Boulder School 2025: Lecture Notes

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Peter Armitage

Optics for quantum materials

Nonlinear optics for quantum materials

Quantum Optics for quantum materials

Debanjan Chowdhury

Andrey Chubukov

Unconventional Superconductivity

  1. Saurabh Maiti, Andrey V. Chubukov,   Superconductivity from repulsive interaction arXiv:1305.4609
  2. A. Chubukov   Pairing mechanism in Fe-based superconductors,  arXiv:1110.0052   (RG analysis)
  3. Artem Abanov, Andrey V. Chubukov,  Interplay between superconductivity and non-Fermi liquid at a quantum-critical point in a metal. I: arXiv:2004.13220
  4. A. V. Chubukov, C. M. Varma,  Quantum-criticality and superconductivity in twisted transition metal di-chalcogenides, arXiv:2410.10038
  5. Artem Abanov, Shang-Shun Zhang, Andrey Chubukov,  Non-BCS behavior of the pairing susceptibility near the onset of superconductivity in a quantum-critical metal arXiv:2412.03698

Luca Delacretaz 

(Slightly) Out-of-equilibrium dynamics in correlated matter: Hydrodynamic EFTs and transport bounds

Thermal Dynamics

Modern EFTs for Fluctuating Hydrodynamics

Bounds on Transport

Dan Dessau 

ARPES

Mike Hermele

Beyond spin liquids: fracton quantum matter

Philip Kim

Electric, thermal and thermoelectric transport measurement in the mesocopic quantum materials

AC transport measurement in flat band systems

Coherence and correlation measurement in the van der Waals heterostructure

Steven Kivelson 

Progress in understanding the essential physics of the cuprate high temperature superconductors

Minhyea Lee 

A short review of thermal transport experiments on magnetic insulators

Leonid Levitov 

Electron fluids

Andy Lucas

How to build an ordered phase at arbitrarily high temperature

Allan MacDonald

Moire Materials

Dmitrii Maslov

Transport in correlated electron systems: Fermi liquid and beyond

Brendan Mcbennett

Nanoscale Phonon Transport (Murnane II)

Margaret Murnane

Putting Attosecond high harmonic sources to work for probing strongly correlated electronic systems

Ultrafast spin transfer and spin textures probed using extreme UV light

  • see Brendan Mcbennett lecture above

Frank Pollmann

Introduction to Tensor Networks,

Basic Algorithms: TEBD and DMRG

Simulation of Quantum Many-Body Dynamics,

Tensor Network inspired Quantum Algorithms

Subir Sachdev 

From a critical quantum spin liquid to the phase diagram of the cuprate high temperature superconductors

Parton theory of spin liquids on the square lattice

Confinement of the pi-flux liquid, and d-wave superconductivity

Fractionalized Fermi liquids (FL*) in Kondo lattice and single band models

SYK models and strange metals

Jie Shan

Optical spectroscopy of 2D materials

Optical sensing of correlated and topological states in 2D

Towards high temperature exciton condensation in 2D atomic double layers

Senthil Todadri

The landscape of quantum matter

How might a Fermi surface die?

Anyonic quantum matter