Colloquium Archive

Mar 02 2026

School of Physics Spring Colloquium Series- Dr. Subir Sachdev

Speaker: Dr. Subir Sachdev Host: Zhu-Xi Luo Title: Detecting a quantum spin liquid in the cuprate superconductors Abstract: Soon after the discovery of the cuprate high-temperature superconductors, P. W. Anderson presciently suggested in 1987 that their physics is connected to highly entangled many-body states now known as quantum spin liquids. However, the development of this idea over subsequent decades encountered significant tensions with experimental observations. I address these difficulties using the fractionalized Fermi liquid (FL*) state, proposed in 2002, which describes the doping of a quantum spin liquid with electron-like quasiparticles. Recent angle-dependent magnetoresistance measurements in lightly hole-doped cuprates are consistent with key predictions of the FL* theory. The non-symmetry-breaking quantum phase transition between the FL* state and a conventional Fermi liquid, in the presence of impurities, can be described by a two-spatial-dimensional extension of the Sachdev–Ye–Kitaev (SYK) model. This framework is then applied to the strange-metal regime at intermediate temperatures and dopings. I will also briefly mention how the SYK model has led to recent progress in understanding the density of quantum states of charged black holes. Bio: Subir Sachdev is Herchel Smith Professor of Physics at Harvard University. He has been elected to national academies of science in India and the US, and the Royal Society in the U.K. He is a recipient of several awards, including the Dirac Medal from the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, and the Lars Onsager Prize from the American Physical Society. Sachdev has made extensive contributions to the theory of the diverse varieties of states of quantum matter, and of their behavior near quantum phase transitions.

Mar 02 2026

School of Physics Spring Colloquium Series- Dr. Subir Sachdev

Dr. Subir Sachdev(Harvard) Many-fermion quantum entanglement in the cuprate superconductors.

Feb 27 2026

ExplOrigins Colloquium

“Life on Ice: How Ices Shape Planets, Comets, and Origins"

Feb 26 2026

ExplOrigins Colloquium

“Life on Ice: How Ices Shape Planets, Comets, and Origins"

Feb 16 2026

School of Physics Spring Colloquium Series- Dr. Andrea Young

Dr. Andrea Young(UCSB) Superconductivity and magnetism in crystalline graphite allotropes

Feb 09 2026

School of Physics Spring Colloquium Series - Dr. Marco Ajello

You can teach an old dog new tricks: 17 years of Fermi observations of the gamma-ray sky

Feb 09 2026

School of Physics Spring Colloquium Series- Dr. Marco Ajello

Dr. Marco Ajello(Clemson) You can teach an old dog new tricks: 17 years of Fermi observations of the gamma-ray sky

Dec 01 2025

School of Physics Fall Colloquium Series- Dr. Michael J. Manfra

Michael J. Manfra(Purdue) Quantum Mechanics, Identical Particles, and the Strange Case of Anyons…

Nov 24 2025

School of Physics Fall Colloquium Series- Dr. James Aguirre

James Aguirre(UPenn) Bridging Astrophysics and Cosmology with Line Intensity Mapping

Nov 17 2025

School of Physics Fall Colloquium Series- Dr. J M Stone

J M Stone(IAS) Modeling Luminous Black Hole Accretion Flows

Nov 03 2025

School of Physics Fall Colloquium Series- Dr. Pedram Roushan

Pedram Roushan(Google) Novel quantum dynamics with superconducting qubits

Oct 27 2025

School of Physics Fall Colloquium Series-Dr. Qimiao Si

Qimiao Si (Rice University) Quantum phases driven by strong correlations and topology

Oct 20 2025

School of Physics Fall Colloquium Series- Dr. Nikta Fakhri

Nikta Fakhri(MIT) Broken Symmetries in Living Matter

Oct 13 2025

School of Physics Fall Colloquium Series- Dr. Adam Riess

Adam Riess(JHU) What JWST Reveals about the Hubble Tension

Sep 29 2025

School of Physics Fall Colloquium Series- Dr. Jose Onuchic

Jose Onuchic(Rice Univ.) Modeling the Genome: A View by a Physicist

Sep 15 2025

School of Physics Fall Colloquium Series- Dr. Peter Winter

Peter Winter(Argonne National Lab)

Sep 08 2025

Canceled: School of Physics Fall Colloquium Series- Dr. Stephanie Palmer

Stephanie Palmer(Univ. of Chicago) How biological circuits decide what to throw away

Apr 21 2025

School of Physics Spring Colloquium Series-Dr. Lia Medeiros

Lia Medeiros(Univ. of Wisconsin Milwaukee) EHT images of black holes: what we've learned from them and how we can improve them

Apr 14 2025

School of Physics Spring Colloquium Series-Dr. Aleksei Aksimentiev

Aleksei Aksimentiev(Univ. of Illinois) Seeing the unseen using supercomputers

Apr 07 2025

School of Physics Spring Colloquium Series-Dr. Peter Abbamonte

Peter Abbamonte(Univ. of Illinois) Quantum criticality in strange metals

Mar 31 2025

School of Physics Spring Colloquium Series-Dr. Omar Saleh

Omar Saleh(UCSB) DNA liquids

Mar 24 2025

School of Physics Spring Colloquium Series-Dr. Tim Kovachy

Tim Kovachy(Northwestern) New Tools for Dark Matter and Gravitational Wave Detection: Long-Baseline Atom Interferometers and Cryogenic Comparisons of Optical Resonators

Mar 10 2025

School of Physics Spring Colloquium Series-Dr. Vanderlei Bagnato

Vanderlei Bagnato(Texas A&M) Observation of Relaxation Stages in a Nonequilibrium Closed Quantum System

Mar 03 2025

School of Physics Faculty Search Colloquium Series- Dr. Aishik Ghosh

Aishik Ghosh(UCI)Probing High-Dimensional Spaces: From Theory Design to Parameter Inference in Particle and Astrophysics

Feb 26 2025

School of Physics Faculty Search Colloquium Series- Dr. Alec Linot

Alec Linot(UC) Low-dimensional models and stability analysis for controlling unsteady fluid flows

Feb 24 2025

School of Physics Faculty Search Colloquium Series- Dr. Lauren Yates

Lauren Yates(FNAL) Elucidating the Mysteries of Neutrinos with Liquid Argon Detectors at Fermilab

Feb 19 2025

School of Physics Faculty Search Colloquium Series- Dr. Jacob Zettlemoyer

Jacob Zettlemoyer(Indiana University) Discovering New Particles with Neutrino Detectors using Accelerator Facilities at Fermilab

Feb 17 2025

School of Physics Faculty Search Colloquium Series- Dr. Afroditi Papadopoulou

Afroditi Papadopoulou(ANL) Lepton-Nucleus Scattering Measurements for Neutrino Interactions and Oscillations

Feb 17 2025

School of Physics Colloquium

Dr. Afroditi Papadopoulou; Lepton-Nucleus Scattering Measurements for Neutrino Interactions and Oscillations

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