ICTP School on Quantum Dynamics of Matter, Light, and Information

Summary

The school aims to teach a modern course in condensed matter and statistical physics, combining basic concepts with recent structural and interdisciplinary developments, and placing a special focus on the interactions between information, light, and matter. The leitmotif of the school will be to bridge traditional methods and approaches developed in the context of strongly correlated electrons and interdisciplinary concepts and ideas coming from quantum information theory as well as solid state and atomic physics experiments.

The event will be held at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy, and is aimed at graduate students and junior researchers. It will feature a combination of theory and computational courses as well as seminars on experimental progress in the field.

Topics:

• Statistical mechanics: from foundations to active matter and quantum information
• Analytical techniques and (quantum) field theory
• Numerical techniques: high-level programming and advanced computational methods
• Coherent dynamics: entanglement, decoherence, phase transitions, driven systems, and chaos in many-body physics
• Topological quantum matter: phases, excitations, and diagnostics
• Physical platforms: solid state, atoms, and photons

Speakers:

• A. Browayes, Institut d'Optique, France
• P. Calabrese, SISSA, Italy
• A. Chandran, Boston University, USA
• J. Chalker, University of Oxford, UK
• W. Krauth, École Normale Supérieure, France
• C. Laumann, Boston University, USA
• M. Levin, University of Chicago, USA
• M. Mueller, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
• M. Mueller, University of Aachen, Germany
• S. Pappalardi, University of Cologne, Germany
• S. Sachdev, Harvard University, USA
• M. Stoudenmire, Flatiron Institute, USA
• A. Souslov, University of Cambridge, UK
• A. Yazdani, Princeton University, USA
• M. Žnidarič, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Grants:

A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.

Organizers:

• Claudio Castelnovo (University of Cambridge, UK)
• Xie Chen (California Institute of Technology, USA)
• Marcello Dalmomte (ICTP, Italy)
• Maximilian McGinley (University of Cambridge, UK)
• Roderich Moessner (MPI, Germany)
• Antonello Scardicchio (ICTP, Italy)
• Alessandro Silva (SISSA, Italy)
• Marcello Dalmonte (local organizer, ICTP, Italy)

Cosponsors:

• NQSTI (National Quantum Science and Technology Institute)
• ICAM-I2CAM (Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter)
• Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat – Complexity and Topology in Quantum Matter

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