Workshop: Complexity, information, and tractable simulations of quantum many-body dynamics: June 8-12, 2026

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Organized by:
Vincenzo Alba
Jerome Dubail
Mari-Carmen Banuls
Aditi Mitra
Anatoli Polkovniko

The workshop will foster interactions among experts in quantum and classical simulation methods, quantum information, and tractable systems, to assess the state-of-the art of these questions, and propose benchmarks that may help answer it. First, the workshop will stimulate a complexity-informed exploration of dynamics in tractable systems. A second strand of the workshop aims at exploring complexity in embryonic quantum computing platforms, with the goal of providing a complexity-based certification of quantum computing devices. In particular, the workshop will also explore out-of-equilibrium protocols beyond quantum quenches and Floquet driving, focusing, for instance, on protocols that are
relevant for quantum state preparation and slow driving. The workshop will stimulate the quest for new examples of tractable dynamics in open quantum systems, in which complexity-related questions can be addressed quantitatively.

The workshop will aim at establishing our anchoring points in the interplay between complexity and hydrodynamics by exploring tractable systems, for instance random unitary circuits. An important goal of the workshop is to bring together experts in out-of-equilibrium to investigate sublinear corrections in the entanglement dynamics and to assess and boost collaborations between the communities working on classical and quantum many-body systems. This will allow establishing firm results to characterize the nexus between entanglement, complexity and universal transport properties.

This workshop is part of the program: Complexity, information, and tractable simulations of quantum many-body dynamics: June 1 – July 2, 2026.