Annual Retreat
Georg-von-Vollmar-Akademie Am Aspensteinbichl 9, Kochel am See, GermanySchedule
Schedule
Quantum trajectories are Markov chains that model the evolution of quantum systems subjected to repeated indirect measurements. The classification of their invariant measures relies heavily on a purification assumption that, […]
The aim of this conference is to bring together experts in quantum, classical and stochastic dynamics to exchange ideas about common methods and results in this broad field of mathematical […]
The meeting will begin on Monday at 3 pm and conclude on Friday after lunch. Speakers: t.b.a. Program: t.b.a. Organizers: Margherita Ferrero (LMU Munich) Hjalmar Rall (TUM) […]
Motivated by questions from quantum chemistry and spectral optimization, this talk explores the topology of the Ritz energy landscape. Ritz values are the eigenvalues of a larger matrix (or operator) […]
A charged particle, such as an electron, travelling through a periodic lattice produces a polarization field that induces oscillations in the crystal structure. A polaron is defined as the dressing […]
I will discuss some aspects of spectral theory of positive semi-definite Hankel operators, realised as integral operators on the positive semi-axis with integral kernels of the form h(x+y). I will […]
Speakers: Maria Deijfen Remco van der Hofstad Schedule: 14:30 Welcome 15:00 Talk Maria Deijfen 16:00 Refreshment break 16:30 Talk Remco van der Hofstad 18:30 […]
The course is intended especially for Master’s students, PhD students, and postdoctoral researchers, but everyone interested is warmly welcome to attend. If a variational problem has a symmetry, it is […]
The classification of mixed-state phases requires criteria beyond two-point correlation functions, such as the decay of the mutual information (MI) and the conditional mutual information(CMI), with the latter encapsulated in […]
In this talk I will present recent spectral results related to the stability theory of standing waves ψ(t,x) = e−iωtφ(x) for the one-dimensional Soler model, a nonlinear Dirac equation, with […]
The index of a pair of projections on a Hilbert space was introduced in 1973 by Brown-Douglas-Filmore and connected to the integer quantum Hall effect by Avron-Seiler-Simon in 1994. For […]
COURSE OVERVIEW Exponential integrators are powerful numerical methods for solving time-dependent partial differential equations. This short course introduces the construction, analysis, and efficient implementation of exponential integrators, providing both theoretical […]
Effectively describing the long-time dynamical behavior of quantum systems is a long-standing open problem. When the coupling constant λ of the interaction is small, the dynamics of the system up […]
In the setting of non-local quantum computation (NLQC), we study how multiple parties can implement channels on a distributed input system by making use of an entangled resource state, local […]
COURSE OVERVIEW Exponential integrators are powerful numerical methods for solving time-dependent partial differential equations. This short course introduces the construction, analysis, and efficient implementation of exponential integrators, providing both theoretical […]
We investigate a family of radially symmetric Coulomb gas systems at inverse temperature coming from the normal matrix model. The family is characterised by the property that the density of […]
Anyons are 2d identical quantum particles with an intermediate exchange symmetry characterized by representations of the braid group. In the abelian case, they can be modeled through the so-called magnetic […]
The study of the electronic properties of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) has garnered much attention from the condensed matter community recently. TBG is obtained by stacking two graphene monolayers on […]
The standard approach to studying the liquid-vapor phase transition uses the Maxwell double-tangent construction. Whereas this construction is easily justified physically, deriving it mathematically has proved to be more difficult. […]
Tensor networks have become a standard computational tool for simulating quantum many-body dynamics. Their time evolution requires the efficient and accurate update of low-rank tensor factors. In recent years, several […]
Under suitable assumptions, a Markov chain will converge at large times to its stationary measure, over a time scale known as the mixing time. Markov chains can then be used […]
We consider stochastic growth models in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class, like the asymmetric simple exclusion process or the last passage percolation. We will give an overview of older and recent […]
For Schrödinger-type equations with time-dependent, spatially local interactions — including nonlinear cases — there exist solutions that are neither localized nor scattering. These solutions exhibit sub-ballistic spreading, yet are global, […]
I will describe the new approach to scattering theory, which extends to time dependent potentials, including nonlinear equations. In particular, recent progress for one dimensional cases, Long-Range scattering and Local-Decay […]
In this talk, I will describe some work in progress about relating the low-lying spectrum of the Davies Lindbladian for qLDPC codes to that of Glauber dynamics on a classical […]
Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) codes, such as the toric code, are a widely studied class of quantum error-correcting codes. Understanding the thermalization time of these systems is important not only for error […]
Registration for the TRR 352 Winter School on Mathematical Physics is now open! The event will take place from March 9-13, 2026, at the Georg-von-Vollmar-Akademie in Kochel am See. Invited […]
A gas of interacting Bosons can be represented using an ensemble of stochastic diffusions – a Brownian loop soup. In this talk, we review the construction of this Feynman representation, […]
Describing the long-time dynamical behaviour of quantum systems is a long-standing open problem. When the coupling constant \lambda of the interaction is small, the dynamics of the system up to […]
We consider a class of Unitary Quantum Walks on arbitrary graphs, parameterized by a family of scattering matrices. After explaining that these Scattering Quantum Walks encompass several known Quantum Walks, […]
We study the dynamical density and current responses of a class of non-interacting, one-dimensional gapless lattice Fermi systems subjected to density-type perturbations slowly varying in space and time, in the […]
Schedule: 14:30 Welcome 15:00 Talk by Nicos Georgiou (Sussex) 16:00 Coffee break 16:30 Talk by Christian Kühn (TU Munich) 18:00 Option for common dinner Titles and abstracts: Nicos Georgiou: Mean-field limit and parameter […]
With the proof of Widom’s conjecture giving new insights on the entanglement properties of the non-relativistic free Fermi gas, it is a natural question whether this situation extends to the […]
The microscopic laws of quantum mechanics give rise to some of the most fascinating macroscopic phenomena in physics, such as superfluidity and superconductivity. The theoretical description of such phenomena is […]
We present the relativistic quantum physics model hierarchy from Dirac-Maxwell to Vlasov/Euler-Poisson that models fast moving charges and their self-consistent electro-magnetic field. Our main interest is (asymptotic) analysis of these […]
November 17-21, 2025 at Haus Chiemgau, Teisendorf The meeting will begin on Monday at 3 pm and conclude on Friday after lunch. Speakers: Lennart Becker (UT) Yoon Jun Chan (UA) […]
Repeated compositions of quantum channels arise naturally in many places across quantum: they arise, for example, in the transfer operator approach to quantum spin chains, and also in the repeated […]
The CRC’s Annual Retreat took place from September 28 to October 1, 2025, at the Georg-von-Vollmar-Akademie in Kochel am See. The retreat was fully dedicated to preparing the application for the next […]
Quantum mechanics, now about a century old, is a very successful physical theory of matter on a small scale. From its first description until today, it has surprised scientists and […]
This talk will provide a basic introduction to the three dimensional Dirac equation that describes an electron interacting with a magnetic field. Over the years a lot of work has […]
I will review the mathematical analysis behind two classes of new exciting materials: Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) and twisted semiconductors (TMDs) with an emphasis on their mathematical properties and differences. […]
Conventional quantum tomography assumes a high degree of control over the system in question in order to measure many observables. On the other hand, a classical dynamical system may be […]
Evolutionary deep neural networks have emerged as a rapidly growing field of research. This talk discusses numerical integrators for such and other classes of nonlinear parametrizations u(t) = Φ(θ(t)) where […]
Thanks to their high degree of control and tunability, ultracold atomic gases provide a rich platform for the study of quantum many-body effects. Ultracold gases of highly magnetic atoms exhibit […]
We explore a connection between a weak topology on spaces of probability measures, a classical combinatorial problem in matching, and numerical schemes for the solution of PDEs by neural networks.
We prove a fluid limit for the coarsening phase of the condensing zero-range process on a finite number of sites. When time and occupation per site are linearly rescaled by […]
On Thursday, May 08, 2025, at 12:15 pm, Prof. Dr. Shi Jin (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) will give a talk on “Quantum Computation of partial differential equations and related problems” at TUM, Boltzmannstr. 3, 85748 Garching Forschungszentrum, room […]
Quantum computing with discrete variable (DV, qubit) hardware is approaching the large scales necessary for computations beyond the reach of classical computers. Separately, hardware containing native continuous-variable (CV, oscillator) systems […]
In this talk we consider discrete Gaussian free fields with ergodic random conductances on ℤd, d ≥ 2, where the conductances are possibly unbounded but satisfy a moment condition. As […]
Let X be a simple random walk in Znd with d≥3 and let tcov be the expected time it takes for X to visit all vertices of the torus. In joint work with Prévost and Rodriguez […]
Program: 11:00 am – Dr. Larry Read, LMU München: Proof of the oval conjecture (Part 1) lunch 1:30 pm – Matthias Baur, M.Sc., Universität Stuttgart: Proof of the oval conjecture (Part 2) […]
In relativity, nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. But there are often emergent speed limits, such as the speed of sound, that limit practical information transfer. In […]
In this talk, we address the full discretization of Friedrichs’ systems with a two-field structure, such as Maxwell’s equations or the acoustic wave equation in div-grad form. We follow a […]
State-sum constructions have numerous applications in both mathematics and physics. In mathematics, they yield invariants for knots and manifolds and serve as a powerful organizing principle in representation theory. To […]
In this talk, we consider irreversible translation-invariant interacting particle systems on the d-dimensional hypercubic lattice with finite local state space, which admit at least one Gibbs measure as a time-stationary […]
We consider a system of closed random walk trajectories interacting by mutual repulsion. This probabilistic model is motivated by its connections to statistical mechanics models, such as the Bose gas, […]
It is a remarkable property of random matrices, that their resolvents tend to concentrate around a deterministic matrix as the dimension of the matrix tends to infinity, even for a […]
January 21-24, 2025 at Christkönigshaus, Stuttgart Speakers: Jonas Peteranderl (LMU) Sara Terveer (LMU) François Visconti (LMU) Paul Gondolf (Tub) Yifei Li (Tub) Tom Wessel (Tub) Pablo Costa Rico (TUM) […]
Fix some graph or uniform hypergraph F and then consider the following simple process: start with a large complete (hyper)graph Kn on n vertices and iteratively remove (the edge set […]
Phase transitions are natural phenomena in which a small change in an external parameter, like temperature or pressure, causes a dramatic change in the qualitative structure of the object. To […]
Of great interest in plasma physics is to determine whether excited charged particles in a non-equilibrium state will relax to neutrality or transition to a nontrivial coherent state. Due to […]
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 […]
Quantum systems typically reach thermal equilibrium when in weak contact with a large external bath. Understanding the speed of this thermalisation is a challenging problem, especially in the context of […]
Competitive games of complete information famously always have Nash equilibria, but it is well-known that correlation (“advice”) can yield new equilibria, sometimes with preferable collective properties (social welfare, fairness, …). […]
Quantum Signal Processing (QSP) is an algorithmic process by which one represents a signal $f: \to (-1,1)$ as the upper left entry of a product of $SU(2)$ matrices parametrized by […]
Quantum walks (QWs) can be viewed as quantum analogs of classical random walks. Mathematically, a QW is described as a unitary, local operator acting on a grid and can be […]
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 a […]
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 […]
First CRC meeting in the Bavarian Alps From October 11 to 15, 2023, the kick-off meeting of our CRC took place in Farchant near Garmisch. Around 60 participants came together […]
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., […]


