Topologically protected chiral magnetic textures, particularly skyrmions and Néel domain walls, have been a topic of intensive research in the past decade due to their intriguing physics and overarching implications for magnetic memory and logic technologies. This session aims to bring together eminent scientists in this emerging field to create a stimulating atmosphere and discuss the advances and prospects of chiral spin textures from fundamental and application perspectives.

Can Onur Avci is a principal investigator at the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) since February 2021. He received his Ph.D. degree from ETH Zürich in 2015 with an ETH medal for the outstanding doctoral thesis. He has worked at MIT (2016-2018) and ETH Zürich (2018-2021) as a postdoc before joining ICMAB. He is the recipient of an ERC Starting Grant (with the project MAGNEPIC) and the 2021 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in the field of Magnetism. His research covers a wide breadth of subjects in spintronics and magnetism with a focus on electrical control of magnetization, spin-orbit-driven transport phenomena in thin films, spin currents, chiral spin textures, and magnetic memory and logic devices.

Sessions Topics Include (But not limited to):

• Chiral spin textures
• Skyrmions
• Chiral domain walls
• Dyzaloshinskii-Moriya interaction
• Skyrmion/domain wall memory and logic devices
• Skyrmions for quantum computing

Invited Speakers Include (To be updated continuously):

Felix Büttner (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Germany)
Kai Liu (Georgetown University, USA)
Karin Everschor-Sitte (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Kirill Belashchenko (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
Lucas Caretta (Brown University, USA)
Manfred Albrecht (University of Augsburg, Germany)
Mathias Kläui (Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany)
Mehmet C. Onbasli (Koç University, Turkey)
Pietro Gambardella (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
Saül Vélez (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)
Sebastian Bustingorry (CSIC – Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain)
Selvan Demir (Michigan State University, USA)
Stefan Heinze (University of Kiel, Germany)
Stefania Pizzini (Institut Neel, CNRS, France)
Vincent Cros (CNRS/Thales, France)

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[180],[220],[196],[204],[214],[38],[162],[224],[194],[28],[321],[168],[164],[226]

The kagome lattice, the most prominent structural motif in quantum physics, benefits from inherent nontrivial geometry to host diverse quantum phases, ranging from spin-liquid phases, topological matter to intertwined orders, and most rarely unconventional superconductivity. The discovery of a new class of kagome metals of the form AV3Sb5 with A = K, Cs, or Rb has recently provided a unique setting for exploring the interplay between Z2 electronic topology and intertwined charge density wave and superconducting orders. These quasi-two-dimensional compounds host a kagome net of vanadium ions with an electron-filling that places the Fermi level near the saddle points and their corresponding van Hove singularities. Nesting effects between these points are predicted to stabilize a variety of unusual states, ranging from chiral charge order, orbital magnetism to unconventional superconductivity.

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Current challenges and prospect directions of fundamental and applied research in the field of superconductivity in 3D nanoarchitectures will be represented. Experimental techniques for fabrication and characterization of 3D superconductors at the nanoscale will be discussed followed by reviewing representative effects in the dynamics of topological defects therein. The broad topical scope of the Session will embrace, in particular, additive manufacturing of advanced nano-superconductors; nanopillars of point defects in copper-oxide superconductors; 3D superconductor nanoarchitectures using van der Waals cuprate heterostructures; vortex dynamics in ferromagnet/superconductor bilayers; oscillation, chaos, and ordering of the vortex motion in thin-walled open superconductor tubes; magnon fluxomics bridging the physics of superconductors and spin waves; critical states in superposed superconductor films; molybdenum germanium nanobridges as a building block for new superconducting device concepts; hybrid Josephson junctions and nanodevices for quantum hardware.

Vladimir M. Fomin received his Ph.D. from the Moldova State University in 1978 and Dr. habil. from the Academy of Sciences of Moldova in 1990. Since 1991 Professor in Theoretical Physics at the Moldova State University (Chişinău, Republic of Moldova). Since 2009 Research Professor at the Institute for Integrative Nanosciences (IIN), Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW) Dresden (Germany). Awards: State Prize of Moldova 1987. Diploma of a Scientific Discovery of the Phenomenon of the Propagation of Spatially-Extended Interface Phonon Polaritons in Composite Superlattices (Academy of Natural Sciences of Russia, 1999). Medal “Academician P. L. Kapitsa” (Academy of Natural Sciences of Russia, 2000). Honorary Member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova (2007). Scientific interests: theory of strain-induced self-rolled nanoarchitectures, topological effects in quantum rings and curved 3D micro-and nanoarchitectures, phase boundaries and vortex matter in micro-and nanoarchitectures and patterned superconductors, superconducting properties of metallic nanograins, phonons, vibrational excitations and polaronic effects in nanostructures, topological states of light and spin-orbit coupling in microcavities, optical properties of quantum dots, thermoelectric properties of semiconductor nanostructures, surface-induced magnetic anisotropy in mesoscopic systems of dilute magnetic alloys.

Oleksandr V. Dobrovolskiy received his Ph.D. degree from the B. Verkin ILTPE (Kharkiv, Ukraine) in 2009, studying vortices in superconductors. Afterward, he moved to the Physics Institute, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, investigating magneto-transport phenomena in nanoscale hybrid systems and leading the Nano-Fluxonics laboratory (after habilitation in 2016). He received a D.Sci. degree in superconductivity (ILTPE, 2016) and was promoted to Professor of Low-Temperature Physics. Since 2019, he has been with the Faculty of Physics, the University of Vienna, leading the Superconductivity and Spintronics Laboratory at Nanomagnetism and Magnonics. His research interests encompass magnetism, superconductivity, spin transport phenomena, and 3D nanoarchitectures.

Sessions Topics Include (But not limited to):

• Superconductivity in 2D and 3D structures
• Advanced fabrication methods
• Magnetic flux and spin transport
• Superconductivity in curved geometries
• Topological modes in 3D nanoarchitectures
• Theoretical description and numerical modeling
• Chaos and ordering of the vortex motion
• Superconductor-based hybrid structures

Invited Speakers Include (To be updated continuously):

Alejandro Silhanek (University of Liège, Belgium)
Davide Massarotti (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)
Igor A. Bogush (Moldova State University, Moldova)
Jacques Tempere (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Joris van de Vondel (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Nicola Poccia (Leibniz IFW Dresden, Germany)
Rosa Cordoba (University of Valencia, Spain)
Wolfgang Lang (University of Vienna, Austria)
Yonathan Anahory (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

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[338],[7],[240],[239],[207],[290],[4],[25],[48]

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After receiving my PhD in Engineering Physics at the Vienna University of Technology I have broadened my experimental skills during Post-doc and Research Positions at the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden, where I initiated several research projects on the topic of iron pnictide superconducting thin films. I worked as a Senior Researcher and Principal Investigator (DFG research grant) at the University of Tübingen and as a Visiting Associate Professor at Tokyo Tech previously. I am currently interested in the electronic properties of semimetals and interfaces.

Sessions Topics Include :

• Synthesis of FeSe(Te) Films and Monolayers
• Proximity Systems, Interface Studies
• Nontrivial Band Topology
• Topological Superconductivity
• Unconventional Superconductivity

Invited Speakers Include (To be updated continuously):

Jan Honolka (Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech)
Kyle Shen (Cornell University, USA)
Shigeki Miyasaka (Osaka University, Japan)
Thorsten Schmitt (Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland)

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Recent experimental developments now permit the fabrication and probing of magnetic structures and many other artificial spin systems on top or embedded in superconductors. These systems provide new ground for exploring the interplay between magnetism phenomena and superconductivity. They also offer new platforms to engineer various new topological superconductors and also to probe their exotic Majorana edge states directly by spectroscopic measurements. Similarly, intrinsic magnetism can interplay with superconductivity by realizing topological states in real materials, such as general surface states or topological superconductivity.

Andrzej Ptok received his MSc in 2007 and his PhD in 2012, both from the University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland). He was an assistant professor at Marie Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin (Poland). Since 2015, has been working at the Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow (Poland), where he holds the rank of associate professor.

Professor Ptok has received a few awards, including Henry Niewodniczanski Scientific Awards of Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences in Krakow for a series of 14 papers about superconducting and superfluid systems in the presence of the magnetic field, disorder, and spin-orbit coupling, or Scholarships of the Minister of Science and Higher Education (Poland) for outstanding young scientists. His recent work is currently concerned with the topological edge states, and chiral phonons.

Sessions Topics Include:

• Majorana bound states
• Engineered topological superconductivity
• Surface states
• Unconventional superconductivity
• Scanning tunneling microscopy

Invited Speakers Include (To be updated continuously):

Andrzej Ptok (Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
Freek Massee (Université Paris-Sud, France)
Jens Wiebe (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Kölsch Sebastian (Goethe University, Germany)
Madhab Neupane (UCF, Orlando, USA)
Omargeldi Atanov (Hong Kong University,Hong Kong)
Pascal Simon (Paris Sud University, France)
Shawulienu Kezilebieke (University of Jyväskylä,Finland)
Steffen Wirth(Max Planck Institute, Germany)

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Farkhad G. Aliev: received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1981 and 1984 respectively. From 1984 to 1996 he worked as a junior and then a senior researcher at M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. He also spent several years as a visiting professor at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (1991-1995) and as a research scientist at Katholieke University Leuven (1995-1998). From 1999 he works at the Faculty of Science at UAM where he has created a research group MAGNETRANS specialized in microwave dynamic response and noise in magnetic and superconducting nanostructures. He has been the director of 10 Ph.D. thesis. He is a co-author of more than 150 scientific publications indexed on the Web of Science and 4 patents. He has presented more than 50 invited talks at international conferences and co-organized four international Schools and Conferences. Actually, he serves as the associated editor for Scientific Reports.

Oleksandr V. Dobrovolskiy received his Ph.D. degree from the B. Verkin ILTPE (Kharkiv, Ukraine) in 2009, studying vortices in superconductors. Afterward, he moved to the Physics Institute, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, investigating magneto-transport phenomena in nanoscale hybrid systems and leading the Nano-Fluxonics laboratory (after habilitation in 2016). He received a D.Sci. degree in superconductivity (ILTPE, 2016) and was promoted to Professor of Low-Temperature Physics. Since 2019, he has been with the Faculty of Physics, the University of Vienna, leading the Superconductivity and Spintronics Laboratory at Nanomagnetism and Magnonics. His research interests encompass magnetism, superconductivity, spin transport phenomena, and 3D nanoarchitectures.

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Ahmad Awad (University of Gothenburg,Sweden),
Carmine Attanasio (University of Salerno, Italy)
Jacobo Santamaria (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Maksut Maksutoglu (Gebze Technical University, Turkey)
Mikhail Silaev (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland)
Oleksandr Dobrovolskiy (University of Vienna, Austria)
Vladimir Fomin (IFW-Dresden, Germany)

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[198],[275],[255],[199],[183],[215],[52]

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Alexey Ustinov (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
Anatoli Sidorenko (Institute of Electronic Engineering and Nanotechnologies, Moldova)
Iman Askerzade (Ankara University, Turkey)
Jean-Daniel Bancal (Institute of Theoretical Physics, France)
Mikhail Fistul (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)
Thomas Ortlepp (CiS Forschungsinstitut fuer Mikrosensorik GmbH, Germany)

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[230],[306],[241],[254],[5],[184]

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Ariando Ariando (National University of Singapure, Singapure)
Frank Lechermann (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)
Karsten Held (TU Wien, Germany)

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[169],[232],[6]

The dual quantum Aharonov-Bohm-Casher effects and topological phase transitions introduced by Berezinskii, Kosterlitz, and Thouless are two paradigms that brought topology to prominence in condensed matter physics. Gripping both as a whole the superconductor-insulator transition (SIT) in disordered superconducting films and Josephson junction arrays has emerged as a trove of fascinating quantum phases that harness intertwined charges and superconducting vortices and their topological interactions. The three appearing in the vicinity of the SIT quantum phases the superconductor, superinsulator, and Bose metal are essentially topological phases, with Bose metal being a topological insulator, and the gap in the two-dimensional superconductor is determined by the topological Chern-Simons mass rather than the standard Anderson-Higgs mechanism. Using two-dimensional van der Waals structures comprising two-dimensional superconducting flakes hence hosting topological phases offers a platform for a new type of superconducting sensors and qubits capable to operate at elevated temperatures.

Valerii Vinokur is Terra Quantum’s Chief Technology Officer for the United States. Based in Chicago, he oversees the project portfolio with a particular focus on hardware components, while applying his experience to expanding the intellectual property and patent portfolio. Vinokur graduated from the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys in 1972 with a BSc in Physics of Metals and moved to the Institute of Solid State Physics, Chernogolovka, Russia, where he received a Ph.D. in Physics in 1979. Before joining Terra Quantum, he spent more than three decades as a senior scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, where his research focused on superconductivity and understanding topological quantum matter. Vinokur works in a variety of areas of physics including superconductivity, especially vortex physics, topological quantum matter, physics of nonequilibrium, and quantum information. In 2008 together with experimentalists Tatyana Baturina, Alexey Mironov, and Christoph Strunk he discovered and explained the new state of matter, superinsulator, predicted earlier by Cristina Diamantini, Carlo Trugenberger, and Pascuale Sodano. Together with Christina Diamantini and Carlo Trugenberger, Vinokur constructed the topological theory of the superconductor-insulator transition and the topological theory of high-temperature superconductivity. The team discovered that the mechanism of superinsulation is binding charges immobile the same way as quarks are bound by Polyakov’s strings. In the work featured by New York Times, Vinokur together with Gordey Lesovik reversed time to undo the aging of a quantum qubit and return to its younger state. Valerii Vinokur is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Foreign Member of the Norwegian National Academy of Science and Letters. His achievements have been acknowledged by the international science community, most recently with the 2020 Fritz London Memorial Prize.

Sessions Topics Include (But not limited to):

• Topological phases in two-dimensional superconducting films
• Planar superconductivity
• Van der Waals structures and related topological superconductivity
• Quantum superconducting devices
• Entanglement related phenomena in quantum mechanics

Invited Speakers Include (To be updated continuously):

Alexander Zyuzin (Aalto University, Finland)
Alexey Mironov (Terra Quantum AG, Switzerland)
Erica Carlson (Purdue University, USA)
Fauqué Benoît (Institue de Physique du Collège de France, France)
Javad Shabani (New York University, USA)
Jose Lado (Aalto University, Finland)
Lexian Yang (Tsinghua University, China)
Maria Cristina Diamantini (NiPS Laboratory, University of Perugia, Italy)
Nicola Poccia (Institute for Metallic Materials, IFW Dresden, Germany)
Toni Shiroka (Laboratorium für Festkörperphysik ETH, Switzerland)

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[329],[31],[261],[222],[46],[271],[277],[340],[227],[243],[302]

Quantum spin liquids are among the most intensively sought states of matter. Although theoretically predicted, they have not been experimentally observed. In this session, the speakers will present and discuss the most recent work that reveals an anomalously strong frustration in the unfrustrated trimer lattices Ba3n+1Ir3nO9n+1 (n = 1,2, infinity) and a critical role of Ir3O12 trimers in producing spin entanglement. The trimer series Ba3n+1Ir3nO9n+1 provide a new paradigm in the search for novel quantum phases of matter.

Our research is driven by two interconnected thrusts – the Discovery of New Quantum Materials and the Control of Novel Quantum States. It encompasses a methodical search for new quantum materials, especially new 4d– and 5d-electron-based materials, and a systematic effort to elucidate and control novel quantum states in these materials driven by a combined effect of electronic correlation and spin-obit interaction. Our group is equipped with (1) advanced techniques and comprehensive facilities to synthesize bulk single crystals of quantum materials, and (2) a wide spectrum of tools for experimental studies of structural, transport, magnetic, thermal, and dielectric properties as functions of chemical composition, temperature, magnetic field, pressure and,  electrical current.  Measurements are often carried out under extreme conditions, i.e., ultralow temperatures, high magnetic fields, and high pressures. We have also established broad collaborations with leading scientists in the US and around the world.

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Gang Cao (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA)
Mark Dean (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA)
Bernd Buchner (Institute for Solid State Research, Leibniz IFW Dresden, Germany)
Dmitry Reznik (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA)

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Magnetic polarization usually reduces electron scattering and electrical resistance in almost all materials and is an essential ingredient of colossal magnetoresistance. In this session, the speakers will present and discuss the most recent work on the tri-honeycomb Mn3Si2Te6 and the bilayer perovskite Ca3Ru2O7 which are surprising exceptions to this rule. The electrical resistivity drops by up to 9 orders of magnitude, but only when the magnetic polarization is avoided, implicating a new type of electrical transport that has escaped our realization until now.

Our research is driven by two interconnected thrusts – the Discovery of New Quantum Materials and the Control of Novel Quantum States. It encompasses a methodical search for new quantum materials, especially new 4d– and 5d-electron-based materials, and a systematic effort to elucidate and control novel quantum states in these materials driven by a combined effect of electronic correlation and spin-obit interaction. Our group is equipped with (1) advanced techniques and comprehensive facilities to synthesize bulk single crystals of quantum materials, and (2) a wide spectrum of tools for experimental studies of structural, transport, magnetic, thermal, and dielectric properties as functions of chemical composition, temperature, magnetic field, pressure and,  electrical current.  Measurements are often carried out under extreme conditions, i.e., ultralow temperatures, high magnetic fields, and high pressures. We have also established broad collaborations with leading scientists in the US and around the world.

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Gang Cao (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA)
Feng Ye (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
Anshul Kogar (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
Andrew F. May (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)

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Catherine Pépin is a senior scientist at the Institut de Physique Théorique, CEA-Saclay, France. She has been working on strongly correlated electrons, heavy fermions, and more recently on cuprate superconductors.

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Alain Sacuto (Université de Paris, France)
Yvan Sidis (Louisiana State University, France)
Dalilla Bounoua (LLB CEA-Saclay, France)
Victor Balédent (Université Paris-Saclay, France)
J.C. Seamus Davis (Cork and Oxford)
Aline Ramires (Paul Scherrer Insitute, Switzerland)
Alvaro Ferraz (International Institute of Physics-UFRN, Brazil)
Hermann Freire (University of Goianas, Brazil)
Brigitte Leridon (ESPCI Paris, France)
Luca de Medici (ESPCI Paris, France)

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Catherine Pépin is a senior scientist at the Institut de Physique Théorique, CEA-Saclay, France. She has been working on strongly correlated electrons, heavy fermions, and more recently on cuprate superconductors.

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Cristina Bena (IPhT, CEA-Saclay, France)
Pascal Simon (Paris Saclay University, France)
Hugues Potier (SPEC, CEA-Saclay, France)
Preden Roulleau (SPEC, CEA-Saclay, France)
Benoit Fauqué (Collège de France, France)
Andrej Meszaros (Paris Saclay University, France)

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Transition metal oxides undergo a large variety of phase transitions and also exhibit important physical properties, many of which are used in industries world-wide. The study of their phase transitions provides useful ways to understand the origin of the properties, and thus to suggest new materials for advanced and new applications. Functionality in these oxides can be considered independently of their sizes. They are functional in the macroscopic, microscopic and nanoscopic scales in the form of single crystals, ceramics and thin films. Additionally, the role of controlled content of defects and hence the surface-bulk interrelation makes these materials scientifically exciting and perspective.
Especially, they exhibit strong changes in their ground state properties and undergo a variety of phase transitions accompanied by symmetry lowering. This breaking of symmetry leads to the appearance of a new physical quantity that can be switched in some way. For instance, the oldest known ferroic property is that of ferromagnetism where magnetization can be switched by an applied magnetic field, leading to magnetic hysteresis. By analogy with ferromagnetism, in ferroelectrics the electric polarization is switched by an applied electric field, again with hysteresis; and in ferroelastics strain is switched by an applied stress. These materials are known as primary ferroics. Multiferroics are characterized by the simultaneous presence of two or more ferroic properties, e.g. magnetization can be switched by an applied electric field, and vice versa.
Group-subgroup symmetry changes at phase transitions often define the properties of ferroics. However, changes in micro- and nano-structures are at least as important. It is possible to tune both by changing the form of the material: single crystal, ceramic or thin film. This led to major breakthroughs such as the discovery of unexpected phases and properties at interfaces, as well as giant responses and phase transitions induced by light or electric field. The recent interest for topological structures in ferroics, e.g. domain walls, vortexes, skyrmions, which exhibit their own functionalities and properties, advances a new playground which makes ferroic materials even more scientifically exciting. The symposium will bring together experts working at the theoretical and experimental level.

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Jurgen Smet ((Max-Planck Institute, Germany)
Louis Taillefer (Usherbrooke University, Canada)
Krystian Roleder (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
Dragan D. Mihailovic (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
Ekhard Salje (University of Cambridge, UK)
Alan R. Bishop (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
Mike Glazer (University of Oxford, UK)

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Saidur Rahman Bakaul (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
M.S. Ramachandra Rao (Indian Institute Of Technology Madras, India)
Woo Seok Choi (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea)
Wilfrid Prellier (CRISMAT CNRS, France)

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Correlated quantum systems have proven to provide a fertile ground from which new concepts and new challenges have grown. This session in ICQMT2022 emphasizes the fundamental physics of electron correlations that often produce new states of matter, an exciting frontier in condensed matter physics. The main topics include, but are not limited to, heavy fermion, unconventional superconductivity, topological Kondo physics, and quantum phase transition. Introduction of new materials that show correlated behavior will be also discussed.

2013-present: Director of the Center for Quantum Materials and Superconductivity, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

2012-present: Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

2016- present: Fellow of Korean Physical Society

(http://cqms.skku.edu)

Sessions Topics Include (But not limited to):

• Heavy fermion
• Unconventional superconductivity
• Quantum phase transition
• Topological Kondo physics

Invited Speakers Include (To be updated continuously):

J. Analytis, UC-Berkeley, USA
M. Nicklas, Max Planck Institute-Dresden, Germany
Y Jo, Kyungpook National University, Korea
Huiqiu Yuan, Zhejiang Univ., China
T. Klimczuk, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
Xiaojia Chen, HPSTAR, China
Tuson Park, Sungkyunkwan Univ, South Korea

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In the last few years, van der Waals heterostructures composed of various 2D layered materials have emerged as leading candidates for low-power electronic and spintronic devices. The field is active and begins to mature. In this session, we aim to bring together a group of prominent leading researchers with students, postdoctoral researchers and other participants to discuss the latest experimental and theoretical developments in spin transport in 2D materials and their heterostructures. The main topics include, but are not limited to, spin-dependent proximity effects in heterostructures (e.g. (twist-angle controlled) charge-to-spin conversion, 2D magnetic substrates), advances in spin injection and detection (e.g. 1D / 2D magnetic contacts, inverted spin valves) and unconventional spin transport (e.g. magnons in magnetic insulators, quasiparticles in superconductors).

Ahmet Avsar has been appointed as an Assistant Professor and NRF Fellow in the Department of Material Science and Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS) since September 2022. Prior to joining NUS, Dr Ahmet was an Assistant Professor of Physics at Newcastle University (United Kingdom), and worked as an EPFL Fellow (co-funded by the European Marie Curie COFUND programme) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland) between 2016 and 2020 after completing his PhD in Physics at NUS. Ahmet is interested in the exploitation of the multiple quantum degrees of freedom (spin, pseudospin, and valley) in two-dimensional materials-based heterostructure devices for applications in energy-efficient information technologies. Details about his research activities can be found here (https://sites.google.com/site/aavsar).

Sessions Topics Include (But not limited to):

• Spin-dependent proximity effect
• Advances in spin injection and detection
• Unconventional spin transport

Invited Speakers Include (To be updated continuously):

Andrei Slavin (Oakland University, USA)
Bernd Beschoten (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Daniel Gillard (The University of Sheffield, UK)
Dmitry Ovchinnikov (University of Washington, USA)
Hiroshi Idzuchi (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Juan F. Sierra (ICN2, Spain)
Klaus Zollner (University of Regensburg, Germany)
Oleg Yazyev (EPFL, Switzerland)
Serkan Kasirga (Bilkent University, Turkey)
Omur Dagdeviren (University of Quebec, Canada)
Tatiana Rappoport (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Venkata Kamalakar Mutta (Uppsala University, Sweden)

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[43],[58],[236],[163],[156],[281],[47],[233],[174],[210],[218],[305]

The interesting properties of cuprate based high-temperature superconductors (HTS) have been of high interest to the community of researchers working on superconductivity since their discovery in 1986. The session is to include the topics from the material properties aspects as well and the physical properties from characterization measurements. The session includes all characteristics of HTS Cuprates depending upon the recent advances, the prevailing arguments, and debates on the many families of superconductors. Since the high-temperature superconductivity was discovered in La2-xBaxCuO4 in 1986, many research works have aimed at understanding these interesting materials not only from the fundamental side but also from the application point of view.

Ivan Bozovic received his PhD in Solid State Physics from Belgrade University, Yugosla-via, where he was later elected a professor and the Physics Department Head. After moving to USA in 1985 he worked at Stanford University, the Varian Research Center in Palo Alto, California, and in Oxxel, Bremen, Germany. Since 2003, he is the MBE Group Leader at Brookhaven National Laboratory, and since 2014 also an Adjunct Professor at Yale University.

He is a Member of European Academy of Sciences, Foreign Member of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts, Fellow of APS, and Fellow of SPIE. He received the Bernd Matthias Prize for Superconducting Materials, SPIE Technology Award, the M. Jaric Prize, the BNL Science and Technology Prize, was Max Planck and Van der Waals Lecturer, and was elected two times as a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Principal Investigator.

Ivan’s research interests include basic physics of condensed states of matter, novel electronic phenomena including unconventional superconductivity, innovative methods of thin film synthesis and characterization, quantum materials, and nano-scale physics. He has published 11 research monographs and over 300 research papers, including 30 in Science and Nature journals.

Sessions Topics Include (But not limited to):

• High-Tc Cuprates
• HTS Superconducting Thin Films,Proximity Effects, and Interface Superconductivity
• Nanoscale, Surface and Interface Superconductivity
• Photoemission and ARPES
• Study of Fermi Surface of HTS by Magnetic Quantum Oscillations
• Superconducting Fluctuations and Related Effects

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The focus of this session is on advanced studies of novel superconducting films, hetero-structures, surfaces, and interfaces. We will discuss thin film preparation, physical properties, interface superconductivity, and underlying physical mechanism, as well as superconductor-metal-insulator transition and emerging concepts and potential devices.

The focus of this session is on advanced studies of novel superconducting films, hetero-structures, surfaces, and interfaces. We will discuss thin film preparation, physical properties, interface superconductivity, and underlying physical mechanism, as well as superconductor-metal-insulator transition and emerging concepts and potential devices. Following an M.Sc (Zagreb, Croatia) Ph.D. (Leeds, UK) and Post-Doc (Grenoble, France) on properties of disordered materials since 1986. Prof. Davor Pavuna is leading the High-Tc superconductivity group at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. His interests are mainly in novel superconducting materials, thin films and their properties, interface superconductivity and metal-insulator transition.

Sessions Topics Include (But not limited to):

• Elaboration of superconducting thin films
• Processing of gated hetero-structures
• Proximity effect and related devices
• Metal-insulator-transition
• Film properties
• Interface superconductivity
• Novel devices

Invited Speakers Include (To be updated continuously):

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In the last decade, the classical superconductor electronics is moving towards quantum electronics. Deterministic classical circuits based on superconductors. The field is very active and begins to mature. In this session, we aim to bring together a group of prominent leading researchers with students, postdoctoral researchers and other participants to discuss the latest experimental and theoretical developments in superconductor electronics based on Josephson junctions. The technical focus of the session is the adiabatic quantum flux parametron, the related theory, the circuit implementations, applications and the interface to quantum electronics.

DiaQuantFab Laser

MGravi

Diamant eLiSe

4-Nano-Kryotrons

Prof. Dr. Thomas Ortlepp studied mathematics at the Technical University of Ilmenau and received his PhD in quantum electronics in 2004.  After that, Thomas Ortlepp did research in the field of low-temperature physics at the University of Twente in Holland. In 2010, Thomas Ortlepp habilitated in the field of microelectronics and subsequently took over the leadership of an industrial project for high-performance quantum memory circuits at the University of California in Berkeley.

In 2013, Thomas Ortlepp returned to Germany and started his career at CiS Forschungsinstitut für Mikrosensorik GmbH. In 2015, he was appointed Distinguished Professor by Yokohama National University.

Also in 2015, Thomas Ortlepp took over the management of the CiS Research Institute (CiS Forschungsinstitut für Mikrosensorik GmbH) until today. He is co-founder and vice president of the MEMS Smart Sensor Institute in Nanjing, China, which was established in 2018.

His research focuses on the development of silicon microsystems (MEMS and MOEMS) and the industrial application of quantum technology.

Sessions Topics Include (But not limited to):

• Josephson junction electronics

• Adiabatic quantum flux parametron

• Switching energy and delay

• AQFP circuit implementations

• Combinations of superconducting Qubits and AQFP circuits

Invited Speakers Include (To be updated continuously):

Prof. Nobuyuki Yoshikawa, Yokohama National University, Japan
Prof. Yuki Yamanashi, Yokohama National University, Japan
Prof. Coenrad Fourier, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Prof. Ali Bozbey, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey

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Rapid development of nanotechnology and continuing miniaturization of a broad range of devices, gadgets and electronic schemes create new challenges and demand deeper understanding of different aspects of quantum transport and fluctuation phenomena in a variety of nanostructures. This session is intended to cover a number of hot topics in the field of nano-superconductivity, including superconducting nanohybrids and superconducting non-tunnel nanojunctions involving magnetic materials and topological insulators hosting nontrivial gapless Majorana-like bound states and exhibiting novel effects, such as, e.g., the superconducting diode effect, spin galvanic effect etc. Special attention will be paid to intriguing phenomena in superconducting nanowires where fluctuations tend to destroy long-range order and may turn a superconductor into a resistor or an insulator.

Professor Zaikin is a world-renowned expert in the theory of superconductivity, quantum nanotransport, quantum dissipation and quantum decoherence. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1979 and obtained his PhD in theoretical physics in 1983 from P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow where he also continued his scientific carrier. Starting 1995 he was permanently working in Germany for Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), a merger of Karlsruhe University and Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe. A.D. Zaikin is also a PI at I.E. Tamm Theory Department of P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute and a research professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia.

Sessions Topics Include (But not limited to):

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Invited Speakers Include (To be updated continuously):

Andrey Vasenko (HSE University,Russia)
Andrei Zaikin (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
Andrew G. Semenov (Russian Academy of Sciences,Russia)
Emil Bozin (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA)
Konstantin Arutyunov (HSE University,Russia)
Mikhail Kalenkov (Russian Academy of Sciences,Russia)
Milan Allan (Leiden University, Netherlands)
Nicolas Roch (Néel Institute CNRS, France)
Oleg Astafiev (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Russia)
Yang Liu (Zhejiang University, China)

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About two-thirds of the energy produced worldwide is lost as waste heat. It is envisaged that recovering even a small portion of this lost energy will significantly benefit global energy sustainability. Thermoelectric devices as semiconducting systems are emerging as clean energy sources with great potential to produce electricity from waste heat or be used for cooling (Peltier coolers) or heating purposes. These systems can significantly contribute to reducing CO₂ and greenhouse gas emissions. Thermoelectric generators and Peltier coolers are “solid-state” devices containing no moving parts; therefore, they are quiet, reliable, and scalable. At the materials level, the efficiency is constrained by a dimensionless figure of merit defined as zT = α²σT/( k_L + k_E), where α, σ, k_L, k_E, and T are Seebeck coefficient, electrical conductivity, lattice thermal conductivity, electronic thermal conductivity, and temperature, respectively. Traditional thermoelectric materials have zT values ​​close to 1.0, corresponding to about 10 % device efficiency. It is necessary to produce materials with higher zT values and design efficient thermoelectric modules ​​to produce high-efficiency electric energy, take advantage of the Peltier effect, and replace conventional chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) coolers. This section aims at attracting scientists working on thermoelectrics to share their research results in a stimulating atmosphere.

Umut Aydemir has conducted his graduate work with Prof. Yuri Grin at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, Germany, studying the synthesis and characterization of Zintl compounds. From December 2013 until August 2017, he has been a postdoctoral scholar working with Prof. G. Jeffrey Snyder at the California Institute of Technology and Northwestern University, USA, investigating novel thermoelectric materials. In August 2017, he joined Koç University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry. As of October 2019, he is the director of Koç University Boron and Advanced Materials Application and Research Center (KUBAM). His primary motivation in science is to conduct groundbreaking interdisciplinary research by combining fundamental and applied concepts of chemistry, physics, and materials science. His current research interests include boron-based high-tech materials, thermoelectric energy harvesting and cooling, solar cells, batteries, catalysts, hydrogen storage materials, superconductors, laser crystals, and materials displaying unusual properties. He is a co-author of 90 peer-reviewed articles (h-index: 33, Citations: 3190, Source: Google Scholar). Dr. Aydemir received Science Academy’s Young Scientist Award (BAGEP) in 2018, The Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA) – Outstanding Young Scientist Award (GEBIP) in 2019, and the Research Incentive Award of the METU Parlar Foundation in 2021.

Sessions Topics Include (But not limited to):

• High-efficiency thermoelectric materials
• Electronic and phonon engineering
• High throughput screening and theoretical calculations
• Design of thermoelectric modules
• Thermoelectric measurements and characterizations

Invited Speakers Include (To be updated continuously):

• Kazuki Imasato (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan)
• Nadeem Qaiser (KAUST, Saudi Arabia)
• Sedat Ballıkaya (Istanbul University Cerrahpasa, Turkey)
• Umut Aydemir (Koc University, Turkey)

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Quantum supremacy has been demonstrated by a quantum computer based on superconductive qubits. This session focuses on the vision of the future quantum internet compatible with the novel quantum computers. We will be talking about fundamental physics phenomena and the prospect of their implementation in the future real life devices, systems and related infrastructure.

Joanna Skiba-Szymanska received her MSc in electronics engineering from the Wroclaw University of Technology (Poland) followed by PhD in semiconductor physics from Sheffield University (UK) in 2008. Since then she has been working at Toshiba Europe Limited in Cambridge and collaborating amongst others with Cambridge University (UK). She is an expert in single and entangled photon light emitters for quantum communication applications.

Sessions Topics Include (But not limited to):

• Quantum communication
• Quantum photonics
• Quantum computation
• Quantum optics of atoms, molecules and solids
• Quantum imaging
• Quantum cryptography

Invited Speakers Include (To be updated continuously):

• Ian Farrer (University of Sheffield, UK)
• Joanna Skiba-Szymanska (Toshiba Research Europe Limited, UK)
• Jon Heffernan (University of Sheffield,UK)
• Michael Perelshtein (Aalto University, Finland)
• Muhammad Sayyad (GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Pakistan)
• Nicolas Roch (Neel Institue, Grenoble, France
• Paul Koenraad (Eindhoven University of Technology, Holland)
• Sungjae Cho (Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea)

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In the last decade rapid progress has been made in the field of van der Waals materials. These materials consist of atomically thin layers held together to form a solid body only by weak, out-of-plane van der Waals forces, and are tempting from both a fundamental and an applied point of view. The physics of isolated two-dimensional layers has proved to be rich, because decreasing dimensionality changes the way quantum fluctuations compete with long-range order. This session is dedicated to presentations and discussions on recent progress in synthesis, experiment and theory in the field of van der Waals materials.

Disorder induced transition in multiband systems, chiral superconductivity in transition metal dichalcogenides, non-Landau damping of magnetic excitations in the systems with itinerant and localized electrons, nematic state in FeSe, Dirac and Weyl semimetals. 04/09 to 07/12 Research Scientist: Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Physics, Stuttgart Magnon states in magnetic systems with helix, disorder impact on superconductivity in Fe-based superconductors, BCS –BES crossover in p-wave superconductors. 12/03 to 03/09 Research Scientist: Dresden University Non-fermi liquid corrections to the thermodynamics in Fermi liquids, dual nature of f-electrons in heavy fermion materials, Molecular magnets with anisotropy, ferromagnetic-paramagnetic transition in itinerant systems. 10/02 to 11/03 Postdoc: Groningen University Orbital ordering, multiferroics. 09/00 to 09/02 Postdoc: Max-Planck Institute for Complex Systems, Dresden Slightly attractive Bose gases, mixtures of bose and fermi gases, molecular magnets. 09/99 to 09/00 Research Scientist: P.L. Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems, Moscow.

Sessions Topics Include (But not limited to):

• D10 Emerging van der Waals Materials
•  2D van der Waals Magnets
•  Van der Waals Magnets, Kitaev Materials
•  Dirac Semimetals and Weyl Semimetals
•  Magnetism in Quantum Materials
•  Quantum Phase Transitions
•  Quantum Criticality
•  Thin Films and Interface Superconductivity
•  Low Dimensional Magnetism
•  Magnetism in Correlated Electron Systems

Invited Speakers Include (To be updated continuously):

• • Dmitri Efremov, IFW Dresden, Germany
  • Igor Morozov, Moscow State University, Russia
  • Ilya Eremin, Institut für Theoretische Physik III, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
  • Joseph Betouras, Loughborough University, UK
  • Vladislav Kataev, IFW Dresden, Germany

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Ab initio (or “first principles”) calculations play an essential role in Quantum Materials Modelling. The key advantages are accuracy and transferability, i.e.that the answers obtained are good and reliable in a wide range of different contexts. The downside is the computational cost required, which limits this approach in system size and time scale, and often requires access to high performance computing facilities. This contrasts to the traditional force-field approach, wherein “chemical intuition” is used to create the functional form of how energy varies with atomic position, and this is then parameterized by fitting to a mix of experimental data and/or ab initio results. The force-field approach is much faster to apply once it has been created, but is limited in accuracy (it typically knows nothing about electrons) and transferability (it typically only works near the state point(s) it was parameterized to and is not transferable to new materials). The ML and AI approaches offer new ways of approaching the problem of materials modelling, with (typically) near-ab initio accuracy and near-force-field speed. There are a variety of different approaches being developed, and in this session, we will explore some of them, to learn more about their strengths and weaknesses.

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Ali Zaoui is a full professor of the Universities ( Polytech’Lille/ University of Lille1) since February 2005. He is an actual professor of Exceptional Class 2 ( maximum promotion of professor in France). He got his Ph.D. from the University of Metz. In September 1999 he was employed as a research associate at the INFM (National Institute of Matter Physics). Italy. He then joined the Max Planck Institute of Stuttgart, In Germany. His research has been mainly dedicated to the modeling and simulation methods based on ab initio, molecular dynamics, and Monte Carlo. They cover a wide range of materials including semiconductors metals, ceramic, clathrates, energetic materials, geomaterials (rocks, clays,…) nanocomposites.. In addition, several of his works focused mainly on magnetism. He has published over 170 papers in international journals.

Sessions Topics Include (But not limited to):

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Invited Speakers Include (To be updated continuously):

Alexandre Tkatchenko (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Andrzej Ptok (Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
Artem Oganov (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Russia)
Changqing Jin (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Daniel Tunega (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria)
James Kermode (University of Warwick, UK)
Jörg Behler (Göttingen University, Germany)
Zhimei Sun (Beihang University, China)

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The physical description of all materials is rooted in quantum mechanics. The discovery of graphene has generated enormous interest among scientists in various disciplines. In recent years, researchers have adopted interesting approaches to use graphene, reduced graphene oxide, and functionalized graphene oxide for different engineering, environmental, and biological applications. Graphene is fundamentally one single layer of graphite, a layer of sp2 bonded carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb (hexagonal) lattice. Graphene is known as a highly electrically conductive material. The interesting aspect of graphene is the correlation between the band structure and its layer structure. In graphene with a single layer, there is no band gap (at least in the six connected points within the structure). This unique feature of graphene creates the ballistic behavior of electrons in the system. Although, there might be a small gap in the multi-layered graphene sheets or in the functionalized graphene oxides, its conductivity is still much higher as compared to many other materials. The high speed of these electrons is beneficial for various applications. Graphene also exhibit high specific surface area, high mechanical flexibility, high thermal conductivity and unique optical properties. These exceptional properties are suitable for applications in high-speed electronics, data storage devices, flexible touch screens, supercapacitors, solar cells, and electrochemicalsensors.

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Dr. Muhammad Anis-ur-Rehman in an experimentalist in Condensed Matter Physics. Facile synthesis methods are utilized for the development of micro and nanostructures. Main themes are energy generation and salvage. High frequency and data storage applications, Thermoelectricity, Sensing applications, Fuel cells, and Solar cell applications are the name of a few projects under investigation.
He has more than two hundred publications, which include publications in impact factor journals, book chapters, and conferences proceedings. He has supervised a number of undergraduate and graduate research theses. He is a recipient of the DRSM Gold medal from Pakistan Academy of Sciences, Pakistan and Young Scientist Award from CSJ, Japan. He has excellent ranking among the scientists in the field and has been awarded Research Productivity Award multiple times by his Institute as well as by Pakistan Council for Science and Technology, Pakistan.

Sessions Topics Include (But not limited to):

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Invited Speakers Include (To be updated continuously):

• Rizwan Raza (COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan)

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