Selected talks given by group members

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2026

From single-particle to many-body chaos in Yukawa-SYK

The holographic principle establishes a deep connection between a bulk gravity theory and a strongly-coupled boundary field theory, …
Apr 9, 2026 online event
Video Project: Quantum Simulation

Quantum simulation of holographic quantum matter – from quantum chaos to ultracold atoms in a cavity

Holographic field theories represent a phase of matter that is dual to bulk gravity and that provides paradigms for non-Fermi-liquid …
Feb 3, 2026 Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany
Project: Quantum Simulation

2025

Quantum simulation of holographic quantum matter

Holographic quantum matter (i.e., field theories that are dual to bulk gravity) represent paradigms for non-Fermi-liquid behavior and …
Aug 8, 2025 Institute for Robust Quantum Simulation, New York, USA
Video Project: Quantum Simulation

Quantum simulation of holographic quantum matter

Jun 5, 2025 Munich Center for Quantum Science & Technology, Kufstein, Austria
Video Project: Quantum Simulation

Complexity transitions in chaotic quantum systems

May 22, 2025 Erwin Schrödinger International (ESI) Institute for Mathematics and Physics, Wien, Austria
Video Project: Quantum Simulation

2023

A quantum simulation scheme and equilibration/thermalization physics of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model

The quest for a quantum theory of gravity has led to the discovery of quantum many-body systems that are dual to gravitational models …
Oct 25, 2023
Project: Quantum Simulation Link

Towards quantum simulation of holographic matter with cold atoms

May 12, 2023 EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
Project: Quantum Simulation Link

Implementing a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ Lattice Gauge Theory in a Digital Quantum Simulator

Digital quantum simulators provide a table-top platform for addressing salient questions in particle, nuclear, and condensed-matter …
Mar 16, 2023 University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Project: Quantum Simulation Project: Quantum Computation Link

2022

Analog quantum simulation and universal dynamics of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model [ 1, 2, 3] describes a strongly-correlated quantum many-body system with all-to-all disordered …
Nov 30, 2022 ICFO, Barcelona, Spain
Project: Quantum Simulation Link

2021

Universal dynamics of Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model was introduced in the context of explaining the properties of “strange metals,” and has been found to …
Sep 10, 2021 Toruń, Poland
Video Project: Quantum Simulation

Mirradio - Le chicche di Mirradio: Puntata 1 | Quantum Computing

Di quantum computing si sente parlare da un po’ di tempo, ma non sempre viene presentato con chiarezza. Per raccontarlo come si deve, …
May 12, 2021
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Quantum Simulating Lattice Gauge Theories — High-Energy Physics at Ultra-Cold Temperatures

Gauge theories are at the heart of our modern understanding of physics, but solving their out-of-equilibrium dynamics is extremely …
Apr 22, 2021
Video Project: Quantum Simulation

Staircase Prethermalization and Constrained Dynamics in Lattice Gauge Theories

The dynamics of lattice gauge theories is characterized by an abundance of local symmetry constraints. Although errors that break gauge …
Apr 21, 2021
Video Project: Quantum Simulation

Quantum simulating of lattice gauge theories – high-energy physics at ultra-cold temperatures

Jan 27, 2021 Warsaw, Poland (virtual)
Video Project: Quantum Simulation

2020

Quantum simulating lattice gauge theories — high-energy physics with ultra-cold atoms

The difficulty of tackling the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of gauge theories on classical computers is spurring a worldwide effort to …
Aug 19, 2020
Video

Quantum simulating lattice gauge theories — How to make a quantum simulator obey Gauss’s law

The difficulty of tackling the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of gauge theories on classical computers is spurring a worldwide effort to …
Jul 23, 2020
Video

2019

Implementing Topological Entanglement as a Resource Theory

Landau’s theory has been very successful on explaining phase transitions in many cases where a system suffers a change of its …
Dec 12, 2019 10:30 — 11:30 Povo 0, Physics Seminar Room

Loschmidt echo in infinite range spin chains

In recent years the Loschmidt echo has created a lively debate about its connection to equilibrium and dynamical phase transitions as …
Dec 4, 2019 10:00 — 11:00 Povo 0, Physics Seminar Room
Johannes Lang (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden)