Tohoku Forum for Creativity Junior Research Program 2024

Overview

Purpose

    One of the most challenging research subjects in modern physics is elucidating the nature of interacting quantum systems. Strongly interacting quantum systems have been extensively studied in various fields of physics, including nuclear physics, quantum chromodynamics (QCD) of quarks and gluons, and more recently in cold atoms, where dilute atomic gases are cooled down to nano-Kelvin temperatures. The theme of this program is to achieve a unified understanding of strongly correlated few- and many-body quantum systems across these fields: cold atoms, nuclear physics, and QCD.
    To achieve this goal, we host outstanding theorists who are actively studying these broad fields. By combining their knowledge and specialized methods—such as effective field theory, accurate few-body calculations, and quantum field theory—we aim to investigate the conditions under which strongly correlated few- and many-body quantum systems exhibit the same behavior and become universal. This investigation particularly targets few-body Efimov physics and systems with a few impurities immersed in a many-body quantum medium. Since the quantum impurity problem is also relevant for electronic transport in solids, our project will contribute to designing future high-performance quantum devices based on strongly correlated electrons.

Topics

  • Cold atomic physics (e.g., Efimov state, polarons, Feshbach resonance)
  • Nuclear physics and QCD (e.g., Halo nuclei, exotic hadrons, compositeness)
  • Many-body problems (e.g., Quantum Hall effect, superfluidity, QCD matter)

Date

  • 2024/8/26 (Mon.) - 2024/9/27 (Fri.)
  • [Conference on 2024/9/4 (Wed.) - 2024/9/5 (Thur.)]

Place

    TOKYO ELECTRON House of Creativity, Tohoku University [Google Map] 　

Invited Participants

  • Chris H. Greene (Purdue University)
  • Hans W. Hammer (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
  • Dam Thanh Son (The University of Chicago)

Registration information

  • The registration deadlines are 2024/7/16 (Tue.) for oral presentations in the conference (9/4-9/5), and 2024/7/31 (Wed.) for the regular participation. Please register from the registration page.

Request for Acknowledgment

We are grateful if you would acknowledge the Tohoku Forum for Creativity at Tohoku University in your papers initiated or motivated by discussions during the workshop. Below are some sugggested examples:

  • This work was [partially] supported by the Tohoku Forum for Creativity via the junior research program "Universality of Strongly Correlated Few–body and Many–body Quantum Systems".
  • A.A. acknowledges support by the Tohoku Forum for Creativity via the junior program “Universality of Strongly Correlated Few–body and Many–body Quantum Systems".
  • The authors thank the Tohoku Forum for Creativity at Tohoku University University, where this work was initiated [completed] during the junior research program "Universality of Strongly Correlated Few–body and Many–body Quantum Systems".
  • The authors thank the Tohoku Forum for Creativity at Tohoku University. Discussions during the junior research program "Universality of Strongly Correlated Few–body and Many–body Quantum Systems" were useful to complete this work.

Organizers

  • Shimpei Endo (University of Electro–Communications)
  • Keisuke Fujii (The University of Tokyo)
  • Masaru Hongo (Niigata University/RIKEN iTHEMS)
  • Daisuke Yoshida (Tohoku University)

Supporting Organizations

This workshop is primarily sponsored by Tohoku Forum for Creativity (Tohoku University) with co-sponsorship from Grant–in–Aid for Scientific Research (B) 「強相関物質における不純物粒子の量子ダイナミクスの普遍性の研究」.