Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theory is a successful model of superconductivity. In this talk, I will begin by providing an overview of how BCS theory connects with other models of superconductivity, highlighting […]
We study the generalised Lloyd model, that is, a random Schrödinger operator on the lattice Zd of the form H = −∆ + λV, λ > 0, with Vi = […]
The CRC’s Annual Retreat was held from October 6–10, 2024, at the Explorer Hotel Garmisch in Farchant. Nearly 60 members, including both established researchers and early-career scientists, gathered for […]
This talk will provide a partial overview of how to model molecular observables and spectral responses. We shall start with the essential quantum mechanical concepts and formalisms that are used […]
The dilute Curie-Weiss model is the Ising model on a (dense) Erdös-Rényi graph G(N,p). It was introduced by Bovier and Gayrard in 1990s. There the authors showed that on the […]
Branching Brownian motion, branching random walks, and the F-KPP equation have been the subject of intensive research during the last couple of decades. By means of Feynman-Kac and McKean formulas, […]
(Pseudo)spectral methods are popular for solving a wide variety of differential equations and generic optimization problems. Due to favourable approximation properties, such as rapid convergence for smooth functions, they are […]
The classification of states of quantum lattice systems is a well -defined mathematical endeavour which started with the discovery of the quantum Hall effect. In this talk, I will discuss […]
The stability of topological indices of condensed matter systems in the p resence of interactions is not expected to hold universally. In this colloquium, I will first discuss the mathematical […]
The operator-algebraic description of quantum mechanical systems can be used to mathematically deal with systems, where the usual Hilbert space description becomes inconvenient or breaks down. In this talk I […]
For many problems in quantum mechanics it is important to have a good grasp of the operators modelling the system. The landscape function was introduced as a tool to compute […]
We study the contact process on scale-free inhomogeneous random graphs evolving according to a stationary dynamics, where the neighbourhood of each vertex is updated with a rate depending on its […]
We prove a thermodynamically stable Lieb-Robinson bound (LRB) for bosons with long-range interaction on lattices. The condition is that the initial state admits (i) uniformly bounded density from above and […]
Fault-tolerant protocols and quantum error correction (QEC) are essential to building reliable quantum computers from imperfect components that are vulnerable to errors. Optimizing the resource and time overheads needed to […]
We introduce a new approach to justify mean-field limits for first- and second-order particle systems with singular interactions. It is based on a duality approach combined with the analysis of […]
In Bernoulli percolation, the incipient infinite cluster (IIC) is a version of the “open cluster of the origin at criticality conditioned to be infinite”. Since this event should have probability […]
Regularisation by noise in the context of stochastic differential equations (SDEs) with coefficients of low regularity, known as singular SDEs, refers to the beneficial effect produced by noise so that […]
In this seminar, we will discuss the estimation of group action using the non-commutative Fourier transform. We’ll explore an interesting relationship between the non-commutative Fourier transform and this estimation problem. […]
In this talk, I will try to motivate the subject of constructive quantum field theory which was born in the 70’s as an attempt to give rigorous constructions of quantum […]
The talk reviews the state of affairs in the mathematically rigorous foundations of the special-relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell equations. The progress is made possible by a recent formulation of a well-posed Lorentz […]
In the setting of lattice gauge theories with finite (possibly non-Abelian) gauge groups at weak coupling, we prove exponential decay of correlations for a wide class of gauge invariant functions, […]
Although many-body quantum simulations have greatly benefited from high-perfor- mance computing facilities, large molecular systems continue to pose formidable challenges. Mixed quantum-classical models, such as Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics or Ehren- […]
The Fröhlich polaron models a charged quantum particle interactiong with a polar cystal. Since the moving particle has to drag along a ‘cloud’ of polarization, it appears heavier than it […]
It is known through classical works of Kac, Salem, Zygmund, Erdös and Gal that lacunary sums behave in several ways like sums of independent random variables, satisfying, for instance, a […]
In this talk – based on a joint work with J. Lampart, N. Leopold, and D. Mitrouskas – I will talk about the mean field limit of the renormalized Nelson […]
The meeting of the junior members of TRR 352 took place from December 13-15, 2023, at the Haus der bayerischen Landwirtschaft in Herrsching/Ammersee. program titles & abstracts Speakers: Alberto Brollo (TUM) Florian Haberberger […]
We consider a random walk in a truncated cone K_N , which is obtained by slicing cone K by a hyperplane at a growing level of order N. We study […]
In this talk, we investigate random convex interfaces which are generated as convex hulls of random point sets. We are interested in their asymptotic behavior when the size of the […]
Interacting Bose gas at zero temperature is often described by the Bogoliubov approximation. It involves quasiparticles, called phonons, with a rather curious dispersion relation responsible for superfluidity. The Fermi Golden […]
In 2001 Bolthausen, den Hollander and van den Berg obtained the asymptotics of the probability that the volume of a Wiener sausage at time t is smaller than expected by […]
The Abelian sandpile model on a graph G is a Markov chain whose state space is a subset of the set of functions with integer values defined on the vertices […]
From October 11 to 15, 2023, the kick-off meeting of our CRC took place in Farchant near Garmisch. Around 60 participants came together to spend a few days in the […]
The KPZ fixed point is conjectured to be the universal space-time scaling limit of the models belonging to the KPZ universality class and it was rigorously constructed by Matetski, Quastel […]
We introduce a currently hot topic in probability theory, the theory of scaling limits for random fields of gradients in all dimensions. The random fields are a class of model […]
I will present a new approach to finding the asymptotic states of Nonlinear Wave Equations with general initial data. In particular, we show for a large class of equations, that […]
The homogeneous electron gas (jellium) where electrons interact with each other and with a positive background charge is one of the simplest model system in condensed matter physics. Still, the […]
We consider the ground state of a Bose gas of N particles on the three-dimensional unit torus in the mean-field regime that is known to exhibit Bose-Einstein condensation. Bounded one-particle […]
In this talk, we describe the kinetic equation for the Bogoliubov excitations of the Bose-Einstein Condensate. We find three collisional processes: One of them describes the 1↔2 interactions between the […]
Propagation and generation of “chaos” is an important ingredient in rigorous control of applicability of kinetic theory, in general. Chaos can here be understood as sufficient statistical independence of random […]
We consider Markovian open quantum dynamics (MOQD) in continuous space. We show that, up to small-probability tails, the supports of quantum states evolving under such dynamics propagate with finite speed […]
In this talk I will describe the vacuum sector of the Weinberg-Salam (WS) model of electroweak forces. In the vacuum sector the WS model yields the U(2)-Yang-Mills-Higgs equations. We show […]
We consider two-dimensional unbounded magnetic Dirac operators, either defined on the whole plane, or with infinite mass boundary conditions on a half-plane. Our main results use techniques from elliptic PDEs […]
Unraveling the origin of unconventional superconductivity is one of the driving forces behind quantum simulations with Fermions in optical lattices. In these strongly correlated materials, the necessary pairing of charge […]
We consider the infrared problem in translation-invariant Nelson-type models describing a single quantum mechanical particle linearly coupled to a field of scalar bosons at fixed total momentum. Physical examples include […]
The correspondence principle, as stated by Niels Bohr in 1923, is at the root of the traditional results in semi-classical analysis. It offers a natural insight into the world of […]
Schrödinger’s equation is a beautiful piece of mathematics. It f its on just one line and is supposed to accurately describe the behavior of most atoms and molecules of our […]
Recent progress in the development of quantum technologies has enabled the direct investigation of dynamics of increasingly complex quantum many-body systems. This motivates the study of the complexity of classical […]
A mathematical understanding of the mechanism of metallic ferromagnetism still needs to be completed. In this talk, the following three fundamental theorems on metallic ferromagnetism will be first outlined: the […]
We introduce a classical algorithm to approximate the free energy of local, translation-invariant, one-dimensional quantum systems in the thermodynamic limit of infinite chain size. While the ground state problem (i.e., […]
