Workshops

Spring 2014

Tensor Networks and Simulations

Apr 21, 2014 to Apr 24, 2014

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Click on the titles of individual talks for abstract, slides and archived video.

All events take place in the Calvin Lab Auditorium.

Monday, April 21st, 2014
9:00 am–9:20 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:20 am–9:30 am		Opening Remarks
9:30 am–10:30 am		Invariants for Gapped Ground State Phases Bruno Nachtergaele, UC Davis
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–12:00 pm		Wavelets, MERA, and Holography Steve White, UC Irvine
12:00 pm–1:00 pm		Bifurcation in Entanglement Renormalization Group Flow of a Gapped Spin Model Jeongwan Haah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1:00 pm–3:30 pm		Lunch
3:30 pm–4:30 pm		Tensor Network States for Chiral Topological Phases Nicholas Read, Yale University
4:30 pm–5:30 pm		Topological Order in Projected Entangled Pair States Norbert Schuch, RWTH Aachen

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2014
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am–10:30 am		Tensor Networks and Conformal Field Theory German Sierra, Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–12:00 pm		Einstein's Equations Starting from Qubits Brian Swingle, Harvard University
12:00 pm–2:00 pm		Lunch
2:00 pm–3:00 pm		2D and 3D Topological Orders: Universal Wave Function Overlap and String Statistics Xiao-Gang Wen, Perimeter Institute
3:00 pm–4:00 pm		Exact Holographic Mapping and Emergent Space-time Geometry Xiao-Liang Qi, Stanford University
4:00 pm–4:30 pm		Break
4:30 pm–5:30 pm		'Gauging' Time Reversal Symmetry in Tensor Network States Xie Chen, UC Berkeley

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am–10:30 am		Efficient Classical Simulation of Many-body Systems with Local Integrals of Motion Guifre Vidal, Perimeter Institute
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–12:00 pm		RG Fixed Points in PEPS David Pérez-García, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
12:00 pm–1:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm–2:30 pm		MPO-injectivity and Topologically Ordered PEPS Jutho Haegeman, Ghent University
2:30 pm–3:30 pm		Walking Graph States: General Ansatz for Non-equilibrium Density Operators of Quantum Chains Tomaz Prosen, University of Ljubljana
3:30 pm–4:00 pm		Break
4:00 pm–5:00 pm		A Polynomial-time Algorithm for Finding Ground States of Gapped Local Hamiltonians in 1D Thomas Vidick, California Institute of Technology
5:00 pm–6:00 pm		Reception and Poster Session

Thursday, April 24th, 2014
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am–10:30 am		Tensor Networks and Quantum Algorithms Zeph Landau, UC Berkeley
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–12:00 pm		Area Laws and Topological Order in a Many-body Localized State Bela Bauer, Microsoft Research Station Q
12:00 pm–2:00 pm		Lunch
2:00 pm–3:00 pm		Doped Bosonic and Fermionic Resonating Valence Bond States Didier Poilblanc, University of Toulouse
3:00 pm–4:00 pm		The Algebraic Bethe Ansatz and Tensor Networks Vladimir Korepin, Stony Brook University
4:00 pm–4:30 pm		Break
4:30 pm–5:30 pm		Symmetry and Topological Order in Quantum States Frank Pollmann, Max Planck Institute, Dresden