Scientific Programme

Tuesday 23 September 2025

8:30-8:55 Registration and coffee / Posters displayed

8:55-9:00 Welcome

A. Session on Quantum Materials (Chair: Peter Hirschfeld)

9:00-9.30 Milan Allan, “What limits the critical temperature for superconductivity in quantum materials?”

9:30-10:00 Peter Wahl, “Imaging control of emergent quantum states”

10:00-10:30 Luke Rhodes, “Simulating signatures of correlated electrons in quantum materials via quasiparticle interference”

10:30-11:00 Coffee break and Posters

B. Session on Josephson STM (Chair: Peter Hirschfeld)

11:00-11:30 Hermann Suderow, “The feedback driven atomic scale Josephson microscope”

11.30-12:00 Christian Ast, “New Quantum Limits in Scanning Tunneling Microscopy: From Dynamical Coulomb Blockade to Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics”

12:00-12:30 Peayush Choubey, “Atomic-scale simulation of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Scanning Josephson Microscopy on unconventional superconductors”

GROUP PHOTO

12:30-14:00 Lunch Somerville College / Posters in Physics in the Martin Wood complex

C. Session on UTe₂ (Chair: Séamus Davis)

14:00-14:30 Qiangqiang Gu, “Detection of spin-triplet superconductivity in UTe2 using scanned Josephson/Andreev tunneling microscopy”

14:30-15:00 Cristina Bena, “Surface states from the metamorphosis of plane-impurity states: application to surface states and QPI patterns in UTe2”

15:00-15:30 Brian Andersen, “Superconducting pairing and QPI in UTe2”

15:30-16:00 pm Coffee break and Posters

D. Session on QPI on Quantum Materials (Chair: Séamus Davis)

16:00-16:30 Andreas Kreisel, “Quasiparticle Interference of Spin-Triplet Superconductors: Application to UTe2”

16:30-17:00 Wulf Wulfhekel, “Vortices, inelastic QPI and inter-band coupling in two band superconductors”

17:00-18:00pm Poster session and Drinks

18:00-19.15 Quantum Materials Public Lecture (separate registration is required to this link)

Steve Blundell, Seeing the quantum nanoworld

oxford_symposium_2025_programme_v8_23sept2025.pdf

19.30 -22.00 Conference Dinner (invited speakers and invited participants)

Wednesday 24 September 2025

E. Session on 2D materials (Chair: Shuqiu Wang)

9:00-9:30 Felix von Oppen, “Theory of the quantum twisting microscope”

9:30-10.00 Peter Liljeroth, “Magnetic excitations in van der Waals quantum materials”

10.00-10:30 Steffen Wirth, Electronic Inhomogeneity: From Polaron Formation to Topology“

10:30-11:00 Coffee break and Posters

F. Session on Fe- and Ni-based Superconductors (Chair: Shuqiu Wang)

11:00-11:30 Freek Massee, “Sub-gap states in Fe(Se,Te)”

11:30-12.00 Kazu Fujita, “Visualizing the finite-momentum pairing states in EuRbFe4As4”

12.00-12:30 Ilya Eremin, “Superconductivity in bilayer nickelates: layer selectivity, impurity effects, and quasiparticle interference”

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Somerville and Posters in Physics in the Martin Wood complex

G. Session on Outlook (Chair: Peter Hirschfeld)

14:00-14:30 Sasha Balatsky, “Quantum Printing in Coherent Electron Liquid”

14:30-15:00 J.C Seamus Davis, “Closing remarks”

15:00 The end of the symposium and posters to be collected.

POSTERS

	Name	Affiliation	Title
1	Jose Antonio Moreno	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid	Surface superconductivity and mobile vortex lattice in Weyl semimetal ɣ-PtBi2
2.	Pablo García Talavera	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid	Surface charge density wave in UTe2
3.	Rebecca Bisset	University of St Andrews	Scanning tunnelling spectroscopy of a putative spin-triplet superconductor
4.	Eleonora Megaro	University of Bristol	Scanned Andreev Tunneling Microscopy: Atomic-scale visualization of electronic structures in spin-triplet superconductors
5.	Kuanysh Zhussupbekov	Cornell University	QPI Imaging of Subgap Quasiparticles in the Superconducting Topological Surface State of UTe₂
6.	Rafee Abedin	University of Oxford	Ab initio calculation of matter wave interactions with strained surfaces
7.	Amalia Coldea	University of Oxford	Intertwined electronic orders and field–induced magnetism in FeSe1-xSx probed via tunnel diode oscillator technique
8.	Ioana Paulescu	University of Oxford	Hidden field-induced magnetism inside the nematic phase of FeSe1-xSx
9.	Wan Fong	University of Oxford	Strain tuning of the band structure and changes in the spectral weight in the tetragonal FeSe0.55Te0.45
10.	John Pearce	University of Oxford	Magnetic Anisotropies of RuX₃ (X = Br, I) Probed by Torque Magnetometry
11.	Pascal Manuel	ISIS Neutron and Muon Source	Measuring difficult samples with neutrons
12.	Nick Popiel	University of Bristol	Slow spin fluctuations in d-electon Kondo insulator FeSb2.