Thermalization and Equilibration Dynamics in Quantum and Classical Many-Body Systems

WashU Summer Colloquia sponsored by the Department of Physics and the Center for Quantum Sensors

Alexander Seidel, Washington University in St. Louis, and Alioscia Hamma, University of Massachusetts Boston, will be hosting a virtual summer colloquium mini-series on "Thermalization and Equilibration Dynamics in Quantum and Classical Many-Body Systems."

The five talks, sponsored by the Department of Physics and the Center for Quantum Sensors, will be presented on Wednesdays at 11 am CDT from July 28 through August 25.

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Talks

Maxim Olchanyi (University of Massachusetts Boston)

Quantum Chirikov criterion:  Two particles in a box as a toy model for a quantum gas

July 28, 2021
11 am CDT

Recording

 

Ehud Altman (University of California Berkeley)

Phases and phase transitions of information flow in quantum circuits

August 4, 2021
11 am CDT

Recording

 

Gil Refael (California Institute of Technology)

Topological Physics at the Light-Matter Interface

August 11, 2021
11 am CDT

Recording

 

Peter Reimann (Universität Bielefeld)

Foundations of Statistical Mechanics in and out of Equilibrium

August 18, 2021
11 am CDT

Recording

 

Julian Léonard (Harvard University)

Many-body localization under the microscope

August 25, 2021
11 am CDT

Recording