Preliminary Program - Non-equilibrium Quantum Matter

  1. Preliminary Program - Non-equilibrium Quantum Matter
  2. Tuesday, May 30th
    1. Morning Session: Light-induced superconductivity
    2. Afternoon Session I: Materials driven strongly out of equilibrium and related systems
    3. Afternoon Session II: Dynamics of cold atoms, in particular dynamics of impurities, & dynamical phase transitions
  3. Wednesday, May 31st
    1. Morning Session I: Dynamics of topological excitations in superfluids
    2. Morning Session II: Exotic quantum non-equilibrium phenomena (cont.)
    3. Afternoon Session: Dynamics of cold atoms, in particular dynamics of impurities, & dynamical phase transitions
  4. Thursday, June 1st
    1. Morning Session: Interplay between Floquet perturbations and topology
    2. Afternoon Session I: Many-body localization and Floquet time crystals
    3. Afternoon Session II: Exotic quantum non-equilibrium phenomena
  5. Friday, June 2nd
    1. Morning Session: Dynamics of cold atoms, in particular dynamics of impurities, & dynamical phase transitions (cont.)
    2. Afternoon Session: Quantum chaos in kicked cold atomic and related systems
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Tuesday, May 30th
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Morning Session: Light-induced superconductivity
08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:10 Jairo SINOVA, Mainz:
Opening Remarks
09:10 – 10:00 Andrea CAVALLERI, Max Planck Hamburg:
Intro to light-induced SC
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 11:00 Dante KENNES, MILLIS group Columbia:
Electronic squeezing of pumped phonons: negative U and transient superconductivity (theory)
11:10 – 11:40 Corinna KOLLATH, University of Bonn:
Light-induced superconductivity
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:00 Eugene DEMLER, Harvard:
Light-induced superconductivity
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Afternoon Session I: Materials driven strongly out of equilibrium and related systems
14:10 – 14:40 Steve JOHNSON, ETH Zurich:
Non-equilibrium materials
14:50 – 15:20 Elena OSTROVSKAYA, Australian National University:
Non-equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensation of exciton polaritons
15:30 – 15:50 Break
15:50 – 16:20 Yaroslav TSERKOVNYAK, UCLA:
Condensation and superfluidity in magnetic insulators
16:30 – 17:00 Aditi MITRA, New York University:
A large-N study of critical quenches of interacting fermions and implications for pump-probe spectroscopy
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Afternoon Session II: Dynamics of cold atoms, in particular dynamics of impurities, & dynamical phase transitions
17:10 – 17:40 Sandro STRINGARI, University of Trento:
Dynamics and superfluidity in the presence of spin-orbit coupling
18:30 – 20:00 Dinner
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Wednesday, May 31st
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Morning Session I: Dynamics of topological excitations in superfluids
09:00 – 09:30 Martin ZWIERLEIN, MIT:
Solitonic excitations in fermionic superfluids
09:40 – 10:10 Joachim BRAND, Massey U. New Zealand:
Dark solitons and vortices in strongly-correlated and topological superfluids
10:20 – 10:35 Break
10:35 – 11:05 Johannes HOFMANN, Cambridge UK:
Quantum soliton friction and soliton diffusion
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Morning Session II: Exotic quantum non-equilibrium phenomena (cont.)
11:15 – 11:45 Lev IOFFE (Rutgers):
Quantum butterfly effect
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
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Afternoon Session: Dynamics of cold atoms, in particular dynamics of impurities, & dynamical phase transitions
13:30 – 14:20 Anatoly POLKOVNIKOV, Boston University:
Dynamical phase transitions
14:30 – 15:30 Rapid presentation of posters (1.5 min each)
15:30 – 18:00 Poster session
18:30 – 20:00 Dinner
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Thursday, June 1st
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Morning Session: Interplay between Floquet perturbations and topology
09:00 – 09:50 Gil REFAEL, Caltech:
Introduction to Floquet topological insulators
10:05 – 10:35 Edbert Jarvis SIE, GEDIK group MIT:
Floquet topological states in solids
10:45 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 11:30 Mohammad HAFEZI, JQI Maryland:
Quantum Hall physics in photonic systems
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:30 – 14:00 Nethanel LINDNER, Technion:
New developments in Floquet TIs
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Afternoon Session I: Many-body localization and Floquet time crystals
14:10 – 14:40 Immanuel BLOCH, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich:
Many-body localization
14:50 – 15:20 Curt VON KEYERLINGK, Princeton:
Eigenstate order and floquet phases
15:30 – 15:50 Break
15:50 – 16:20 Andrew POTTER, University of Texas at Austin:
New non-equilibrium chiral topological phases from time-periodic driving
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Afternoon Session II: Exotic quantum non-equilibrium phenomena
16:30 – 17:00 Jeff STEINHAUER, Technion:
Hawking radiation in BECs
17:10 – 17:40 Grigorii VOLOVIK, Landau Inst. & Aalto U.:
Analogue general relativity & cosmology in quantum fluids
18:30 – 20:00 Dinner
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Friday, June 2nd
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Morning Session: Dynamics of cold atoms, in particular dynamics of impurities, & dynamical phase transitions (cont.)
09:00 – 9:30 Ana-Maria REY, JILA UC Boulder:
Quantum spin dynamics, coherences and entanglement in systems with long-range interactions
09:40 – 10:20 Klaus SENGSTOCK, U. of Hamburg:
Dynamical phase transitions
10:30 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 11:15 Jörg SCHMIEDMAYER, Vienna Center for Quantum Science & Technology:
Integrable dynamics in 1D
11:30 – 12:00 Meera PARISH, Monash University Australia:
Dynamics of impurities in quantum fluids
12:10 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:00 Sebastian LOTH, Max Planck Hamburg:
Dynamics of Heisenberg spin chains
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Afternoon Session: Quantum chaos in kicked cold atomic and related systems
14:10 - 14:40 Chushun TIAN, Inst. for Advanced Study Tsinghua U.:
The kicked rotor: from classical chaos to integer quantum Hall effect
14:50 – 16:20 Jean-Claude GARREAU, LU of Lille France:
Quantum simulation of the Anderson transition with a dynamical cold-atom system atoms
16:30 – 17:00 Sriram GANESHAN, Simons Center for Geomentry & Physics:
Many-body dynamical localization & quantum Lyapunov exponent of kicked rotors
17:00 – 17:10 Closing Remarks
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