Numerical Approaches to Quantum Many-Body Systems - IPAM

Numerical Approaches to Quantum Many-Body Systems

January 22 - 30, 2009

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Morning Session

07:00-08:00
QS2009 Tutorials
08:00-09:00
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-10:15
Werner Krauth (École Normale Supérieure)
Lecture: Introduction to Monte Carlo
10:15-10:30
Break
10:30-11:45
Anders Sandvik (Boston University)
Lecture: Introduction to Quantum Monte Carlo
11:45-12:00
Break

Afternoon Session

12:00-12:45
Matthias Troyer (Microsoft Research)
Lecture: QMC and Sign Problem
12:45-14:15
Lunch (on your own)
14:15-14:45
Matthias Troyer (Microsoft Research)
Lecture: Introduction to ALPS
14:45-15:00
Break
15:00-18:00
Matthias Troyer (Microsoft Research)
<b>Hands-On: ALPS Installation, Classical Monte Carlo

Friday, January 23, 2009

Morning Session

07:00-08:00
QS2009 Tutorials
08:15-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:15
Thomas Schulthess (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Zurich)
Lecture: High-Performance Computing
10:15-10:30
Break
10:30-11:45
Andreas Läuchli (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik Komplexer Systeme)
Lecture: Introduction to Exact Diagonalization
11:45-12:00
Break

Afternoon Session

12:00-12:45
Simon Trebst (Microsoft Station Q)
Lecture: Series Expansions
12:45-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:45
Nikolay Prokof'ev (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Lecture: Continuous-Time QMC (worms)
14:45-15:00
Break
15:00-18:00
Andreas Läuchli (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik Komplexer Systeme)
<b>Hands-On: Exact Diagonalization

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Morning Session

07:00-08:00
QS2009 Tutorials
08:15-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:15
Steve White (University of California, Irvine (UCI))
Lecture: Introduction to DMRG
10:15-10:30
Break
10:30-11:45
Ulrich Schollwöck (RWTH Aachen)
Lecture: Time-Dependent DMRG
11:45-12:00
Break

Afternoon Session

12:00-12:45
Guifre Vidal (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Lecture: Tensor Networks
12:45-14:15
Lunch (on your own)
14:15-14:45
Guifre Vidal (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Lecture: Entanglement Renormalization
14:45-15:00
Break
15:00-18:00
Fakher Assaad (Bayerische-Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg)
<b>Hands-On: QMC or DMRG

Monday, January 26, 2009

Morning Session

07:00-08:00
QS2009 Workshop

Morning Session Chair: Simon Trebst, Afternoon Session Chair: Alexander Lichtenstein

08:15-09:00
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:50
Uwe-Jens Wiese (University of Bern - Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Meron-Cluster and Nested Cluster Algorithms: Addressing the Sign Problem in Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Nikolay Prokof'ev (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Diagrammatic Monte Carlo: What Happens to the Sign-Problem?
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Fakher Assaad (Bayerische-Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg)
Weak Coupling CT-QMC, Projective Schemes and Its Application to the Electron-Phonon Problem

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Olivier Parcollet (Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (CEA) - Centre d'Études Nucléaires de Saclay (CENS))
DMFT and Beyond: From Quantum Impurities to High Temperature Superconductors
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Philipp Werner (ETH Zürich)
Diagrammatic Monte Carlo Simulation of Impurity Models
17:00-19:00
Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Morning Session

07:00-08:00
QS2009 Workshop

Morning Session Chair: Philipp Werner, Afternoon Session Chair: Steve White

08:15-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
Alexander Lichtenstein (Universität Hamburg)
Non-local Correlations in Electronic Structure Scheme: Beyond DMFT
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Hartmut Monien (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
From Random Matrix Theory to Optimal Frequency Grids
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Rajiv Singh (University of California, Davis (UC Davis))
Linked-Cluster Series-Expansion Methods for Quantum Lattice Models

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Andreas Läuchli (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik Komplexer Systeme)
Exact Diagonalization: A Smart Tool to Study New States of Quantum Matter
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Didier Poilblanc (CNRS, Toulouse)
Simulations of Quantum Dimer Models

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Morning Session

07:00-08:00
QS2009 Workshop

Morning Session Chair: Guifre Vidal, Afternoon Session Chair: Ulrich Schollwöck

08:15-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
Steve White (University of California, Irvine (UCI))
Traditional DMRG Approaches for 2D Frustrated and Doped Quantum Systems
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Frank Verstraete (Ghent University)
Projected Entangled Pair States: Status and Prospects
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Roman Orus (Donostia International Physics Center)
Progress on Infinite TPS/PEPS Algorithms

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:50
Sandy Irani (University of California, Irvine (UCI))
Ground State Complexity in One Dimensional Quantum Systems
15:00-15:15
Break
15:15-16:05
Guifre Vidal (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Recent Progress in Entanglement Renormalization
16:15-16:30
Break
16:30-17:20
Ian McCulloch (University of Queensland)
Matrix Product States, Operators, and the Thermodynamic Limit of DMRG

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Morning Session

07:00-08:00
QS2009 Workshop

Morning/Afternoon Sessions Chair: Matthias Troyer

08:15-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
Anders Sandvik (Boston University)
Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations in the Valence-Bond Basis
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Kevin Beach (University of Alberta)
Valence Bond Quantum Monte Carlo Methods
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Norbert Schuch (University of Vienna)
Quantum Simulation with String-Bond States: Joining PEPS and Monte Carlo

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Simon Trebst (Microsoft Station Q)
Optimized Extended Ensembles for Slowly Equilibrating Classical and Quantum Systems
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Physics Department Colloquium, Matthias Troyer
1-425 Physics and Astronomy

Friday, January 30, 2009

Morning Session

07:00-08:00
QS2009 Workshop

Morning Session Chair: Hartmut Monien, Afternoon Session Chair: Werner Krauth

08:15-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
Corinna Kollath (University of Bonn)
Quantum Dynamics and Strong Correlations with Cold Atomic Gases
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Matthias Troyer (Microsoft Research)
Calculating Entropy in Monte Carlo Simulations
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Werner Krauth (École Normale Supérieure)
Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition of the Quasi-Two-Dimensional Trapped Bose Gas

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:50
Thomas Maier (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Dynamic Cluster Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations of Cuprate Superconductors
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:20
Matthew Fisher (University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara))
Circumnavigating the Sign Problem in 2D Spin, Bose and Non-Fermi Liquid Metals
16:20-16:50
Ulrich Schollwöck (RWTH Aachen)
Closing Remarks
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