Trieste Junior Quantum Days 2019

 

The workshop will gather young researchers working in quantum mechanics and its applications. PhD students and PostDocs will be given the opportunity to present their research activity and interact with their colleagues, share motivations, techniques and perspectives, in a friendly and informal environment. In the morning, blackboard lectures by senior experts will provide a perspective on relevant problems in quantum theory.

 

Topics include: quantum information, entanglement, open quantum systems, quantum foundations, many-body physics, quantum thermodynamics, equilibrium & non-equilibrium physics, mathematical methods for quantum mechanics.

 

There is no fee: the workshop is kindly supported by TEQ. Participants will take care of accommodation.

 
This is the 3^rd workshop of the Trieste Junior Quantum Days series. The first one was held in May 2017, the second in May 2018.
 
Registration open till July 5^th 2019.
Deadline for contributed talks: June 7^th 2019.

Lecturers

Fabio Benatti (University of Trieste): Mathematical and physical aspects of quantum entanglement: a survey

Rosario Fazio (ICTP): Open many-body quantum systems

Vahid Karimipour (Sharif University of Technology): Topological quantum computation

Mikhail Kiselev (ICTP): Landau-Zener-Stueckelberg-Majorana Interferometry

Giuseppe Santoro (SISSA): Quantum Annealing

Andrea Trombettoni (CNR-IOM Trieste): Quantum devices with ultracold atoms

 

Contributed Speakers

Lorenzo Asprea (University of Trieste): Gravitational decoherence: a general non relativistic model

Glen Bigan Mbeng (SISSA): The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm and spin chains

Roberto Dobal Baldijão (State University of Campinas): Quantum contextuality in a quantum Darwinism-inspired game

Alessio Belenchia (Queen’s University Belfast): Near Field Interferometry with Large Particles

Luca De Paolis (LNF-INFN, University of Tor Vergata Rome): VIP-2: Hunting the violation of the Pauli Exclusion Principle for electrons at LNG

Sandro Donadi (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS)): Optomechanical systems as noise spectrometers

Caitlin Jones (University of Trieste): Wavefunction collapse and Special Relativity

Alessio Lerose (SISSA): How long-range interactions slow down entanglement growth out of equilibrium

Bernadette Lessel (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science): Shape dynamics of quantum states

Luca Mancino (Queen’s University Belfast): Non-equilibrium quantum thermometry

Marta Maria Marchese (Queen’s University Belfast): Investigating collapse models with optomechanical systems

Hannah McAleese (Queen’s University Belfast, UK): Adding Incoherent Dynamics to Entanglement Distribution with Separable States

Gabriele Perfetto (SISSA): Quench action and large deviations: work statistics in the one-dimensional Bose gas

A T M Anishur Rahman (University College London): Spatial superposition using a levitated magnetic nanoparticle

Federico Roccati (Universita’ degli Studi di Palermo): Exploring quantumness in a PT-symmetric system

Angelo Russomanno (ICTP): Signs of many-body dynamical localization in the kicked Bose-Hubbard chain

Federica Maria Surace (SISSA and ICTP): Quantum simulation of gauge theories with Rydberg atoms

Christiaan van de Ven (Università di Trento): Quantum spin systems versus Schroedinger operators: A case study in spontaneous symmetry breaking

 

Program

Wednesday, July 24th 2019 09:15 – 09:30 Welcome and Introduction 09:30 – 10:30 Lecture 1: Kiselev  10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 – 12:00 Lecture 2: Trombettoni 12:00 – 12:15 Break 12:15 – 12:45 CT1: Perfetto 12:45 – 13:15 CT2: Baldijao 13:15 – 14:30 Lunch 14:30 – 15:00 CT3: Belenchia 15:00 – 15:30 CT4: Rahman 15:30 – 16:00 Coffe Break 16:00 – 16:30 CT5: Donadi 16:30 – 17:00 CT6: Marchese 20:00 Conference dinner

Thursday, July 25th 2019   09:30 – 10:30 Lecture 1: Benatti 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 – 12:00 Lecture 2: Fazio 12:00 – 12:15 Break 12:15 – 12:45 CT1: Lerose 12:45 – 13:15 CT2: Mancino 13:15 – 14:30 Lunch 14:30 – 15:00 CT3: De Paolis 15:00 – 15:30 CT4: Roccati 15:30 – 16:00 Coffe Break 16:00 – 16:30 CT5: Lessel 16:30 – 17:00 CT6: McAleese

Friday, July 26th 2019   09:30 – 10:30 Lecture 1: Karimipour 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 – 12:00 Lecture 2: Santoro 12:00 – 12:15 Break 12:15 – 12:45 CT1: Russomanno 12:45 – 13:15 CT2: Jones 13:15 – 14:30 Lunch 14:30 – 15:00 CT3: Asprea 15:00 – 15:30 CT4: Surace 15:30 – 16:00 Coffe Break 16:00 – 16:30 CT5: Bigan Mbeng 16:30 – 17:00 CT6: van de Ven 17:00 – 17:30 Closing

 

Scientific Committee

Angelo Bassi (University of Trieste – INFN)
Fabio Benatti (University of Trieste – INFN)
Rosario Fazio (ICTP)
Alessandro Michelangeli (LMU Munich)
Andrea Trombettoni (CNR-IOM Trieste)

 

Local Organizers

Matteo Carlesso (University of Trieste – INFN)
Matteo Gallone (SISSA)
 

Location 

 

The workshop will take place in Gianbiagi Lecture Hall, Adriatico Guesthouse, ICTP, Via Grignano 9, Trieste. The Adriatico Guesthouse can be reached directly from the train station by taking the bus number 6.