Quantum thermalization in closed systems: From theory to experiments

May 13, 2025, 8:30 AM → May 16, 2025, 5:40 PM Europe/Berlin

MPQ Garching

Mari Carmen Bañuls (MPQ Garching), Fabian Heidrich-Meisner (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen), Frank Pollmann (TUM), Johannes Zeiher (MPQ Garching)

Quantum thermalization in closed systems: From theory to experiments

 

Topics

• Quantum chaos
• Eigenstate thermalization
• Many-body localization
• Transport
• Constrained dynamics: 
  Hilbert space fragmentation, quantum scars, and kinetically constrained models
• Experiments with quantum simulators
• Related topics are also welcome

Invited Speakers

• Jean-Philippe Brantut, EPFL - Switzerland
• Jeanne Colbois, Institut Néel, CNRS & Univ. Grenoble Alpes - France
• Wojciech De Roeck, KU Leuven - Belgium
• Michael Knap, TUM - Germany
• Hanns-Christoph Nägerl, University of Innsbruck - Austria
• Zlatko Papic, University of Leeds - England
• Silvia Pappalardi, University of Cologne - Germany
• Francesca Pietracaprina, Trinity College Dublin - Ireland
• Ulrich Schneider, University of Cambridge - England
• Peter Sollich, Universität Göttingen - Germany
• Federica Maria Surace, Caltech - California
• Leticia Tarruell, ICFO - Spain
• Lev Vidmar, Jožef Stefan Institute - Slovenia

Organizers

• Mari Carmen Bañuls, MPQ Garching - Germany

• Fabian Heidrich-Meisner, Universität Göttingen - Germany
• Frank Pollmann, TUM - Germany
• Johannes Zeiher, MPQ Garching - Germany

 

This Event is organized by DFG Research Unit FOR 5522 and supported by FOR 5522 and the Excellence Cluster MCQST.

 

FOR5522 International Conference - Program.pdf

Practical_information_sheet.pdf

Tue, May 13

8:30 AM → 9:00 AM Registration

9:00 AM → 9:45 AM Instabilities and many-body localization in the random-field XXZ chain

Speaker: Jeanne Colbois (Institut Néel, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS)

9:45 AM → 10:05 AM Cat-states and systemwide resonances in the random-field Heisenberg chain

Speaker: Nicolas Laflorencie (LPT CNRS)

10:05 AM → 10:25 AM New perspective on the critical properties of the Many Body Localization transition.

Speaker: Giacomo Bracci-Testasecca (SISSA)

10:25 AM → 10:55 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 11:45 AM Mechanism of Eigenstate Thermalization Breakdown

Speaker: Lev Vidmar (Jožef Stefan Institute)

11:45 AM → 12:30 PM Dynamics of long-range interacting Fermions

Speaker: Jean-Philippe Brantut (EPFL)

12:30 PM → 12:50 PM Impurity coupled to the SYK bath

Speaker: Anastasia Enckell (University of Göttingen)

12:50 PM → 2:30 PM Lunch Break

Please, remember to bring your lunch voucher (for today) with you

2:30 PM → 3:30 PM Discussions

2:30 PM → 3:30 PM MPQ Colloquium

https://www.mpq.mpg.de/events/41265/5381858

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM → 4:20 PM Simulating Schwinger model dynamics with quasi-one-dimensional qubit arrays

Speaker: Alessio Lerose (KU Leuven)

4:20 PM → 4:40 PM Fock space cages

Speaker: Cheryne Jonay (University of Ljubljana)

4:40 PM → 5:00 PM Many-body cages - Glassy Dynamics in Constrained Systems

Speaker: Tom Ben Ami

5:00 PM → 5:45 PM Localization transitions in classical Hamiltonians biased by trajectory reweighting

Speaker: Peter Sollich (University of Goettingen, Institute for Theoretical Physics)

Wed, May 14

9:00 AM → 9:45 AM Dynamics of Fracton Quantum Matter

Speaker: Michael Knap (TUM)

9:45 AM → 10:05 AM Probing quantum many-body dynamics using subsystem Loschmidt echo

Speaker: Simon Karch (LMU Munich/MPQ Garching)

10:05 AM → 10:25 AM Dynamics in presence of local symmetry-breaking impurities

Speaker: Yahui Li (Technical University of Munich)

10:25 AM → 10:55 AM Coffee Break

10:55 AM → 11:40 AM Metastability in quantum many-body systems

Speaker: Federica Maria Surace (Caltech)

11:40 AM → 12:00 PM Fractional diffusion from frustration in two dimensions

Speaker: Nilotpal Chakraborty (University of Cambridge)

12:00 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 2:45 PM Localization in optical quasicrystals and quasiperiodic lattices

Speaker: Ulrich Schneider (Cambridge University)

2:45 PM → 3:05 PM Hilbert space fragmentation and fractonic excitations in 2D

Speaker: Daniel Adler (MPQ)

3:05 PM → 3:25 PM Ergodicity breaking in Rydberg systems: from Hilbert space fragmentation to dissipative time crystal

Speaker: Fan Yang (University of Innsbruck)

3:25 PM → 3:55 PM Coffee Break

3:55 PM → 4:40 PM Some remaining mysteries of quantum thermalization in the PXP model

Speaker: Zlatko Papic (University of Leeds)

4:40 PM → 5:00 PM Fragmentation, Zero Modes, and Bound States in Constrained Models

Speaker: E. Nicolau Jiménez (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)

5:00 PM → 5:20 PM Anomalous decay of a high energy state into a many-body quantum system

Speaker: Mikhail Feigelman (CENN Nanocenter, Ljubljana and Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana)

7:00 PM → 10:00 PM Conference Dinner

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Thu, May 15

9:00 AM → 9:45 AM Microscopy of strontium Bose and Fermi-Hubbard systems

Speaker: Leticia Tarruell (ICFO)

9:45 AM → 10:30 AM Absence of Normal Heat Conduction in Strongly Disordered Interacting Quantum Chains

Speaker: Wojciech De Roeck (KU Leuven)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 11:20 AM Tuning of slow dynamics in a family of quantum East Hamiltonians motivated by graph theory

Speaker: Heiko Georg Menzler (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

11:20 AM → 11:40 AM Space-time correlations in monitored kinetically constrained discrete-time quantum dynamics

Speaker: Marcel Cech (University of Tübingen)

11:40 AM → 12:00 PM Magic transition in measurement-only circuits

Speaker: Poetri Sonya Tarabunga (Technical University of Munich)

12:00 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 2:45 PM Simulation of many-body quantum systems on an error-mitigated quantum computer

Speaker: Francesca Pietracaprina (Trinity College Dublin)

2:45 PM → 3:05 PM Quantum simulation of far-from-equilibrium quantum many-body dynamics

Speaker: Jad Halimeh (Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Ludwog Maximilian University of Munich)

3:05 PM → 3:25 PM Benchmarking Many-Body Quantum Devices Using Emergent Randomness

Speaker: Andreas Elben (Paul Scherrer Institute)

3:25 PM → 3:45 PM Erbium-Lithium: towards a new quantum mixture experiment

Speaker: Kirill Karpov (Universität Tübingen)

3:45 PM → 4:05 PM A new Yb quantum simulation experiment with state-dependent control

Speaker: René Alejandro Villela Escalante (LMU Munich)

4:05 PM → 4:25 PM Coffee Break

4:30 PM → 6:30 PM Poster session

Fri, May 16

9:00 AM → 9:45 AM Observation of many-body dynamical localization

Speaker: Hanns-Christoph Nägerl (Universität innsbruck)

9:45 AM → 10:05 AM Quantum thermalization as a tool for exploring thermal phases in quantum simulators

Speaker: Alexander Schuckert (Joint Quantum Institute)

10:05 AM → 10:25 AM Quantum simulation in a cold-atom Fermi-Hubbard system

Speaker: Dorothee Tell (Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 11:20 AM Fading ergodicity meets maximal chaos

Speaker: Rafał Świętek (Institute Jozef Stefan)

11:20 AM → 12:05 PM Eigenstate thermalization hypothesis correlations via non-linear Hydrodynamics

Speaker: Silvia Pappalardi (University of Cologne)

12:05 PM → 12:35 PM Closing Remarks

12:35 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch