Lectures: Winter Semester 2024/2025

The 2024/25 winter semester runs from October 1st, 2024 - March 31st, 2025. Lectures run from October 14th to December 21st, 2024 and again from January 6th to February 8th, 2025.

General Lectures

lecture:  

Many-Body Quantum Dynamics

lecturer:   Dr. Marin Bukov / Dr. Pieter Claeys / Prof. Roderich Moessner
time and location:  

Tuesday, Thursday: 13:00 - 14:30

Seminar Room 4, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Noethnitzer Str 38, Dresden 01187 

content:   This lecture course offers an introduction to quantum many-body dynamics, emphasizing recent exciting and fundamental developments in this rapidly developing field. Quantum many-body dynamics combines aspects from condensed matter physics and quantum optics, based on a rich interplay between theoretical developments and experimental advances in quantum computing and quantum simulators. This course covers the foundations of this field, introducing aspects of quantum chaos and quantum quench dynamics, before moving on to topics of recent interest including many-body localization, prethermalization, periodically driven (Floquet) systems and Floquet engineering, discrete time crystals, and quantum circuits as minimal models for many-body dynamics.
start:   October 17th, 2024

lecture:   Computational Material Science: Concepts of Molecular Modelling
lecturer:   PD. Dr. Rafael Gutierrez / Prof. Gianaurelio Cuniberti
time and location:   Lecture: Tuesday 9:20 - 10:50 / HSZ/401
Exercise class: Wednesday 13:00 -14:30 / ZEU/160/H
content:   1. Adiabatic approximation 2. Normal modes 3. Molecular dynamics 4. Basics of Monte-Carlo simulations
start:   October 15th, 2024

lecture:   Computational Tools for Quantum Many-Body Physics
lecturer:   Prof. Jan Carl Budich
time and location:   Tuesday: 16:40-18:10 / REC/B214,  Thursday: 13:00-14:30 / BAR/2131 and via zoom
content:  

Exact Diagonalization, Variational Methods (including Tensor Networks), and some stochastic methods

start:   October 15th, 2024

lecture:   Chaos in Higher Dimensional Systems 
lecturer:   Prof. Arnd Bäcker
time and location:   Monday: 9:20 - 10:50 / BZW/A120, Thursday: 14:50 - 16:20 / BZW/A120
start:   October 14th, 2024

lecture:  

Quantum Information Theory

lecturer:   Dr. Gernot Schaller / Prof. Ralf Schützhold
time and location:  

Monday: 14:50 -16:20 / SE2/203, Tuesday: 11:10 - 12:40 / REC/D16

content:    
  • Quantum states, correlations, entropy and entanglement
  • Quantum communication
  • Quantum computation
  • Decoherence and Dissipation
  • Alternative quantum computers
  • Quantum Thermodynamics
 
start:   October 17th, 2024

lecture:   Relativistic Quantum Field Theory
lecturer:   Dr. Friedemann Queisser / Prof. Sebastian Wolfgang Martin Schmidt / Prof. Ralf Schützhold
time and location:   Wednesday: 14:50 -16:20 / REC/C213, Thursday: 14:50 - 16:20 / REC/D16 , every 2nd Thursday 13:00 - 14:30 / REC/D16
start:   October 16th, 2024

Specialised Lectures

lecture:   Modern Topics in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
lecturer:   Dr. Dorothea Golze / Prof. Thomas Heine
time and location:  

Thursday, 13:00 -14:30 / HSZ/203

content:   1. Modern computational tools 2. Molecular-dynamics simulations 3. Monte-Carlo simulations 4. Machine learning methods 5. Approaches to calculating spectroscopic quantities
start:   October 17th, 2024

lecture:   Magnetism I
lecturer:   Elena Gati / PhD Rajib Sarkar
time and location:   Lecture: Thursday, 9:20 - 10:50 / REC/D16
Exercise: Monday, 16:40 - 18:10 (every second week) / REC/C118
start:   October 14th, 2024

lecture:   Low Temperature Physics of Quantum Materials
lecturer:   Prof. Elena Hassinger
time and location:  

Lecture: Tuesday 16:40 - 18:10 / SE2/221; 1st lecture on Oct 21st at 13:00 / REC/D16
Exercise: Monday 16:40 - 18:10 / REC/C118

content:   In this lecture, we will study the physics of fundamental quantum phenomena like Bose-Einstein condensation, Fermi liquid and superfluidity occurring in condensed matter systems at low temperature. We will also focus on different bulk experimental techniques used in low-temperature labs and what they can tell us.
start:   October 14th, 2024

lecture:   Machine Learning
lecturer:   Dr. Peter Steinbach
time and location:  

Lecture: Friday 13:00 - 14:30 (REC/C213)

Exercise: Wednesday 16:40 - 18:10 (REC/213)

content:   Machine learning (ML) has become widespread in industry, technology and society in recent years. This spread has not even stopped at physics. In this lecture, the basics of modern ML are taught. The paradigms of supervised, self-supervised and unsupervised learning will be discussed. In addition to classical ML, we will also discuss the methods of Deep Learning in detail and conclude the lecture with generative approaches. The lecture aspires to deepen the subject taught using exercises and examples.
start:   October 16th, 2024

lecture:   Ultrafast Methods of Solid State Physics
lecturer:   Prof. Stefan Kaiser
time and location:  

Wednesday 14:50 - 16:20 / SE2/122

content:   Laser, ultrashort laser pulses, puls characterisation,pump-probe spectroscopy, time resolved methods (optics incl. optical parametric amplifiers, THz, SHG/THG, ARPES, X-Rays, ...), electronic response in the solid state, coherent phonons, correlated systems, collective modes, optical control, light induced phase transitions, Higgs-spectroscopy
start:   October 16th, 2024

lecture:   Solid State Spectroscopy
lecturer:   Prof. Jochen Geck / Prof. Dmytro Inosov
time and location  

Lecture: Thursday, 16:40 - 18:10 / SE2/102

Exercise: Wednesday, 16:40 - 18:10 / REC/C118

start:   October 16th, 2024

lecture:   Physics of 2D Quantum Materials
lecturer:   Prof. Bernd Büchner
time and location  

Monday 16:40-18:10 / tba

content:   When the available dimensionality of a system is reduced, its internal structure and
physical response can change drastically. 2D materials behave completely differently
from their 3D counterpart, and have given rise to a new class of semiconductors,
insulators, metals, magnets and superconductors. These materials can be tuned in
situ by electrical gating, and new materials can be created “by design” by stacking
different material layers, sparking significant interest for fundamental study of
condensed-matter physics and technological applications. This class will introduce
this novel field of study, focusing on several central subclasses of 2D quantum
materials:
• Graphene: massless electrons, ballistic transport, emergent effects in multilayers
• Transition metal dichalcogenides: layer dependence, spectroscopy, and topology
• 2D magnetism, antiferromagnets, and magnetic topological insulators
• 2D superconductivity
start:   October 14th, 2024

lecture:   Stochastic Processes
lecturer:   Prof. Holger Kantz
time and location  

Monday 14:50-16:20

Seminar Room 4, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Noethnitzer Str 38, Dresden 01187 

start:   October 21st, 2024