The Workshop
1-3 September 2025, Modena, Italy
Following the two previous workshops organised in 2018, 2021 and 2023, we are organising the fourth edition of the Two-dimensional excitonic insulators Workshop, spanning three days, dedicated discussion and posters sessions.
The excitonic insulator is the heretic paradigm of condensed matter theory, a macroscopic quantum coherent state made of excitons, electron-hole pairs bound by Coulomb attraction, which spontaneously form and condense at thermodynamic equilibrium.
The workshop will be held in Modena, Italy from the 1st to the 3th September 20025
The focus of this new edition will be the frantic hunt for macroscopic quantum coherence, the search of new candidate materials and the prediction of experimental fingerprints of the condensed excitonic phase, the understanding of the relation between excitonic and other unconventional phases.
Building on the discussion of common themes and novel challenges, both theoretical and computational, this Workshop will progress our understanding of interacting systems in low dimensions.
The organisers are Hope Bretscher (MPI, Germany), Elisa Molinari (UniMoRe, Italy) and Massimo Rontani (Cnr-Nano, Italy)