NZIAS-MPIPKS Return Tandem Workshop

Nonlinear Physics at the Nanoscale:

A Cross-Fertilization on Stochastic Methods

 

Workshop programme

 

Monday 2 February:

 

8:00 – 9:00 Registration

9:00 – 10:00  T1: Howard Wiseman (Griffith University, Brisbane)

 

                 Quantum Jumps and Markovianity


10:00 – 10:30 Break


10:30 – 11:20 I1:
Howard Carmichael (Auckland University)

Sub-Poissonian Light of High Photon Number: Simulation and Control of a Quantum Stochastic Light Source

11:20 – 12:10 I2: Claudia De Grandi (Yale University, New Haven)

                 Dissipative dynamics in arrays of superconducting qubits
 

12:10 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 15:20 I3: Herwig Ott (University of Kaiserslautern)

 

                 Dissipative Mass Transport in Ultracold Quantum Gases

15:20 – 15:50 C1: Simon Kiesewetter (Swinburn University of Technology, Melbourne)

 

                 Parallel optimization of stochastic trajectories

 

15:50 – 16:20 Break

 

16:20 – 17:10 I4: Victor Galitski (University of Maryland and Monash University)

 

Soliton motion, dissipation, self-acceleration and death in a fermionic superfluid

17:10 – 17:40 C2: Michael Moeckel (Cambridge University)

 

Full CI quantum Monte-Carlo for the doped Hubbard model

 

17:40 – 18:10 C3: Bo Xiong (National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu)

 

Nonadiabatic multichannel dynamics of a spin-orbit coupled condensate

 

 

Tuesday 3 February:

 

9:00 – 10:00  T2: Andrew Daley (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow)

 

                 Matrix Product State Approaches to Open Quantum Systems


10:00 – 10:30 Break


10:30 – 11:20 I5:
Jesko Sirker (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg)

 

                 Many-Body Localization in cold atomic gases

11:20 – 12:10 I6: Sergey Denisov (University of Augsburg)

 

                 Quantum attractors: asymptotic states of ac-driven open systems

 

12:10 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 15:20 I7: Peter Drummond (Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne)

 

                 Advances in stochastic quantum phase-space methods

15:20 – 15:50 C4: Michael Tomka (Boston University)

 

                 Supersymmetry in quantum optics and in spin-orbit coupled systems

 

15:50 – 16:20 Break

 

16:20 – 17:10 I8: Jan Klaers (ETH ZŸrich)

 

The thermalization, condensation and flickering of photons

17:10 – 17:40 C5: Margaret Reid (Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne)

 

Violating Leggett-Garg inequalities in two-well tunnelling Bose-Einstein condensates

 

18:30 – 21:30 Poster session with drinks and pizza



 

Wednesday 4 February:

 

9:00 – 10:00  T3: Ashton Bradley (University of Otago, Dunedin)

 

Stochastic Projected Gross-Pitaevskii Theory


10:00 – 10:30 Break


10:30 – 11:20 I9:
David Snoke (University of Pittsburgh)

 

Novel quantized circulation in a polariton ring condensate

11:20 – 12:10 I10: Yoshihisa Yamamoto (Stanford University)

 

Coherent Ising machine based on time-multiplexed optical parametric oscillator at degeneracy

12:10 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 Excursion to Te Puia

 

19:00 Conference dinner at Novotel

 

Thursday 5 February:

 

9:00 – 9:50 I11: Jšrg Schmiedmayer (University of Vienna)

 

                        Relaxation in an isolated many body quantum system


9:50 – 10:30 Break


10:30 – 11:20 I12:
Oleksandr Fialko (Massey University, Auckland)

 

Fate of the false vacuum: towards realization with ultra-cold atoms

 

11:20 – 12:10 I13: Timothy Liew (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

 

Antibunching in Weakly Nonlinear Coupled Optical Mode Systems

 

12:10-14:30 Lunch

 

14:30 – 15:20 I14: Karen Kheruntsyan (University of Queensland)

 

Motional-state Bell inequality test with ultracold atoms

 

15:20 – 15:50 C6: Lewis Williamson (University of Otago)

 

Coarsening dynamics of a quenched spin-1 ferromagnetic condensate

 

15:50 – 16:20 Break

16:20 – 16:50 C7: Dario Poletti (Singapore University of Technology and Design)

 

Emergent quantum many-body physics in driven Hamiltonians and in Dissipative systems

16:50 – 17:20 C8: Danny Baillie (University of Otago, Dunedin)

 

Anisotropic number fluctuations of a dipolar condensate

 

17:20 – 17:50 C9: Bogdan Opanchuk (Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne)

 

Probabilistic simulations of multimode static and dynamic Bell violations

 

19-22 Posters

 

Friday 5 February:

 

9:00 – 9:50 I16: Mikhail Ivanchenko (Lobachevsky State University, Nizhny Novgorod)

 

Diffusion of quantum particles in localizing potentials



9:50 – 10:20 C10: Matteo Marcuzzi (University of Nottingham)

 

Signatures of directed percolation universality in Rydberg atomic systems


10:20 – 10:50 Break


10:50 – 11:20 C11:
Run Yan Teh (Swinburn University of Technology, Melbourne)

 

Detecting Genuine Multi-partite Continuous Variable Entanglement

 

11:20 – 12:10 I17: Michael Fleischhauer (University of Kaiserslautern)

 

                 Topological properties of bosonic lattice models

 

12:10 – 14:00 Lunch

THE END


Posters

Joachim Brand

Massey University

Quasiparticles of widely tunable effective mass: The dispersion relation of atomic Josephson vortices

Victor Canela

Auckland University

Production of Sub-Poissonian Light of High Photon Number: a Quantum Trajectory Computer Simulation

Joel Corney

University of Queensland

Stochastic Methods for Non-Gaussian Quantum States

Jayson Cosme

Massey University

Thermalization in closed quantum systems: semiclassical approach

Carlo Danieli

Massey University

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Peter Drummond

Swinburne UoT

Fermionic Q-function

Shreyoshi Gosh

Massey University

Dynamics-induced freezing of strongly correlated ultracold bosons

Ricardo Gutierrez-Jauregui

University of Auckland

On dissipative quantum phase transitions beyond the Jaynes Cummings model

Rob McDonald

University of Otago

Quench-Induced Winding in a Bose-Einstein Condensate: Energy and Number Damping in C-Field Theory

Luke Symes

University of Otago

Fluctuations in Uniform Spin-1 Bose-Einstein Condensates

Justin Wilson

University of Maryland

An exactly solvable model for entanglement dynamics in a non-Markovian environment

Xiaoquan Yu

Massey University

Enhancement of chaotic subdiffusion in disordered ladders with synthetic gauge fields