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Description An ICTP Meeting

This School aims to teach a modern course in condensed matter and statistical physics, combining basic concepts with recent structural and interdisciplinary developments, with 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, to interdisciplinary concepts and ideas coming from quantum information theory as well as solid state and atomic physics experiments.
 
The event is aimed at graduate students and junior researchers, and features 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. Browaeys, Institut d'Optique, France
P. Calabrese, SISSA, Italy
A. Chandran, Boston University, USA
J. Chalker, University of Oxford, UK
W. Krauth, Ecole Normale Superieure, France
C. Laumann, Boston University, USA
M. Levin, University of Chicago, USA
M. Mueller, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
S. Pappalardi, University of Cologne, Germany
S. Sachdev, Harvard University, USA
M. Stoudenmire, Flatiron Institute, USA
A. Souslov, University of Cambridge, UK
M. Znidaric, 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.

Students based in the US may be sponsored by ICAM for their travel.
Interested Applicants shall mention if they are part of the network in their application.

 

Material

School on Quantum Dynamics of Matter, Light and Information | (smr 4095)
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  • Monday, 18 August 2025
    • 08:30 - 11:00 Registration Formalities 
      REGISTRATION: Upon arrival, Visitors not staying in the ICTP Guest Houses, are kindly requested to complete registration formalities at the Leonardo Building (Lobby). The Registration Desk will be open in the morning starting from 8:30.
    • 09:00 - 17:30
      • 09:00 Chaotic dynamics: the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis and beyond - Part I 1h30'
        Speaker: Silvia PAPPALARDI (University of Cologne)
        Material: Video
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:00 Scientific Python - Part I 1h30'
        Speaker: Christopher Richard LAUMANN (Boston University)
        Material: Video
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
      • 14:00 SYK as a solvable model of quantum matter without quasiparticles 1h30'
        Speaker: Subir SACHDEV (Harvard University)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:00 Quantum critical dynamics of the Ising model in two spatial dimensions 1h30'
        Speaker: Subir SACHDEV (Harvard University)
        Material: Slides Video
  • Tuesday, 19 August 2025
    • 09:00 - 17:30
      • 09:00 Strange metal from metallic quantum phase transitions with spatial disorder 1h30'
        Speaker: Subir SACHDEV (Harvard University)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:00 Scientific Python - Part II 1h30'
        Speaker: Christopher Richard LAUMANN (Boston University)
        Material: Video
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
      • 14:00 Sequential Quantum Circuit - Part I 1h30'
        Speaker: Xie CHEN (California Institute of Technology)
        Material: Video
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:00 Chaotic dynamics: the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis and beyond - Part II 1h30'
        Speaker: Silvia PAPPALARDI (University of Cologne)
        Material: Video
  • Wednesday, 20 August 2025
    • 09:00 - 17:30
      • 09:00 Sequential Quantum Circuit - Part II 1h30'
        Speaker: Xie CHEN (California Institute of Technology)
        Material: Video
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:00 Chaotic dynamics: the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis and beyond - Part III 1h30'
        Speaker: Silvia PAPPALARDI (University of Cologne)
        Material: Video
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
      • 14:00 Poster Session A 1h30' 
        There will be 4 poster sessions in total. Groups are divided alphabetically by last name.
Today's group:Participants with last names A-C
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:00 Poster Session A - continuation 1h30' 
        There will be 4 poster sessions in total. Groups are divided alphabetically by last name.
Today's group:Participants with last names A-C
  • Thursday, 21 August 2025
    • 09:00 - 17:30
      • 09:00 Scientific Python - Part III 1h30'
        Speaker: Christopher Richard LAUMANN (Boston University)
        Material: Video
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:00 Many-body physics and with arrays of Rydberg atoms - Part I 1h30'
        Speaker: Antoine BROWAEYS (CNRS, France)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
      • 14:00 Poster Session B 1h30' 
        There will be 4 poster sessions in total. Groups are divided alphabetically by last name.
Today's group:Participants with last names D-K
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:00 Poster Session B - continuation 1h30' 
        There will be 4 poster sessions in total. Groups are divided alphabetically by last name.
Today's group:Participants with last names D-K
  • Friday, 22 August 2025
    • 09:00 - 14:00
      • 09:00 Symmetry re-breaking and coarsening in quantum systems 1h30'
        Speaker: Anyusha CHANDRAN (Boston University)
        Material: Video
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:00 Many-body physics and with arrays of Rydberg atoms - Part II 1h25'
        Speaker: Antoine BROWAEYS (CNRS, France)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 12:25 Group Photo 5'
      • 12:30 Lunch break 1h30'
  • Monday, 25 August 2025
    • 09:00 - 17:30
      • 09:00 Random quantum circuits as models for chaotic many-body dynamics - Part I 1h30'
        Speaker: John Timothy CHALKER (University of Oxford)
        Material: Video
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:00 Topological Phases - Part I 1h30'
        Speaker: Michael LEVIN (University of Chicago)
        Material: Video
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
      • 14:00 Poster Session C 1h30' 
        There will be 4 poster sessions in total. Groups are divided alphabetically by last name.
Today's group:Participants with last names L-P
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:00 Poster Session C - continuation 1h30' 
        There will be 4 poster sessions in total. Groups are divided alphabetically by last name.
Today's group:Participants with last names L-P
    • 19:30 - 21:30
      • 19:30 Welcome Reception 2h0' ( Il Posto delle Fragole ) 
        All Participants are cordially invited to the Welcome Reception.

Location: Il Posto delle Fragole
Via Guglielmo De Pastrovich 4, 34128, Trieste
  • Tuesday, 26 August 2025
    • 09:00 - 14:00
      • 09:00 Random quantum circuits as models for chaotic many-body dynamics - Part II 1h30'
        Speaker: John Timothy CHALKER (University of Oxford)
        Material: Video
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:00 Topological Phases - Part II 1h30'
        Speaker: Michael LEVIN (University of Chicago)
        Material: Video
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:05 - 16:05 ICTP Colloquium by Roderich MOESSNER 
      The Colloquium will be livestreamed at: ictp.it/livestream
      • 14:05 Topological physics as censor, and as microscope 1h30'
        Speaker: Roderich MOESSNER (MPI, Germany)
      • 15:35 Refreshments 30'
  • Wednesday, 27 August 2025
    • 09:00 - 13:00
      • 09:00 Non-ergodicity and glassiness in quantum systems - Part I 1h30'
        Speaker: Markus MUELLER (PSI, Switzerland)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 10:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 11:00 Topological Phases - Part III 1h30'
        Speaker: Michael LEVIN (University of Chicago)
        Material: Video
      • 12:30 Lunch break 30'
    • 13:00 - 14:00 ICTP Prize Award Ceremony 
      Each year, the ICTP Prize is given in honour of a scientist who has made outstanding
contributions to the field in which the prize is given.
All Participants are most welcome to join us for the Prize Award Ceremony.
  • Thursday, 28 August 2025
    • 09:00 - 17:30
      • 09:00 Random quantum circuits as models for chaotic many-body dynamics - Part III 1h30'
        Speaker: John Timothy CHALKER (University of Oxford)
        Material: Video
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:00 Topological states and non-reciprocity in active matter - Part I 1h30'
        Speaker: Anton SOUSLOV (University of Cambridge)
        Material: Slides
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
      • 14:00 Poster Session D 1h30' 
        There will be 4 poster sessions in total. Groups are divided alphabetically by last name.
Today's group:Participants with last names R-Z
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:00 Poster Session D - continuation 1h30' 
        There will be 4 poster sessions in total. Groups are divided alphabetically by last name.
Today's group:Participants with last names R-Z
  • Friday, 29 August 2025
    • 09:00 - 17:30
      • 09:00 Topological states and non-reciprocity in active matter - Part II 1h30'
        Speaker: Anton SOUSLOV (University of Cambridge)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:00 Non-ergodicity and glassiness in quantum systems - Part II 1h30'
        Speaker: Markus MUELLER (PSI, Switzerland)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
      • 14:00 Quasiparticle picture: from entanglement dynamics to quantum Mpemba effect - Part I 1h30'
        Speaker: Pasquale CALABRESE (Sissa, Italy)
        Material: Video
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:00 Non-ergodicity and glassiness in quantum systems - Part III 1h30'
        Speaker: Markus MUELLER (PSI, Switzerland)
        Material: Slides Video
  • Monday, 1 September 2025
    • 09:00 - 17:30
      • 09:00 Quasiparticle picture: from entanglement dynamics to quantum Mpemba effect - Part II 1h30'
        Speaker: Pasquale CALABRESE (Sissa, Italy)
        Material: Video
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:00 Quasiparticle picture: from entanglement dynamics to quantum Mpemba effect - Part III 1h30'
        Speaker: Pasquale CALABRESE (Sissa, Italy)
        Material: Video
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
      • 14:00 Quantum chaos and effective non-unitarity in many-body physics - Part I 1h30'
        Speaker: Marko ZNIDARIC (University of Ljubljana)
        Material: Video
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:00 Quantum chaos and effective non-unitarity in many-body physics - Part II 1h30'
        Speaker: Marko ZNIDARIC (University of Ljubljana)
        Material: Video
  • Tuesday, 2 September 2025
    • 09:00 - 14:30
      • 09:00 The second Markov-chain revolution - Part I 1h30'
        Speaker: Werner KRAUTH (Ecole Normale Superieure, France)
        Material: Video
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:00 Quantum chaos and effective non-unitarity in many-body physics - Part III 1h30'
        Speaker: Marko ZNIDARIC (University of Ljubljana)
        Material: Video
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:30 - 16:00
      • 14:30 Students' Talk: Daniel SPASIC MLACAK 25' 
        "Gapless edge gravitons and quasiparticles in fractional quantum Hall systems with non-local confinement"
      • 15:00 Students' Talk: Dian JING 25' 
        "Quantum Error Correction for Non-Abelian Topological Orders"
      • 15:30 Coffee break 30'
  • Wednesday, 3 September 2025
    • 09:00 - 16:00
      • 09:00 Tensor Networks: New Methods and Applications - Part I 1h30'
        Speaker: Edwin Miles STOUDENMIRE (Flatiron Institute, USA)
        Material: Video
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:00 Tensor Networks: New Methods and Applications - Part II 1h30'
        Speaker: Edwin Miles STOUDENMIRE (Flatiron Institute, USA)
        Material: Video
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
      • 14:00 Quantum chaos and effective non-unitarity in many-body physics - Part IV 1h30'
        Speaker: Marko ZNIDARIC (University of Ljubljana)
        Material: Video
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
  • Thursday, 4 September 2025
    • 09:00 - 14:00
      • 09:00 The second Markov-chain revolution - Part II 1h30'
        Speaker: Werner KRAUTH (Ecole Normale Superieure, France)
        Material: Video
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:00 The second Markov-chain revolution - Part III 1h25'
        Speaker: Werner KRAUTH (Ecole Normale Superieure, France)
        Material: Video
      • 12:25 Group Photo 5'
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 16:25
      • 14:00 Students' Talk: Tanmay BHORE 25' 
        "Quantum Mpemba effect without global symmetries"
      • 14:30 Students' Talk: Orla SUPPLE 25' 
        "Goldstone modes out of Equilibrium"
      • 15:00 Students' Talk: Sandipan MANNA 25' 
        "Exact full counting statistics of local observables in a current-carrying steady state of XXZ spin chain"
      • 15:30 Coffee break 30'
  • Friday, 5 September 2025
    • 09:00 - 14:00
      • 09:00 The second Markov-chain revolution - Part IV 1h30'
        Speaker: Werner KRAUTH (Ecole Normale Superieure, France)
        Material: Video
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:00 Tensor Networks: New Methods and Applications - Part III 1h30'
        Speaker: Edwin Miles STOUDENMIRE (Flatiron Institute, USA)
        Material: Video
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
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