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Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Special Seminar - Darius Shi (Stanford)), "Chiral superconductivity from non-Abelian anyon fluids"

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
Physics - The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory
Location
ESB 3110
Date
Oct 14, 2025   12:00 - 1:00 pm  
Speaker
Darius Shi
Contact
Thierry Ramais
E-Mail
ramais@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar
Physics - The Anthony J Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar

Abstract: Fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) insulators are topologically ordered phases emerging in fractionally filled Chern bands at zero magnetic field. The recent realization of these phases in tunable 2D materials motivates new theoretical questions about proximate phases and phase transitions that are inaccessible in conventional quantum Hall systems at large magnetic fields. A key difference between FQH and FQAH is that anyons in FQAH are not confined into cyclotron orbits but instead have nontrivial band dispersion. Doping the FQAH insulator therefore induces a nonzero density of mobile charged anyons, which can form many-body states of their own. I will begin with a review of our results for Abelian anyon fluids, and then demonstrate how the intuition distilled from the Abelian case fails dramatically for the non-Abelian case due to the new ingredient of non-invertible fusion rules. This additional structure predicts novel chiral superconductors in the vicinity of a putative zero-field Moore-Read state. 

This seminar will take place at noon in room ESB 3110

Meeting ID: 791 382 8328
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