Entanglement, Information and Complexity in Quantum Systems

6 May 2025, 09:00 → 8 May 2025, 14:00 Europe/London

4305 (Higgs Centre Seminar Room)

Quantum information is a multidisciplinary research area attracting a lot of interest and achieving substantial progress across physics, mathematics and computer science. The goal of this three day workshop is to bring together leading scientists in these areas to discuss recent developments in scrambling dynamics and its relation to chaos, entanglement phase transitions, the relevance of pseudo-entanglement for quantum cryptography, the importance of magic to quantify quantum advantage and the relevance of all these ideas to formulate the emergence of spacetime in terms of entanglement and complexity.

This will be a 2 and a half day event. The first two days will each have 5 talks, with the last talk of each day being a hybrid talk given by remote speakers. The final half day will start with a plenary talk and will conclude with a final round table/discussion summarising the main ideas discussed during the meeting and collecting open questions and challenges for the near future.

Talks will be arranged between long coffee breaks and lunches allowing participants to have plenty of time for discussions and networking. One of our key goals is the exchange of ideas, concepts and methodologies between different research areas with the intent to foster collaborations and, if successful, perhaps start a new series of workshops on this topic.

Registration is now closed.

Abstracts: Speaker abstracts attached below.

Key speakers

• Chris AKERS (Colorado)
• Zvika BRAKERSKI (WIS)
• Jens EISERT (Berlin)
• Philippe FAIST (Berlin)
• Alioscia HAMMA (Naples Federico II)
• Antonio Anna MELE (Berlin)
• Zlatko PAPIC (Leeds)
• Yihui QUEK (MIT)
• Marco SCHIRO (College de France)

 

Organisers

• Mina Doosti
   (University of Edinburgh; Quantum Software Lab)
• Joan Simon
   (University of Edinburgh)
• Steven Thomson
   (University of Edinburgh)

 

Co-organised and supported by Quantum Software Lab

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Tuesday 6 May

09:30 → 09:50 Registration

09:50 → 10:00 Welcome/Opening Remarks

10:00 → 11:00 Jens Eisert (Freie Universität Berlin) - Entanglement, information and complexity in quantum systems: An operational perspective

11:00 → 12:00 Zlatko Papic (University of Leeds) - Disorder-tunable entanglement at infinite temperature

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch and networking

14:00 → 15:00 Alioscia Hamma (University of Naples Federico II) - Why is magic important in holography

15:00 → 15:30 Sridevi Kuriyattil (University of Oxford) - Quantum Information Scrambling in Tunable Range Quantum Spin Models

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break and networking

16:00 → 17:00 Chris Akers (University of Colorado Boulder) - Finding quantum gravity answers to our questions in 1+1d (Online talk)

17:00 → 18:30 Drinks Reception

Wednesday 7 May

10:00 → 11:00 Antonio Anna Mele (Freie Universität Berlin) - Effect of noise in typical quantum circuits

11:00 → 12:00 Philippe Faist (Freie Universität Berlin) - Resource-theoretic approaches for complex many-body systems

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch and networking

14:00 → 15:00 Zvika Brakerski (The Weizmann Institute, Israel) - Quantum Cryptography and Computational Entanglement Theory

15:00 → 15:30 Álvaro Yángüez (Sorbonne University) - Quantum pseudoresources imply cryptography

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee and networking

16:00 → 17:00 Yihui Quek (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - Chaos at the limits of computation (Online Talk)

Thursday 8 May

09:30 → 10:00 Neil Dowling (University of Cologne) - Bridging Entanglement and Magic Resources through Operator Space

10:00 → 11:00 Pablo Poggi (University of Strathclyde) - Entanglement generation and collective behaviour in spin models with sparse coupling graphs

11:00 → 12:00 Panel/Open Discussion

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch and networking