Tuesdays from 2:30-3:30pm in 326 Allen
September 10, 2024:
First meeting to discuss the schedule for the term
September 24, 2024: Yasamin Mardani
Topology in non-Hermitian quantum systems
October 8, 2024: Jesko Sirker
Thermalization and Localization in quantum many-body systems
November 5, 2024: Sara Sharifan
Localization in Aubry-Andre Models
November 12, 2024:
Reading break
The group seminar will take place every Thursday at 12pm in room 536
January 25, 2024:
First meeting to discuss the schedule for the term
February 1, 2024: Kyle Monkman
Index theorems for Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians
February 8, 2024: Adrian del Maestro
Symmetry-resolved entanglement
February 15, 2024: Dennis Wagner
Neural network thermodynamics
February 22, 2024:
Reading Break
February 29, 2024: Yasamin Mardani
Topological properties of a non-hermitian model
March 7, 2024:
March Meeting
March 14, 2024: Sara Sharifan
Entanglement and localization
March 21, 2024: Jesko Sirker
Why many-body localization is not possible
March 28, 2024: Rodrigo Pimenta
Partition functions
April 4, 2024: Dennis Wagner
Practice talk: oral examination
Aprill 1, 2024:
TBA
The group seminar will take place every Wednesday at 10am in room 536
September 13, 2023:
First meeting to discuss the schedule for the term
September 20, 2023: Jesko Sirker
Many-body localization?
September 27, 2023: Kyle Monkman
Symmetry-resolved entanglement in Gaussian systems
October 4, 2023: Dennis Wagner
Thermal neural network states
October 11, 2023: Sara Sharifan
Aubry-Andre and Stark localization
October 18, 2023: Rodrigo Pimenta
Introduction to Bethe Ansatz
October 25, 2023: Yasamin Mardani
The non-Hermitian SSH model
November 1, 2023: Kyle Monkman
Thesis defense practice talk
November 8, 2023: Rodrigo Pimenta
KPZ dynamics
November 15, 2023:
Fall Term Break
November 22, 2023: Bilal Hawashin
Chern number for single particle states decaying into a continuum
November 29, 2023: Robert Gerstner
Operator growth in lattice models
January 18, 2023: Kyle Monkman
Topology and Entanglement
January 25, 2023: Jesko Sirker
Discussion, Schedule
February 2, 2023: Andrew Urichuk
Non-linear Drude weight and Bethe bound states
February 9, 2023: Bilal Hawashin
Topology in interacting bosonic systems
February 16, 2023: TBA
TBA
February 23, 2023: No seminar
Reading break
March 2, 2023: Rodrigo Pimenta
Free Fermions in disguise
March 9, 2023: No seminar
APS March Meeting
March 16, 2023: Dennis Wagner
Projected pair and neural network quantum states
March 23, 2023: Yasamin Mardani
Non-hermitian Hamiltonians and Topology
March 30, 2023: Sara Sharifan
MBL in Stark and Aubry-Andre models
April 6, 2023: Kyle Monkman
Symmetry-resolved entanglement in C_n symmetric systems
April 13, 2023: Jesko Sirker
Effective models for Anderson and MBL phases
Notes from the group seminar
September 21, 2022: Rodrigo Pereira
Jordan-Wigner Transformations
September 28, 2022: Jesko Sirker
Anderson and Many-Body Localization
October 5, 2022: Kyle Monkman
Inversion symmetric Topological Insulators
October 12, 2022: Dennis Wagner
Neural Network Thermodynamics
October 19, 2022: Omar Hassan
Many-body Stark Localization
October 26, 2022: Sara Sharifan
Second Quantization
November 2, 2022: Yasamin Mardani
Second Quantization (II)
November 9, 2022: Rodrigo Pimenta
Introduction to Anyons: Abelian and Non-Abelian Anyons
November 16, 2022: Rodrigo Pimenta
Toric Code
November 23, 2022: Rodrigo Pimenta
Kitaev Honeycomb Model
November 30, 2022: Andrew Urichuk
Linear and non-linear Drude weights for the XXZ chain
December 7, 2022:
Notes from the group seminar
This is a reading course: We will read go through chapters in textbooks and lecture notes and then discuss the content during class.
The evaluation will be based on 3 assignments (50%) and a final project (50%).
Literature:
M. Nielsen and I.L. Chuang: Quantum Computation and Quantum Information
A.Yu. Kitaev, A.H. Shen, M.N. Vyalyi: Classical and Quantum Computation
S. Aaronson: Introduction to Quantum Information Science
Script T.G. Wong: Introduction to Classical and Quantum Computing
Script
Lectures and Assignments (click for lecture notes and assignments)
September 14, 2021: Milad Jangjan (U of Zanjan)
Topological and Floquet topological phase of matter
September 21, 2021: Yasamin Mardani (Isfahan U of Technology)
Continuous-variable entanglement distillation by cascaded photon replacement
September 28, 2021: Mehdi Biderang
Superconductivity in twisted bilayer materials
October 5, 2021: Rodrigo Pimenta
Introduction to Yang-Baxter Equations
October 19, 2021: Mehdi Biderang
Superconductivity in twisted bilayer materials (II)
The exam results are now available under the link below.
Lectures and Assignments (click for lecture notes and assignments)