Workshop on Quantum Information in Quantum Many-body Physics

October 18-21, 2011

Program
 

Tuesday, October 18, 2011
08:30 - 09:00
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Alioscia Hamma
(Perimeter Institute)
10:00 - 11:00
Sergey Bravyi
(IBM Research)
Memory time of 3D spin Hamiltonians with topological order
Abstract
11:00 - 11:20
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:20 - 11:50
Tzu-Chieh Wei
(SUNY at Stony Brook)
Measurement-based quantum computation with thermal states and always-on interactions
Abstract
11:50 - 12:20
Anne E. B. Nielsen
(Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics)
Infinite-dimensional-matrix product states
Abstract
12:20 - 15:30
Lunch break and Free time
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee
Room(s) 6245
16:00 - 17:00
David Sénéchal
(Université de Sherbrooke)
17:00 - 17:30
Guillaume Duclos-Cianci
(Université de Sherbrooke)
Local equivalence of topological order : Kitaev's code and color codes
Abstract
17:30 - 18:00
Philippe Corboz
(ETH Zürich)
Recent progress in the simulation of strongly correlated systems in two dimensions with tensor network algorithms
Abstract

 

Wednesday, October 19, 2011
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Barbara Terhal
(RWTH Aachen)
Adiabatic quantum computation and stoquastic Hamiltonians
Abstract
10:00 - 11:00
Spiros Michalakis
(Caltech)
Stability of frustration-free Hamiltonians
Abstract
11:00 - 11:20
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:20 - 11:50
Norbert Schuch
(California Institute of Technology)
Complexity of commuting Hamiltonians for qubits on a square lattice
Abstract
11:50 - 12:20
Maarten Van den Nest
(Max Planck Institute)
A monomial matrix formalism to describe quantum many-body states
Abstract
12:20 - 15:30
Lunch break and Free time
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee
Room(s) 6245
16:00 - 17:00
Héctor Bombin
(Perimeter Institute)

Session d’affiches (17h00 - 19h00) / Poster Session (17:00 - 19:00)
Meeting room(s) : 6245

Courtney Brell
(University of Sydney)
A perturbative approach to PEPS parent Hamiltonians
Oliver Buerschaper
(Perimeter Institute)
Topologically ordered tensor network states
Andrew Darmawan
(University of Sydney)
Measurement-based quantum computation in a 2D phase of matter

 

Thursday, October 20, 2011
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Guifre Vidal
(Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Impurities, infrared catastrophe and renormalization: a principle of holographic quasi-locality
Abstract
10:00 - 11:00
André-Marie Tremblay
(Université de Sherbrooke)
Sucesses and limitations of dynamical mean field theory
Abstract
11:00 - 11:20
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:20 - 12:20
Matthias Troyer
(ETH Zürich)
12:20 - 15:30
Lunch break and Free time
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee
Room(s) 6245

Session - Chaire Aisenstadt Chair
Meeting room(s) : 6214

16:00 - 17:00
Renato Renner
(ETH Zürich)
An information-theoretic view on thermalization
Abstract


Meeting room(s) : 6214

17:00 - 18:00
Tobias Osborne
(Leibniz Universität Hannover)
The continuum limit of a quantum circuit: variational classes for quantum fields
Abstract

 

Friday, October 21, 2011
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 10:00
Roger Melko
(University of Waterloo)
Entanglement entropy in exotic phases of quantum matter
Abstract
10:00 - 11:00
Frank Verstraete
(University of Vienna)
The entanglement spectrum of gapped quantum spin systems
Abstract
11:00 - 11:20
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:20 - 11:50
Stephen Inglis
(University of Waterloo)
Measuring Renyi entropies in finite-temperature QMC using Wang-Landau sampling
Abstract
11:50 - 12:20
Jutho Haegeman
(University of Ghent)
Time-dependent variational principle for quantum many-body systems
Abstract
12:20 - 15:30
Lunch break and Free time
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee
Room(s) 6245
16:00 - 16:30
Ann Kallin
(University of Waterloo)
Scaling of entanglement entropy in the 2D Heisenberg ground state
Abstract
16:30 - 17:00
Johannes Wilms
(University of Vienna)
Mutual information in the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model
Abstract
17:00 - 17:30
Winton Brown
(Université de Sherbrooke)
Quantum Hammersley-Clifford theorem
Abstract

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