GT Quantum Alliance Seminar: Many-body Entanglement, Efficient Representations of Quantum States, and Tensor Networks

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Event Details
  • Date/Time:
    • Friday August 16, 2019 - Saturday August 17, 2019
      11:00 am - 11:59 am
  • Location: Pettit Microelectronics Building 102 A&B | 791 Atlantic Drive | Atlanta GA | 30332
  • Phone: 404.894.1665
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  • Fee(s):
    N/A
  • Extras:
    Free food
Contact

If you have any questions, please contact Martin P. Mourigal (mourigal@gatech.edu) or Arijit Raychowdhury (arijit.raychowdhury@ece.gatech.edu).

Summaries

Summary Sentence: In this talk I will review our current understanding of many-body entanglement, introduce tensor networks as tools for the study of many-body systems, and give an overview of the exciting developments within the tensor network program.

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Glen Evenbly
School of Physics, Georgia Tech

Abstract: Quantum many-body systems are difficult to study because the space of possible many-body states is huge: its dimension grows exponentially in the system size. However, thanks to quantum information theory, progress in understanding the role of entanglement in quantum many-body systems has revealed that only a small region of this huge state space is needed for describing relevant quantum states. Tensor networks, originally developed in the context of condensed-matter physics and based on renormalization group ideas, exploit this understanding of entanglement in order to provide efficient descriptions of many-body quantum states. In this talk I will (i) review our current understanding of many-body entanglement, (ii) introduce tensor networks as tools for the study of many body systems, and (iii) give an overview of the exciting developments within the tensor network program.

Bio: Glen Evenbly received the PhD degree in physics from the University of Queensland, Australia in 2010. His research focuses on the development of novel theoretical and numerical tools for modelling entanglement in quantum systems. He joined Caltech in 2011 as the Sherman-Fairchild Prize postdoctoral fellow and UC Irvine in 2014 as a Simons Foundation postdoctoral fellow, where he continued his work on quantum information and many-bodyphysics. He joined the faculty at the University of Sherbrooke, Canada in 2016 before joining the School of Physics at Georgia Tech in 2019. Glen received the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Computational Physics in 2017 for his exceptional work on developing the tensor network formalism.

Light refreshments will be served.

Additional Information

In Campus Calendar
Yes
Groups

3D Systems Packaging Research Center, Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC), Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology, NanoTECH, The Center for MEMS and Microsystems Technologies

Invited Audience
Faculty/Staff, Postdoc, Public, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
Categories
Seminar/Lecture/Colloquium
Keywords
quantum alliance, Quantum States, quantum computing, physics, Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology, Electrical and Computer Engineering, school of computing, quantum entaglement, tensor networks, many-body systems
Status
  • Created By: Christa Ernst
  • Workflow Status: Draft
  • Created On: Aug 8, 2019 - 3:32pm
  • Last Updated: Aug 8, 2019 - 3:32pm