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KITP Conference: Quantum Many-body Physics through the Lens of Quantum Error Correction
(Sep 8-11, 2025)
Coordinators: Margarita Davydova, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Aleksander Kubica, and Shruti Puri

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Monday, Sep 8, 2025

Morning session, Chair: Aleksander Kubica (Yale)

8:50am Mark Bowick (KITP) Welcome[Video][CC]
9:00am Andrew Lucas (CU Boulder) Entropic order and error correction[Slides][Video][CC]
9:45am Carolyn Zhang (Harvard) Lieb-Robinson bounds with exponential-in-volume tails[Video][CC]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Henrik Dreyer (Quantinuum) Topological States, Fermions & Magic on trapped-ion quantum computers[Video][CC]
11:45am Soonwon Choi (MIT) Proving Quantum Thermalization of Translation Invariant Systems at High-Temperature[Video][CC]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

Afternoon session, Chair: Margarita Davydova (Caltech)

2:00pm Chi Fang Chen (UCB / LBNL) Metastable states are locally thermal: Markov properties and area laws[Video][CC]
2:45pm Isaac Kim (UC Davis) On the cost of magic state: from near-term experiments to catalytic quantum computation[Video][CC]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Jeongwan Haah (Stanford) Undetectable errors in Floquet codes[Video][CC]
4:45pm Tibor Rakovszky (BME) Finite-temperature quantum topological order in three dimensions[Video][CC]
5:30pm

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Tuesday, Sep 9, 2025

Morning session, Chair: Jong Yeon Lee (UIUC)

9:00am Henry Yuen (Columbia) The power and limits of constant-time quantum computation[Video][CC]
9:45am Thiago Bergamaschi (UCB) Rapid mixing for Gibbs states within a logical sector: a dynamical view of self-correcting quantum memories[Video][CC]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Alexis Morvan (Google) Implementing the surface code using time-dynamic circuits[Video][CC]
11:45am Dorit Aharonov (Hebrew U) On the quantum to classical transition in noisy quantum systems[Video][CC]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

Afternoon session, Chair: Layla Hormozi (BNL)

2:00pm Bill Fefferman (U. Chicago) Why are random quantum circuits capable of solving hard problems?[Video][CC]
2:45pm Chinmay Nirkhe (Washington) The description complexity of groundstates[Video][CC]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

Discussion/collaboration time [common areas]

5:30pm

RECEPTION

6:00pm

SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER

7:30pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Wednesday, Sep 10, 2025

Morning session, Chair: Arpit Dua (Virginia Tech)

9:00am Shengqi Sang (Stanford) Extending circuit-based definition of quantum phases to Gibbs states[Video][CC]
9:45am Yifan Hong (JQI) Automorphism gadgets in homological product codes[Slides][Video][CC]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Dolev Bluvstein (Harvard) Architectural mechanisms of a universal fault-tolerant quantum computer[Video][CC]
11:45am Liang Jiang (U. Chicago) Boosting Quantum Communication with GKP Codes: From Limits to New Protocols[Slides][Video][CC]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

Afternoon session, Chair: Simon Trebst (U Cologne)

2:00pm Vedika Khemani (Stanford) Topological Quantum Spin Glass Order: a new route to quantum memory with realizations in qLDPC codes[Video][CC]
2:45pm Ehud Altman (UCB) Decoherence induced transitions and information encoding in fractional quantum hall states[Video][CC]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

Discussion/collaboration time [common areas]

5:30pm

RECEPTION

6:00pm

SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER

7:30pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Thursday, Sep 11, 2025

Morning session, Chair: Sarang Gopalakrishnan (Princeton)

9:00am Fiona Burnell (Minnesota) What does RMT have to say about Lindbladian dynamics?[Video][CC]
9:45am Laimei Nie (Purdue) Analytically continuing the randomized measurement toolbox[Video][CC]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Alicia Kollar (JQI) Autonomous Stabilization of Floquet States[Slides][Video][CC]
11:45am Benjamin Beri (Cambridge) Taming coherent errors in the surface code[Slides][Video][CC]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

Afternoon session, Chair: Matteo Ippoliti (Texas)

2:00pm Arpit Dua (Virginia Tech) Fault-tolerant protocols through spacetime concatenation[Video][CC]
2:45pm Shouzhen Gu (Yale) Layer codes as partially self-correcting quantum memories[Slides][Video][CC]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Sisi Zhou (Perimeter Inst.) Quantum error correction for noisy Hamiltonian estimation[Slides][Video][CC]
4:45pm Mohammad Maghrebi (MSU) Quantum Phase Transition Protected by Dissipation[Video][CC]
5:30pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI *Also available to SB Airport and SB Airbus, Goleta location. (See Registration Desk BEFORE THURSDAY to sign up.)

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