The goal of the workshop is to review recent developments in the experimental observation and theoretical understanding of quantum oscillations in electrical insulators. The workshop will bring together the leading experts in both experiment an theory, including talks about the materials SmB₆, YbB₁₂, and WTe₂. The existing theoretical proposals will be discussed, as well as next steps for experiment and theory.

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Participation is free, but the number of places is limited, so please register.

Program

The workshop will take place Feb 18 and 19, 2021. All times listed below are US Eastern Standard Time.

Day 1: Thursday, Feb. 18

• 09:55 Introduction and Welcome
• 10:00 Suchitra Sebastian (University of Cambridge): Bulk Quantum Oscillations in the Unconventional Bulk Insulator SmB₆
• 10:40 Colin Broholm (Johns Hopkins University): Magnetism in SmB₆
• 11:20 Lu Li (University of Michigan): Quantum Oscillations in Resistivity and Magnetization in Kondo Insulators

Day 2: Friday, Feb. 19

• 10:00 Sanfeng Wu (Princeton University): Landau quantization and highly mobile carriers in the monolayer WTe₂ insulator
• 10:40 Patrick Lee (MIT): Quantum oscillations of the resistivity in an excitonic insulator
• 11:00 Panel discussion

• Meigan Aronson (University of British Columbia)
• G. Baskaran (IIT Madras and Perimeter Institute)
• Piers Coleman (Rutgers University)
• Nigel Cooper (University of Cambridge)
• Leslie Schoop (Princeton University)
• T. Senthil (MIT)