Alice to Bob quantum physics

Dynamics and Quantum Information in Many-body Systems

 

2019 Condensed Matter Summer School Participants
2019 Condensed Matter Summer School Participants at Minnehaha Falls

 

The development of a new generation of quantum simulators, capable of dynamically and coherently controlling many-body quantum systems, has inspired a plethora of exciting new developments in the study of non-equilibrium, many-body quantum dynamics.

This school will expose students to a range of topics at this interface between quantum computation and many-body quantum dynamics of both closed and open quantum systems. Topics will include the dynamics of open and closed quantum systems, quantum circuits and algorithms, quantum entanglement, and current experiments on quantum simulators.

The summer school is made possible by financial support from the Simons Foundation.  

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Speakers
Victor Albert

Victor Albert

University of Maryland & NIST

Ehud Altman

Ehud Altman

University of California, Berkeley

 

Fiona Burnell

Fiona Burnell

University of Minnesota

Anushya Chandran

Anushya Chandran

Boston University

Brian Clarke

Bryan Clark

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Andreas Elben

California Institute of Technology

Alexey Gorshkov

Alexey Gorshkov

University of Maryland & NIST

David Huse

David Huse

Princeton University

Chris Laumann

Christopher Laumann

Boston University

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Tsung-Cheng Peter Lu

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

 

Rahul Nandkishore

Rahul Nandkishore 

University of Colorado, Boulder

Pedram Roushan

Pedram Roushan

Google Inc.

Brian Skinner

Brian Skinner

Ohio State University

Organizers
Fiona Burnell

Fiona Burnell

University of Minnesota

Andrey Chubukov

Andrey Chubukov

Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota

Rafael Fernandes

Rafael Fernandes

University of Minnesota

Alex Kamenev

Alex Kamenev

Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota

Natalia Perkins

Natalia Perkins

University of Minnesota

Participants

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Ahmed Abdalkarim

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Theorist - Graduate Student

I am interested in studying non-perturbative phenomena in QFT and gravity using quantum information theory


 

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Suman Aich

Indiana University Bloomington

Advisor: Babak Seradjeh

Theorist - Graduate Student

My research is in the area of topological matter, specifically two dimensional topological materials and studying their physical properties both in and out of equilibrium.


 

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Unnati Akhouri 

The Pennsylvania State University

Advisor: Sarah Shandera

Theorist - Graduate Student

I am a theorist interested in understanding complexity and non-equilibrium dynamics in open quantum systems


 

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Bar Alluf

Georgia Institute of Technology

Advisor: Carlos Sa de Melo

Theorist - Graduate Student

Many-body physics, ultracold atoms in the presence of spin-orbit and Zeeman fields.


 

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Daniil Antonenko

Drexel University

Advisor: Jorn Venderbos (PI)

Theorist - Postdoctoral Researcher

Interested in topological, disordered and critical phenomena, superconductivity, frustrated magnetism.


 

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Rui Aquino

University of Minnesota

Advisor: Rafael Fernandes

Theorist - Graduate Student

Dynamical Proprieties of Strongly Correlated Systems, Topological Phase Transitions and Entangled of Matter.


 

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Harshvardhan Babla

Yale University

Advisors: Shruti Puri, Robert Schoelkopf

Theorist - Graduate Student

I'm interested in implementations of quantum computing, using superconducting circuits; particularly in quantum error correction using bosonic codes.


 

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Brooke Becker

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Advisor: Roman Kuzmin

Experimentalist - Graduate Student

Interests: Quantum Computing, Quantum Simulation, Unconventional Computing


 

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Ravneet Bedi

University of Minnesota

Theorist - Tony Gherghetta

I am interested in strong CP problem

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Jasmin Bedow

University of Illinois at Chicago

Advisor: Dirk Morr

Theorist - Graduate Student

I am interested in topological superconductivity and non-equilibrium physics, specifically the implementation and simulation of topological quantum gates and algorithms in real-time.


 

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Shuyang Cao

University of Pittsburgh

Advisors: Daniel Boyanovsky, Adam K Leibovich

Theorist - Graduate Student

I work on nonequilibrium behaviour of Axion-Electrodynamics in both condensed matter and cosmology.


 

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Anzumaan Chakraborty

University of Minnesota

Advisor: Rafael Fernandes

Theorist - Graduate Student

I am interested in understanding bosonic and fermionic dynamics near general multipolar QCPs.


 

 

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I-Chi Chen

Iowa State University

Advisor: Thomas Iadecola

Theorist - Graduate Student

My research interest is quantum many body dynamics and quantum computation.


 

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Sanket Chirame

University of Minnesota

Advisor: Fiona Burnell

Theorist - Graduate Student

I am interested in the dynamics of open quantum systems, with a particular focus on many-body Lindbladians.


 

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Adrian Copetudo Espinosa

National University of Singapore, Centre for Quantum Technologies

Advisor: Yvonne Y. Gao

Experimentalist - Graduate Student

Interested in experimental quantum computing with superconducting bosonic modes.


 

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Ceren Dag

Harvard University

Advisors: Luming Duan, Kai Sun 

Theorist - Postdoctoral Researcher, ITAMP Fellow

Interested in quantum matter in and out of equilibrium, quantum phase transitions, topological states of matter


 

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Vitor Dantas Meireles

University of Minnesota

Advisor: Natalia Perkins

Theorist - Graduate Student

My research interests lie in the area of quantum magnetism, with a focus on frustrated magnets, quantum spin liquids and disordered systems.


 

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Hossein Dehghani

UMD, JQI

Advisor: Mohammad Hafezi

Theorist - Postdoctoral Researcher

Interests: Quantum dynamics, quantum simulation and topological phases of matter


 

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Guilherme Delfino Silva

Boston University

Advisor: Claudio Chamon

Theorist - Graduate Student

Interested in topological Phases of Matter, Quantum Field Theories.


 

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Norhan Eassa

Purdue University

Advisor: Arnab Banerjee

Experimentalist - Graduate Student

I am interested in the intersection between condensed matter physics and quantum computing.


 

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Luisa Eck

Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford

Advisor: Paul Fendley

Theorist - Graduate Student

I am interested in non-invertible symmetries, topological phases and integrable spin chains.


 

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Mahmoud Tarek Khalaf Elewa

Michigan State University

Advisor: Mark Dykman

Theorist - Graduate Student

I am interested in Floquet driven-dissipative systems, Majorana fermions, and entanglement.


 

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Ege Eren

University of Chicago

Advisor: Michael Levin

Theorist - Graduate Student

I am studying topological phases of matter using their edge theories and tools from quantum information theory.


 

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Diego Fallas Padilla

Rice University

Advisor: Han Pu

Theorist - Graduate Student

I'm interested in quantum many body physics, mainly in quantum optics, quantum entanglement generation and dissipative systems.


 

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Sami Farrag

University of Minnesota

Advisor: Misha Shifman

Theorist - Graduate Student

I am broadly interested in particle physics and quantum information.


 

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Xiaozhou Feng

The Ohio State University

Advisor: Brian Skinner

Theorist - Graduate Student

Interested in dynamics of quantum information


 

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Amanda Gatto Lamas

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Advisors: Taylor Hughes, Eric Chitambar

Theorist - Graduate Student

Interests: Intersections of quantum information and condensed matter theory, topological phases of matter, and quantum thermodynamics.


 

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Jyotsna Gidugu

University of California, San Diego

Advisor: Daniel Arovas

Theorist - Graduate Student

I am interested in open quantum systems, the effects of dissipation and dephasing on them and what we can learn from their non-equilibrium steady states, Liouvillian spectra, relaxation times and other such properties.


 

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Yasha Gindikin

University of Minnesota

Advisors: Vladimir Sablikov, Alex Kamenev

Theorist - Postdoctoral Researcher

Interested in the theoretical study of new effects of electron-electron interaction in modern low-dimensional systems, especially with strong spin-orbit coupling.


 

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Sami Hakani

Georgia Institute of Technology

Advisor: Itamar Kimchi

Theorist - Graduate Student

I am interested in spin dynamics of strongly correlated electronic systems in the presence of disorder.


 

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Yiqiu Han

Boston College

Advisor: Xiao Chen

Theorist - Graduate Student

I'm interested in non-equilibrium quantum dynamics and topological phases of matter.


 

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Andrew Hardy

University of Toronto

Advisor: Arun Paramekanti

Theorist - Graduate Student

I explore the effects that strong correlations have on topological and symmetry broken transitions. 


 

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Gautam Hegde

University of Minnesota

Advisor: Fiona Burnell

Theorist - Graduate Student

I am broadly interested in condensed matter theory


 

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Nitzan Hirshberg

University of Minnesota

Advisor: Alexander McLeod

Experimentalist - Graduate Student


 

 

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Michael Hott

University of Minnesota

Advisor: Mitch Luskin

Interested in moire materials; derivation of effective theories from QFT.


 

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Yi Huang

University of Minnesota

Advisor: Boris Shklovskii

Theorist - Graduate Student

I am interested in the interplay between interaction, topology, and disorder effects in condensed matter systems.


 

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Kazi Ranjibul Islam

University of Minnesota

Advisor: Andrey Chubukov

Theorist - Graduate Student

I am interested in the strongly correlated systems. Currently my main focus is on the high temperature superconductivity found in Fe-based materials.


 

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Andrew Ivanov

Caltech

Advisor: Olexei Motrunich

Theorist - Graduate Student

I currently study quantum many-body scars and the phenomenon of weak ergodicity breaking.


 

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Ammar Jahin

University of Florida

Advisor: Yuxuan Wang

Theorist - Graduate Student

I'm interested in topological superconductors and quantum computers.


 

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Shubham Jain

University of Maryland, Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science

Advisor: Victor V. Albert

Theorist - Graduate Student

I'm interested primarily in Quantum error correction with curiosities about all other areas of quantum computing theory


 

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Rimika Jaiswal

University of California, Santa Barbara

Advisor: Leon Balents

Theorist - Graduate Student

I currently think about quantum dynamics and ways to prepare interesting many-body ground states on quantum processors.


 

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Michael Janas

University of Minnesota

Theorist - Teaching Assistant

Quantum information theory, quantum computing, quantum foundations


 

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Wen-Han Kao

University of Minnesota

Advisor: Natalia Perkins

Theorist - Graduate Student

My research focus on frustrated magnetism and strongly disordered systems.


 

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Vipin Khade

University of Minnesota

Advisor: Vlad Pribiag

Experimentalist - Graduate Student

Interested in Condensed matter physics.


 

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Aleksei Khudorozhkov

Boston University

Advisor: Claudio Chamon

Theorist - Graduate Student

Interests: Hilbert space fragmentation, quantum many-body scars, topological order, fracton topological order, quantum error correction, topological error-correcting codes.


 

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Jaewon Kim

University of California, Berkeley

Advisor: Ehud Altman

Theorist - Graduate Student

I'm interested in strongly correlated systems and nonequilibrium phenomena.


 

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Emmanouil Kokkinis

University of Minnesota

Advisor: Andrey Chubukov

Theorist - Graduate Student

Interested in theoretical condensed matter physics, superconductivity


 

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Ankip Kumar

University of Minnesota

Advisor: TBD

Theorist - Graduate Student

I have a strong interest in Quantum theory foundations and gravity


 

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Yueh-Chen Lee

University of Minnesota

Advisor: Andrey Chubukov

Theorist - Graduate Student

Interested in many-body, strongly correlated electronic systems.


 

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Leonardo Lessa

Perimeter Institute

Advisors: Timothy Hsieh, Chong Wang 

Theorist - Graduate Student 

Interested in quantum information of matter, their preparation and characterization.


 

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Chenyuan Li

Harvard University

Advisor: Subir Sachdev

Theorist - Graduate Student

I am interested in strongly correlated many-body systems.


 

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Bo-Han Lin

University of Minnesota

Advisor: Andrey Chubukov

Theorist - Graduate Student

Strongly correlated systems, Topological phases of matter, Non-equilibrium physics.


 

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Hanchen Liu

Boston College

Advisor: Xiao Chen

Theorist - Graduate Student

I'm interested in the interplay between many-body physics and quantum information, especially in the topic of measurement induced phase transition.


 

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Shuo Liu

Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University

Advisor: Hong Yao

Theorist - Graduate Student

Interested in novel phenomena in quantum dynamics.


 

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Zejun Liu

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Advisor: Bryan K. Clark

Theorist - Graduate Student

Interested in the application of machine learning in quantum many-body system.


 

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Chiu Fan Bowen "Leo" Lo

Harvard University

Advisor: Ashvin Vishwanath

Theorist - Graduate Student

I am interested in non-abelian topological order, realizing universal gate set in NISQ devices, and topological superconductivity.


 

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Ming-Rui Li

Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University

Advisor: Hong Yao

Theorist - Graduate Student

I have interests in the topics of quantum information in many-body systems: quantum thermalization and information scrambling, open quantum systems, measurement-induced phase transitionand, and topics of condensed matter physics: twisted moiré system, topological materials, quantum spin liquids.


 

 

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Mitchell Luskin

University of Minnesota

Faculty

School of Mathematics

Mathematical and computational physics, 2D materials.


 

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Anasuya Lyons

Harvard University

Advisors: Ashvin Vishwanath

Theorist - Graduate Student

Applying information-theoretic tools to understanding many-body phenomena; topological order, quantum/classical boundary, measurement and decoherence-induced many-body phenomena.


 

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Nandagopal Manoj

California Institute of Technology

Advisor: Jason Alicea

Theorist - Graduate Student

Interested in strongly correlated materials and quantum phases of matter


 

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David Mayrhofer

University of Minnesota

Advisor: Andrey Chubukov

Theorist - Graduate Student

I am interested in various strongly correlated systems, including systems near a QCP, charge and spin density waves, and superconductivity.


 

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W. Joe Meese

University of Minnesota

Theorist 

Advisor: Rafael Fernandes

I am interested in collective phenomena and disorder in condensed matter physics.


 

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Ruchira Mishra 

University of Chicago

Advisor: Dam Son

Theorist - Graduate Student

I am interested in using field theoretic methods to study condensed matter systems.


 

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Rajesh Mishra

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Advisor: Bryan Clark

Theorist - Graduate Student

I am interested in the intersection between condensed matter and quantum information, more specifically classical numerical methods to study condensed matter and quantum computing.


 

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Ana-Marija Nedic

Theorist - Postdoctoral Researcher

Advisors: Rafael Fernandes and Turan Birol

I'm interested in the research of strongly correlated electron systems.


 

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Pavel Nosov

Stanford University

Advisor: Srinivas Raghu

Theorist - Graduate Student

I am interested in the interplay of interactions and disorder in non-Fermi liquids.


 

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Liam O'Brien

California Institute of Technology

Advisor: Gil Refael

Theorist - Graduate Student

Interested in many-body dynamics, including many-body localization and nonergodicity.


 

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Thalya Paleologu

University of Florida

Advisor: Christopher Stanton

Theorist - Graduate Student

I am interested in band structure engineering in semiconductors.


 

 

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HaRu Park

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Advisor: SungBin Lee

Theorist - Graduate Student

I am interested in the nonequilibrium dynamics, including Floquet systems, thermalization, and quantum many-body scarring systems.


 

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Nisarga Paul

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Advisor: Liang Fu

Theorist - Graduate Student

Interested in quantum info probes of many-body physics strongly correlated systems, also moiré materials


 

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Klee Pollock

Iowa State University

Advisor: Thomas Iadecola

Theorist - Graduate Student

I am a theorist interested in quantum chaos and quantum simulation of equilibrium and non-equilibrium systems.


 

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Harini Radhakrishnan

University of Tennessee - Knoxville

Advisor: Adrian Del Maestro

Theorist - Graduate Student

I am a theorist interested in studying the entanglement of identical particles in one dimension, especially the non-equilibrium dynamics through analytical methods, such as bosonization and conformal field theory, as well as machine learning.


 

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Zach Raines

University of Minnesota

Advisor: Victor Galitski, Andrey Chubukov

Theorist - Postdoctoral Researcher

I’m what collective modes tell us about the underlying behavior of systems, particularly superconductors and systems with non trivial quantum geometry.


 

Rolando Ramirez Camasca

Rolando Ramirez Camasca

University of California, San Diego

Advisor: John McGreevy

Theorist - Graduate Student

Interested in quantum dynamics, entanglement, topological phases of matter, quantum error correction.


 

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Nishan Ranabhat

Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)

Advisor: Mario Collura

Theorist - Graduate Student

Interested in out-of-equilibrium dynamics of many body systems; dynamical phase transition, thermalization, confinement.


 

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Anant Rastogi

University of Minnesota

Advisor: Rafael M. Fernandes

Theorist - Graduate Student

Interested in phenomenology of electronic nematicity in crystalline systems.


 

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Colin Riggert

University of Minnesota

Advisor: Vlad Pribiag

Experimentalist - Graduate Student

I work in experimental quantum transport, with a focus on platforms for topological superconductivity.



 

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Dario Rossi 

Universitè de Geneve

Advisor: Dmitry Abanin

Theorist - Graduate Student

Interested in strongly correlated quantum systems and quantum dynamics of closed systems.


 

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Shengqi Sang

Perimeter Institute

Advisor: Timothy H. Hsieh

Theorist - Graduate Student

I am interested in understanding many-body phenomena in non-equilibrium settings.


 

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Ayana Sarkar

University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

Advisor: Stefanos Kourtis

Theorist - Postdoctoral Researcher

Interests: Random matrices and statistical physics of complex systems. 


 

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Thomas Schuster

University of California, Berkeley

Advisor: Norman Y. Yao

Theorist - Postdoctoral Researcher

I am interested in the physics of quantum information in many-body systems, including connections to open system dynamics, quantum gravity, quantum learning, and the classical simulability of quantum systems.


 

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Prachi Sharma

University of Minnesota

Advisor: Rafael Fernandes

Theorist - Postdoctoral Researcher

My research interest lies in unconventional superconductivity and transport in strongly correlated materials.


 

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Samantha Shears

University of California, Santa Cruz

Advisor: Sriram Shastry

Theorist - Graduate Student

I work in strongly correlated systems.


 

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Laura Shou

University of Minnesota

Theorist 

I am interested in mathematical physics, quantum chaos

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Yinan Shu

University of Minnesota

Advisor: Donald G. Truhlar

I am interested in nonadiabatic processes of molecules and materials

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Susmita Singh

University of Minnesota

Advisor: Natasha Perkins

Theorist - Graduate Student

My area of interest is strongly correlated electron systems.


 

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Panagiotis "Peter" Stavropoulos

University of Minnesota

Advisor: Hae-Young Kee

Theorist - Postdoctoral Researcher

Frustrated Magnetism, Spin Liquids, Kitaev Systems.


 

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Jacob Steiner

California Institute of Technology

Advisor: Felix von Oppen

Theorist - Postdoctoral Researcher

Interested in quantum devices, transport, superconductivity, Weyl semimetals, non-equilibrium and open quantum systems.


 

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Jeremy Strockoz

Drexel University

Advisor: Jorn Venderbos

Theorist - Graduate Student

Interested in strongly-correlated systems, topological materials, and quantum magnetism.


 

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Swetlana Swarup

University of Minnesota

Advisor: Natalia Perkins

Theorist - Graduate Student

I am interested in strongly correlated electron matter and unconventional phases arising from it like the quantum spin liquid, magnetism from geometric frustration etc.


 

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Tomasz Szoldra

Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland

Advisor: Jakub Zakrzewski

Theorist - Graduate Student

I use neural networks to study quantum many-body problems


 

 

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Yuting Tan

Florida State University

Advisor - Vladimir Dobrosavljevic

Theorist - Graduate Student

My research interests focus on strongly correlated materials and quantum phase transitions.


 

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Foster Thompson 

University of Minnesota

Advisor: Alex Kamenev

Theorist - Graduate Student

I study nonequilibrium quantum field theory and many-body open quantum systems; with a recent focus disorder in Markovian open quantum systems.


 

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Cristian Voinea

University of Leeds

Advisor: Zlatko Papic

Theorist - Graduate Student

Recently, I have been studying various dynamical properties in Fractional Quantum Hall systems, where I am interested to apply concepts from topology, quantum information and quantum algorithms.


 

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Hanteng Wang

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Advisor: Alex Kamenev

Theorist - Postdoctoral Researcher

I am a theorist interested in quantum many-body systems and quantum information.


 

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Yanqi Wang

University of California, Berkeley

Advisor: Joel E. Moore

Theorist - Graduate Student 

I am interested in the topological phases of matter and quantum dynamics in both solid state and cold atom systems.


 

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Alexander Watson 

University of Minnesota

Mathematics - Postdoctoral Researcher 


 

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Julia Wei

Harvard University

Advisor: Norman Yao

Theorist - Graduate Student 

I'm interested in dynamical protocols for quantum simulators and tensor network methods.


 

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Chenan Wei

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Advisor: Tigran Sedrakyan

Theorist - Graduate Student 

I work on quantum many-body theory, with a particular interest in quantum chaos and integrability, and entangled phases.


 

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Michael Winer

University of Maryland

Advisors: Brian Swingle, Victor Galitski

Theorist - Graduate Student 

I am interested in glasses, spectral statistics, and hydrodynamics.


 

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Yiming Wu

Stanford University

Advisor: Andrey Chubukov

Theorist - Postdoctoral Student

Areas of interest: quantum quench dynamics, quantum open systems.


 

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Yang Yang

University of Minnesota

Advisor: Natalia Perkins

Theorist - Graduate Student 

Interested in frustrated magnetism in the strongly correlated systems


 

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Christopher Yang

California Institute of Technology

Advisor: Gil Refael

Theorist - Graduate Student 

I am interested in the Floquet control of many-body systems with drive-induced topology and mechanisms to prevent drive-induced heating.


 

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Xuzhe Ying

University of Waterloo

Advisor: Alex Kamenev, Anton Burkov

Theorist - Postdoctoral Researcher

Interested in condensed matter theory: transport, dynamics and topology.


 

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Antonia Zhai 

University of Minnesota

Advisor: Todd Mowry

Computer Science & Engineering - Faculty

I am a computer scientist interested in quantum computing.


 

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Yuxi Zhang 

University of Minnesota

Advisor: Rafael Fernandes

Theorist - Postdoctoral Researcher


 

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Shang-Shun Zhang 

University of Minnesota

Advisor: Wu-Ming Liu, Andrey Chubukov

Theorist - Postdoctoral Researcher

Interested in unconventional superconductivity, frustrated magnetism.


 

Yuxuan Zhang 

University of Texas at Austin

Advisor: Andrew Potter; Scott Aaronson

Theorist - Graduate Student


 

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Frank Zhang 

Princeton University

Advisor: Sarang Gopalakrishnan

Theorist - Graduate Student

Interested in dynamics of quantum information and non-equilibrium physics.


 

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Dmitry Zverevich

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Advisor: Alex Levchenko

Theorist - Graduate Student

I am interested in electron hydrodynamics in graphene.


 

Program

SCHEDULE

The 3rd Condensed Matter Summer School
"Dynamics and Quantum Information in Many-body Systems"
June 12th - June 21st

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Workshop Location: 
Keller Hall, room 3-180, 200 Union Street SE. Keller Hall
.5 miles from the out-of-town participant's lodging

 

Monday, June 12th
Keller Hall, room 3-180

Monday, June 12th    ~ Tuesday, 6/13  ~  Wednesday, 6/14 - Thursday, 6/15 - Friday, 6/16 Saturday, 6/17  -  Sunday, 6/18

Monday, 6/19  -  Tuesday, 6/20  -  Wednesday, 6/21

8:45 - 8:55 am          Registration

8:55 - 9:00 am          Welcome
                                 Alex Kamenev
                                 FTPI, University of Minnesota

9:00 - 10:30 am        "The randomized measurement toolbox I"
                                 Andreas Elben
                                 California Institute of Technology

10:30 - 11:00 am      Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 pm      "Measurements and decoherence in quantum many-body systems I"
                                 Ehud Altman
                                 University of California, Berkeley

12:30 - 2:00 pm        Lunch Break

2:00 - 3:30 pm         "Modern quantum coding theory with four qubits"
                                  Lecture notes
                                 Victor Albert
                                 University of Maryland & NIST

3:30 - 4:00 pm          Coffee Break

4:00 - 5:30 pm          “Dynamics of closed quantum many-body systems I”
                                  Lecture notes
                                  David Huse
                                  Princeton University

5:30                          Poster Session #1


Tuesday, June 13th
Keller Hall, room 3-180

Monday, June 12th    ~ Tuesday, 6/13  ~  Wednesday, 6/14 - Thursday, 6/15 - Friday, 6/16 Saturday, 6/17  -  Sunday, 6/18

Monday, 6/19  -  Tuesday, 6/20  -  Wednesday, 6/21

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9:00 - 10:30 am    "New routes to robust ergodicity breaking"  
                              Rahul Nandkishore
                              University of Colorado, Boulder

10:30 - 11:00 am      Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 pm     "The randomized measurement toolbox II"
                                 Andreas Elben
                                 California Institute of Technology

12:30 - 2:00 pm        Lunch Break

2:00 - 3:30 pm          "Modern quantum coding theory with four qubits"
                                  Lecture notes
                                 Victor Albert
                                 University of Maryland & NIST

3:30 - 4:00 pm          Coffee Break

4:00 - 5:30 pm          "Measurements and decoherence in quantum many-body systems II"
                                 Ehud Altman
                                 University of California, Berkeley


Wednesday, June 14th
Keller Hall, room 3-180

Monday, June 12th    ~ Tuesday, 6/13  ~  Wednesday, 6/14 - Thursday, 6/15 - Friday, 6/16 Saturday, 6/17  -  Sunday, 6/18

Monday, 6/19  -  Tuesday, 6/20  -  Wednesday, 6/21

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9:00 - 10:30 am     "New hydrodynamic universality classes"  
                              Rahul Nandkishore
                              University of Colorado, Boulder

10:30 - 11:00 am      Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 pm      "Measurements and decoherence in quantum many-body systems III"
                                 Ehud Altman
                                 University of California, Berkeley

12:30 - 2:00 pm        Lunch

2:00 pm                    Excursion

2:00 pm Load bus at Church Street Garage - 80 Church Street SE
2:15 pm Drive to the Minneapolis Institute of Art - 2400 3rd Ave S, Minneapolis
4:30 pm Load bus at Minneapolis Institute of Art
4:45 pm Leave for Minnehaha Falls - 4825 Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis
6:15 pm Load bus at Minnehaha Falls
6:30 pm Return to the University of Minnesota
6:55 pm Drop off at Church Street Garage
7:00 pm Pizza in John T. Tate Hall Atrium - 116 Church Street SE

7:00 pm                    All participant, speaker and organizer pizza dinner event in John T. Tate Hall atrium


Thursday, June 15th
Keller Hall, room 3-180

Monday, June 12th    ~ Tuesday, 6/13  ~  Wednesday, 6/14 - Thursday, 6/15 - Friday, 6/16 Saturday, 6/17  -  Sunday, 6/18

Monday, 6/19  -  Tuesday, 6/20  -  Wednesday, 6/21

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9:00 - 10:30 am        “Dynamics of closed quantum many-body systems II”
                                 Lecture notes
                                 David Huse
                                 Princeton University

10:30 - 11:00 am      Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 pm      "Introduction to random unitary circuits and the measurement-induced entanglement phase transition I"
                                 Lecture notes
                                 Brian Skinner
                                 Ohio State University

12:30 - 2:00 pm        Lunch Break

2:00 - 3:30 pm          TBA
                                  Christopher Laumann
                                 Boston University

3:30 - 4:00 pm          Coffee Break

4:00 - 5:30 pm          "Modern quantum coding theory with four qubits"
                                  Lecture notes
                                 Victor Albert
                                 University of Maryland & NIST
                               


 

Friday, June 16th
Keller Hall, room 3-180

Monday, June 12th    ~ Tuesday, 6/13  ~  Wednesday, 6/14 - Thursday, 6/15 - Friday, 6/16 Saturday, 6/17  -  Sunday, 6/18

Monday, 6/19  -  Tuesday, 6/20  -  Wednesday, 6/21

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9:00 - 10:30 am        “Dynamics of closed quantum many-body systems III”
                                 Lecture notes
                                  David Huse
                                  Princeton University

10:30 - 11:00 am      Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 pm      "Introduction to random unitary circuits and the measurement-induced entanglement phase transition II"
                                 Lecture notes
                                 Brian Skinner
                                 Ohio State University

12:30 - 2:00 pm        Lunch Break

2:00 - 3:30 pm         "Strong periodic driving in isolated quantum systems"
                                Anushya Chandran
                                Boston University

3:30 - 4:00 pm         Coffee Break

4:00 - 5:30 pm         TBA
                                 Christopher Laumann
                                 Boston University


Saturday, June 17th
Keller Hall, room 3-180
 

Monday, June 12th    ~ Tuesday, 6/13  ~  Wednesday, 6/14 - Thursday, 6/15 - Friday, 6/16 Saturday, 6/17  -  Sunday, 6/18

Monday, 6/19  -  Tuesday, 6/20  -  Wednesday, 6/21

 

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9:00 - 10:30 am        "Introduction to random unitary circuits and the measurement-induced entanglement phase transition III"
                                 Lecture notes
                                 Brian Skinner
                                 Ohio State University

10:30 am                  Early lunch and Grad Phi event


Sunday, June 18th

No lectures


Monday, June 19th
Keller Hall, room 3-180

Monday, June 12th    ~ Tuesday, 6/13  ~  Wednesday, 6/14 - Thursday, 6/15 - Friday, 6/16 Saturday, 6/17  -  Sunday, 6/18

Monday, 6/19  -  Tuesday, 6/20  -  Wednesday, 6/21

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9:00 - 10:30 am       “Quantum many-body games”
                                 Lecture slides
                                 Fiona Burnell
                                 University of Minnesota

10:30 - 11:00 am      Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 pm      "Mixed state long-range entanglement and realizations I"
                                  Lecture notes
                                  Tsung-Cheng Peter Lu                                 
                                  Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

12:30 - 2:00 pm        Lunch Break

2:00 - 3:30 pm       "Energy pumps from multi-tone driving"
                               Anushya Chandran
                               Boston University

3:30 - 4:00 pm        Poster Session #2


Tuesday, June 20th
Keller Hall, room 3-180

Monday, June 12th    ~ Tuesday, 6/13  ~  Wednesday, 6/14 - Thursday, 6/15 - Friday, 6/16 Saturday, 6/17  -  Sunday, 6/18

Monday, 6/19  -  Tuesday, 6/20  -  Wednesday, 6/21

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9:00 - 10:30 am        "Quantum Computing Algorithms for Condensed Matter I: Exact Approaches"
                                 Bryan Clark
                                 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

10:30 - 11:00 am      Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 pm    "The basics of superconducting qubits"
                                 Lecture notes
                                 Pedram Roushan
                                Google Inc.

12:30 - 2:00 pm        Lunch Break

2:00 - 3:30 pm          "Speed limits on the propagation of quantum information I"
                                   Alexey Gorshkov
                                   University of Maryland & NIST

3:30 - 4:00 pm          Coffee Break

4:00 - 5:30 pm         "Many-body physics and quantum phases of matter with superconducting qubits I" 
                                 Lecture notes
                                Pedram Roushan
                                Google Inc.


 

Wednesday, June 21st
Keller Hall, room 3-180

Monday, June 12th    ~ Tuesday, 6/13  ~  Wednesday, 6/14 - Thursday, 6/15 - Friday, 6/16 Saturday, 6/17  -  Sunday, 6/18

Monday, 6/19  -  Tuesday, 6/20  -  Wednesday, 6/21

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9:00 - 10:30 am        "Speed limits on the propagation of quantum information II"
                                   Alexey Gorshkov
                                   University of Maryland & NIST

10:30 - 11:00 am      Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 pm       "Mixed state long-range entanglement and realizations II"
                                  Lecture notes
                                 Tsung-Cheng Peter Lu
                                  Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

12:30 - 2:00 pm        Lunch Break

2:00 - 3:30 pm         "Quantum Computing Algorithms for Condensed Matter II: Variational Approaches"
                                 Bryan Clark
                                 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

3:30 - 4:00 pm          Coffee Break

4:00 - 5:30 pm          "Many-body physics and quantum phases of matter with superconducting qubits II" 
                                 Lecture notes
                                 Pedram Roushan
                                 Google Inc.

School Ends

Thank You for Participating!

Participant Lodging

Double occupancy dorm rooms will be provided for participants for the duration of the School. The school will run from June 12 - 21, 2023. Plan for a June 11th arrival and a June 21st departure.

Student dormitory on the Twin Cities campus of the University of Minnesota.

Pioneer Hall Dorms | https://housing.umn.edu/pioneer

Bed linens and towels will be provided in each room and may be exchanged as needed at the Information desk.

Watch the short video below for a quick tour of Pioneer Hall.

Location

Summer School Location:

The workshop will be held in Keller Hall 3-180 on the East Bank of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus.

The building can be accessed via the main doors on Washington Avenue and the side doors on Union Street and the Scholars Walk.

Ground Transportation

Getting to the University of Minnesota:

Once you land at the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport (MSP), you have several options you can take to get to the University of Minnesota (UMN). If you are arriving/departing late at night we recommend taking a Lyft/Uber or taxi. 

The Metro Transit Light Rail is the most efficient and cost effective mode of travel. It will cost $2.00 or $2.50 (rush hours) for a one-way ticket. The trains run every 10 - 15 minutes on weekdays and will get you to the UMN campus in about 30 minutes. From MSP, take the Blue Line north to US Bank Station. From there you will transfer to the Green Line and take that east to East Bank Station or Stadium Village Station. Find more information on the Light Rail Transit page of the MSP website

Shuttle service is available from MSP, however the waits can be long and cost may be high at $20.00 - $73.00 depending on whether you share the ride or travel alone. To learn more see the Van and Shuttle service page of the MSP website

Taxi services are available at MSP, including Uber and Lyft. It will take approximately 30 - 60 minutes to get to campus depending on traffic and will cost between $25.00 - $60.00. Visit the Ground Transportation page of the MSP website for more information on app-based ride services. 

Car rental is not recommended. Parking around campus is limited and can be expensive.

Photos

Please see the folder in our Google drive for photos from the summer school.