23 September 2024 – 4 October 2024
Long-range interacting systems, characterized by an interaction that decays as an inverse power-law in the separation between the system constituents, abound in nature, e.g., gravitational and Coulomb interactions. In the last decades, the field has grown significantly, both in the statistical physics community where the peculiar dynamic and thermodynamic properties of such systems have been unveiled, and in atomic and quantum many-body physics community, where long-range interactions have become accessible in ion-trap experiments, ultracold atomic gas, cavity quantum electrodynamics, etc. A major emphasis has been on developing and investigating tools and techniques, both theoretical and experimental, to address the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of long-range systems.
The school aims to put in contact an audience of early-stage researchers working in the field with experienced leading experts in classical and quantum long-range interacting systems.
The school will serve as a precursor for a conference on long-range systems at NORDITA, Sweden in the week 21-24 July 2025, as a Satellite Meeting of Statphys29. Statphys is the largest triennial conference of Statistical Physics (with ~ 1000 participants typically), and its 29th version will be held during 13 – 18 July, 2025 in Florence, Italy (https://statphys29.org/).
Topics to be covered:
Thermodynamics and dynamics in classical long-range systems
Nonequilibrium quantum many-body dynamics
Pre-thermalisation, chaos and eigenstate thermalization
Applications for participation are being invited from Masters and Ph.D. students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty members working in related fields.
Application deadline: 15th August, 2024
Event co-sponsored by Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS), Govt. of India
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