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CECAM Workshop: Seeking synergy between dynamics ... (No replies)

federica.agostini
7 years ago
federica.agostini 7 years ago

Dear colleagues,

We would like to draw your attention to the CECAM workshop Seeking synergy between dynamics and statistics for non-equilibrium quantum processes to be held in Paris on June 6th-9th.

One of the major difficulties in achieving an accurate theoretical description of non-equilibrium processes in quantum mechanical systems is framed by the desire to provide a representation of the system of interest that is as realistic as possible, in a manner that is computationally tractable. The coupling of electronic and nuclear motion involving excited states, the quantum nature of the nuclear degrees of freedom, and the application of time-dependent driving forces, are just a few examples of the effects that must be addressed in order to simulate these processes. Each of these effects poses unique challenges to theoretical progress. A number of exact and approximate quantum dynamics techniques are being developed and refined in order to provide algorithms that respond to the demand for a balance between computational efficiency and physical accuracy. Currently available techniques are typically based upon two different, but equivalent, formulations of many-body quantum mechanics, the wave function approach or the density matrix picture.

The proposed workshop aims to bring together the two principal molecular quantum dynamics communities (wave-function methods and density matrix approaches). The scope is threefold, (i) to identify and explore common goals and obstacles, (ii) help in fostering new ideas to connect these approaches, and bridge the apparent gap between approximate dynamical and statistical descriptions, (iii) identify possible routes to extend dynamics approaches to the domain of statistics.

At the workshop, experts are asked to uncover the fundamental details of the methods in pedagogical lectures. These lectures will be followed by extensive discussions, during which contributed speakers and participants are welcome to put forth some of their doubts and problems in the relation between dynamics and statistics. 

Further information can be at:          https://www.cecam.org/workshop-1483.html

Confirmed invited speakers are:

Nandini Ananth (Cornell University, USA)

Sara Bonella (CECAM, Switzerland)

Irene Burghardt (Goethe University, Germany)

Eitan Geva (University of Michigan, USA)

E. K. U. Gross (Max-Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Germany)

Raymond Kapral (University of Toronto, Canada)

Jeremy Richardson (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

Dvira Segal (University of Toronto, Canada)

Graham Worth (University College London, UK)

Best regards,

Federica Agostini, David Coker, Aaron Kelly, David Lauvergnat




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