PhD Retreat 2026

15 Sept 2026, 08:00 → 17 Sept 2026, 14:15 Europe/Berlin

H107 (Faculty of Physics - LMU)

Daniel Adler (MGQO), Marcel Cech, Suchita Agrawal (MGQO)

PhD Retreat 2026

Topics

• out-of-equilibrium quantum many-body systems
• Hilbert space fragmentation
• many body localization
• quantum many-body scars
• kinetic constraints
• numerical methods
• ultracold quantum gases
• quantum simulation
• thermalization
• ergodicity
• eigenstate thermalization hypothesis

Invited Speakers

• Monika Aidelsburger, LMU
• Annabelle Bohrdt, LMU
• Florian Meinert, Stuttgart University

Organizer

• Daniel Adler, MPQ Garching
• Suchita Agrawal, MPQ Garching
• Marcel Cech, University of Tübingen

Contact

• Anke Oude-Aost: anke.oude-aost@theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de

 

This Event is organized by DFG Research Unit FOR 5522.

 

Tuesday 15 September

1 Welcome and short round of introductions

Invited Talks: Invited Lecture

Convener: Annabelle Bohrdt

11:00 Coffee Break

Participant Talks: "Fluctuations in Active Quantum Matter" & “Subradiant Modes in Atomic Arrays via Pair Excitations”

Conveners: Marcel Cech, Suchita Agrawal (MGQO)

12:30 Lunch Break

Participant Talks: "Isothermal compression of a Fermi gas to deep quantum degeneracy" & tba

Conveners: Eduard Heidt (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Physikalisches Institut), Irene Prieto Rodriguez (LMU/MPQ)

2 Discussion and Socializing

Wednesday 16 September

Participant Talks: “Advanced State Preparation and Readout Using Programmable Lattices in an Optical Lattice Quantum Simulator” & “A fermionic 171Yb clock-magic microscope”

Conveners: David Gröters (Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics), Fabian Maier (SMLU)

10:15 Coffee Break

Participant Talks: tba & “Boundaries of ergodicity and diffusion in weakly disordered systems”

Conveners: María Cea Fernández (Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics), Rafał Świętek (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

3 Open Discussions

12:30 Lunch Break

Invited Talks: Quantum Computing and Simulation with Rydberg Atoms

Convener: Florian Meinert

15:45 Coffee Break

4 Open Discussions

17:15 Short Break

5 Open Discussions

6 Social Dinner

Thursday 17 September

7 Open Discussion / Breakout Session

10:30 Coffee Break

Participant Talks: "Quantum gas microscopy of disordered many-body systems" & "Probing a strongly interacting ErLi mixture"

Conveners: Daniel Adler (MGQO), Jonas Auch (GNOI)

8 Wrap up and final Words

12:45 Lunch and Departure