Open Systems, Quantum Memory, Hydrodynamics & Non-Equilibrium Dynamics with Circuits

Presentations

• Generalized framework for analyzing decoherence in multi-qubit system using mean-field-based Lindblad master equation

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 3:42 PM

  Publication: 1. B. Dalton, Journal of Modern Optics 50, 951 (2003).
  2. S. Das and G. Agarwal, Journal of Physics B: Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics 42, 205502 (2009).
  3. M. A. Macovei, Physical Review A 110, 023712 (2024).
  4. G. D. Grant et al., APL Materials 12 (2024)

  Presenters

  • Dhiman Nandi

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  Authors

  • Dhiman Nandi

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Sanghamitra Neogi

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

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• Strong-to-weak symmetry breaking in monitored dipole conserving quantum circuits

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 3:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 3:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Caterina Zerba

    • Technical University Munich

  Authors

  • Caterina Zerba

    • Technical University Munich

  • Sarang Gopalakrishnan

    • Princeton University

  • Michael Knap

    • Tech Univ Muenchen

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• Exploring Emergent Hamiltonians as a Framework for Open-System Quantum Memory

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 3:54 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Publication: "Exploring Emergent Hamiltonians as a Framework for Open-System Quantum Memory" - Anubhab Sur, Rubem Mondaini (in preparation)

  Presenters

  • Anubhab Sur

    • University of Houston

  Authors

  • Anubhab Sur

    • University of Houston

  • Rubem Mondaini

    • University of Houston

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• Probing Non-Equilibrium Topological Order on a Quantum Processor

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:18 PM

  Publication: Nature volume 645, pages 348–353 (2025)

  Presenters

  • Melissa Will

    • Technical University of Munich

  Authors

  • Melissa Will

    • Technical University of Munich

  • Tyler Cochran

    • Princeton University

  • Eliott Rosenberg

    • Google LLC

  • Norhan Eassa

    • Purdue University

  • Bernhard Jobst

  • Pedram Roushan

    • Google LLC

  • Michael Knap

    • Tech Univ Muenchen

  • Adam Smith

  • Frank Pollmann

    • TU Munich

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• Efficient simulation of non-equilibrium many-body quantum dynamics using a stochastic unraveling

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:18 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:30 PM

  Publication: A. Pocklington and A. A. Clerk PRX Quantum 6, 030349 (2025)

  Presenters

  • Andrew Pocklington

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Andrew Pocklington

    • University of Chicago

  • Aashish Clerk

    • University of Chicago

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• Circuit-based chatacterization of finite-temperature quantum phases and self-correcting quantum memory

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15204

  Presenters

  • Shengqi Sang

    • Stanford University

  Authors

  • Shengqi Sang

    • Stanford University

  • Ruochen Ma

    • Perimeter Inst for Theo Phys

  • Vedika Khemani

    • Stanford University

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• Error-Correcting Phases of the Surface Code Under Coherent Errors

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 16, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Sagar Vijay

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  Authors

  • Stephen Yan

    • UC Santa Barbara

  • Yimu Bao

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Sagar Vijay

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

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• Mutual information as a measure of renormalizability

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:54 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:06 PM

  Publication: Brenden Bowen, Albert Farah, Spasen Chaykov, and Nishant Agarwal, "Mutual information as a measure of renormalizability," In preparation

  Presenters

  • Nishant Agarwal

    • University of Massachusetts Lowell

  Authors

  • Nishant Agarwal

    • University of Massachusetts Lowell

  • Brenden Bowen

    • University of Massachusetts Lowell

  • Albert Farah

    • University of Massachusetts Lowell

  • Spasen Chaykov

    • University of Massachusetts Lowell

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• Transfer Tensor Method: Analysis of Non-Markovian Processes

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:06 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:18 PM

  Publication: [1] J. Cerrillo, J. Cao, "Non-Markovian Dynamical Maps: Numerical Processing of Open Quantum Trajectories", Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 110401 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.110401
  [2] Robert Rosenbach, Javier Cerrillo, Susana F Huelga, Jianshu Cao, and Martin B Plenio, "Efficient simulation of non-Markovian system-environment interaction", New J. Phys. 18, 023035 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/18/2/023035
  [3] Maximilian Buser, Javier Cerrillo, Gernot Schaller, and Jianshu Cao, "Initial system-environment correlations via the transfer-tensor method", Phys. Rev. A 96, 062122 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.96.062122
  [4] Andrew Wu, Javier Cerrillo and Jianshu Cao, "Extracting kinetic information from short-time trajectories: relaxation and disorder of lossy cavity polaritons", Nanophotonics (2024). https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2023-0831

  Presenters

  • Javier Cerrillo Moreno

    • Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena

  Authors

  • Javier Cerrillo Moreno

    • Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena

  • Jianshu Cao

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• Exactly solvable out-of-equilbrium dynamics: hydrodynamics of sorting algorithms

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:18 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:30 PM

  Publication: Bubbles and Cocktails: Out-of-Equilibrium Dynamics of Sorting Algorithms

  Presenters

  • Mert Okyay

    • University of Colorado Boulder

  Authors

  • Mert Okyay

    • University of Colorado Boulder

  • Oliver Hart

    • Quantinuum

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• Emergent Locality and Shielding in Long-Range Interacting Quantum Spin Systems

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 16, 2026, 5:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Shreyas Sadugol

    • Tulane University

  Authors

  • Shreyas Sadugol

    • Tulane University

  • Lev Kaplan

  • Fausto Borgonovi

  • Giuseppe Luca Celardo

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• Temporal Complexity Hierarchies in Solvable Quantum Many-Body Dynamics

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:54 PM

  Presenters

  • He-Ran Wang

    • Tsinghua University

  Authors

  • He-Ran Wang

    • Tsinghua University

  • Ilya Vilkoviskiy

  • Dmitry Abanin

    • Princeton University

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• Ruelle-Pollicott resonances from truncated operator dynamics in diffusive qubit circuits

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:54 PM – March 16, 2026, 6:06 PM

  Publication: [1] U. Duh and M. Žnidarič, Ruelle-Pollicott resonances of diffusive U(1)-invariant qubit circuits, arXiv:2506.24097.

  Presenters

  • Urban Duh

    • University of Ljubljana

  Authors

  • Urban Duh

    • University of Ljubljana

  • Marko Znidaric

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