Emergence and Entanglement

In recent years, there has been considerable interest in quantum systems which show novel behavior of the whole system emerging from the collective behavior and interaction of the constituent local degrees of freedom.  The novel phenomena include fractional quantum number, fractional statistics, topologically protected gapless bulk/edge excitations, etc. It appears that the long-range quantum entanglement in those system plays a critical role in generating those novel phenomena.  The goal of this workshop is the study of the emergent and entanglement properties of quantum many-body systems. Possible topics of the workshop will be the emergence of gauge fields, fractionalized particles and symmetries as low energy properties of condensed matter systems, the study of entanglement in many body systems and its relationships with novel quantum phase transitions, the study of the AdS/CFT correspondence to understand properties of systems of strongly interacting fermions, the study of topological order, topological insulators, and quantum spin liquids.

Speakers:

Ian Affleck, University of British Columbia
Sougato Bose, University College of London
Claudio Chamon, Boston University
Ignacio Cirac, Max Planck Institute
Jens Eisert, University of Potsdam
Paul Fendley, University of Virginia
Matthew Fisher, California Institute of Technology
Eduardo Fradkin,  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Michel Gingras, University of Waterloo
Taylor Hughes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Shamit Kachru, KITP/Stanford
Andreas Karch, University of Washington
Yong Baek Kim, University of Toronto
Israel Klich, University of Virginia
Karyn Le Hur, Yale University
Sung-Sik Lee, McMaster University
Anthony Leggett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
John McGreevy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Roger Melko, University of Waterloo
Max Metlitski, Harvard University
Chetan Nayak, Microsoft Station Q and University of California, Santa Barbara
Gil Refael, California Institute of Technology
Subir Sachdev, Harvard University
Omid Saremi, McGill University
Barbara Terhal, IBM
Frank Verstraete, Universität Wien
Guifre Vidal, University of Queensland
Xiao-Gang Wen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cenke Xu, Harvard University
Paolo Zanardi, University of Southern California
Dorit Aharonov, Hebrew University*
Eva Silverstein, KITP/Stanford University*

*participation to be confirmed