Program on Quantum Many-Body Dynamics: Thermalization and its Violations
September 8 – 19, 2025
ICTP-SAIFR, São Paulo, Brazil
Venue: Principia Institute
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How isolated quantum systems thermalize and reach equilibrium constitutes a long-standing question, dating back to the early days of quantum mechanics. During the last 20 years, the celebrated Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis has shed light on the mechanism of thermalization, and its predictions have been massively tested, at the theoretical, numerical, and experimental level. Simultaneously, huge efforts have been devoted to find robust mechanisms that quantum systems can exploit to escape thermalization and retain information in their local degrees of freedom. With the advent of the second quantum revolution and quantum technologies, these mechanisms are of uttermost importance, since they can be used to build quantum memory devices. At the same time, recent quantum simulators allow the study of these phenomena at the experimental level, with high precision and in almost perfect isolation.
This program will bring together international experts on these topics, to provide an overview of the most recent results and techniques, spanning the theoretical, computational, and experimental aspects. A lightweight talk schedule will create the perfect atmosphere for discussions and will foster new collaborations among participants. In parallel, there will be pedagogical activities specifically tailored to young scientists, to offer them the possibility of including these developments in their research horizons.
Organizers:
- Eduardo Miranda (Unicamp, Brazil)
- Zlatko Papic (University of Leeds. England)
- Dario Rosa (ICTP-SAIFR/IFT-UNESP, Brazil)
- Lev Vidmar (Jozef Stefan Institute and University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
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Registration deadline: July 19, 2025