynamics
- Date/Time: 16:00-17:30, Friday, September 17, 2021
- Speaker: Shuhei Oyama (YITP, Kyoto University)
- Title: Generalized Thouless Pump and the Matrix Product State (video)
- Date/Time: 16:00-17:30, Friday, November 19, 2021
- Speaker: Chris Bourne (Tohoku University)
- Title: Fermionic gapped ground states and topological phases in the infinite volume limit
- Date/Time: 16:00-17:30, Friday, December 17, 2021
- Speaker: Kazuya Yonekura (Tohoku University)
- Title: Classification of topologically nontrivial terms in action
- Date/Time: 16:30-18:00, Friday, January 21, 2022
- Speaker: Shingo Kobayashi (RIKEN)
- Title: Fragile topological insulators protected by rotation symmetry without spin-orbit coupling
- Date/Time: 16:00-17:30, Friday, March 25, 2022
- Speaker: Shin Hayashi (Tohoku University)
- Title: Topological invariants related to corner states via index theory and matrix factorizations
- Date/Time: 16:00-17:30, Friday, May 20, 2022
- Speaker: Yuya Tanizaki (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University)
- Title: Semiclassics with 't Hooft flux and confinement of 4d gauge theories via center vortices
- Date/Time: 16:30-18:00, Friday, June 10, 2022
- Abstract:Confinement of 4d gauge theories is usually the strong-coupling problem, and it is a difficult task to understand even its qualitative features. We are developing its semiclassical understanding based on the idea of volume independence or adiabatic continuity. We conjecture that the strong-coupling regime of many 4d gauge theories is continuously connected to the weak-coupling theories on small R2xT2 with the nontrivial ”Ęt Hooft flux. As a partial justification, we explicitly confirm that the dilute gas of center vortices can describe the fractional theta periodicity for pure YM theory and the chiral Lagrangian for QCD in this small T2 regime. We also uncover why this is possible in view of the 't Hooft anomaly matching condition.
- Speaker: Kansei Inamura (ISSP, the University of Tokyo)
- Title: Construction of 2d bosonic topological field theories with fusion category symmetries and their fermionization
- Date/Time: 16:00-17:30, Friday, July 22, 2022
- Speaker: Tsuneya Yoshida (University of Tsukuba)
- Title: Effects of symmetry and interactions on exceptional points
- Date/Time: 16:30-18:00, Friday, September 30, 2022
- Speaker: Seishiro Ono (the University of Tokyo)
- Title: High-throughput calculations of topological and nodal superconductivity in materials
- Date/Time: 16:30-18:00, Friday, October 21, 2022
- Abstract: Symmetry-transformation properties of Cooper pairs under spatial symmetries, dubbed pairing symmetry, are closely related to how electrons pair up. However, pairing symmetries for the majority of materials are not known. Sidestepping this issue, we tackle an alternative problem: we predict topological and nodal superconductivity in materials for each possible pairing symmetry. Our results could be compared with experimental results and reduce the candidates of pairing symmetries. In this talk, after reviewing our diagnostic scheme, we apply our method to some recently discovered superconductors.
This talk is based on the following paper:
Feng Tang*, Seishiro Ono*, Xiangang Wan, and Haruki Watanabe, Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 027001 (2022).
- Speaker: Yuji Hirono (Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics)
- Title: Structures and functions of chemical reaction networks
- Date/Time: 16:00-17:30, Friday, November 25, 2022
- Abstract: Chemical reactions form a large web of networks inside living cells
and they are responsible for physiological functions. Understanding
the behavior of complex reaction networks is a challenging and
interesting problem. In this talk, I would like to illustrate how the
techniques used in algebraic topology can shed light on the
relationship between structures and functions of chemical reaction
systems. In particular, we will discuss the following two problems:
(1) response of reaction systems to external perturbations and (2)
simplification of complex reaction networks without altering the
behavior of the system.
- Speaker: Ching-Kai Chiu (RIKEN)
- Title: The connections between twisted bilayer physics and topological semimetals
- Date/Time: 16:00-17:30, Friday, December 23, 2022
- Speaker: Chris Bourne (Tohoku University)
- Title: Index theory and topological phases for symmetric quantum walks
- Date/Time: 16:00-17:30, Friday, January 20, 2023
- Speaker: Masahiko G. Yamada (Gakushuin University)
- Title: Matrix product renormalization group
- Date/Time: 16:00-17:30, Friday, February 24, 2023
- Speaker: Masaki Natori (the University of Tokyo)
- Title: An alternative proof of Bott periodicity theorem using configuration spaces and bulk-edge correspondence
- Date/Time: 16:00-17:30, Friday, May 26, 2023
- Speaker: Yuto Moriwaki (RIKEN)
- Title: Bootstrap hypothesis in two-dimension and the operad structure on moduli spaces
- Date/Time: 16:00-17:30, Friday, June 9, 2023
- Abstract: Conformal field theory is believed to be consistent (well-defined) if it satisfies the bootstrap equation. This claim is called the bootstrap hypothesis and is used, for example, in the numerical calculation of critical exponents for the 3-D Ising model. In this talk, we will formulate the bootstrap hypothesis mathematically in the two-dimensional case and give a proof under certain conditions.
The consistency of 2d conformal field theory comes down to the representation theory of chiral conformal field theory (vertex operator algebra), and the important step in the proof is to show that the operad of the moduli spaces of punctured Riemann spheres acts topologically on the representation category of the vertex operator algebra.
From this point of view, the bootstrap equation is a generator of a certain groupoid operad, and the consistency follows.
This result is inspired by Huang-Kong's full field algebra, but we believe that our approach makes their result more conceptually comprehensible.
- Speaker: Shoto Aoki (Osaka University)
- Title: Curved domain-wall fermion and its anomaly inflow
- Date/Time: 16:00-17:30, Friday, July 7, 2023
- Speaker: Hiromi Ebisu (YITP, Kyoto University)
- Title: 2+1d Foliated gauge theories and symmetry algebra
- Date/Time: 16:30-18:00, Friday, September 8, 2023
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