News From The Fractional Arena

In this talk, several recent developments in the study of fractionalized states of matter will be reviewed. The focus will primarily be on the condensed matter physics perspective, presenting a theoretical approach to the Fractional Chern Insulator (the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect without a magnetic field), its unique properties, and its phase transitions to neighboring phases. The talk will conclude with a few comments from the quantum information perspective, discussing features of the entanglement hidden in the ground state of a fractionalized phase.

Speaker: Ady Stern, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel