Condensed Matter Theory Seminar - Senthil Todadri - “Phase transitions out of quantum Hall states in moire materials”

Event time: 
Thursday, October 5, 2023 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Sloane Physics Laboratory SPL, Room 51 See map
217 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Speaker/Performer: 
Senthil Todadri - MIT
Event description: 

Quantum Hall phases are the most exotic experimentally established quantum phases of matter. Recently they have been discovered at zero external magnetic field in two dimensional moire materials. I will describe recent work (with Xue-Yang Song and Ya-Hui Zhang) on their proximate phases and associated phase transitions that is motivated by the high tunability of these moire systems. These phase transitions (and some of the proximate phases) are exotic as well, and realize novel ‘beyond Landau’ criticality that have been explored theoretically for many years. I will show that these moiré platforms provide a great experimental opportunity to study these unconventional phase transitions and related unconventional phases, thereby opening a new direction for research in quantum matter.

Host: M. Cheng

Admission: 
Free