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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MICDE State of AI: End-to-End Computational Scientific Discovery
DESCRIPTION:This special event will present a recent breakthrough by professors Kai Sun (Physics) and Venkat Viswanathan (Aerospace). Fractional Chern insulators are exotic topological states of matter that host anyons\, a proposed foundation for fault-tolerant quantum computing\, but their small energy gaps confine them to extremely low temperatures. The team asked frontier AI models to propose a new theoretical framework for topological flat bands\, then set a swarm of agents to explore it\, coordinating only through a shared message board\, with every candidate checked by GPU-accelerated exact diagonalization. The swarm found a surprise: departing from the “ideal” quantum geometry long considered optimal raised the many-body gap more than tenfold over the starting bands\, well past the previous benchmark and beyond what agents working alone reached. AI-assisted analysis then distilled this into a simple sheared Landau level model that explains the mechanism (reshaped electron orbitals stiffen the short-range repulsion protecting the state) and yields a design index computable without many-body simulation. Proposing the hypothesis\, searching it\,  explaining what it found\, and presenting a model offers an early look at end-to-end scientific discovery with AI.
UID:154202-21917359@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/154202
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Aerospace Engineering,Ai,Ai In Science And Engineering,Computational Science,Generative Ai,Graduate,Graduate School,Lsa Events,Micde,Micde Seminar,Physics,Rackham
LOCATION:Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building - 1109
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