Workshop on Dynamics of Strongly Correlated Quantum Systems

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Workshop on Dynamics of Strongly Correlated Quantum Systems | (smr 2151)

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Monday, 21 June 2010
- 08:30 - 09:45 Registration and Administrative Formalities (outside Kastler Lecture Hall)
  - 08:30 Registration and Administrative Formalities (outside Kastler Lecture Hall) 1h15'
- 09:45 - 10:00 Welcome Speech
  - 09:45 Welcome Speech 15'
- 10:00 - 10:45 Non-equilibrium coherence in light-matter systems: condensation, lasing and the superradiance transition
  - 10:00 Non-equilibrium coherence in light-matter systems: condensation, lasing and the superradiance transition 45'
    
    Speaker: Jonathan Keeling (Pembroke College, Cambridge, United Kingdom)
- 10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break
  - 10:45 Coffee Break 30'
- 11:15 - 12:00 Landau-Zener problem in many body systems: applications to cold atoms, cavity QED and superconductivity
  - 11:15 Landau-Zener problem in many body systems: applications to cold atoms, cavity QED and superconductivity 45'
    
    Speaker: Victor Gurarie (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA)
- 12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
  - 12:00 Lunch Break 2h0'
- 14:00 - 14:45 Optical manipulation of quantum dot nuclear spins
  - 14:00 Optical manipulation of quantum dot nuclear spins 45'
    
    Speaker: Atac Imamoglu (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
- 14:45 - 15:30 Time-reversal symmetry and temporal coherent back-scattering in a driven two-level system
  - 14:45 Time-reversal symmetry and temporal coherent back-scattering in a driven two-level system 45'
    
    Speaker: Leonid Levitov (MIT, Cambridge, USA)
- 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
  - 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
- 16:00 - 16:45 Topological transitions in dissipative quantum transport
  - 16:00 Topological transitions in dissipative quantum transport 45'
    
    Speaker: Mark Rudner (Harvard University, Cambridge, USA)
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
- 09:15 - 10:00 Quantum dynamics in ultracold atomic gasses
  - 09:15 Quantum dynamics in ultracold atomic gasses 45'
    
    Speaker: Corinna Kollath (Ecole Polytechnique CPHT, Palaiseau, France)
- 10:00 - 10:45 Quantum chaos and thermalization in finite one-dimensional systems
  - 10:00 Quantum chaos and thermalization in finite one-dimensional systems 45'
    
    Speaker: Marcos Rigol (Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA)
- 10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break
  - 10:45 Coffee Break 30'
- 11:15 - 12:00 Thermalization after a quantum quench: the role of many-body localization
  - 11:15 Thermalization after a quantum quench: the role of many-body localization 45'
    
    Speaker: Elena Canovi (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)
- 12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
  - 12:00 Lunch Break 2h0'
- 14:00 - 14:45 Finite superfluid-"insulator" phase transition for disordered bosons in one dimension at finite temperature
  - 14:00 Finite superfluid-"insulator" phase transition for disordered bosons in one dimension at finite temperature 45'
    
    Speaker: Boris Altshuler (Columbia University, USA)
- 14:45 - 15:30 Quantum quenches in correlated systems: proposal for a variational approach
  - 14:45 Quantum quenches in correlated systems: proposal for a variational approach 45'
    
    Speaker: Michele Fabrizio (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)
- 18:00 - 20:00 Reception for all Participants at the Adriatico Guesthouse
  - 18:00 Reception for all Participants at the Adriatico Guesthouse 2h0'
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
- 09:15 - 10:00 Nonlinear Luttinger liquids
  - 09:15 Nonlinear Luttinger liquids 45'
    
    Speaker: Leonid Glazman (Yale University, New Haven, USA)
- 10:00 - 10:45 Luttinger liquids out of equilibrium
  - 10:00 Luttinger liquids out of equilibrium 45'
    
    Speaker: Yuval Gefen (The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)
- 10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break
  - 10:45 Coffee Break 30'
- 11:15 - 12:00 Fluctuations and large deviations far from equilibrium
  - 11:15 Fluctuations and large deviations far from equilibrium 45'
    
    Speaker: Yariv Kafri (Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel)
- 12:00 - 12:45 Quenching in impurity models
  - 12:00 Quenching in impurity models 45'
    
    Speaker: Natan Andrei (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, USA)
- 12:45 - 15:45 Free Afternoon
  - 12:45 Free Afternoon 3h0'
Thursday, 24 June 2010
- 09:15 - 10:00 Nonequilibrium dynamics of integrable and nearly integrable many-body systems
  - 09:15 Nonequilibrium dynamics of integrable and nearly integrable many-body systems 45'
    
    Speaker: Vladimir Gritsev (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
- 10:00 - 10:45 Dynamics and statistical mechanics of ultra-cold Bose gases using c-field techniques
  - 10:00 Dynamics and statistical mechanics of ultra-cold Bose gases using c-field techniques 45'
    
    Speaker: Blair Blakie (University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand)
- 10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break
  - 10:45 Coffee Break 30'
- 11:15 - 12:00 Putting Floquet Hamiltonians to work: Dyson singularity and topological phases in time-periodic hamiltonians
  - 11:15 Putting Floquet Hamiltonians to work: Dyson singularity and topological phases in time-periodic hamiltonians 45'
    
    Speaker: Gil Refael (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA)
- 12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
  - 12:00 Lunch Break 2h0'
- 14:00 - 14:45 Spin dynamics of ultracold atoms
  - 14:00 Spin dynamics of ultracold atoms 45'
    
    Speaker: Eugene Demler (Harvard University, Cambridge, USA)
- 14:45 - 15:30 Non-equilibrium dynamics of strongly interacting Bosonic and Fermionic quantum gases
  - 14:45 Non-equilibrium dynamics of strongly interacting Bosonic and Fermionic quantum gases 45'
    
    Speaker: Immanuel Bloch (Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching bei München, Germany)
- 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
  - 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
- 16:00 - 18:30 Poster Session
  - 16:00 Poster Session 2h30'
Friday, 25 June 2010
- 09:15 - 10:00 Quantum quench in 1D: Coherent inhomogeneity amplification and supersolitons
  - 09:15 Quantum quench in 1D: Coherent inhomogeneity amplification and supersolitons 45'
    
    Speaker: Matt Foster (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA)
- 10:00 - 10:45 Slow dynamics in quantum critical systems
  - 10:00 Slow dynamics in quantum critical systems 45'
    
    Speaker: Krishnendu Sengupta (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India)
- 10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break
  - 10:45 Coffee Break 30'
- 11:15 - 12:00 Quantum critical behavior in driven and strongly interacting Rydberg gases
  - 11:15 Quantum critical behavior in driven and strongly interacting Rydberg gases 45'
    
    Speaker: Hans Peter Buechler (Institüt für Theoretische Physik, Stuttgart, Germany)
- 12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
  - 12:00 Lunch Break 2h0'
- 14:00 - 14:45 Dynamical critical scaling in finite-order quantum phase transitions
  - 14:00 Dynamical critical scaling in finite-order quantum phase transitions 45'
    
    Speaker: Gerardo Ortiz (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA)
- 14:45 - 15:30 TBA
  - 14:45 TBA 45'
    
    Speaker: Martin Plenio (Universität Ulm, Germany)