Program
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| Friday, December 14, 2007 | |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Registration |
| 9:30 - 9:35 | Welcome Speech, by Fuchun Zhang |
| Morning session 1: Strongly correlated electrons | |
| Chaired by Yu-Peng Wang (IOP, Beijing) | |
| 09:35 - 10:05 | Erio Tosatti (SISSA /ICTP) |
| Two Dimensional Triangular Lattice Mott-Hubbard Insulators | |
| 10:05 - 10:35 | Gabriel Aeppli (UCL) |
| Phase coherence in quantum many-body Physics | |
| 10:35 - 11:05 | Peter Fulde (Max Planck Institute) Download |
| Strings in strongly correlated electron systems | |
| 11:05 - 11:40 | Tea Break |
| Morning session 2: Novel metal and insulator | |
| Chaired by Tai-Kai Ng (HKUST) | |
| 11:40 - 12:10 | Piers Coleman (Rutgers) Download |
| Heavy Electrons: new directions and perspectives | |
| 12:10 - 12:40 | Tao Xiang (IOP, Beijing) |
| Charge fractionalization in topological insulators in two dimensions | |
| 12:45 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| Afternoon session 1: Optical lattice | |
| Chaired by Fuchun Zhang (HKU) | |
| 14:30 - 14:40 | Presentation of Daniel Tsui Fellowship Award, Center of Theoretical and Computational Physics, HKU |
| 14:40 - 15:10 | Biao Wu (IOP, Beijing, the Award Recipient) Download |
| Superfluidity of a Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice | |
| 15:10 - 15:40 | Jason Tin-Lun Ho (Ohio State) |
| How to achieve strongly correlated regime of quantum gases in optical lattices? | |
| 15:40 - 16:10 | Zidan Wang (HKU) |
| Exploring Exotic Superfluidity of Polarized Ultracold Fermions in Optical Lattices | |
| 16:10 - 16:40 | Tea Break |
| Afternoon session 2: High Tc (I) | |
| Chaired by Qiang Hua Wang (Nanjing U) | |
| 16:40 - 17:10 | Sadamichi Maekawa (Tohoku) |
| Material Dependence of High-Tc Superconductivity | |
| 17:10 - 17:40 | Ting-kuo Lee (IOP, Taipei) |
| Inhomogeneous solutions of extended t-J model studied by a variational approach | |
| 17:40 - 18:10 | Hai-hu Wen (IOP, Beijing) |
| Nature of superconducting condensation in cuprate superconductors | |
| 19:00 - 22:30 | Banquet, Celebration for Prof. YU Lu and Prof. SU Zhao-Bin's birthdays |
| Saturday, December 15, 2007 | |
| Morning session 3: Graphene | |
| Chaired by Zheng-Yu Weng (Tsinghua) | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Steven G. Louie (UC Berkeley) |
| Unexpected Electronic and Optical Properties of Carbon Nanostructures: Tubes, Sheets, and Ribbons | |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Ganapathy Baskaran (Inst. of Math. Sci., India) |
| Quantum Complexity in Graphene | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Zhong-Yi Lu (Renmin U) |
| Unique transport property and minimal conductivity of graphenes | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Tea Break |
| Morning session 4: Novel transport and optical properties | |
| Chaired by You-Quan Li (Zhejiang University) | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Shoucheng Zhang (Stanford) |
| Quantum Spin Hall Effect | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Naoto Nagaosa (Tokyo) |
| New Aspects of Helimagnets | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Nan Lin Wang (IOP, Beijing) Download |
| Optical properties of CuxTiSe2 system | |
| 12:35 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| Afternoon session 3: Topological Order | |
| Chaired by Xin-Cheng Xie (IOP, Beijing/Oklahoma State) | |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Matthias Troyer (ETH Zurich) |
| Stability of topological phases | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Guifre Vidal (Queensland) |
| Entanglement Renormalization, Quantum Criticality and Topological Order | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Guang-Ming Zhang (Tsinghua) |
| Exact solution to topological quantum phase transitions in Kitaev model | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Tea Break |
| Afternoon session 4: Correlated Systems | |
| Chaired by Hai Qing Lin (CUHK) | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Jan Zaanen (Leiden) Download |
| Fermionic quantum criticality and the fractal nodal surface | |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Dionys Baeriswyl (Fribourg) Download |
| Superconductivity and antiferromagnetism in the two-dimensional Hubbard model: a variational study | |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Xiaoqun Wang (Renmin U) |
| Effect of Trapping Potential for Interacting Bosons | |
| Sunday, December 16, 2007 | |
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Morning session 5: Nano Physics |
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| Chaired by Zidan Wang (HKU) | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Qian Niu (Austin) Download |
| Electric polarization induced by inhomogeneity | |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Xin-Cheng Xie (Oklahoma State/IOP, Beijing) |
| The heat generation by electric current in nano-devices | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Xin-gao Gong (Fudan) |
| Searching for the ground state structures of nano-clusters and nano-wires | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Tea Break |
| Morning session 6: High Tc (II) | |
| Chaired by Jing-Ming Dong (Nanjing U) | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Xing-Jiang Zhou (CAS) Download |
| Electronic Structure of High Temperature Superconductors Revealed by Super-High Energy Resolution VUV Laser-Based ARPES | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Pieralberto Marchetti (Padova) Download |
| A gauge glue between spin and charge in cuprates | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Zheng-Yu Weng (Tsinghua) |
| Non-BCS superconducting wavefunction for the doped Mott insulator | |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| Afternoon session 5: New method and new concept | |
| Chaired by Shun-qing Shen (HKU) | |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Ruibao Tao (Fudan) |
| Improved Transfer Matrix Method without Numerical Instability | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Tai-Kai Ng (HKUST) Download |
| Non-Local order parameters in classical systems | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Xi Dai (IOP, Beijing) Download |
| LDA+Gutzwiller Method for Correlated Electron Systems | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Tea Break |
| Afternoon session 6: Low dimensional physics | |
| Chaired by Tao Xiang (IOP, Beijing) | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Hai Qing Lin (CUHK) |
| Spin and charge velocities of one-dimensional boson-fermion mixture | |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Leihan Tang (HKBU) Download |
| The classical and quantum gauge glass in two dimensions | |
| Concluding Remarks | |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Zhao-Bin SU (ITP, Beijing) and Lu YU (IOP, Beijing) |