Fractional Chern Insulators Workshop - 2025
April 18-19, 2025
Please register for this workshop. The registration will be closed on Monday April 14th, 2025 at 5pm CET.
Traditionally, topology and strong correlations lived in different universes. The former is a function of band structure whereas the latter stems from a breakdown of perturbation theory. These universes now collide with the advent of 2-dimensional moir\'{e} van der Waals materials. In such materials, strong correlations and topology both conspire to yield new phases of matter. The recent effort is on explaining analogues of the fractional Hall effect in the absence of a magnetic field, dubbed fractional Chern Insulators.
This workshop will focus on recent experiments and theoretical attempts to describe such fractionally quantized transport in the absence of a magnetic field.
Confirmed Speakers
Bogdan A. Bernevig (Princeton University)
Thrithep Devakul (Standford University)
Liang Fu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Hart Goldman (University of Minnesota)
Duncan Haldane (Princeton University)
Judi Ji (Stanford University)
Long Ju (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Tingxin Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Nicolas Regnault (Ecole Normale Superieure)
Jie Shan (Cornell University)
Donna Sheng (California State University Northridge)
Xiaodong Xu (University of Washington)
Andrea Young (UC Santa Barbara)
Organizers
Philip W. Phillips (Theory, University of Illinois)
Pengjie Wang (Expt, University of Illinois)
The Anthony J. Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory, University of Illinois, 1101 W Springfield Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, IL
A special thanks to Grainger College of Engineering and the Department of Physics for sponsoring this workshop.