1–3 Oct 2025
FORTH
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Quantum Many-Body Systems and their Information Content

2 Oct 2025, 14:30
1h
“A. Payatakes” Meeting Room (1st floor) (FORTH)

“A. Payatakes” Meeting Room (1st floor)

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Speaker

Prof. Jörg Schmiedmayer (Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology (VCQ), Atominstitut, TU-Wien)

Description

Quantum Many Body Systems are at the basis of many Quantum Simulations. It is therefore of upmost interest to understand their information content and structure and how it can be manipulated and extracted or measured. One avenue, based on our understanding of quantum field theories, is based on correlation functions, which reveal the accessible structure [1] and their effective descriptions either directly [2] or through learning algorithms [3]. A different approach is through many-body tomography [4] which then allows to extract of von Neuman entropies. This allowed us to verify the area law for mutual information [5] in quantum many body systems. The tomography approach is limited to Gaussian effective models. Currently we are developing a new model agnostic approach, which allows to study also strongly correlated and topological systems [6]. Finally, I will ask the question what it takes to erase information in a many-body system and present our experiments probing Landauer's principle in the quantum many-body regime [7].
Work performed in collaboration with the groups of P. Zoller (Innsbruck), Th. Gasenzer und J. Berges (Heidelberg), Jens Eisert (FU Berlin), E. Demler (Harvard/ETH) and Silke Weinfurtner (Nottingham). Supported by the DFG-FWF SFB ISOQUANT, and the ERC-AdG Emergence in Quantum Physcs (EmQ)

[1] T. Schweigler et al., Nature 545, 323 (2017), arXiv:1505.03126
[2] T. Zache et al. Phys. Rev. X 10, 011020 (2020)
[3] R. Ott et al. Phys. Rev. Res. 6, 043284 (2024)
[4] M. Gluza et al., Communication Physics 3, 12 (2020)
[5] M. Tajik et al., Nature Physics 19, 1022 (2023)
[6] F. Moller et al. arXiv:2509.13821
[7] S. Aminet et al. Nature Physics 21, 1326 (2025)

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