How to detect fluctuating order in High temperature
Superconductors (pdf file)
The Physics of Liquid Crystalline Phases in High temperature
Superconductors (pdf file)
For an audiovisual talk given at the Conference on Glassy States of Matter and
Non-Equilibrium Quantum Dynamics at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB,
click here
Conformal Quantum Criticality, Order and Deconfinement in Quantum Dimer
Models (pdf file)
Talk given at the
Program on Exotic Order and Criticality in Quantum Matter at the Kavli Insitute
for Theoretical Physics, UCSB (June 2004), and
Brookhaven National Laboratory International Workshop on Frustrated Magnetism, Montauk, NY
(9/16/2004)
Realizing Non-Abelian Fractional Statistics in Time Reversal Invariant
Systems (pdf file)
How optimal inhomogeneity produces high temperature superconductivity
(pdf file) Talk at the National High Magnetic Field
Laboratory, April 2007.
Entanglement Entropy at 2D quantum critical points,
topological fluids and Chern-Simons theories
(pdf file) Talk given at the Florence Conference on Exact
Results in low-Dimensional Quantum Systems, Florence (Italy), September 2008
The Role of Charge Order in the Mechanism of
High Temperature Superconductivity (pdf file)
Talk given at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, March 2008.
Can you hear the shape of Schrödinger's cat?
Movie file of the Blackboard Talk given at KITP
UCSB, April 2008
(pdf file) expanded version of this
talk that I gave as a Colloquium at the University of Illinois on December 4, 2008
The remarkable Superconducting Stripe Phase of La2-xBaxCuO4
near x=1/8
(pdf file) Talk at Harvard University, April 2009
Les Houches Lectures on Electronic Liquid Crystal Phases in Strongly Correlated Systems
(pdf file) Lectures given at the Les Houches Summer School on
"Modern Theories of Strongly Correlated Systems", Les Houches, France, May 2009
Electronic Liquid Crystal Phases in Strongly Correlated Systems
(pdf file)
Invited talk at the 2011 Aspen Winter Conference "Materials and the Imagination", Aspen Center of
Physics (Aspen, CO), January 4-8, 2011.
Entanglement and Quantum Noise: Is it possible to measure entanglement
entropies?
(pdf file)
Colloquium at the Perimeter Institute (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada), April 2011.
Intertwined orders in high temperature superconductors
(pdf file)
Seminar at Cornell University, April 2012.
Dynamical Stability of the Quantum Lifshitz Model in 2+1 Dimensions
(pdf file),
Invited talk at the Workshop "Quantum Systems in and out of Equilibrium", The Galileo Galilei
Institute for Theoretical Physics (Florence, Italy), May 21-25, 2012.
Intertwined Orders in High Temperature Superconductors
Talk at the Program "Entanglement in Strongly-Correlated Quantum Matter", Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California Santa Barbara. September 4, 2014. video of the Talk
Scaling of Entanglement in 2+1 dimensional scale-invariant field theories
Talk at the Program "Magnetism, Bad Metals and Superconductivity: Iron Pnictides and Beyond", Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California Santa Barbara. April 22, 2015. video of the Talk
Fractionalized Topological Insulators in 3D
(pdf file),
Seminar at Instituto Balseiro, San Carlos de Bariloche (Argentina), June 30, 2016.
Finite universal terms in the entanglement entropy:
new results for the quantum Lifshitz model
(pdf file),
Talk at the Workshop "Quantum Information in String Theory and Many-body Systems," at the
Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Kyoto University, June 20-24, 2016.
Nematic Order in Quantum Hall Fluids
(pdf file),
Talk at the workshop "The Quantum Hall Effect: Past, Present and Future"
Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, March 8-10, 2017.
Chiral Phases in Frustrated 2D Antiferromagnets and
Fractional Chern Insulators
(pdf file),
Seminar at the Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences (iTHEMS)
Program, RIKEN, Japan, December 21, 2017
Pair Density Waves and Intertwined Orders in High Tc Superconductors
(pdf file), Video of the talk at M2S 2018
Talk at the International Conference on Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity M2S 2018, Beijing, China, August 20-24, 2018
Duality in Condensed Matter Physics and Quantum Field Theory
(pdf file),
Lectures at the Quantum Connections Summer School, Lidingö, Sweden, June 10-22, 2019
Fractional Quantum Hall States: New Perspectives from Duality
(pdf file),
Talk at the Francqui Symposium on "Wavefunctions and Entanglement in Quantum Field Theory", Brussels, Belgium, October 14-18, 2019.
Duality and Non-Abelian Quantum Hall States
(pdf file), recorded seminar (in Spanish)
Zoom seminar at Instituto Balseiro, S. C. de Bariloche, Rio Negro, Argentina, February 16, 2021.
Recorded YouTube interview (in Spanish) about my recent book, "Quantum Feld Theory: An Integrated Approach"
Department of Physics, Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, August 12, 2022.
Theory of Oblique Topological Insulators
(pdf file), Zoom talk at the Munich Centre for Quantum Science and Technology workshop on "Discrete lattice gauge theories- emergence and quantum simulations" held at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) in Garching, on 9-13 May 2022.
Duality in Condensed Matter Physics
(pdf file), Lectures on "Duality in Condensed Matter Physics", Princeton Summer School in Condensed Matter Physics, Princeton University, July 10-14, 2023.
Duality in Condensed Matter Physics and in Field Theory
(YouTube video), Distinguished Lecture at the workshop "Condensed Matter Physics meets Quantum Information", International Centre for Theoretical Science, Bengaluru (India), September 27, 2023.
Lectures on Non-Abelian Quantum Hall States
"Condensed Matter Physics meets Quantum Information" School and Program, International Centre for Theoretical Science, Bengaluru (India), September 25 2023 to October 6 2023. The zoom recordings can be found at the websites Lecture 1, Lecture 2 and Lecture 3.
Duality in Condensed Matter Physics and in Field Theory
(zoom recording) Zoom seminar at the Mathematical physics Webinar of Rutgers University (Piscataway, NJ), February 28, 2024.