Workshop: Entanglement, Integrability and Topology in Many-Body Systems

September 17-21, 2018

Program

 

Monday, September 17, 2018

09:00 - 09:30
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)


09:30 - 10:20
Karyn Le Hur
(CPHT, École Polytechnique - CNRS)
Entanglement, fluctuations and topology in many-body quantum systems
10:20 - 11:10
Adam Nahum
(University of Oxford)
Emergent statistical mechanics of entanglement production for (1) isolated systems and (2) continually measured systems
11:10 - 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 - 12:20
Dmitry Abanin
(University of Geneva)
Quantum many-body scars
12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:20
Itai Arad
(Technion - Israel Institute of Technology )
Local constraints on many-body quantum steady states: applications to learning and tensor-networks
15:30 - 16:20
Xiangyu Cao
(UC Berkeley)
Numerical study of operator scrambling and thermalizing dynamics

 

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants


09:30 - 10:20
Frank Verstraete
(University of Vienna)
Entanglement, integrability and topology in tensor networks
10:20 - 11:10
Stephan Rachel
(The University of Melbourne)
Pseudo Landau Levels: strong correlations and arbitrary dimensions
11:10 - 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 - 12:20
Rafael Alexander
(University of New Mexico)
Walks, tiles, and zippers: exact holographic tensor networks for Motzkin spin chains
12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:30
Thomas Scaffidi
(UC Berkeley)
Topologically-protected long edge coherence times in symmetry broken phases
15:30 - 16:20
Tami Pereg-Barnea
(McGill University)
Probing and manipulating topological systems with periodic time dependence

 

Wednesday, September 19, 2018

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants


09:30 - 10:20
Roger Melko
(University of Waterloo)
Measuring entanglement entropy in experiments using machine learning
10:20 - 11:10
Kun Yang
(CMS Group, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory)
Entanglement and thermal structure of free fermion eigenstates
11:10 - 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 - 12:20
Glen Brian Evenbly
(Université de Sherbrooke)
Gauge fixing, canonical forms and optimal truncations in tensor networks with closed loops

12:30
Free afternoon

 

Thursday, September 20, 2018

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants


09:30 - 10:20
Robert C. Myers
(Perimeter Institute)
Circuit complexity in QFT & holography
10:20 - 11:10
Ramis Movassagh
(IBM TJ Watson)
Applications of free probability theory to Floquet topological phase transitions
11:10 - 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 - 12:20
Wojciech De Roeck
(KU Leuven)
A simple, unifying theory of prethermalization
12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:20
William Witczak-Krempa
(Université de Montréal)
Gapless quantum spin chains: multiple dynamics and conformal wavefunctions

 

Friday, September 21, 2018

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants


09:00 - 09:50
Erik Tonni
(SISSA)
Holographic entanglement entropy in AdS(4)/BCFT(3) and the Willmore functional
09:50 - 10:40
Jean-Marie Stephan
(Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1)
Strange effects of integrability in a simple out of equilibrium problem
10:40 - 11:30
Coffee break

Session - Physics Colloquium
Meeting room(s) : G-715, Pavillon Roger-Gaudry

11:30 - 12:30
Dmitry Abanin
(University of Geneva)
New quantum many-body states enabled by ergodicity breakdown