Colloquium
Signatures of fractionalized excitations in quantum spin liquids
Speaker: Nandini Trivedi (The Ohio State University, USA)
Date and time
Abstract
Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are long-range entangled states of matter of billions of interacting qubits or spins that develop in a Mott insulator. Remarkably QSLs harbor fractionalized excitations rather than the conventional spin waves of ordered magnets that carry integer units of angular momentum. In my talk I will discuss possible implementation of these frustrated Hamiltonians using Rydberg atoms. I will identify detectable signatures of these fractionalized excitations in pump-probe spectroscopy. These fractionalized excitations are promising candidates to create logical qubits for quantum computation.
Nandini Trivedi is a Professor of Physics and a Distinguished Professor of the College of Arts and Sciences at the Ohio State University.
Trivedi got her undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and a Ph.D in physics in 1987 from Cornell University. After post-doctoral research at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and State University of New York, Stony Brook, she joined Argonne National Laboratory as a staff scientist. In 1995 she joined the faculty of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. Since 2004 she has been a professor of physics at the Ohio State University.
Trivedi’s research is in understanding emergent phases in quantum matter due to strong correlations and topology.
Trivedi got her undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and a Ph.D in physics in 1987 from Cornell University. After post-doctoral research at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and State University of New York, Stony Brook, she joined Argonne National Laboratory as a staff scientist. In 1995 she joined the faculty of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. Since 2004 she has been a professor of physics at the Ohio State University.
Trivedi’s research is in understanding emergent phases in quantum matter due to strong correlations and topology.