Summer Program

New Frontiers for Quantum Dynamics

August 13–September 3, 2023

Organizers:

Dmitry Abanin, University of Geneva
*Immanuel Bloch, 
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Dynamics
Vedika Khemani, 
Stanford University
Rahul Nandkishore, 
University of Colorado Boulder

Quantum dynamics is a rapidly evolving field of research spanning the condensed matter, AMO, quantum information and high energy theory communities. Key recent developments include the study of random circuit dynamics, hybrid dynamics involving unitary gates and projective measurements, quantum many body scars and attendant ergodicity breaking, anomalous transport in Lindblad dynamics and the associated Kraus maps, new dynamical universality classes in driven dissipative systems, and generalized hydrodynamics and KPZ universality in near integrable systems. In parallel with these conceptual developments, recent years have also witnessed an explosion in our experimental capabilities for analog and digital simulation of many body quantum dynamics, across a range of platforms. This cross-disciplinary program will bring together physicists with a range of backgrounds, both theorists and experimentalists, to discuss the latest developments on the frontiers of quantum dynamics, and to chart a path forward for the field.

*organizer responsible for participant diversity

Summer Workshops

The summer program, running for 16 weeks from late-May to mid-September, emphasizes exciting open problems at the cutting edge. Two or three concurrent workshops, each with a specific focus selected for timeliness and the potential for breakthroughs and of two to five weeks in length, establish the main themes of each week, with twelve or thirteen different workshops each summer, balanced across fields including particle physics, string theory, astrophysics and hard and soft condensed matter physics, as well as emerging areas including biological physics, ultra-cold atom physics, quantum information, and physical mathematics. Additional researchers participate in small working groups or as individual researchers. This framework is designed to maximize informal interactions and free discussion within each area and to promote cross-fertilization between different areas via the common language of theoretical physics. Participation in the summer program of the Aspen Center for Physics is by application and subsequent invitation only. View past workshops.