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Compiled Workshop Proposals 4-5-11
Compiled Workshop Proposals 4-5-11
InternationalSchoolofOxideElectronics(ISOE2011)
http://sites.google.com/site/isoe2011/home
OrganizingCommitee
ManuelBibes(UMRCNRS/Thales,Palaiseau,France),chair
Contact:manuel.bibes@thalesgroup.com
PatrycjaParuch(UniversitdeGenve,Switzerland)
GervasiHerranz(ICMABCSIC,Bellaterra,Spain)
FrdricPetroff(UMRCNRS/Thales,Palaiseau,France)
InternationalScientificBoard
JimScott(UniversityofCambridge,UK)
BeatrizNoheda(UniversityofGrningen,theNetherlands)
BrahimDkhil(EcoleCentraleParis,France)
MarcGabay(LaboratoiredePhysiquedesSolides,Orsay,France)
JacoboSantamaria(UniversidadComplutensedeMadrid,Spain)
AgnsBarthlmy(UMRCNRS/Thales,Palaiseau,France)
MichelViret(SPEC,CEASaclay,France)
PhilippeLecoeur(Institutd'ElectroniqueFondamentale,Univ.ParisSud,Orsay,France)
Workshopnarrative
InitiatedbytheprogressinthinfilmgrowthsincethediscoveryofhighT
C
superconductors,
the field of Oxide Electronics took off at the end of the 1990s and is now growing at an
exponential pace. Major breakthroughs over the last 5 or 6 years include the advent of
multiferroicsandthediscoveryofseveralunexpectedphasesatoxideinterfaces,epitomized
bythehighmobilitytwodimensionalelectrongasfoundattheinterfacebetweentwoband
insulators, LaAlO
3
and SrTiO
3
. Novel physical phenomena have also been revealed in
ultrathinfilmsofferroelectricorcorrelatedelectronsystems,aswellasgiantresponsesand
phasetransitionsinducedbylightorelectricfield,withpotentialforinnovativedevices.
The International School of Oxide Electronics aims at gathering PhD students, postdocs,
young scientists and senior researchers working in Oxide Electronics for almost two weeks,
October3October15,2011,inthepeacefulandscenicCargseScientificInstitute(Corsica
Island, France), to build up the future Oxide Electronics scientific community. Basic notions
of solidstate physics (superconductivity, ferroelectricity, magnetism, correlations, etc) will
be recalled, but the school will also give an extended overview of the field, covering topics
such as multiferroics, oxide interfaces or manganese, nickel and cobalt perovskites. Oxide
based devices (tunnel junctions, fieldeffect devices, memristors) will also be presented in
detail, as well as key advanced characterization techniques (highresolution transmission
electron microscopy with electron energy loss spectroscopy, xray magnetic circular
dichroism, neutron diffraction, piezoresponse forc microscopy, etc) and computational
techniques (full ab initio, effective hamiltonian, etc). The School will thus be highly
interdisciplinary and span a wide range of topics, from sample fabrication, characterization
todevicesandmodelling.
During the 11 days of the School, the lectures will be organized by slots of 3 hours, one in
the morning and one in the afternoon, with a long midday break from noon to 4pm. This
will allow participants and lecturers to exchange for 4 hours every day, around lunch (that
willbeservedattheonsitecanteen)orothersocialactivities.Wewillalsoorganizeonefull
dayexcursionatthemidtermoftheSchool.
ThetotalbudgetoftheSchoolwillbearound65000(i.e.90000$)andwewouldtorequest
a financial support of 7000 $ from ICAM. The budget asked to ICAM would allow to attract
PhDstudentsandpostdocsfromtheUSwithaguaranteeofminimalregistrationfees,and
contributetotravelandaccommodationexpensesforthefiveinvitedlecturerscomingfrom
theUS.
Plansforintegratingyoungscientistsintotheworkshop
ISOE2011 is oriented towards young researchers (PhD students, postdocs and permanent
scientists with less than 10 years of experience) from Europe, the US and Asian countries.
We anticipate that this will not only provide them with unique opportunities to meet
international leaders from the community of Oxide Electronics, but also yield to the
emergence of collaborative projects, theses in joint supervision and research training
networks. All participants will have the opportunity to present their research during two 2
hourpostersessions.Wealsoaimatkeepingregistrationfeesaslowaspossibleforstudents
and postdocs. Depending of the total financial supports from funding agencies and
sponsors, we hope to be able to keep these fees between 400 and 500 for the whole
durationoftheSchool,includingaccommodationandlunches.
Listofinvitedspeakers
AgnsBarthlmy(UMRCNRS/Thales,Palaiseau,France)
LaurentChapon(ISIS,Oxon,France)
ElbioDagotto(OakRidgeNationalLab,USA)
ManuelBibes(UMRCNRS/Thales,Palaiseau,France)
BrahimDkhil(EcoleCentraleParis,France)
KathrinDrr(UniversityofDresden,Germany)
JosepFontcuberta(ICMABCSIC,Bellaterra,Spain)
StphaneFusil(UMRCNRS/Thales,Palaiseau,France)
MarcGabay(Lab.PhysiquedesSolides,Orsay,France)
PhilippeGhosez(UniversitdeLige,Belgium)
MartyGregg(Queen'sUniversity,Belfast,UK)
MasashiKawasaki(TohukuUniversityandUniversityofTokyo,Japan)
HaroldHwang(UniversityofTokyo,JapanandStanfordUniversity,USA)
JensKreisel(INPG,Grenoble,France)
PabloLevy(CNEA,BuenosAires,Argentina)
NeilMathur(UniversityofCambridge,UK)
IngridMertig(UniversityofHalle,Germany)
StuartParkin(IBM,Almaden,USA)
KarimBouzehouane(UMRCNRS/Thales,Palaiseau,France)
MarceloRozenberg(Lab.PhysiquedesSolides,Orsay,France)
JacoboSantamaria(UniversidadComplutensedeMadrid,Spain)
JimScott(UniversityofCambridge,UK)
DarellSchlom(CornellUniversity,USA)
MariaVarela(OakRidgeNationalLab,USA)
Outreachactivities
Following the attribution of the 2007 Nobel prize in physics to Albert Fert, the founding
member of the main organizers institute, this laboratory has been deeply involved in
outreach activities. Many lab members presented the phenomenon of giant
magnetoresistance(codiscoveredin1988byFert),thefieldofspintronicsandtheirimpact
on data storage technology to high school students. They also actively participated in the
organizationofaspecialexhibitonspintronicsattheParisScienceMuseumin2009.Several
lab members were present on site everyday during 3 months to exchange with the public
and communicate on spintronics, solidstate physics, their impact on consumer electronics
productsandonresearchingeneral.Whilespintronicshasbeenthemainresearchdirection
of the Unit Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales since its creation in 1994, the importance of
multifunctional oxides has grown at a steady pace for the last 5 years and this field now
represents about a third of the labs activities. The field of oxide electronics is thus
increasinglypresentedtopopularaudiencesduringthelabsoutreachactions.
Plansforwebcasting
WeplantopostthepdfpresentationsofthelecturersonthewebsiteaftertheSchool.
Date Submitted: March 23, 2011 at 6:57 am
Autumn School Hands-on LDA+DMFT
Forschungszentrum Jlich
October 4, 2011 - October 7, 2011
Amount requested from ICAM: 5 Junior Travel Awards (max $12500)
Estimated total cost of workshop: $30000
Type of support:
Identify ICAM thrust: Quantum Matter
Organizers:
Primary Organizer:
- Name: Eva Pavarini
- University: Forschungszentrum Jlich
- Email: e.pavarini@fz-juelich.de
ICAM Branch Organizers:
- Name: Eva Pavarini
- University: Forschungszentrum Jlich
- Email: e.pavarini@fz-juelich.de
- Name: Erik Koch
- University: Forschungszentrum Jlich
- Email: e.koch@fz-juelich.de
Non-ICAM Branch Organizers:
- Name: Alexander Lichtenstein
- University: Hamburg
- Email:
- Name: Dieter Vollhardt
- University: Augsburg
Workshop Title
Autumn School
Hands-on LDA+DMFT
Location
Forschungszentrum Jlich
Amount requested from ICAM
5 Junior Travel Awards (corresponding to max $12500)
Estimated total cost of the workshop
$30.000 (lecturers + local expenses for 30 students +equipment+book production)
Dates
4-7 October 2011
Type of Support
General Workshop Support Amounts: none applied for.
Block Travel Awards Amount: 5 Junior Travel Awards (corresponding to max $12500)
Organizers
Primary Organizer
Eva Pavarini, Institute for Advanced Simulation, Forschungszentrum Jlich,
e.pavarini@fz-juelich.de
ICAM Branch Organizers
Eva Pavarini, FZJ e.pavarini@fz-juelich.de
Erik Koch, FZJ, e.koch@fz-juelich.de
Non-ICAM Branch Organizers
Alexander Lichtenstein, University of Hamburg, alichten@physnet.uni-hamburg.de
Dieter Vollhardt, University of Augsburg, dieter.vollhardt@physik.uni-augsburg.de
Event description
Soon after the discovery of quantum mechanics, it became evident that the fundamental
obstacle to explaining emergent phenomena in solids from rst principles is the
description of electronic many-body effects.
An important step forward was density-functional theory (DFT) and its local-density
approximation (LDA). The success of DFT in explaining the physical and chemical
properties of solids is so remarkable, that DFT is considered the standard model of
solid-state physics. Nevertheless, LDA and its generalization fail completely for system
in which electrons loose their individuality and whose low-energy properties are
dominated by electron-electron correlations: Mott insulating transition-metal oxides,
Kondo and heavy-fermion materials, organic crystals, and many others. The realistic
description of such strongly-correlated systems remains, to date, one of the grand-
challenges of condensed-matter physics.
During the last years, a major breakthrough came with the development of the LDA
+DMFT method. In this approach, conventional ab-initio schemes are combined with a
modern many-body approach, the dynamical mean-eld theory (DMFT).
The aim of the present school is to introduce advanced graduate students and up to this
state-of-the-art approach.
The lectures will cover
Overview and Introduction
Electron correlations and DMFT
Model Hamiltonians
Density-functional theory and basis functions
Experimental challenges
The LDA+DMFT approach
Wannier functions and hopping integrals
The screened U: cLDA and cRPA
Dynamical Mean-Field Theory
LDA+DMFT
DMFT Quantum Impurity Solvers
Hirsch-Fye Quantum Monte Carlo
Continuous-time QMC
Exact diagonalization and Lanczos
Beyond DMFT
cluster DMFT and dual Fermions
GW+DMFT
The hands-on sessions will include
Wannier functions and model Hamiltonians
Dynamical mean-eld Theory
Hirsch-Fye and continuous-time Quantum Monte Carlo
Screened Coulomb Parameters
Exploratory and Novel Aspects: The school should prepare the next generation of
students for pushing calculations of strongly correlated materials towards predictive
power, thus taking the crucial step needed for rational materials design, realizing novel
functionalities based on emergent phenomena in electronic and energy materials. For
this, students need a broad background ranging from ab-initio DFT to many-body theory
and quantum Monte Carlo. This background goes across different established and well
separated areas of condensed-matter research. It is therefore very difcult to build in
regular curricula. To further advance the eld, the next generation of students needs to
work at the interface of all these research areas and must be able to judge works in all
areas involved. The present school aims at advancing the students to the frontiers of
research, through a set of comprehensive and pedagogical lectures which cover the
essential aspects. The school offers the unique chance of discussing open problems
from many perspectives, ranging from experiments to chemistry to ab-initio approaches
and many-body physics.
Interdisciplinary Aspects: The school will bring together scientists interested in
strongly correlated systems but with a wide variety of expertise: experimental methods,
ab-initio DFT-based approaches, many-body techniques, interfacing DFT and many-
body methods, quantum chemistry, and massively parallel simulations.
Emerging Questions and Unsolved Problems: At the heart of the school are the
experimental and theoretical challenges, which will be presented already on the rst
day. The discussion of these open and emerging questions will be continued in the
course of the school; open problems will be addressed in several of the more advanced
lectures, as well as during discussion time. The school will prepare the students to
identify the unsolved problems in the eld of strong-correlated matter and will work as a
catalyzer for new ideas and novel research directions.
Frauenfelder rules: Each 50 minutes lecture is followed by long breaks for discussion
and open questions (about 25 minutes). The hands-on sessions offer ample time for
gaining working knowledge, asking questions, and clarications of theoretical aspects.
Plans for integrating young scientists: Several lecturers are young researchers (from
the experienced postdoc to the junior professor level). The school is targeted at the next
generation of scientists and gives students ample opportunities for interacting with
experts; it is the natural springboard to the integration in the scientic community.
Students can present posters on their activity.
Reasons to apply for ICAM support: This school is supported by DFG through the
German Research Unit FOR1346, Dynamical Mean-Field Approach with Predictive
Power for Strongly Correlated Material, and from the Forschungszentrum Jlich. With
the funds available we will cover the local and travel expenses of all lecturers, plus local
expenses for maximally 30 students, as well as the production of a book of
comprehensive lecture notes, that will be distributed to the students at the beginning of
the school. Since we cannot cover the travel expenses of students, our funding scheme
obviously favors the participation of students from Europe. This is not optimal, because
many excellent students which are now approaching the eld of strong correlations
work outside Europe, and in particular in U.S. universities/laboratories. We ask ICAM
for 5 Junior Travel Awards to support the participation of excellent graduate
students/PhD students/early postdocs from U.S. universities/laboratories.
Lecturers (conrmed only)
F. Aryasetiawan, Chiba University, Japan
P. Blchl, TU Clausthal, Germany
N. Blmer, Universitt Mainz, Germany
H. Ebert, LMU Mnchen, Germany
K. Held, TU Wien, Austria
E. Koch, German Research School, Jlich, Germany
M. Kollar, Universitt Augsburg, Germany
J. Kune!, Czech Academy of Sciences, Praha, Czech Republic
F. Lechermann, Universitt Hamburg, Germany
A.I. Lichtenstein, Universitt Hamburg, Germany
E. Pavarini, IFF, Forschungszentrum Jlich, Germany
F. Lechermann, Universitt Hamburg, Germany
L. H. Tjeng, MPI-CPfS Dresden, Germany
D. Vollhardt, Universitt Augsburg, Germany
P. Werner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Plans for outreach activities: We will collect lecture notes, which will be published as
a book that will be distributed to the students at the beginning of the school (and will
also be freely available in electronic format). We expect this book to become an
important collection of comprehensive notes on LDA+DMFT for real materials, which will
be of wide use in training future students entering the eld. The school web-page is
http://www2.fz-juelich.de/iff/correl11. Talks, tutorials, and associated material (lectures,
lecture notes, examples, test codes, and additional material) will be available on the
web through this webpage.
Plans for webcasting: Our lecture hall has proven webcasting equipment.
Date Submitted: March 23, 2011 at 8:40 am
New frontiers in physics of two dimensional electron systems
Buenos Aires, Argentina
November 24, 2011 - November 26, 2011
Amount requested from ICAM: $30,000
Estimated total cost of workshop: ?
Type of support:
Identify ICAM thrust: Quantum Matter
Organizers:
Primary Organizer:
- Name: Marcelo Rozenberg
- University: University of Buenos Aires
- Email: marcelo@df.uba.ar
ICAM Branch Organizers:
- Name: Vladimir Dobrosavljevic
- University: Florida State University
- Email: vlad@magnet.fsu.edu
Non-ICAM Branch Organizers:
- Name: Karen Halberg
- University: Instituto Balseiro - Bariloche
- Email: karen@cab.cnea.gov.ar
New frontiers in physics of two dimensional electron systems.
The physics of two-dimensional electron gases (2DEG) remains at the center
stage of modern condensed matter physics. In the late 90's the unexpected
observation of a metal-insulator transition in silicon MOSFETs and GaAs hetero-
structures brought into question some of the accepted pillars of our
understanding of transport in 2D systems. It posed fundamental questions on the
role of electron correlations and disorder, which remain widely open and
debated. In the 00's we witnessed another unexpected discovery: the realization
of a 2D crystal lattice, only 1 atomic layer thick. Graphene research has erupted
in condensed matter physics, providing not only fascinating tabletop realization of
Dirac fermions in a 2DEG, but also an ideal substrate for novel electronic
applications. The dust of these discoveries had not even settled, when Harold
Hwang discovered yet another startling class of 2DEG systems in 2004, that
again shook the foundations of our understanding. He joined two wide gap band-
insulators, SrTiO3 and LaAlO3, and a high mobility 2DEG emerged at the
interface. The advances of thin film fabrication techniques with atomically flat
surfaces are allowing for a novel 'alchemy' of artificial layered materials, with
emergent behavior at the interfaces. The origin of the metallic state of the 2DEG
discovered by Hwang remains hotly debated and is surely to be the first surprise
of many more coming, as experimentalist begin to fabricate novel oxides
heterostructures, including strongly correlated systems.
How many physical properties between these different but equally fascinating 2D
systems are shared, and what is specific to a given material? What is the role of
strong electronic correlations and disorder? Can novel forms of superconductivity
be engineered by tweaking these systems? Are fundamentally new theoretical
ideas necessary to understand their properties, or old concepts suffice? These
basic questions cannot be answered without a gaining a broader perspective on
all these systems. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers
from these three exciting areas, to present the most recent groundbreaking
advances, and to promote a fruitful exchange of ideas and experience.
We propose to hold this meeting in Buenos Aires, to fulfill the important goal of
introducing to the international scientific community this new and remote new
node of I2CAM. The proposed dates are 11/24 to 11/26, at the end of the austral
spring, with very pleasant weather. Importantly, this workshop will create synergy
with the already scheduled International Conference on Recent Progress in Many
Body Theories (RPMBT16) to be held in Bariloche (Patagonia) from the
11/28/2011 to 12/02/2011. Due to the convenient time of the academic year and
the shared interests between the proposed workshop and the RPMBT, we
anticipate a large attendance of about 100 international participants plus 100
locals including 50 students and junior researchers. Note that the enrollment in
the Physics program at just at the University of Buenos Aires is about 100
students per year.
Invited speakers
Harold Hwang (U Tokyo and Stanford), 2DEG in oxide heterostructures
Jean-Marc Triscone (Geneve), Experiments on LAO/STO
Marc Gabay (Orsay), Theory of LAO/STO
Eva Andrei (Rutgers), Graphene
Dragana Popovic (FSU), 2DMIT: from silicon MOSFETs to cuprates
Gabriel Kotliar (Rutgers), Wigner-Mott transitions
Maria Jose Sanchez (Bariloche), Memristors at oxide interfaces
Elbio Dagotto (Tennessee), Numerical studies of heterostructures
Andres Santander-Syro (Orsay), Photoemission of the STO surface 2DEG
Clifford Johnson (Univ. of Southern California), Holographic duality and
the Quantum Hall Effects
Andrew Millis (Columbia) DMFT approaches to oxide interfaces
Philip Kim (Columbia) 2D atomic crystals
Jorg Schmalian (Ames Lab) Quantum transport in grapheme
Isao H. Inoue (AIST, Tsukuba) Electrostatic doping of oxides
Requested funding
We request $30K to support registration fees and partial support for travel
expenses, in particular for graduate students and young researchers. Air tickets
to Argentina, at that time of the year, should be about $1200, from both US and
Europe. Local expenses are about half of those in US and Europe, for
comparable quality.
Plans for integrating young scientists into workshop
Scientific events in Argentina, usually enjoy of a large and curious young scientist
attendance. This has been the case for the Winter Schools of Physics at the
Physics Department of University of Buenos Aires, which have been held yearly
since 1998, with more than 50 students attending and coming from all over Latin
America. As one of the organizers of the present workshop, has been also been
responsible for the organization of several of those Winter Schools (the last one
was dedicated to Condensed Matter Physics), we plan to use that previous
experience to assure a large attendance of young researchers. In addition, a
poster session will allow for young researchers to expose their work and take
advantage of interactions with distinguished international visitors.
Also building from past successful experiences, we plan to waive the registration
fee for young researchers from Latin American countries and dedicate a
significant amount of funds to offer support for their travel expenses to Buenos
Aires and to Bariloche (by bus is quite inexpensive), so to take advantage of the
synergy created by the two scientific events, the I2CAM Worshop and the
RPMBT16, mentioned above.
Plans for outreach activities
We shall introduce to the general Physics and Biology community of students of
University of Buenos Aires, the web-based interactive museum The Emergent
Universe. In addition to the promotion of this novel initiative of ICAM, we shall
also propose students to engage in the project of translating the contents of the
museum and implement a Spanish language version. This will make the museum
available to a new audience through out the Latin American region and Spain,
and also to the large Spanish speaking community in the US.
Plans for webcasting
We plan to videotape the seminars and make them available through the web.
Organizers
Marcelo Rozenberg
LPS CNRS / Universite Paris Sud and Universidad de Buenos Aires
Karen Halberg
Instituto Balseiro - Bariloche
Vlad Dobrosavljevic
Florida State University and Magnet Lab NHFML
Winter school on nonequilibrium aspects in condensed matter
Location: IISER Kolkata
Amount requested from ICAM: $67,000
Estimated total cost of workshop: $120,000
Dates: Dec 27, 2011 to Jan 11, 2012
General Workshop Support Amount: $2000
Block Travel Awards Amount: $65,000
Identify ICAM Thrust: Quantum matter
Primary Organizer: Nayana Shah (University of Cincinnati, USA), email: nayana.shah@uc.edu
ICAM Branch Organizers:
Yuval Gefen (Weizmann Institute, Israel),
Sriram Ramaswamy (IISc and JNCASR, Bangalore )
Non-ICAM Branch Organizers (in alphabetical order):
Sushanta Dattagupta (IISER, Kolkata),
Amit Ghosal (IISER, Kolkata),
Ganpathy Murthy (University of Kentucky, USA),
Sanjay Puri (JNU, Delhi),
Krishnendu Sengupta (IACS Kolkata), and
Subhashis Sinha (IISER, Kolkata).
Proposal for a winter school on nonequilibrium aspects
in condensed matter at IISER Kolkata, Dec 27, 2011-
Jan 11, 2012
1 Organizers
Primary Organizer: Nayana Shah (University of Cincinnati, USA); ICAM Branch Orga-
nizers: Yuval Gefen (Weizmann Institute, Israel), Sriram Ramaswamy (IISc and JNCASR,
Bangalore ); Non-ICAM Branch Organizers (in alphabetical order): Sushanta Dattagupta
(IISER, Kolkata), Amit Ghosal (IISER, Kolkata), Ganpathy Murthy (University of Ken-
tucky, USA), Sanjay Puri (JNU, Delhi), Krishnendu Sengupta (IACS Kolkata), and Sub-
hashis Sinha (IISER, Kolkata).
2 Workshop narrative
During the past decade there has been enormous interest in the nonequilibrium properties
of many-body systems due to the convergence of a variety of technological and theoretical
advances. On the experimental side, the maturation of the eld of cooling and trapping of
atomic/molecular gases has made it possible to access properties of the system at spatial
and temporal scales which would have been inconceivable in solid-state condensed matter
systems. At the same time, it has made it possible to design systems with interesting
properties and to simulate non-trivial model Hamiltonians capturing strong correlations
and disorder. There have also been many other experimental advances in fabrication and
measurement techniques that have made it possible to probe non-equibrium and dynamical
properties of a range of low-dimensional and mesoscopic/nanoscale systems consisting of
quantum dots, carbon nanotubes, graphene, Josephson junctions, one-dimensional quantum
wires, quantum Hall edges, superconducting nanowires/lms etc. in the presence of applied
bias voltages, elds, microwaves etc. These experimental advances promise a revolution in
both the quality and quantity of information about nonequilibrium processes in the near
future.
On the theoretical side there have been corresponding advances as well. The study of
noise correlations in transport has been advanced by the notion of Full Counting Statistics,
which produces the generating function of all noise correlators. Powerful methods of Con-
formal Field Theory and Bethe ansatz have been used to predict the generic behavior of
zero- or one-dimensional systems where a parameter (such as the coupling constant or the
temperature) is quenched (changed abruptly) or the system is driven out-of-equilibrium by a
large bias/eld etc. This is complemented by generalizations of renormalization group, scal-
ing and ow equation ideas as well as various computational methods and Greens function
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methods to study these problems. For higher-dimensional systems, large-scale computation
has been used to investigate the approach to thermal equilibrium from initial conditions far
from equilibrium. Last but not least, gauge/gravity dualities originally developed in the
context of String Theory have found application in describing strongly coupled condensed
matter systems, both in equilibrium and nonequilibrium.
Advances on the experimental and theoretical front have generated a lot of excitement
and interest in questions of non-equilibrium in diverse communities studying a variety of
systems and techniques and have helped underline and formulate important problems ahead
of us. It has become clear that in spite of the advances, even the conceptual understanding of
non-equilibrium systems has many challenges, even more so for strongly correlated systems.
In terms of theoretical techniques, generalizations of various methods has been sought but
is far from complete. It is the right time to have critical discussions about the validity
of various generalizations and comparisons between various techniques. In addition, the
renement of experimental techniques to access interesting regimes, the extraction of relevant
non-equilibrium properties and the conceptual and theoretical interpretation of experimental
measurements, all present additional challenges.
Besides being of fundamental interest in condensed matter, nonequilibrium phenomena
are also of interest to the Quantum Computing community for two generic reasons: Firstly,
noise and decoherence are ubiquitous in any substrate, and a better understanding of these
phenomena could be a step towards mitigating its consequences. Secondly, any operation to
be performed necessarily happens in a nite time, and is a nonequilibrium process. General
questions about nonequilibrium are also relevant for other branches of physics as well as
to other disciplines such as biology and chemistry and some of the topics and challenges
discussed in the workshop are expected to have broad implications.
The time seems ripe for a workshop/school on nonequilibrium phenomena. The orga-
nizers, some of whom have already contributed to the growing literature on nonequilibrium,
and others who aspire to enter this exciting eld, wanted to provide a forum where graduate
students, postdocs, and faculty who want to learn more about this eld can do so from
the ground up, with minimal assumptions about prior knowledge. We also did not want
to perpetuate the somewhat articial classical/quantum divide, and have chosen to include
both with a view to presenting the overlaps and dierences and to generate an interchange of
ideas between the two communities. The choice of lecture series outlined in the next section
accentuates this viewpoint and illustrates the interdisciplinary nature and implications of
the proposed workshop.
The proposed workshop is expected to have lots of time for questions and open discussions
not only after and in between talks but also by having a pedagogical setting as well as by
having a presence of many young researchers. In addition, having the lodging and boarding
facility for all participants at the same location (i.e. within the IISER campus) will greatly
facilitate informal discussions during and after meals and allow for dynamic scheduling of
discussion sessions on questions of interest as the workshop evolves.
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3 Plans for integrating young scientists into workshop
The format of the school is designed with the goal of educating graduate students/postdocs
in mind. We expect a total participation of about 60-100 people, with at least half being
students, and at least a quarter being postdocs. The bulk of the time will be spent on
Lecture Courses by prominent researchers in the eld. Each lecture will last for 1.5 hours,
with dierent topics (to be described soon) taking up 3 to 5 lectures. These lecture courses
will be interspersed by 1.5 hour talks by leading theorists and experimentalists to give a
picture of our current understanding of nonequilibrium, and also by short talks (half an
hour) by postdocs and faculty on recent results.
The sequence of lecture topics is designed to take a smart student who has nished
coursework on statistical mechanics and solid state physics all the way to being capable of
conducting research. The rough ordering and length is as follows, with details of the contents
of each course and the scheduling to be described in the following sections:
Foundations of Classical Nonequilibrium (Sushanta Dattagupta, 4 lectures, References[1,
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13])
Foundations of Quantum Transport, Noise and Counting Statistics (Yuval Gefen, 4
lectures, References[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10])
Quantum Phase Transitions and Quenches (Diptiman Sen, 3 lectures, References[14,
15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23]). Topics 1, 2, and 3 will run concurrently.
The Keldysh Technique (Aditi Mitra, 3 lectures, References[24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30,
31, 32, 33, 34, 35])
Classical Driven Systems (David Mukamel, 3 lectures, References[36, 37, 38, 39, 40,
41, 42, 43, 44, 45])
Nonequilibrium Bosonization (Igor Gornyi, 3 lectures, References[46, 47, 48, 49, 50,
51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57]).
Fluctuation Theorems (Alex Altland, 3 lectures, References[58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64])
Glassy Systems (Letitia Cugliandolo, 3 lectures, References[65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71])
AdS/CMT (Sumit Das, 3 lectures, References[72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77])
Active Systems (Sriram Ramaswamy, 3 lectures, References[78, 79, 80, 81])
All the lecturers named above (some of whom are also organizers) have already been
contacted and expressed their willingness to attend the school.
We now turn to a brief description of the contents of each set of lectures. Note that there
is some overlap between dierent sets of lectures. This is intentional; we want the students
to see the same method from dierent points of view, and to see them applied to dierent
problems.
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3.1 Topics and Content of the lectures
3.1.1 Foundations of Classical/Quantum Nonequilibrium
1 Linear Response Theory LRT, generalized susceptibilities, classical limit. Fluctuation-
dissipation theorem. Example: Nanomagnetic Relaxation.
2 Stationary Markov Process, Chapman-Kolmogorov equation, the Telegraph Process.
Quantum dynamics via Stochastic Liouville Equation (SLE). Example: Persistent
current in an Aharonov-Bohm ring and its decoherence.
3 Diusion Processes. Fokker-Planck equation in phase-space, Kramers-Moyal ex-
pansion. Smolushowski equation, Brownian motion. Example: Rotational Brownian
motion of nanomagnets.
4 Quantum Langevin equation, Caldeira-Leggett.
3.1.2 Foundations of Quantum Transport and Nonequilibrium
1 Linear response,Drude, various transport coecients, Onsager relations, Kubo for-
mula.
2 Disorder Green Functions: Kubo formula, retrieving Drude, Diuson and Cooperons,
weak localization corrections, the scaling theory of localization.
3 Foundations of mesposcopic transport: Landauer picture; contact resistance; 2 vs.
4-terminal conductance. Dephasing length, temperature length, inelastic length.
4 Noise Nyquist-Johnson, shot, multi-particle correlations (Hanbury-Brown Twiss).
3.1.3 Quantum Phase Transitions and Quenches
1 Imaginary-time formalism, connection between classical and quantum phase transi-
tions. Exactly solvable examples in 1D spin chains.
2 Quenches, adiabaticity versus non-adiabaticity, the Landau-Zener problem.
3 Defect production during quenches, universal power laws depending on equilibrium
exponents. Multicritical points, new exponents.
4 Generation of topological entanglement and entropy during quenches. Example:
Quenches in the Kitaev model.
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3.1.4 The Keldysh Technique
1 Introduction to the time-loop path integral. Bosons, kinetic equation for bosons.
Particle in contact with a dissipative environment, Caldeira-Leggett.
2 Recovering Langevin and Martin-Siggia-Rose from Keldysh.
3 Keldysh for the Kondo problem. Revisiting the X-Ray edge when there is current
ow.
4 Keldysh technique applied to quantum critical systems. Derivation of Ginzburg-
Landau type theories out of equilibrium.
3.1.5 Classical Driven Systems
1 Steady states of driven systems. Long-range correlations and uctuations. Methods.
2 Matrix product states, spontaneous symmetry breaking, and phase transitions of
long-range order in 1D: Some exactly solvable modes, Asymmetric and Totally Asym-
metric Simple Exclusion Processes.
3 Zero Range Processes and the Chipping model.
3.1.6 Nonequilibrium Bosonization
1 Introduction: 1D systems; Role of electron-electron interactions in 1D; Classical
kinetic equation; Counting statistics; Keldysh technique.
2 Luttinger liquid at equilibrium: Full bosonization and functional bosonization. Dis-
ordered Luttinger liquid at equilibrium: Renormalization and dephasing.
3 Non-equilibrium clean Luttinger liquid: Bosonization, zero-bias anomaly, and relax-
ation. Non-equilibrium disordered Luttinger liquid: Kinetic equation, equilibration.
4 Beyond Luttinger liquid: Spectral curvature, triple collisions, kinetic equation.
3.1.7 Fluctuation Theorems
1 Review of the Langevin and Master equations. Langevin from path integrals: Onsager-
Machlup and Martin-Siggia-Rose. Master equation from path integral: stochastic path
integral. Fokker-Planck as Schr