The MagLab is funded by the National Science Foundation and the State of Florida.
The MagLab is funded by the National Science Foundation and the State of Florida.
The National High Magnetic Field lab in Tallahassee, Florida held its thirteenth Theory Winter School from January 6 to 10, 2025.
The principal theme of our school this year is exploring strongly correlated physics across newly accessible length and energy scales which is a concerted effort by us to communicate exciting new ideas in this area of condensed matter physics to a wide audience. Many aspects of this subject (moiré graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides, fractional Chern insulators, Wigner crystals and strange metals) have become active areas of research leading to new theories, experiments and computational methods to address them. It is our objective to initiate closer dialogue between the various subfields and discuss the open questions at the forefront of this area of research.
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The only facility of its kind in the United States, the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (less formally known as the Magnet Lab) is the largest and highest-powered magnet laboratory in the world, headquartered in a sprawling 370,000-square-foot complex near Florida State University in Tallahassee. The lab also includes sites at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and the University of Florida in Gainesville. Together these three institutions operate the lab, collaborating in a unique, interdisciplinary way to advance basic science, engineering and technology in the 21st century.
The Magnet Lab
Established by the National Science Foundation in 1990, the lab is a national resource open to both curious visitors and world-renowned scientists. Centralizing the country's greatest magnet-related tools, resources and expertise is not only efficient and cost-effective, but also encourages fruitful, collaborative research at the highest level. Every year, more than 900 visiting scientists and engineers from across the world conduct experiments using our state-of-the-art equipment. Our magnets are far larger, far more powerful and far more complex than the everyday magnets most people are familiar with. Many were designed, developed and built by our magnet engineering and design team, widely recognized as the finest in the world.
The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory offers the Dirac Postdoctoral Fellowship, a two-year (renewable for an additional year) postdoctoral fellowship in condensed matter theory. The program is designed for Ph.D.'s with a research interest in any of the condensed matter areas represented by the three sites of the National MagLab. In particular, this year, we are looking for applicants interested in any of the following research topics: unconventional superconductivity, strongly correlated electron systems, magnetism, 2D moiré/graphene/TMD systems, and plasmonics.
B. Andrei Bernevig (Princeton)
Hitesh Changlani (FSU and National MagLab)
Vladimir Dobrosavljevic (FSU and National MagLab)
The twelfth annual Theory Winter School in person from January 8 to 12, 2024.
This year's theme is New Frontiers in Superconductivity. The school will bring together lectures covering recent developments in the field of superconductivity. The topics will include material and technique-specific developments, such as 2D moiré and graphene materials, hydride sulfides, photo-induced superconductivity, and uranium ditelluride, as well as more general theoretical discoveries in the realm of flat-band superconductivity and efficient solutions to gap equations.
| Speakers | Institutions | Presentations/Videos |
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| Erez Berg | Weizmann Institute of Science | |
| Nick Butch | University of Maryland | |
| Andrea Cavalleri | Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter | |
| Andrey Chubukov | University of Minnesota | |
| Rafael Fernandes | University of Minnesota | |
| Marcel Franz | University of British Columbia | |
| Jeong Min Park | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Stevan Nadj-Perge | California Institute of Technology |
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| Boris Svistunov | University of Massachusetts Amherst | |
| Päivi Törmä | Aalto University | |
| Norman Yao | Harvard University |
The eleventh annual Theory Winter School in person from January 9 to 13, 2023.
This year's theme is electron correlations in fractional quantum Hall effects and moiré materials. The School aims to provide an introductory overview of key results and unanswered questions in both fields, theoretical and experimental, and point towards possible connections or analogies between these two correlated systems.
| Speakers | Institutions | Presentations/Videos |
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| Nick Bultnick | Oxford | |
| Liang Fu | MIT | |
| Bert Halperin | Harvard | |
| Michael Manfra | Purdue | |
| Ady Stern | Weizmann |
View the 2023 Theory Winter School Videos on the YouTube playlist.
The tenth annual Theory Winter School virtually from January 10 to 14, 2022.
This year's theme is non-equilibrium quantum matter. We aim to communicate exciting new developments in this area of condensed matter physics to a wide audience. Many aspects of this subject (eigenstate thermalization, many-body localization, quantum scars, Floquet theory, random circuits, etc.) have become active research areas thanks to new analytic insights and computational algorithms. We will initiate dialogue among various subfields and between theory and experiment, with an eye on simulating non-equilibrium dynamics on intermediate-scale quantum computers.
Download 2022 Theory Winter School Poster
| Speakers | Institutions | Presentations/Videos |
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| Anushya Chandran | Boston University | |
| Fabian Essler | Oxford | |
| Stephen Hill | FSU and National MagLab | |
| Roderich Moessner | ||
| Joel Moore | UC Berkeley | |
| Adam Nahum | ENS Paris | |
| Pedram Roushan | ||
| Maksym Serbyn | IST Austria | |
| Romain Vasseur | UMass Amherst |
View the videos on the YouTube playlist.
Topic: Modern aspects of quantum condensed matter
The 2021 Theory Winter School was held virtually via Zoom, on 11-15 January, 2021. This year's School focus on "Modern aspects of quantum condensed matter", a subject inspired by recent developments in condensed matter physics. These developments shed new light on open questions of quantum criticality, unconventional superconductivity, and new types of topological phases of matter. The tentative topics of the school include novel phases in twisted bilayer graphene and other moire systems, recent developments in unconventional superconductivity, topology of electronic states, and quantum magnetism.
Download 2021 Theory Winter School poster
| Speakers | Institutions | Presentations/Videos |
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| Daniel Agterberg | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
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| Leon Balents | KITP and UC Santa Barbara |
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| Andrei Bernevig | Princeton University |
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| Jenifer Cano | Stony Brook University/Flatiron Institute | |
| Allan MacDonald | UT Austin |
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| Max Metlitski | MIT |
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| Nicolas Regnault | Ecole Normale, Paris |
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| Lucile Savary | CNRS Lyon |
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| Ashvin Vishwanath | Harvard University |
View the videos on the YouTube playlist.
2020 Theory Winter School was held on January 6-10, 2020. This year's School focused on "Quantum Matter Without Quasiparticles", a subject inspired by recent developments in condensed matter physics and beyond. These development shed new light on open questions of quantum criticality, unconventional superconductivity, and new types of topological phases of matter. The tentative topics of the school include electron transport without quasiparticles, Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models, novel phases in twisted bilayer graphene, fracton topological phases, deconfined quantum criticality, and many-body localization.
Download 2020 Theory Winter School poster
| Speakers | Institutions | Presentations/Videos |
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| Liang Fu | MIT | |
| Alex Kamenev | University of Minnesota | |
| Hae-Young Kee | University of Toronto | |
| Philip Kim | Harvard | |
| Sung-Sik Lee | ||
| Leonid Levitov | MIT | |
| Andrew Lucas | ||
| Srinivas Raghu | Stanford | |
| Oskar Vafek | National MagLab & FSU | |
| Cenke Xu | UCSB |
View the videos on the YouTube playlist.
Topic: Strongly correlated and quantum spin liquid physics, Weyl and topological physics and new computational techniques.
2019 Theory Winter School was held on January 7-11, 2019. This year's theory school was a concerted effort to address several challenges in modern condensed matter physics. Recent computational advances and new analytic insights suggest the need for multifaceted approaches that bring together the study of model Hamiltonians, ab-initio methods and experiments to gain new understanding of quantum materials. This synergy between communities will impact endeavors where theory is guiding new discoveries.
Download 2019 Theory Winter School Poster
| Speakers | Institutions | Presentations/Videos |
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| Luis Balicas | National MagLab | Novel transport phenomena in topological semimetals - YouTube Video |
| B. Andrei Bernevig | Princeton | |
| Collin Broholm | Johns Hopkins | |
| Jennifer Cano | Stony Brook | |
| Andrey Chubukov | University of Minnesota | |
| Rebecca Flint | Iowa State | |
| Kristjan Haule | Rutgers | |
| Efstratios Manousakis | FSU and National MagLab | |
| Nandini Trivedi | Ohio State | |
| Steve White | U C Irvine | Novel DMRG approaches for electronic structure- YouTube Video |
View the videos on the YouTube playlist.
2018 Theory Winter School was held on January 8-12, 2018. The lectures focus on the synergy among several disciplines of physics, including quantum information, condensed matter, cold atoms, high energy and statistical physics. In this winter school, we bring together leading experts to give a series of lectures aimed at graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. The lectures will introduce and explain concepts explored in quantum information theory, such as entanglement, and outstanding questions in many-body physics.
Download 2018 Theory Winter School poster
2018 Theory Winter School
| Speakers | Institutions | Presentations/Videos |
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| Adrian Feiguin | Northeastern Univ. Boston | |
| Steven Girvin | Yale University | |
| Duncan Haldene | Princeton University | |
| Matthew Headrick | ||
| David Huse | Princeton University | |
| Ragibul Islam | Univ. Waterloo/IQC | |
| Israel Klich | Univ. of Virginia | |
| Adrian Del Maestro | Univ. Of Vermont | |
| Roger Melko | Univ. of Waterloo | |
| Subir Sachdev | Harvard University | |
| Ryu Shinsei | Univ. Of Chicago |
View the or on the YouTube playlist.
2017 Theory Winter School was held on January 9-13, 2017. This year, the lectures focused on the synergy among several disciplines of physics, including quantum information, condensed matter, cold atoms, high energy and statistical physics. In this winter school, we bring together leading experts to give a series of lectures aimed at graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. The lectures will introduce and explain concepts explored in quantum information theory, such as entanglement, and outstanding questions in many-body physics.
Download 2017 Theory Winter School poster
| Speakers | Institutions | Presentations |
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| Meigan Aronson | Texas A&M | |
| Silke Biermann & Steffan Backes | Ecole Polytechnique | |
| David Ceperley | UIUC | |
| Giulia Galli | ANL and U Chicago | |
| Kevin Ingersent | UF / MagLab | |
| Gabriel Kotliar | Rutgers | |
| Nicola Lanata | MagLab | |
| Andrew Millis | Columbia | |
| Warren Pickett | UC Davis | |
| Darrell Schlom | Cornell | |
| John Schlueter | ||
| Ulrich Schollwöck | LMU München |
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| Lucas Wagner | UIUC |
View the videos below or on the YouTube playlist.
Topic: New Trends in Frustrated Magnetism
2015 Theory Winter School was held on January 5-9, 2015. The lectures focus on Frustrated Magnetism, a subject of continuing relevance in Condensed Matter and Materials Research Theory.
| Speakers | Institutions | Presentations |
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| Ian Affleck | University of British Columbia | |
| John Chalker | Oxford University | |
| Mike Hermele | University of Colorado (Boulder) | |
| Tyrel McQueen | Johns Hopkins University | |
| Masaki Oshikawa | ISSP, University of Tokyo | |
| Achim Rosch | University of Cologne | |
| Kate Ross | Johns Hopkins University | |
| Oleg Tchernyshyov | Johns Hopkins University | |
| Mike Zaletel | Microsoft Station Q | |
| Vivien Zapf | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
2014 Theory Winter School was held on January 6-10, 2014. The lectures focus on Topological Phases of Condensed Matter, a subject of great interest in Condensed Matter and Materials Research Theory.
| Speakers | Institutions | Presentations |
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| Jason Alicea | Caltech | |
| Nick Bonesteel | FSU, National MagLab | |
| Liang Fu | MIT | |
| Taylor Hughes | UIUC | |
| Joel Moore | Berkeley | |
| Phuan Ong | Princeton | |
| Xia-Liang Qi | Stanford | |
| Ying Ran | Boston College | |
| Kun Yang | FSU, National MagLab |
2013 Theory Winter School was held on January 7-11, 2013. The lectures focus on Unconventional Superconductivity, a subject of continuing relevance in Condensed Matter and Materials Research Theory.
| Speakers | Institutions | Presentations |
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| Mac Beasley | Stanford University | |
| Lev Gor’kov | National MagLab | |
| Peter Hirschfeld | University of Florida | |
| Andrey Chubukov | University of Wisconsin–Madison | |
| Subir Sachdev | Harvard University | |
| Sri Raghu | Stanford University | |
| Dan Agterberg | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee | |
| James Sauls | Northwestern University |
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| Andrei Bernevig | Princeton University |
2012 Theory Winter School was held on January 9-13, 2012. The lectures focus on Computational Approaches for Electronic/Magnetic Materials, a subject of great relevance for the budding Materials Synthesis and Characterization Program, currently under very active development at the Magnet Lab.
| Speakers | Institutions | Presentations |
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| Vladimir Anisimov | IMP Russia | |
| David Ceperley | University of Georgia | |
| Kristjan Haule | Rutgers | |
| David Landau | University of Georgia | |
| Efstratios Manousakis | FSU | |
| Andy Millis | Columbia | |
| Nikolai Prokof'ev | Armhest | |
| Anders Sandvik | Boston | |
| David Singh | Oak Ridge | |
| Steve White | University of California-Irvine |
Last modified on 21 March 2025