We are excited to announce the TSVP Thematic Program "Many-body Quantum Thermodynamics". The program will run from February to March, 2028 (tentative).
Title: Many-body Quantum Thermodynamics
Theme of the Program: This Thematic Program aims to establish a bridge between two main research areas: stochastic and quantum thermodynamics on one side, and quantum many-body physics on the other. From one side quantum thermodynamics seeks to generalize the well-established laws of thermodynamics to the quantum regime, addressing fundamental questions about irreversibility, work statistics, entropy production, and fluctuation theorems. At the same time, it has become increasingly relevant for the design of quantum engines, refrigerators, and batteries. Quantum many-body physics, on the other hand, provides the theoretical foundation to understand strongly correlated and open quantum systems, and is at the core of current experimental advances in quantum simulators both in solid state setups and in atomic molecular and optical platforms.
Program Coordinators
Andrea Solfanelli (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany)
Krissia Zawadzki (Instituto de Fìsica de Sao Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil)
Shu Zhang (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology)
Nicolò Defenu (Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
Artur Widera (University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Kaiserslautern, Germany)
Scientific advisory board:
Christopher Jarzynski (University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA)
Masatoshi Imada (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Manfred Sigrist (Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
Stefano Ruffo (Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi CNR, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy)
Tentative Schedule
A typical week will feature:
4 scientific talks delivered by invited participants or local experts.
2 panel discussions chaired by the speakers of the related talks aimed at integrating perspectives and identifying key open problems.
Weeks 5 and 6 will be devoted to the Workshop and Outreach activities respectively.
Each week (or pair of weeks for broader themes) will center on a specific topic, following the structure below:
Week 1: Thermalization (and its absence) through the lens of quantum thermodynamics.
Week 2: Quantum geometric approach to adiabaticity and control in quantum thermodynamics.
Week 3-4: Quantum thermodynamics in many-body quantum devices: from theoretical foundations to experimental realizations.
Week 5: Workshop
Week 6: Outreach activities
Week 7-8: Towards a many-body quantum thermodynamics framework: the route to exploit many body correlations.