Program Equilibration and Thermalization in Quantum Systems

Monday 15 April 2013: 09:00 09:45 10:30 11:00 11:45 12:07 12:30 15:30 16:00 16:45 17:07 Arrival & Welcome
Chair: M. Kastner

J. Schmiedmayer, Non equilibrium dynamics and relaxation in many body quantum systems Coffee C. Gogolin, Under what conditions do quantum systems thermalize? J. Gemmer, Emergence of Fokker-Planck dynamics within closed finite spin systems D. Kennes, Quench dynamics of the spin boson model Lunch Coffee
Chair: R. Renner

S. Kehrein, Dynamical phase transitions T. Langen, Relaxation dynamics in one-dimensional Bose gases: recent news from the lab Y. Subasi, Equilibration in the strong coupling regime Tuesday 16 April 2013:
Chair: J. Bollinger

09:00 09:45 10:30 11:00 11:45 12:30 14:00 15:30 16:00 16:45 17:07

C. Ngerl, Quantum quenches in tilted 1D Bose chains R. Renner, A quantitative Landauer's principle Coffee W. de Roeck, Rigorous results on thermalization and Brownian motion beyond the weak-coupling limit P. Reimann, Equilibration of isolated macroscopic quantum systems Lunch Poster Session Coffee
Chair: S. Kehrein

A. Short, Thoughts about quantum equilibration T. de Oliveira, Typicality in random matrix product states M. Kulkarni, Dynamics of large quantum systems: equilibration, thermalization and interactions Wednesday 17 April 2013:
Chair: U. Schollwck

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A. Silva, Quantum quenches, linear response, and superfluidity out equilibrium L. del Rio, Relative thermalization M. Kolodrubetz, Measuring and characterizing the quantum metric tensor Coffee

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J. Bollinger, Quantum simulation and many-body physics with hundreds of trapped ions M. van den Worm, Relaxation timescales and decay of correlations in long-range interacting spin systems M. Rajabpour, Quantum quench in the Calogero model Lunch Coffee
Chair: M. Rigol

A. Gambassi, Work, large deviations, critical Casimir effect, and universality in quantum quenches T. Ikeda, The second law of pure state thermodynamics Thursday 18 April 2013:
Chair: J. Schmiedmayer

09:00 09:45 10:07 10:30 11:00 11:45 12:30 15:30 16:00 16:45 17:30

M. Rigol, Initial state dependence of the quench dynamics in integrable quantum systems S. Sugiura, Thermal pure quantum states at finite temperature B. Wu, Quantum equilibrium state with multiple temperatures Coffee M. Cheneau, Light-cone like spreading of correlations in a quenched many-body system S. Wehner, Entanglement sampling and decoupling Lunch Coffee
Chair: A. Silva

I. Snyman, Fingerprints of the Loschmidt echo in the long range correlations induced by a dynamical impurity in a Fermi gas L. d'Alessio, Many-body energy localization transition in periodically driven systems Departure for Conference Dinner Friday 19 April 2013:
Chair: P. Reimann

09:00 09:45 10:30 11:00 11:45 12:30 14:00 14:45 15:07 15:30 16:00

U. Schollwck, Boson and spin dynamics in optical lattices J. Emerson, Information-theoretic equilibration under complex dynamics Coffee A. Riera, Quantum simulation of slow quenches M. Bauls, Tensor network techniques for the study of dissipative dynamics Lunch
Chair: J. Eisert

M. Cramer, A non-commutative Berry-Esseen theorem and applications to quantum quenches M. Rams, Assisted adiabatic passage across a quantum critical point Concluding remarks Coffee The End