Many fascinating things are going on in theoretical quantum physics and it is hard to keep up with everything. Wouldn't it be great to sit down, relax, and have a fellow graduate student introduce a topic of your choice in a pedagogical way? This is precisely the idea behind this seminar. Ph.D. students get together, with the oversight from postdocs and professors, to teach each other topics that are needed to be able to follow modern developments in the broad field of theoretical quantum physics, but go beyond the level that is usually taught in graduate courses.The lectures are given by the participants, and are to be pedagogical: the idea is to actually learn something concrete, and to omit statements like "it can be shown". Since DPA has sizable research groups both in atomic-molecular-optical and condensed-matter physics, we aim to focus on topics that are of interest to both communities.
Main Course Topics:
Quantum Mechanics
Quantum Optics
Quantum-Classical Methods
Quantum Information Science
Open Quantum Systems
Quantum Many-Body Systems (in and out of equilibrium)
Quantum Field Theory
Numerical and Symbolic Packages for Computational Quantum Physics
News
Fall 2025 seminar series starts on Friday, 9/05 at 1:00PM in SHL215.
Seminar in Progress
Quick and dirty tutorial on quantum master equations for qubit dynamics
