KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
TELEPHONE: (805) 893-4111
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Day of Aug 31, 2026
Day of Aug 31, 2026
2026
Monday, Aug 31, 2026
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
08:50AM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Dmitri Feldman (Brown) - Anyons in Quantum Hall Systems and 2D Materials
- Lars Bildsten (KITP) Welcome
- Bertrand Halperin (Harvard) Controlled Localization of Anyons in Bilayer Graphene
- Andrea Young (UCSB) Single anyon quantum dots
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
11:00AM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Anyons in Quantum Hall Systems and 2D Materials
- Michael Manfra (Purdue) Universal Anyon Tunneling in a Chiral Luttinger Liquid
- Jie Shan (MPSD) Mott transitions and superconductivity in twisted WSe2
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
02:00PM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Ruben Verresen (U. Chicago) - Topological Qubits and Quantum Codes
- Bela Bauer (Microsoft) Recent Developments with Majorana-Based Topological Qubits
- Guanyu Zhu (IBM) Non-Abelian quantum LDPC codes
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
04:00PM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Topological Qubits and Quantum Codes
- Isaac Kim (UC Davis) Classifying and characterizing topological phases from ground state entanglement
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
08:50AM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Dmitri Feldman (Brown) - Anyons in Quantum Hall Systems and 2D Materials
- Lars Bildsten (KITP) Welcome
- Bertrand Halperin (Harvard) Controlled Localization of Anyons in Bilayer Graphene
- Andrea Young (UCSB) Single anyon quantum dots
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
11:00AM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Anyons in Quantum Hall Systems and 2D Materials
- Michael Manfra (Purdue) Universal Anyon Tunneling in a Chiral Luttinger Liquid
- Jie Shan (MPSD) Mott transitions and superconductivity in twisted WSe2
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
02:00PM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Ruben Verresen (U. Chicago) - Topological Qubits and Quantum Codes
- Bela Bauer (Microsoft) Recent Developments with Majorana-Based Topological Qubits
- Guanyu Zhu (IBM) Non-Abelian quantum LDPC codes
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
04:00PM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Topological Qubits and Quantum Codes
- Isaac Kim (UC Davis) Classifying and characterizing topological phases from ground state entanglement
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
09:00AM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Ady Stern (Weizmann Inst.) - Fractionalization in Quantum Simulators
- Eugene Demler (ETH Zurich) New perspectives on magnetism from quantum simulators
- Monika Aidelsburger (MPQ) Dynamical preparation of U(1) quantum spin liquids in an analogue quantum simulator
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
11:00AM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Fractionalization in Quantum Simulators
- Tom Manovitz (Weizmann Inst.) Engineering spin liquids with Rydberg atom arrays
- Nathan Goldman (ULB & College de France) Transport in Quantum Engineered Systems … without transport
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Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM AI for Quantum Matter
- Shiyu Zhou (Perimeter Inst.) Machine learning quantum phases: from universal classification to autonomous discovery
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
02:00PM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Kai Sun (Michigan) - Spin Liquids, Frustration and Superconductivity
- Subir Sachdev (Harvard) Superconductivity from quantum spin liquids in the cuprates and organics
- Dan Mao (Zurich) Fractionalization from Orbital Geometric Frustration
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
04:00PM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Spin Liquids, Frustration and Superconductivity
- Zhengyan Shi (Stanford) Metallogenic quantum criticality: Fermi surface nucleation at transitions between gapped phases
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
09:00AM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Kin Fai Mak (Cornell) -
- Xiaodong Xu (Washington) Correlated topology and magnetism in twisted MoTe2
- Tingxin Li (SJTU) Fractional topological phases and unconventional superconductivity in twisted MoTe2
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
11:00AM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Fractional States in Twisted MoTe₂
- Gil Young Cho (KAIST) Anyon Superconductor and Non-Abelian Topological Phases in Twisted Bilayer MoTe2
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
02:00PM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Erez Berg (UCSB) - Probing Topological Order on Quantum Processors
- Michael Knap (TU Munich) Probing Fractionalized Phases of Matter with Quantum Processors
- Henrik Dreyer (Quantinuum) Universal Non-Abelian Topological Order on Trapped-Ion Quantum Computers
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
04:00PM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Probing Topological Order on Quantum Processors
- Yarden Sheffer (Weizmann Inst.) Quantum polymer clay: topological entanglement measures from replica permutations
- Yuri Lensky (Stanford) Practical applications of engineered Majoranas in superconducting processors
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
09:00AM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Trithep Devakul (Stanford) - Correlated and Topological Phases in Graphene
- Andrei Bernevig (Princeton) The “Berry Trashcan” Model: Analytic Insights into Correlated Phases in Rhombohedral Graphene
- Long Ju (MIT) Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect and Chiral Superconductivity in Graphene
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
11:00AM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Correlated and Topological Phases in Graphene
- Steven Kivelson (Stanford) Quantum Hall Effect without a Gap
- Di Xiao (Washington) Hyperdeterminant: A flexible wave function ansatz for strongly correlated systems
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Fred Kavli Auditorium (Main)
02:00PM Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States (Conference)
Schedule Available Online
- Yuval Oreg (Weizmann Inst.) - Information, Decoherence and Fractionalized Matter
- Tarun Grover (UCSD) Dynamical splitting and its application to gapless topological states and decoherence-induced transitions
- Ehud Altman (UC Berkeley) Decoherence induced transitions and decoding of non-abelian states
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Simons Amphitheater
10:30AM AI for Quantum Matter
- Thomas Kiely (UC Santa Barbara) Observing Strong-to-Weak Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Machine Learning
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Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators
- W. Vincent Liu (Pittsburgh) Engineering Beyond-Standard Models with Orbital Quantum Gases
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Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators
- Ruben Verresen (U. Chicago) TBD
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Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators
- Qiong Ma (Boston College) Monolayer TaIrTe4 for tunable Topology and Correlations
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Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators
- Yang Zhang (Tennessee) A fractional quantum Hall factory on quantum processors: constant-depth preparation of clustered non-Abelian states
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Simons Amphitheater
01:30PM Engineering Fractionalization in Quantum Many-Body Systems: From New Quantum Materials to Quantum Simulators
- Zlatko Papic (Univ. of Leeds) Very high energy physics of fractional quantum Hall states
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
TELEPHONE: (805) 893-4111
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Week of Aug 31 - Sep 06, 2026
Week of Aug 31 - Sep 06, 2026
2026
Monday, Aug 31, 2026
2026
Tuesday, Sep 01, 2026
2026
Wednesday, Sep 02, 2026
2026
Thursday, Sep 03, 2026
2026
Friday, Sep 04, 2026
2026
Saturday, Sep 05, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Sunday, Sep 06, 2026
No talks scheduled.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
TELEPHONE: (805) 893-4111
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Week of Sep 07 - Sep 13, 2026
Week of Sep 07 - Sep 13, 2026
2026
Monday, Sep 07, 2026
2026
Tuesday, Sep 08, 2026
2026
Wednesday, Sep 09, 2026
2026
Thursday, Sep 10, 2026
2026
Friday, Sep 11, 2026
2026
Saturday, Sep 12, 2026
No talks scheduled.
2026
Sunday, Sep 13, 2026
No talks scheduled.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
TELEPHONE: (805) 893-4111
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
TELEFAX: (805) 893-2431
speakers@kitp.ucsb.edu
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106-4030
http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu
KITP Program of Scientific Activities
Month of August, 2026
Month of August, 2026
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