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KITP Conference: Designer Quantum Systems Out of Equilibrium
(Nov 14-18, 2016)
Coordinators: Dima Abanin, Ehud Altman, Victor Galitski, Alexey Gorshkov
Scientific Advisors: Leo Radzihovsky

Monday, Nov 14, 2016

Periodically Driven Systems, Chair: Ehud Altman (Berkeley)

8:50am Lars Bildsten (KITP) Welcome[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:00am Mark Rudner (Copenhagen) Quantized Magnetization Density in Periodically Driven Quantum Systems[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am Curt von Keyserlingk (Princeton) Out of Equilibrium Analogues of Symmetry Protected Topological Phases of Matter[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Paul Hess (Maryland) Thermalization and Non-thermalization in a Programmable Spin Chain of Trapped Ions[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am Ana-Maria Rey (Boulder) Measuring out-of-time-order Correlations and Multiple Quantum Coherences in a Trapped Ion Quantum Magnet[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

Quantum Transport and Quantum Dynamics, Chair: Roger Melko (Waterloo)

2:00pm Maks Serbyn (Berkeley) Many-body Localized Phase: Dynamics and Efficient Numerical Simulation[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm Thierry Giamarchi (Geneva) Quantum Transport and Out of Equilibrium Phenomena in Cold Atomic Gases[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Joel Moore (Berkeley) Linear-response and Non-equilibrium Phenomena Emerging from Berry-phase Gauge Fields[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:45pm Matthew Fisher (UCSB) Can Thermalization Breakdown in Quantum Many-body Systems Without Disorder?[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Tuesday, Nov 15, 2016

Inducing New States with Light, Chair: Leo Radzihovsky (Boulder)

9:00am Nuh Gedik (MIT) Optical Manipulation of Electronic Bands Using Floquet-Bloch States[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am Daniele Nicoletti (Hamburg) Light Induced High Temperature Superconductivity[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Eugene Demler (Harvard) Dynamical Cooper Pairing in Non-equilibrium Electron-phonon System[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am Atac Imamoglu (ETH Zurich) Fermi-polarons and Polaritons in Two Dimensional Materials[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

Synthetic Quantum Systems I, Chair: Karen Michaeli (Weizmann)

2:00pm Misha Lukin (Harvard) From Ultra-cold Atoms to Black Diamond: Quantum Dynamics, Critical Thermalization and Time Crystals[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm Wolfgang Lechner (Innsbruck) Adiabatic Quantum Computing with Parity Constraints[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Mohammad Hafezi (Maryland) Measurement Protocols for Many-body Properties in AMO Systems: Entanglement Spectrum and Out-of-time-order Correlators[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:45pm Aditi Mitra (NYU) Entanglement Dynamics Following Quantum Quenches in 2d Floquet Chern Insulators and 3d Critical Systems[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm

RECEPTION

6:00pm

SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER

8:00pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Wednesday, Nov 16, 2016

Topological Systems Out Of Equilibrium, Chair: Roni Ilan (Tel-Aviv)

9:00am Zahid Hasan (Princeton) Ultrafast Physics in Topological Insulators & Weyl Fermion Semimetals
9:45am Karyn Le Hur (Paris) Designing Novel Interacting Topological States, Time-Dependent Driving Protocols, and Bi-Partite Measurement[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Lorenza Viola (Dartmouth College) Design and Characterization of Topological Boundary Modes: from Floquet Engineering to a Generalized Bloch Ansatz[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am Anatoli Polkovnikov (Boston U) Optimum State Preparation using Counter-Dabatic Protocols[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

2-4pm Poster Session

5:00pm

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Thursday, Nov 17, 2016

Thermalization, Quantum Chaos, and Localization, Chair: Dima Abanin (Geneva)

9:00am Xiao-Liang Qi (Stanford) Local Criticality, Diffusion and Chaos in Generalized Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Models[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am Sumilan Banerjee (Weizmann) Solvable Model for a Dynamical Quantum Phase Transition from Fast to Slow Scrambling[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Paola Cappellaro (MIT) Many Body Localization with Nuclear Spins[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am Erez Berg (Weizmann) Topological Phenomena in Periodically Driven Systems: Disorder, Interactions, and Quasi-Steady States[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

Open Quantum Systems and Quantum Dynamics, Chair: Victor Galitski (Maryland)

2:00pm Sebastian Diehl (Cologne) Non-equilibrium Duality and the Phase Diagram of Low-dimensional Driven Open Quantum Systems[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm Marzena Szymanska (London) Driven-dissipative Polariton Quantum Fluids In and Out of Equilibrium[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Hans-Peter Buchler (Stuttgart) Strongly Interacting Slow Light Rydberg Polaritons[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:45pm Monika Schleier-Smith (Stanford) Echoes of Entanglement: from Quantum Metrology to Scrambling[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm

RECEPTION

6:00pm

SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER

8:00pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Friday, Nov 18, 2016

Synthethic Quantum Systems II, Chair: Jens Bardarson (Dresden)

9:00am Christian Gross (MPQ Munich) Exploring Non-equilibrium Many-body Dynamics at the Single Atom Level[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am Darrick Chang (ICFO Barcelona) Mapping Atom-light Interactions to Spin Models and Matrix Product States[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Leticia Tarruell (ICFO Barcelona) Soliton to Droplet Crossover in an Attractive Bose-Bose Mixture[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am Discussion
12:30pm

Lunch Break

2:00pm

CONFERENCE END- SHUTTLE TO BWSCI *Also available to SB Airport and SB Airbus, Goleta location. (See Registration