Collaboration Meeting on Lattice Gauge Theory

19 Jan 2026, 13:30 → 20 Jan 2026, 15:30 Europe/Berlin

MPQ Garching

Fabian Heidrich-Meisner (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen), Mari Carmen Banuls (MPQ), Markus Heyl (GNOI), Monika Aidelsburger (MPQ/LMU)

Collaboration Meeting on Lattice Gauge Theory

Topics

• Experimental realizations

• Nonequilibrium dynamics

• Weak and strong ergodicity breaking

• Anomalous transport

Invited Lecturer

• Debasish Banerjee, University of Southampton

Organizers

• Monika Aidelsburger, LMU Munich
• Mari Carmen Bañuls, MPQ Garching
• Markus Heyl, Universität Augsburg

Contact

• Fabian Heidrich-Meisner: fabian.heidrich-meisner@uni-goettingen.de
• Anke Oude-Aost: anke.oude-aost@theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de

 

This Event is organized by DFG Research Unit FOR 5522.

 

Monday 19 January

13:30 → 14:00 Arrival & Welcome

14:00 → 15:00 Experiments - Quantum simulation of lattice gauge theories with neutral atoms

Speaker: Monika Aidelsburger (MPQ/LMU)

15:00 → 16:00 Theory - Theoretical overview over modern phenomena in lattice gauge theories

Speaker: Markus Heyl (GNOI)

16:00 → 17:00 Coffee break & discussions

17:00 → 18:20 Teaser Talks

17:00 Stability of subdiffusion in dipole-conserving models

Speaker: Francisco Guzman Cajica

17:10 Realization of a large-scale (2+1)D U(1) lattice gauge theory with ultracold atoms

Speaker: Simon Karch

17:20 Graph energy centrality and slow dynamics

Speaker: Heiko Georg Menzler

17:30 Dynamics of 2D fermionic lattice gauge theories

Speaker: Rafał Świętek

17:40 Floquet Many-Body Cages

Speaker: Tom Ben-Ami

17:50 Quantum Hard Disks and Their Relation to Cages

Speaker: Vighnesh Naik

18:00 Characterizing dynamical criticality of many-body localization transitions from a Fock-space perspective

Speaker: Zhenghang Sun

18:10 Cooling dynamics of a disorder-free localized Kitaev model

Speaker: Arkadeep Mitra

19:15 → 21:15 Conference Dinner

Tuesday 20 January

09:00 → 10:00 Invited Lecture - Ergodicity-breaking scenarios in quantum link lattice gauge theories

While the widespread applicability of statistical mechanics indicates the ubiquitous occurrence of thermalization, guided by the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH), there are increasing examples of violations of the ETH paradigm; both for translational invariant and disordered systems. In this talk, we will discuss various such examples occurring in pure U(1) quantum link gauge theories in two and three spatial dimensions involving exotic phenomena such as scarring and fragmentation.

Speaker: Debasish Banerjee (University of Southampton)

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 → 11:15 Discussion Session 1 - Cages

11:15 → 12:00 Discussion Session 2 - Implementations and dynamics in LGTs

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Discussions

15:00 → 15:30 End & Departure