Quantum Systems in Extreme Conditions

Europe/Berlin
Heidelberg University (Germany)

Heidelberg University (Germany)

Kirchhoff Institute for Physics Im Neuenheimer Feld 227 69120 Heidelberg
Description

Overview

The understanding of quantum systems in extreme conditions requires the resolution of outstanding questions, relevant for a wide range of topical applications from particle and nuclear physics to atomic and condensed matter physics. Many such systems exhibit characteristic common properties despite dramatic differences in key parameters such as temperature, density, field strength and others. The existence of universal regimes, where even quantitative agreements between seemingly disparate physical systems can be observed, drives a remarkable convergence of research activities across traditional lines of specialisation.

The International Conference on Quantum Systems in Extreme Conditions (QSEC2019), September 23-27, brings together experimental and theoretical researchers working on topics that are particularly driven by such cross-disciplinary developments, in particular:

  • Far from equilibrium dynamics and thermalisation of quantum systems
  • Quantum systems with strong fields
  • Phase structure of systems in extreme conditions

Keynote talks will provide overviews about quantum systems in extreme conditions in heavy ion collisions, precision spectroscopy in highly charged ions, and ultracold quantum gases. Contributed talks are dedicated to recent progress in these systems. Abundant discussion time and two poster sessions are foreseen for the vital interactions between experimental and theoretical physicists working in the different areas.

 

Keynote Speakers

Cheng Chin (University of Chicago)
Gerald Dunne (University of Connecticut)
Kenji Fukushima (University of Tokyo)
Zoran Hadzibabic (University of Cambridge)
Alexander Kalweit (CERN)
Piet Schmidt (Leibniz University Hannover & PTB)
Raju Venugopalan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Peter Zoller (University of Innsbruck & IQOQI)

Quantum Systems in Extreme Conditions is organized by the DFG funded collaborative research center ISOQUANT (SFB 1225)                         

Participants
    • Sunday Afternoon
      • 1
        REGISTRATION AND WELCOME RECEPTION
    • Monday Morning
      • 2
        KEYNOTE TALK Quantum Simulation with Atoms and Ions
        Speaker: Peter Zoller
      • 3
        Reliability of cold-atom gauge theories
        Speaker: Mr Jad C. Halimeh
      • 4
        A new look at hydrodynamic attractors
        Speaker: Michal P. Heller (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute))
      • 5
        Kinetic vs. non-kinetic far-from-equilibrium universality classes
        Speaker: Kirill Boguslavski (Technische Universität Wien)
      • 6
        Non-local emergent hydrodynamics in long-range interacting spin chains
        Speaker: Alexander Schuckert (Technical University of Munich/Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics)
    • 10:30
      COFFEE BREAK
    • 12:30
      LUNCH BREAK
    • Monday Afternoon
      • 7
        KEYNOTE TALK Decoding the Path Integral: Resurgent Asymptotics and Extreme Quantum Field Theory
        Speaker: Gerald Dunne
      • 8
        Searches for new physics with precision spectroscopy of highly charged ions
        Speaker: Julian Berengut (UNSW)
      • 9
        Prescaling and far-from-equilibrium hydrodynamics in the quark-gluon plasma
        Speaker: Aleksas Mazeliauskas (ITP Heidelberg)
      • 10
        Universal dynamics in shock-cooled Bose-Einstein Condensates
        Speaker: Dr Sebastian Erne
      • 11
        Observation of universal dynamics in a spinor Bose gas far from equilibrium
        Speaker: Maximilian Prüfer (Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik)
    • 16:00
      COFFEE BREAK
    • Tuesday Morning
      • 12
        KEYNOTE TALK Perturbative unitarization in QCD: features, consequences and universality to cold-atoms and gravity
        Speaker: Raju Venugopalan (BNL)
      • 13
        Dynamical bottomonium-suppression (and recombination) in AA collisions
        Speaker: Pol Gossiaux (SUBATECH -- CNRS/IN2P3, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes)
      • 14
        Hyperfine splitting in Li- and B-like highly-charged ions
        Speaker: Valeriia Kosheleva (Helmholtz Institute Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany)
      • 15
        A superconducting radio-frequency trap for high-precision frequency metrology of highly charged ions
        Speaker: Julian Stark (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics)
      • 16
        The ALPHATRAP g-factor experiment
        Speaker: Mr Alexander Egl (MPIK, Heidelberg)
    • 10:30
      COFFEE BREAK
    • 12:30
      LUNCH BREAK
    • Tuesday Afternoon
      • 17
        KEYNOTE TALK Quantum Simulation of Hawking-Unruh radiations with ultracold atoms
        Speaker: Cheng Chin
      • 18
        Unitary fermions with finite spin-asymmetry
        Speaker: Lukas Rammelmüller (TU Darmstadt, IKP Theory Center)
      • 19
        Extreme QCD matter: fluid description versus experimental data
        Speaker: Dr Ilya Selyuzhenkov
      • 20
        Fragmentation of heavy quarks within a dense medium
        Speaker: Boris Kopeliovich (UTFSM Valparaiso)
      • 21
        Towards in-medium heavy quarkonium dynamics from first principles
        Speaker: Alexander Rothkopf (University of Stavanger)
    • 16:00
      COFFEE BREAK
    • Poster Session I
    • Wednesday Morning
      • 22
        KEYNOTE TALK Quenched and driven homogeneous Bose gases
        Speaker: Zoran Hadzibabic
      • 23
        Fermions in two dimensions: from few to many - Marvin Holten and Nicolo Defenu
        Speakers: Marvin Holten (Physikalisches Institut Heidelberg), Dr Nicolo Defenu (ITP, Heidelberg)
      • 24
        Entanglement and thermal behaviour in pp and PbPb collisions
        Speaker: Carlos Pajares (Universidad Santiago de Compostela)
      • 25
        Particle production from expanding QCD strings and its quantum simulation
        Speaker: Dr Stefan Flörchinger (ITP, Heidelberg)
      • 26
        From spin chains to real time thermal field theory using tensor networks
        Speaker: Victor Svensson
    • 10:30
      COFFEE BREAK
    • 12:30
      LUNCH BREAK
    • Wednesday Afternoon
      • 27
        LAB TOUR / DISCUSSION
    • 19:00
      CONFERENCE DINNER
    • Thursday Morning
      • 28
        KEYNOTE TALK Towards optical clocks with highly charged ions for tests of fundamental physics
        Speaker: Prof. Piet O. Schmidt (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt)
      • 29
        Hyperfine splitting in simple highly charged ions for the search of the variation of fundamental constants
        Speaker: Dr Natalia Oreshkina (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik)
      • 30
        Momentum-Space Quantum Walk of a Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate
        Speaker: Sandro Wimberger
      • 31
        Exploring the DC and AC Josephson effects in fermionic superfluids across the BEC-BCS crossover
        Speaker: Giulia Del Pace (Università degli Studi di Firenze)
      • 32
        Non-adiabatic laser-nucleus interaction with nucleon emission
        Speaker: Mr Sergei Kobzak (MPIK)
    • 10:30
      COFFEE BREAK
    • 12:30
      LUNCH BREAK
    • Thursday Afternoon
      • 33
        KEYNOTE TALK Ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions as a laboratory for QCD matter
        Speaker: Alexander Kalweit
      • 34
        Recent net-particle fluctuation results from ALICE at the LHC
        Speaker: Mr Mesut Arslandok (PI)
      • 35
        Observation of glassy dynamics in a disordered quantum spin system
        Speaker: Dr Gerhard Zürn (Heidelberg University)
      • 36
        Using time-time correlations to detect entanglement and spreading of quantum information
        Speaker: Martin Gärttner (Heidelberg University)
      • 37
        Ab initio few-mode theory for open quantum systems
        Speaker: Dominik Lentrodt (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics)
    • 16:00
      COFFEE BREAK
    • Poster Session II