Quantum Physics and Complex Systems

Program

Day 1: 7 Dec 2022 (Wednesday)
09:00 - 09:30	Opening Ceremony
Session 1: Quantum Materials Moderator: Denver Danfeng Li
09:30 - 10:30	Keynote talk by Jinfeng Jia (Southern University of Science and Technology, China) “Topological superconductors by proximity effects”
10:30 - 11:00	Invited talk by Tsuyoshi Kimura (The University of Tokyo, Japan) “Symmetry breakings and resulting magnetic, electric, and optical properties in ferroic materials”
11:00 - 11:15	Break
11:15 - 11:45	Invited talk by Guang-Han Cao (Zhejiang University, China) “New Layered Superconductors with Intergrowth Structures”
11:45 - 12:15	Invited talk by Wang Yao (The University of Hong Kong, China) “Valley-layertronics in twisted bilayers ”
12:15 - 12:30	Invited talk by Xiao Li (City University of Hong Kong, China) “Fermionic Many-Body Localization for Random and Quasiperiodic Systems in the Presence of Short- and Long-Range Interactions”
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
Session 2: Soft Matter and Complex Systems I Moderator: Yu Chai
14:00 - 14:30	Invited talk by Yilong Han (The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, China) “Mapping the degenerated ground states of spin models to complex networks with novel properties”
14:30 - 15:00	Invited talk by Ning Xu (University of Science and Technology of China, China) “Understanding effective temperature of slow-evolving systems from the perspective of inherent structures”
15:00 - 16:00	Featured talk by Giorgio Parisi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) “Replica Symmetry Breaking and applications”
16:00 - 16:15	Break
16:15 - 16:45	Invited talk by Ludovic Berthier (Universite de Montpellier, France) “Is glass a state of matter?”
16:45 - 17:15	Invited talk by Alessio Zaccone (Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy) “A solution to amorphous elasticity and plasticity based on topological physics”
17:15 - 17:30	Invited talk by Ge Zhang (City University of Hong Kong, China) “An entropy perspective on neural networks' loss functions”

Day 2: 8 Dec 2022 (Thursday)
Session 2: Soft Matter and Complex Systems II Moderator: Ge Zhang
09:00 - 10:00	Keynote talk by Sidney R. Nagel (The University of Chicago, USA) “Memory in a glassy landscape”
10:00 - 10:30	Invited talk by Patrick Charbonneau (Duke University, USA) “Recent Advances on the Glass Problem”
10:30 - 10:45	Break
10:45- 11:15	Invited talk by Lei Xu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China) “Revealing the three-component structure of water with principal component analysis (PCA) of X-ray spectra”
11:15 - 11:30	Invited talk by Haixing Li (City University of Hong Kong, China) “Destructive quantum interference in sigma-conjugated silicon molecular wires”
11:30 - 11:45	Invited talk by Liang Dai (City University of Hong Kong, China) “Simple Physical Laws for Complex Knotting Phenomena”
11:45 - 12:00	Invited talk by Yu Chai (City University of Hong Kong, China) “Using atomic force microscopy to study the self-assembly of colloidal particles at liquid interfaces”
12:00 - 14:00	Lunch
Session 3: Quantum Information Moderator: Jeff Ou
14:00 - 15:00	Keynote talk by Franco Nori (RIKEN, Japan) “Quantum Optics with Giant Atoms: Decoherence-Free Interaction between Giant Atoms in Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics”
15:00 - 15:30	Invited talk by Xue-Hua Wang (Sun Yat-Sen (Zhongshan) University, China) “Highly-efficient on-demand controllable quantum light sources for integration”
15:30 - 16:00	Invited talk by Christine Silberhorn (Paderborn University, Germany) “Integrated optics and pulsed light for quantum photonics”
16:00 - 16:30	Invited talk by Li You (Tsinghua University, China) “Quantum Science and Technology enabled by Atomic Qubits”
16:30 - 16:45	Break
16:45 - 17:15	Invited talk by GyuBoong Jo (The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, China) “Quantum simulation of topological states with dissipative spin-orbit couplings”
17:15 - 17:30	Invited talk by Iochun Hoi (City University of Hong Kong, China) “Deterministic loading of microwaves onto an artificial atom using a time-reversed waveform”
17:30 - 17:45	Invited talk by Zhedong Zhang (City University of Hong Kong, China) “Quantum Optical Spectroscopy for Molecular Dynamics”
17:45 - 18:00	Invited talk by Sunny Xin Wang (City University of Hong Kong, China) “High-fidelity CPHASE gate in a pair of capacitively coupled few-electron singlet-triplet qubits”

Day 3: 9 Dec 2022 (Friday)
Session 4: Quantum Beam Application I Moderator: Wei Bao
09:00 - 10:00	Keynote talk by Hesheng Chen (Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS, China) “China Spallation Neutron Source”
10:00 - 10:30	Invited talk by Yuan Li (Peking University, China) “Neutron scattering observation of magnetic molecular orbitals in MnSi”
10:30 - 10:45	Break
10:45 - 11:15	Invited talk by Matthew Stone (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA) “A trio of tri-chlorides: magnetic excitations in FeCl₃, YbCl₃ and CrCl₃”
11:15 - 11:30	Invited talk by Denver Danfeng Li (City University of Hong Kong, China) “Materials Synthesis Approaches to Infinite-Layer Nickelate Thin Films from a High-Crystallinity Precursor Phase”
11:30 - 11:45	Invited talk by Junzhang Ma (City University of Hong Kong, China) “Investigation of quasiparticles in quantum materials with ARPES”
11:45 - 12:15	Invited talk by Stefanus Harjo (J-PARC, Japan) “Operando engineering materials characterization using pulsed neutron beam”
12:15 - 14:00	Lunch
Session 4: Quantum Beam Application II Moderator: Yang Ren
14:00 - 14:30	Invited talk by Alfred Baron (RIKEN, Japan) “Frontiers in meV-Resolved Inelastic X-Ray Scattering: Atomic Dynamics Where We Have Not Gone Before”
14:30 - 15:00	Invited talk by Yuhui Dong (Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS, China) “High Energy Photon Source (HEPS)”
15:00 - 15:15	Break
15:15 - 16:15	Keynote talk by Christian Schroer (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Germany) “Understanding Quantum Materials and Complex Systems Using Modern and Future Synchrotron Radiation Sources”
16:15 - 16:30	Break
16:30 - 17:00	Invited talk by Xinhui Lu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China) “Grazing Incidence X-ray and Neutron Scattering Based Organic and Perovskite Photovoltaic Studies”
17:00 - 17:15	Invited talk by Qi Liu (City University of Hong Kong, China) “Spreading monoclinic boundary network between hexagonal primary grains for high performance Ni-rich cathode materials”
17:15 - 17:25	Set Up
17:25 - 18:00	Panel Discussion Xun-Li Wang (Moderator) Wei Bao Jeff Ou Yang Ren
18:00 - 20:30	Banquet