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
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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 |
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lecturer: | Dr. Gernot Schaller / Prof. Ralf Schützhold | |
time and location: | Monday: 14:50 -16:20 / SE2/203, Tuesday: 11:10 - 12:40 / REC/D16 | |
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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 | |
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 |