Teaching

This lecture course offers an introduction to quantum many-body dynamics, emphasizing recent exciting and fundamental developments in this rapidly developing field. Quantum many-body dynamics combines aspects from condensed matter physics and quantum optics, based on a rich interplay between theoretical developments and experimental advances in quantum computing and quantum simulators. This course covers the foundations of this field, introducing aspects of quantum chaos and quantum quench dynamics, before moving on to topics of recent interest including many-body localization, prethermalization, periodically driven (Floquet) systems and Floquet engineering, quantum geometry, discrete time crystals, and quantum circuits as minimal models for many-body dynamics.

Prerequisites: Quantum Mechanics, Statistical Mechanics, basic familiarity with Python

Preliminary reading materials:

• J. J. Sakurai, Modern Quantum Mechanics, Chapters 1-4 and Chapter 7;
• basic notions of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics;
• Chris Laumann's Scientific Computing in Python lectures given at ICTP: lecture 1, lecture 2, lecture 3, notebooks.
   

ECTS Credits: 5 ECTS

Coursework: The course offers regular lectures (see table below for syllabus) and regular tutorial sessions. Regular attendance (at least 75% of the lectures) is expected.

Final Exam: Oral exam starting focusing on a set of topics covered in class. Only for students taking the course for credit.

Time and Place:

Tuesday and Thursday: 13:00 - 14:30
Venue: Seminar Room 4 (SR4), Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Noethnitzer Str 38, Dresden 01187 
Public holidays: Oct 31, Dec 26, Dec 28, Dec 31, Jan 2

Lecturers:

Marin Bukov, PhD
Pieter Claeys, PhD
Prof. Dr. Roderich Moessner

Syllabus: