New Electronic Properties through Structure and Correlation

Japan Swiss Workshop 2011

The discoveries of materials with novel electronic properties is a driving force and a great challenge for theoretical condensed matter physics. The major goals lie in the identification, description, and understanding of the electronic phases in such materials, ranging from modeling at a microscopic level to their phenomenological description. Well-established and traditional theories describing ”standard” electronic phases (simple metals, semiconductors, conventional superconductors or magnets) are often insufficient to address ”novel” properties of materials which are not classified within these categories and require new concepts. Many of these materials belong to the class of strongly correlated electron systems, but recently also other most intriguing new properties have been found on the level of single-particle physics, e.g. in graphene and topological insulators.

This workshops is a joined activity between Switzerland and Japan and has a long tradition dating back to the early nineties. In the past been it had been funded by various organizations in Japan and Switzerland, such as SNF, PSI, the Japanese Kakenhi (JSPS) and NEDO etc.

Very recently this series has been restarted:

• 2009 ”New Developments in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems”
  ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• 2010 New Trends in Theory of Correlated Materials” ”
  Seiseimon Resort in Chiba, Japan.

Date: September 16 - 18, 2011

Place: ETH Zürich

Organization: Manfred Sigrist (ETHZ), Frederic Mila (EPFL) and Hirokazu Tsunetsugu (ISSP)

Program

Download: Program and Abstract (pdf)

* speaker to be confirmed

Photos

• Speakers
  Coffea break
  Group photos
  Banquet

Abstracts

Please submit a title of your presentation / poster by August 8 .

Please submit your abstract by August 30 using the following LaTex-template abstract-template.tex.

List of Participants

* speakers (tentative; partially to be confirmed)

Japanese Participants

Akira Furusaki* (RIKEN) abstract
Kazumasa Hattori* (ISSP) abstract
Takashi Hotta* (Metrop. Univ Tokyo) abstract
Mikito Koshino* (Tohoku Univ) abstract
Takahiro Misawa* (Univ Tokyo) abstract
Shin Miyahara* (Univ Tokyo) abstract
Kentaro Nomura* (RIKEN) abstract
Junya Otsuki* (Tohoku Univ/Uni Augsburg) abstract
Yasuhiro Tada* (ISSP) abstract
Masaki Tezuka* (Kyoto Univ) abstract
Hirokazu Tsunetsugu* (ISSP) abstract
Kazuo Ueda* (ISSP) abstract
Youichi Yanase* (Niigata Univ) abstract

Swiss Participants

external

Pierre Bouillot (Univ Geneva) abstract
Tommaso Coletta (EPFL) abstract
Thierry Giamarchi* (Univ Geneva) abstract
Dmitri Ivanov* (EPFL) abstract
Adrian Kantian* (Univ Geneva) abstract
Laura Messio (EPFL) abstract
Frederic Michaud* (EPFL) abstract
Frederic Mila (EPFL)
Christopher Mudry (PSI)
Titus Neupert* (PSI) abstract
Maurizio Storni (PSI)
Akiyuki Tokuno* (Univ Geneva) abstract
Sandro Wenzel* (EPFL) abstract

ETHZ

Kazushi Aoyama (ETHZ/Kyoto Univ)
Emiko Arahata (ETHZ/Univ Tokyo)
Gianni Blatter (ETHZ)
Adrien Bouhon (ETHZ) abstract
Jonathan Buhmann* (ETHZ) abstract
Philippe Corboz* (ETHZ/EPFL) abstract
Michele Dolfi (ETHZ) abstract
Martin Eckstein* (ETHZ) abstracts
Vadim Geshkenbein (ETHZ)
Jun Goryo* (ETHZ/Univ Tokyo) abstract
Jan Gukelberger (ETHZ) abstract
Andreas Hehn (ETHZ) abstract
Frantisek Horvath (ETHZ/Univ Bratislava) abstract
Sergei Isakov* (ETHZ) abstract
Evgeny Kozik (ETHZ) abstract
Yu Kumagai* (ETHZ) abstract
Ludwig Klam (ETHZ) abstract
Andrei Lebed (ETHZ)
Tama Ma (ETHZ) abstract
Jiawei Mei (ETHZ) abstract
Daniel Müller (ETHZ) abstract
David Oehri (ETHZ)
Mathias Ossadnik* (ETHZ) abstract
Lode Pollet* (ETHZ) abstract
Maurice Rice (ETHZ)
Sebastian Schmidt* (ETHZ) abstract
Manfred Sigrist (ETHZ)
Peter Staar (ETHZ)
Sarah Thaler (ETHZ)
Matthias Troyer (ETHZ)
Naoto Tsuji* (ETHZ) abstract
Philipp Werner (ETHZ)
Roland Willa (ETHZ) abstract