Bruno Bertini
University of Birmingham, UK
Jean-Sébastien Caux
University of Amsterdam, NL
One Dimension, Countless Directions
International Focus Workshop
20 - 21 November 2025
Since the birth of quantum mechanics, many-body physics has gone through leaps and bounds thanks to exact solutions of by-now notorious models. Among these, Bethe's exact solution of the one-dimensional Heisenberg chain via his famous "Ansatz" is notorious for triggering the development of a whole new branch of theoretical and mathematical physics: quantum integrable systems.
Recent decades have witnessed a continued stream of breakthroughs on the theory side, accompanied by remarkable experiments on e.g. (quasi-)one-dimensional spin chains and on one-dimensional cold atomic gases.
The immediate future contains a number of promising avenues pertaining to equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium dynamics in continuous and discrete space-time, numerical methods and quantum simulators, dissipative systems, quantum circuits, quantum information, quantum computing, etc.
This meeting intends to bring together researchers coming from a variety of backgrounds, but looking in the same direction: how exact solutions of strongly-correlated systems can be of relevance for tomorrow's quantum many-body physics applications
Topics include
- Exact solvability in many-body systems in or out of equilibrium
- Many-body dynamics in discrete space-time
- Stochastic many-body quantum dynamics
- Solvable master equations
- Quantum simulators
Confirmed invited speakers
Bernard, Denis (FR)
de Gier, Jan (AU)
Essler, Fabian (UK)
Fagotti, Maurizio (FR)
Fendley, Paul (UK)
Frahm, Holger (DE)
Göhmann, Frank (DE)
Granet, Etienne (DE)
Klümper, Andreas (DE)
Konik, Robert (US)
Lake, Bella (DE)
Mussardo, Giuseppe (IT)
Piroli, Lorenzo (IT)
Prosen, Tomaž (SI)
Saleur, Hubert (FR)
Schmiedmayer, Jörg (AT)
Schneider, Imke (DE)
Tennant, Alan (US)
Zaliznyak, Igor (US)
