Friday, September 25, 2020
10:00 AM -
3:30 PM EDT
Within the last several years, the study of quantum many-body chaos has become one of the prominent research themes within both high energy theory and condensed matter physics. The resolution of fundamental problems in a range of fields, from holographic duality and black hole information, to transport and thermalization, have been recognized to be intertwined with our ability to understand chaos. Along separate lines, over the last several decades, chaos practitioners have developed powerful techniques with which to analyze chaotic few-body systems, both classical and quantum. The goal of this symposium is to bring together these communities and discuss ideas for developing new tools with which to gain quantitative control of chaos in quantum field theory.
Herding cats: a chaotic field theory
abstract | slides | video
Predrag Cvitanović, Georgia Institute of Technology
Exactly solved models of many-body quantum chaos
slides | video
Tomaž Prosen, University of Ljubljana
Chaos and thermalization in quantum many-body systems
slides | video
Mark Srednicki, University of California, Santa Barbara
Organizers:
Sebastian Franco, City College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Daniel Kabat, Lehman College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Vladimir Rosenhaus, Institute for Advanced Studies and The Graduate Center, CUNY