Preliminary Program



Talk Abstracts (pdf)



Seminar Week 1 (August 12 - 16, 2013)
Workshop Week (August 19 - 23, 2013)
Seminar Week 2 (August 26 - 30, 2013)




SEMINAR WEEK 1



  Monday, August 12
   
14:30 - 14:40 Masud Haque (MPI-PKS Dresden)
  Seminar Week I - Opening
   
14:40 - 15:20 Jens Eisert (Freie Universität Berlin)
  Fast and slow quenches
   
15:20 - 15:50 Coffee break
   
15:50 - 16:30 Giuseppe Piero Brandino (University of Amsterdam)
  Quench dynamics in the trapped Lieb-Liniger gas
   
16:30 - 17:10 Michael Pustilnik (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta)
  Equilibration of a strongly interacting one-dimensional quantum liquid
   
18:30 - 19:30 Dinner
   
  Tuesday, August 13
   
09:30 - 10:10 Fabian Essler (Oxford University)
  Quantum quenches in integrable models
   
10:10 - 10:40 Coffee break
   
10:40 - 11:20 Jean-Sébastien Bernier (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
  Emergence of spatially extended pair coherence through incoherent local environmental coupling
   
11:20 - 12:00 Fabian Heidrich-Meisner (LMU Munich)
  Non-equilibrium dynamics of interacting bosons in one dimensional optical lattices
   
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
   
16:00 - 17:30
Poster session I (Seminar Week 1)
   
18:30 - 19:30 Dinner
   


  Wednesday, August 14
   
09:30 - 10:10 Stefan Kehrein (Universität Göttingen)
  Dynamical phase transition in the transverse field Ising model
   
10:10 - 10:40 Coffee break
   
10:40 - 11:20 Jean-Philippe Brantut (ETH Zurich)
  Conduction properties of trapped Fermi gases
   
11:20 - 12:00 Roderich Moessner (MPIPKS Dresden)
  Dynamics of driven quantum many-body systems
   
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
 
Seminar Week Symposium
   
16:00 - 17:00 Jure Demsar (TU Ilmenau)
  Exploring quantum solids with femtosecond real-time techniques
   
19:00 Seminar Week Dinner
   
   
  Thursday, August 15
   
09:30 - 10:10 Roberto Emilio Franco Peñaloza (Colombia National University - UNAL (Colombia) and São Paulo University - USP (Brazil))
  Universality and the thermoelectric transport properties through semiconductor nanostructures
   
10:10 - 10:40 Coffee break
   
10:40 - 11:20 Salvatore R. Manmana (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
  Far-from-equilibrium quantum magnetism with ultracold polar molecules
   
11:20 - 12:00 Dirk Schuricht (RWTH Aachen University, Aachen)
  Integrability-based analysis of the hyperfine interaction induced decoherence in quantum dots
   
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
   
16:00 - 17:30
Poster session II (Seminar Week 1)
   
18:30 - 19:30 Dinner
   

  Friday, August 16
   
09:30 - 10:10 Takashi Oka (The University of Tokyo)
  Driven correlated systems: Hubbard model and QCD
   
10:10 - 10:40 Coffee break
   
10:40 - 11:20 Lea Santos (Yeshiva University, New York)
  Dependence on the initial state for the onset of thermalization
   
11:20 - 12:00 Jonathan Keeling (University of St Andrews)
  Non-equilibrium coherence in light-matter system (TBC)
   
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
   


WORKSHOP WEEK



  Sunday, August 18
18:00 - 20:00 Registration at guest house no. 4 (behind the institute's main building)
   
19:00 - 21:00 Welcome reception in the lobby of the main building
   
  Monday, August 19
   
09:00 - 09:15 Ly Do (MPIPKS Dresden)
  Opening
   
09:15 - 09:25 Masud Haque (MPIPKS Dresden)
  Organizers' Introduction -- Workshop Week
   
09:25 - 09:50 Michael Köhl (University of Bonn)
  Spin dynamics in two-dimensional Fermi gases
   
09:50 - 10:30 Coffee break
   
10:30 - 10:55 Christoph Bruder (University of Basel)
  Superfluid drag of two-species Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices
   
10:55 - 11:20 Marcin Mierzejewski (University of Silesia)
  Eigenvalue statistics of reduced density matrix during driving and relaxation
   
11:20 - 11:45 Walter Hofstetter (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
  Hybrid quantum simulations with ultracold atoms and ions
   
11:45 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:30 Discussion break
   
14:30 - 14:55 Uwe Bovensiepen (Universität Duisburg-Essen)
  Femtosecond laser-induced changes of the cuprate electronic structure
   
14:55 - 15:20 Giuliano Orso (Paris Diderot University)
  Localization of bound states in quasi-periodic optical lattices
   
15:30 - 16:30 Coffee break

 
QSOE13 Colloquium
   
  Chairperson: Masud Haque (MPIPKS Dresden)
   
16:30 - 17:30 Heinz-Peter Breuer (Universität Freiburg)
  Non-equilibrium quantum dynamics of open systems
   
18:00 - 19:30 Dinner
   
 
19:30 - 22:00
Poster session I (Workshop Week)
   
   
  Tuesday, August 20
   
09:00 - 09:25 Marcos Rigol (The Pennsylvania State University)
  Typicality and thermalization in isolated quantum systems
   
09:25 - 09:50 Edouard Boulat (Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7)
  Out-of-equilibrium properties of integrable quantum impurity systems in their strong coupling regime
   
09:50 - 10:30 Coffee break
   
10:30 - 10:55 Volker Meden (RWTH Aachen University)
  Luttinger liquid properties of the steady state after a quantum quench
   
10:55 - 11:20 Michael Chapman (Georgia Tech, Atlanta)
  Non-equilibrium quantum spin dynamics - From spin-nematic squeezing to dynamical stabilization
   
11:20 - 11:45 Naoto Tsuji (University of Tokyo)
  Quantum interaction quench in the presence of a long-range order
   
11:45 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:30 Discussion break
   
14:30 - 14:55 Eugene Demler (Harvard University)
  Surprising universality of Wigner crystallization transitions
   
14:55 - 15:20 Markus Oberthaler (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
  New miscible-immiscible transition in two component Bose gases
   
15:20 - 16:00 Coffee break
   
16:00 - 16:25 Ulrich Schneider (LMU Munich)
  Mass transport and emergence of coherence in homogeneous optical lattices
   
16:25 - 16:50 David Huse (Princeton University)
  Localization protected quantum order (blackboard talk)
   
16:50 - 18:00 Discussion break
   
18:00 - 19:30 Dinner
   
 
After-dinner Symposium
   
20:00 - 21:00 David Weiss (Penn State)
  Non-equilibrium physics with cold atoms
   
   
  Wednesday, August 21
   
09:00 - 09:25 Achim Rosch (University of Cologne)
  Nonlinear conductance of long quantum wires: Where does the voltage drop?
   
09:25 - 09:50 Klaus Sengstock (Universität Hamburg)
  Dynamics of quantum gases in higher orbitals and quenches across phase transitions
   
09:50 - 10:30 Coffee break
   
10:30 - 10:55 Krishnendu Sengupta (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata)
  A perturbative renormalization group approach for driven quantum systems
   
10:55 - 11:20 Martin Zwierlein (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  Heavy solitons in a fermionic superfluid
   
11:20 - 11:45 Giovanna Morigi (Saarland University)
  Bose-glass phases of ultracold atoms due to cavity backaction
   
11:45 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:30 Discussion break
   
14:30 - 14:55 David Weiss (Penn State)
  Boson dynamics in a highly occupied 1D lattice
   
14:55 - 15:20 Andreas Läuchli (University of Innsbruck)
  Spreading of correlations in quenches with finite-temperature initial condition
   
16:00 - 19:00
Excursion
   
19:00 - 22:00
Conference dinner

   
  Thursday, August 22
   
09:00 - 09:25 Amit Dutta (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)
  Quench dynamics of edge states in 2-D topological insulator ribbons
   
09:25 - 09:50 Hans Gerd Evertz (TU Graz)
  Bound states and quantum bowling
   
09:50 - 10:30 Coffee break
   
10:30 - 10:55 Jesko Sirker (TU Kaiserslautern)
  When is a bath a bath? Hermitian and non-Hermitian relaxation dynamics in a toy model
   
10:55 - 11:20 Jörg Schmiedmayer (Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology (VCQ))
  Do isolated quantum systems relax?
   
11:20 - 11:45 Giuseppe Mussardo (Sissa, Trieste)
  Time evolution in integrable models and generalized Gibbs ensemble
   
11:45 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:30 Discussion break
   
14:30 - 14:55 Roberta Citro (University of Salerno)
  Slow quench dynamics in a Luttinger liquid
   
14:55 - 15:20 Wolfgang Belzig (University of Konstanz)
  Entanglement generation in a quantum system out of equilibrium
   
15:20 - 16:00 Coffee break
   
16:00 - 16:25 Herwig Ott (University of Kaiserslautern)
  Dissipation controlled dynamics in an open many-body quantum system
   
16:25 - 16:50 Enrico Arrigoni (TU Graz)
  Steady-state nonequilibrium dynamical mean field theory: An auxiliary Lindblad master equation approach
   
16:50 - 18:00 Discussion break
   
18:00 - 19:30 Dinner
   
19:30 - 22:00
Poster session II (Workshop Week)
   

   
  Friday, August 23
   
09:00 - 09:25 Hanns-Christoph Nägerl (University of Innsbruck)
  Quench dynamics in strongly correlated Bose-Hubbard chains
   
09:25 - 09:50 Rosario Fazio (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
  Quantum quenches, linear response and superfluidity out of equilibrium
   
09:50 - 10:30 Coffee break
   
10:30 - 10:55 Viktor Eisler (Eötvös University)
  Quantum fronts and random matrices
   
10:55 - 11:20 Chung-Hou Chung (National Chiao-Tung University)
  Non-equilibrium quantum transport through a dissipative resonant level
   
11:20 - 11:45 Heinz-Peter Breuer (Universität Freiburg)
  Quantum non-Markovianity in open systems
   
11:45 - 13:30 Lunch
   
Afternoon Discussion and Group Work
+ Departures
(No talks)
   


SEMINAR WEEK 2



  Monday, August 26
   
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee break
   
10:50 - 11:00 Masud Haque (MPI-PKS Dresden)
  Seminar Week II - Opening
   
11:00 - 11:40 Sandro Stringari (University of Trento)
  Superfluid phenomena in spin-orbit coupled Bose gases
   
11:40 - 12:20 Peter Domokos (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest)
  Many-body physics with ultracold atoms strongly coupled to an optical cavity
   
12:20 - 13:30 Lunch
   
16:00 - 17:30
Poster session I (Seminar Week 2)
   
18:30 - 19:30 Dinner
   

  Tuesday, August 27
   
09:30 - 10:10 Michael Bauer (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)
  Dynamics in correlated materials probed by femtosecond XUV photoemission
   
10:10 - 10:40 Coffee break
   
10:40 - 11:20 Julia Meyer (Université Joseph Fourier)
  AC Josephson effect in topological Josephson junctions
   
11:20 - 12:00 David Guéry-Odelin (Université Paul Sabatier)
  Matter wave scattering on complex potentials
   
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
   
  Afternoon Session
   
14:30 - 15:10 Martin Eckstein (Max Planck Research Department for Structural Dynamics at the University of Hamburg)
  Hamiltonian based impurity solvers for nonequilibrium dynamical mean-field theory
   
15:10 - 15:40 Coffee break
   
15:40 - 17:10 Short talks (10+5 minutes each)
  De Nardis, Lazarides, Medvedyeva, Sciolla, Smacchia
   
18:30 - 19:30 Dinner
   
   
  Wednesday, August 28
   
09:30 - 10:10 Marcus Kollar (University of Augsburg)
  Prethermalization and thermalization of weakly interacting quantum systems
   
10:10 - 10:40 Coffee break
   
10:40 - 11:20 Massimo Inguscio (University of Florence)
  A one-dimensional liquid of multispin fermions
   
11:20 - 12:00 Aditi Mitra (New York University)
  Correlation functions in the prethermalized regime after a quantum quench of a spin-chain
   
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
   
15:00 - 15:50 Afternoon Session: Role of Integrability in Non-equilibrium Dynamics
  Fabian Essler + others
15:50 - 16:30 Coffee break
   
16:30 - 17:30 Afternoon Session: Role of Integrability in Non-equilibrium Dynamics (cont.)
  Fabian Essler + others
   
19:00 Seminar Week Dinner
   
   
  Thursday, August 29
   
09:30 - 10:10 Iacopo Carusotto (INO-CNR BEC Center, Trento)
  Theory and experiments with quantum fluids of light
   
10:10 - 10:40 Coffee break
   
10:40 - 11:20 Frithjof Anders (Technische Universität Dortmund)
  Influence of vibrational modes on the quantum transport through a nano-device
   
11:20 - 12:00 Philipp Werner (University of Fribourg)
  Nonequilibrium dynamical mean field simulation of inhomogeneous systems
   
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
   
15:20 - 16:00 Robert Konik (Brookhaven National Lab)
  Post-quench dynamics in the Lieb-Liniger Model: Glimmers of quantum KAM
   
16:00 - 18:30
Poster session II (Seminar Week 2)
   
18:30 - 19:30 Dinner
   

  Friday, August 30
   
  Discussion and Group Work
  (No talks)
   
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
   
16:00 MPIPKS Summer Party with barbecue
   

Last update: August 28, 2013