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Polaron Meeting

Workshop

Computational Quantum Physics

When

  • All Day

  • All Day

Monday, May 15
2:00 – 2:45 PM Peter Littlewood (University of Chicago) Polaron Physics and “Quantum Paraelectricity” in SRTIO3
2:45-3:30 PM David Reichman (Columbia University) A Neural-Network-Based Variational Monte Carlo Approach to
Polarons
4:00-5:00 Student Talks:
Lisa Lin (MIT) Fröhlich bipolarons
Zhaoyu Han (Stanford University) Exotic superconductivity and spin liquids in strongly-coupled
electron-phonon systems
Joonho Lee (Columbia University) Variational theory of ab initio polarons
5:00 – 5:45 PM John Sous (Stanford University) Bipolaronic high-Tc superconductivity
Tuesday, May 16
9:30 – 10:15 AM Nikolay Prokof’ev (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Polarons with quadratic electron-phonon interaction
10:15 – 11:00 AM Matt Carbone (Brookhaven National Lab) The Generalized Green’s function Cluster Expansion: A Python
package for simulating polarons
11:30- 12:30 PM Student talks:
Martin Grunder (LMU) Shallow Bipolarons and Superconductivity in the Su-Schrieffer-
Heeger Model
Alberto Nocera (University of British Columbia) Spectral Functions of low-density polaron liquids
Paul Robinson (Columbia University) Cumulant Methods for Electron-Phonon Problems
2:00 – 2:30 PM Chunhan Feng (CCQ) Phase Diagram of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger-Hubbard model on
a square lattice
2:30-3:30 PM Student Talks:
Kyung-Su Kim (Stanford University) Quantum dynamics of defects in a two-dimensional Wigner
crystal
Bipul Pandey (University of Chicago) Power Series Correction to Single Particle Electron Green’s
Function: Results in 1D Holstein chain and ideas on further
application
Zhongjin Zhang (University of Massachusetts) Quantum dynamics of defects in a two-dimensional Wigner
crystal
3:30 – 4:00 PM Summary and Conclusions

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