Conference on Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems and Beyond

March 31 - April 4, 2025 | Santiago, Chile

About the Conference

The main goal of this event will be to nurture collaborations and exchange of knowledge among researchers, advanced students and postdocs of different continents and subfields. The activities will highlight recent progress in this area in topics including, but not limited to:

Venue

Conference Venue

The event will take place at Auditorium D'Etigny at the the Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences (FCFM) of the University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.

Address: Av. Beauchef 851, Santiago, Región Metropolitana

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Organizing Committee

Invited Speakers

  • Vassos Achilleos (LAUM - UMR, CNRS)
  • Liliana Arrachea (CONICET and CAB, Argentina)
  • Andrey Bagrov (Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
  • Felipe Barra (Universidad de Chile)
  • Matías Berdakin (CONICET and UNC, Argentina)
  • Hernán Calvo (CONICET and UNC, Argentina)
  • Diana Dulic (Universidad de Chile)
  • Dmitri Gutman (Bar-Ilan University)
  • Felipe Herrera (Universidad de Santiago de Chile)
  • Vladimir Juričić (USM, Chile)
  • Mikhail Kiselev (ICTP)
  • Paula Mellado (UAI, Chile)
  • Alexander Mirlin (KIT)
  • Roderich Moessner (MPI-PKS, Dresden)
  • Eric Suárez Morell (USM, Chile)
  • Gerardo Ortiz (Indiana University)
  • Horacio Pastawski (CONICET and UNC, Argentina)
  • Thomas Schaefer (MPI-FKF, Stuttgart)
  • Jörg Schmalian (KIT)
  • Rodrigo Soto Garrido (PUC, Chile)
  • Mikhail Titov (Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
  • Giorgio Torrieri (UNICAMP)
  • Rodrigo Vicencio (Universidad de Chile)
  • Felix von Oppen (FU Berlin)
  • Herre van der Zant (Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, The Netherlands)

Presentation Information

Program

Monday, March 31

  • 9:45 - 10:30 | Registration
  • 10:30 - 11:00 | Opening
  • 11:00 - 12:00 | Morning Session 1 (Chair: Luis Foà Torres)
    • 11:00 - 11:30: Liliana Arrachea (Centro Atómico Bariloche, Argentina) - Topological properties of a two-dimensional superconductor heterostructure
    • 11:30 - 12:00: Andrey Bagrov (Radboud University, Nijmegen) - Superconductivity of fractal structures
  • 12:00 - 13:45 | Lunch Break
  • 13:45 - 15:05 | Afternoon Session 1 (Chair: Liliana Arrachea)
    • 13:45 - 14:15: Roderich Moessner (MPI-PKS Dresden) - Fractionalisation and fractals in spin ice
    • 14:15 - 14:45: Gerardo Ortiz (Indiana University, Bloomington) - In Search of an Organizing Principle for Quantum Hall Systems
    • 14:45 - 15:05: Ihor Poboiko (KIT) - Measurement-induced Transitions in Fermionic Systems
  • 15:05 - 15:45 | Coffee Break (40 min)
  • 15:45 - 16:45 | Afternoon Session 2 (Chair: Hernán Calvo)
    • 15:45 - 16:15: Vladimir Juričić (USM, Chile) - Non-Hermitian Dirac Materials
    • 16:15 - 16:45: Vassos Achilleos (LAUM - UMR, CNRS) - Title tba

Tuesday, April 1

  • 10:10 - 12:00 | Morning Session (Chair: Horacio Pastawski)
    • 10:10 - 10:40: Felix von Oppen (FU Berlin) - Theory of the quantum twisting microscope
    • 10:40 - 11:10: Eric Suárez Morell (USM, Chile) - Electronic localization in rotated graphene layers
    • 11:10 - 11:30: Andrei Pavlov (KIT) - Dynamic thermalization on noisy quantum hardware
    • 11:30 - 11:50: Matías Araya Satriani (Universidad de Chile) - Daemonic quantum battery charged by thermalization
  • 12:00 - 13:45 | Lunch Break
  • 13:45 - 15:15 | Afternoon Session 1 (Chair: Gerardo Ortiz)
    • 13:45 - 14:15: Felipe Barra (UChile) - Thermalization via collisions
    • 14:15 - 14:45: Mikhail Kiselev (ICTP) - Nanomechanics of Sliding Luttinger Liquids
    • 14:45 - 15:15: Rodrigo Soto Garrido (PUC, Chile) - Axionic quantum criticality of generalized Weyl semimetals
  • 15:15 - 15:55 | Coffee Break (40 min)
  • 15:55 - 16:55 | Afternoon Session 2 (Chair: Andrey Bagrov)
    • 15:55 - 16:25: Felipe Herrera (USACH) - Atomistic Decoherence of Molecular Spin Qubits
    • 16:25 - 16:55: Hernán Calvo (UNC, Argentina) - Engineering Floquet interface states and scalable photocurrents

Wednesday, April 2

  • 10:10 - 12:00 | Morning Session (Chair: Igor Gornyi)
    • 10:10 - 10:40: Alexander Mirlin (KIT) - Scaling of many-body localization transitions: Fock-space and real-space quantum dynamics and spectral observables
    • 10:40 - 11:10: Horacio Pastawski (UNC, Argentina) - The Role of Many-Body Induced Decoherence in the Emergence of Dynamical Quantum Phase Transitions
    • 11:10 - 11:30: Thibault Scoquart (IQMT - KIT) - Noise tailoring and error mitigation for digital quantum simulations on NISQ devices
    • 11:30 - 11:50: Cristóbal Lledó (Institut Quantique, Université de Sherbrooke - Canada & FCFM, University of Chile) - Ionization in circuit QED during measurement and gates
  • 12:00 - 13:45 | Lunch Break
  • 13:45 - 17:00 | Afternoon Session and Poster Session (Chair: Felix von Oppen)
    • 13:45 - 14:15: Diana Dulic (UChile) - Air-stable, aluminum oxide encapsulated graphene phototransistors
    • 14:15 - 14:45: Herre van der Zant (Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, The Netherlands) - Quantum thermoelectric effects in single-molecule junctions
    • 14:45 - 17:00: Poster Session with Coffee/Tea (15:45 - 16:15)
  • 19:30 | Social activity / dinner - registration required (information sent via email)

Thursday, April 3

  • 10:10 - 12:00 | Morning Session (Chair: Alexander Mirlin)
    • 10:10 - 10:40: Jörg Schmalian (KIT) - Unconventional superconductivity from electronic dipole fluctuations
    • 10:40 - 11:10: Paula Mellado (UAI, Chile) - Quantum fluctuations in the van der Waals material NiPS3
    • 11:10 - 11:30: Piotr Surówka (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Wrocław, Poland) - Non-equilibrium charge-vortex duality at finite temperature
    • 11:30 - 11:50: Davide Valentinis (KIT) - Interplay between quantum criticality, superconductivity, and magnetic fields in exactly solvable models for strange metals
  • 12:00 - 13:45 | Lunch Break
  • 13:45 - 15:05 | Afternoon Session 1 (Chair: Mikhail Kiselev)
    • 13:45 - 14:15: Thomas Schaefer (MPI-FKF, Stuttgart) - Rise and Fall of the Pseudogap in the Emery model: Insights for Cuprates
    • 14:15 - 14:35: Athul Sivan Sambasivan Rema (Universidad de Santiago de Chile) - Manipulating the light-matter coupling of a plasmonic nanosphere and a dipole emitter with laser fields
    • 14:35 - 15:05: Mikhail Titov (Radboud University, Nijmegen) - Projected Kubo Formula and the Anomalous Hall Effect
  • 15:05 - 15:45 | Coffee Break (40 min)
  • 15:45 - 16:45 | Afternoon Session 2 (Chair: Mikhail Titov)
    • 15:45 - 16:15: Rodrigo Vicencio (UChile) - Inter-orbital photonic lattices
    • 16:15 - 16:45: Matías Berdakin (UNC, Argentina) - Laser-induced spin field effect in topological insulators

Friday, April 4

  • Note: Early finish today
  • 10:10 - 12:30 | Final Session (Chair: Jörg Schmalian)
    • 10:10 - 10:40: Giorgio Torrieri (UNICAMP, Brazil) - Gibbsian hydrodynamics, the poor people's quantum gravity
    • 10:40 - 11:10: Dmitri Gutman (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) - Stokes flow in the electronic fluid with odd viscosity
    • 11:10 - 11:25: Final remarks
    • 11:25 - 12:25: Farewell Reception

Download the full program (PDF)

Registration

Registration: Registration is free but mandatory. There is limited space for contributed talks. We will also have a poster session during the event (please prepare you poster in A0 size or smaller).

Please register by filling this form until March 4th, 2025 (if you are presenting a poster, you can still use this link after the deadline):
https://forms.gle/XgozVfh1zZHDALTYA

When submitting your registration, please upload your abstract using the template available at:
https://indico.ictp.it/event/10062/material/0/

Venue and Santiago City Information

We have prepared a PDF booklet with useful information about the venue and Santiago, Chile to help you during your visit. It includes details about transportation, recommended restaurants, cultural attractions, and practical tips.

Download Santiago City Guide (PDF)

Sponsoring Projects and Institutions

Contact Us

Email: luis.foatorres at uchile.cl