Numerical Methods for many-body open quantum systems


Dates: 9-10 January 2023
Venue: Malmaison Hotel, Dundee

This workshop focused on numerical methods (in particular tensornetwork methods) applied to modelling open quantum systems involving extended (many-body) quantum systems. Such problems arise in a growing number of fields, ranging from cold atoms, superconducting qubits, microcavity polaritons, defects in crystals andquantum dots. A key question in this field is how to extend the concepts of many-body physics—collective effects, critical phenomena and phase transitions—with driving, dissipation, and other effects that arise in open quantum systems.

Workshop Organisers:
Jonathan Keeling, St Andrews
Peter Kirton, Strathclyde
Brendon Lovett, St Andrews

Speakers: Adrian Kantian (Heriot-Watt), Francois Damanet (Liege) Gerald Fux (ICTP), Juan P. Garrahan (Nottingham), Vincenzo Savona (EPFL), Naeimeh Mohseni (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität), Orazio Scarlatella (Cambridge), Filippo Vicentini (EPFL), Peter Rabl (TU Vienna), Marzena Szymanska (UCL), Davide Rossini (Pisa), Corinna Kollath (Bonn) Bea Olmos (Tübingen), Ramasubramanian Chitra (ETH), Martin Plenio (Ulm).