Colloquia

The MPQ Colloquium is held on Tuesdays at 2:30 pm.
The MCQST Colloquium takes place on Tuesdays at 2:00 pm.

The talks will take place in Herbert Walther Lecture Hall. Details on how to participate online are distributed via the mailing lists [wiss-mpq] and [Mpq-colloquium-stream]. To receive this information, please register using the attached link.

Scientific organization of the talks: Dr. Stephan Dürr and Prof. Thomas Udem

Speaker: Prof. Anne Nielsen Room: Herbert Walther Lecture Hall Host: Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics

“Quantum many-body scars” (Prof. Anne Nielsen)

Date: Jul 15, 2025
Time: 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Prof. Anne Nielsen
Aarhus University, Denmark
Location: Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Hans-Kopferman-Straße 1, 85748 Garching
Room: Herbert Walther Lecture Hall
Host: Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics

Quantum many-body scars are highly excited states with atypical properties. They are remarkable because they do not follow the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis and lead to interesting dynamics. After a general introduction to the field, I will discuss how similar quantum scars are to ground states. In particular, quantum scars can undergo both adiabatic evolution and phase transitions. I will also introduce inverted quantum many-body scars. [more]