Workshop: Quantum Information and Quantum Statistical Mechanics

October 15-19, 2018

Program

 

Monday, October 15, 2018

08:30 - 09:00
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)


09:00 - 09:40
Herbert Spohn
(Technische Universität München)
The line ensemble of the XXZ chain and KPZ fluctuations
Abstract
09:45 - 10:25
Daniel Ueltschi
(University of Warwick)
Dimerisation in quantum spin chains
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:40
Gunter Stolz
(University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Localization properties of the disordered XXZ chain
Abstract
11:45 - 12:25
Milivoje Lukic
(Rice University)
Transport in XY spin chains via Jacobi matrices
Abstract
12:30 - 14:45
Lunch Break and Discussions
14:45 - 15:25
Robert Sims
(University of Arizona)
Lieb-Robinson bounds and the spectral flow
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:40
Amanda Young
(University of Arizona)
On the stability of gapped ground state phases of frustration-free quantum spin systems
Abstract

 

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants


09:00 - 09:40
Israel Klich
(University of Virginia)
Highly entangled spin chains and exact tensor networks
Abstract
09:45 - 10:25
Frank Verstraete
(University of Vienna)
Frustrated spin systems versus tensor networks
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:40
Norbert Schuch
(Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik)
Constructing topological models by symmetrization: A PEPS study
11:45 - 12:25
Yoshiko Ogata
(The University of Tokyo)
Lieb-Schultz-Mattis type theorems for quantum spin chains without continuous symmetry
Abstract
12:30 - 14:45
Lunch Break and Discussions
14:45 - 15:25
Stephan De Bièvre
(Univ. des Sciences et Technologies de Lille)
A new non-classicality measure for the quantum states of a bosonic field
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:40
Marco Merkli
(Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Constructing completely positive semigroups from resonance data
Abstract

 

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants


09:00 - 09:40
Martin Fraas
(Virginia Tech)
An index theory for many body quantum systems
Abstract
09:45 - 10:25
Sven Bachmann
(The University of British Columbia)
Many-body quantum Hall effect: an overview
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:40
Nilanjana Datta
(University of Cambridge)
Convergence rates for quantum evolution & entropic continuity bounds in infinite dimensions
Abstract
11:45 - 12:25
Dominique Spehner
(Universidad de Concepción)
Measuring quantum correlations with relative quantum Rényi entropies
Abstract
12:30 - 14:45
Lunch Break and Discussions

14:45
Free afternoon

 

Thursday, October 18, 2018

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants


09:00 - 09:40
David Pérez García
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Classification of phases for mixed states via fast dissipative evolution
Abstract
09:45 - 10:25
David Gosset
(University of Waterloo)
Approximation algorithms for quantum many-body problems
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:40
Michael Kastoryano
(University of Cologne)
Locality at the boundary implies gap in the bulk for 2D PEPS
Abstract
11:45 - 12:25
Angelo Lucia
(California Institute of Technology)
Undecidability of the spectral gap in one dimension
Abstract
12:30 - 14:45
Lunch Break and Discussions
14:45 - 15:25
Mazyar Mirrahimi
(QUANTIC – INRIA Paris)
A hardware-efficient and scalable approach to fault-tolerant quantum computation
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:40
Pawel Mazurek
(University of Gdansk)
Implementing thermal operations
Abstract

 

Friday, October 19, 2018

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants


09:00 - 09:40
Tristan Benoist
(CNRS - Université Paul Sabatier)
Relative entropies and hypothesis testing for repeated quantum measurements (and finitely correlated states)
Abstract
09:45 - 10:25
Matthias Christandl
(University of Copenhagen)
Tensor network representations from the geometry of entangled states
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:40
Jeffrey Schenker
(Michigan State University)
Localization (and resonant delocalization?) for a disordered polaron
Abstract
11:45 - 12:25
Horia Cornean
(Aalborg University)
A Dyson equation for non-equilibrium Green's functions in the partition-free setting
Abstract
12:30 - 14:45
Lunch Break and Discussions

14:45
Free afternoon