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Talks

Creating and Imaging Topological Defects

  1. Invited speaker at CECAM workshop: Condensed Matter Analogies in Mechanics, Optics and Cold Atoms (Tel Aviv, April 2019): Vacancies in Graphene: Dirac physics and fractional charges.

Quantum Entanglement and Topology

Quantum phase transitions – Anomalies

Statistical mechanics of out of equilibrium systems

Topology of tilings

  1. ITAMP & Harvard (November 2015): Topology and fractals: measuring Chern numbers with waves in quasicrystals.
  2. Assa Auerbach 60 Years Birthday Conference (Technion, July 2016): Measuring Chern numbers with waves in quasicrystals.

Statistical mechanics and quantum fields on fractals

  1. Invited speaker at Joseph Avron festschrift (Jerusalem, July 2013): Cumulants of the current and large deviations in the Symmetric Simple Exclusion Process (SSEP) on graphs.
  2. Collège de France (Chaire d’état, May 2015): Waves and Quantum Physics on Fractals: From Continuous to Discrete Scaling Symmetry.
    • Lecture 1.
    Photons and Quantum Electrodynamics on Fractals.
    • Lecture 2.
    The Interplay Between Topology and Discrete Scaling Symmetry: Application to Quasicrystals.
    • Lecture 3.
    Critical Behaviour on Fractals: Long Range Correlated Disorder. Application to BEC and Superfluidity.
    • Lecture 4.
    Efimov Physics from Geometric and Spectral Perspectives.

Quantum mesoscopic and Casimir physics

  1. Invited speaker at 2017 AMO Physics Summer School (Taiwan, August 2017): Mesoscopic Physics of Electrons and Photons.
    • Part 1.
    Introduction to mesoscopic physics.
    • Part 2.
    Introduction to mesoscopic physics (cont.).
  2. Guest lecturer at Cornell (June 2017): Waves and quantum physics on fractals: from continuous to discrete scaling symmetry.
    • Course 1.
    Spectral properties of fractals – Application in statistical physics.
    • Talk.
    Quantum symmetry breaking – Scale anomaly and fractals.
    • Course 2.
    Topology and fractals – Measuring topological numbers with waves.
    • Elaboration.
    Renormalisation group and Efimov physics.

Cooperative effects and superradiance

  1. Superradiance-mesoscopic fluctuations and localization in cold atomic gases (2006)
     
  2. Lectures delivered in the framework of the “Chair Paris Science” (January 2007):
    • Lecture 1.
    Introduction to the mesoscopic physics of electrons and photons.
    • Lecture 2.
    Introduction to a unified description of mesoscopic effects.
    • Lecture 3.
    Correlation of speckle patterns in optics and atomic physics.
    • Lecture 4.
    Superradiance, coherent multiple scattering and Anderson localization.
    • Lecture 5.
    Non-exponential relaxation of quasi-particles in low dimensionality conductors.
     
  3. Conference delivered for Technion undergrads (December 2012): Universality – Scaling and measurement in physics: the Einstein legacy.
  4. Course delivered in Mont Orford, Quebec summer school (September 2013): Physique mesoscopique des electrons et des photons – Structures fractales et quasi-periodiques.
    • Part 1.
    What is quantum in mesoscopic physics? Transport and interferences.
    • Part 2.
    Towards a quantitative description: the tools of quantum mesoscopic physics.
    • Part 3.
    Quantum mesoscopic physics: fractals and quasi-periodic structures.
  5. Colloquium at the Technion (May 2016): Quantum symmetry breaking: observation of scale anomaly in graphene.
     
  6. Cargese (September 2016): Cooperative effects and photon localization in atomic gases: Phase transition in non-Hermitian random matrices.
     
  7. Nice (December 2016): Topology in Physics – Presentation of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics.
     
  8. UBC, Vancouver (August 2017):
    • Lecture 1.
    Quantum symmetry breaking: Observation of a scale anomaly in Graphene.
    • Lecture 2.
    Topology of quasicrystals: Measuring topological numbers with waves.

Posters

Group Posters

  1. Topological Properties and quantum entanglement features of graphene with vacancies (Helen Diller Quantum center community retreat, 2022)
  2. Creating and Imaging Topological Materials (Technion Research Day, 2025)

Creating and Imaging Topological Defects

  1. Defects in Graphene : A Topological Description (Zak Conference, Technion, 2023)
  2. Vacancies in Graphene: Topological Edge States, STM and Wavefunction Dislocations (Zak Conference, Technion, 2023)

Quantum Entanglement and Topology

  1. Interplay Between Topology and Entanglement in Condensed Matter (Zak Conference, Technion, 2023)

Quantum phase transitions – Anomalies

Statistical mechanics of out of equilibrium systems

  1. Additivity Principle and stability of open systems: extension of Le Chatelier principle (Prague, 2015).
  2. Out-of-Equilibrium Quantum Radiation and Atomic Motion (Haifa, 2018).

Topology of tilings

  1. Chern Numbers in Quasicrystals: Structural Interpretation (Bordeaux, 2016; best poster award to Eli Levy).
  2. Topological Properties of Quasiperiodic Tilings (Haifa, 2017).

Statistical mechanics and quantum fields on fractals

  1. Efimov physics – fractal tilings – quantum Einstein gravity and their relations (Haifa, 2020).

Quantum mesoscopic and Casimir physics

  1. Scale anomaly of a Lifshitz scalar: a universal quantum phase transition to discrete scale invariance (Tel Aviv, 2017).
  2. A Casimir Effect in Quantum Mesoscopic Physics (Prague, 2017).
  3. Identifying Topology in Mesoscopic Quantum Transport using Thouless Conductance (IPS, Tel Aviv, 2024)

Cooperative effects and superradiance