The ins and outs of quantum dynamics: integrability, from Newton’s cradle to Gibbs’ grave

Prof.

Jean-Sébastien

Caux

University of Amsterdam

November 14, 2025 12:15 PM
Recent years have demonstrated that integrability can be used to compute many physical properties of experimentally-accessible magnetic or cold atomic systems. Besides their rich equilibrium dynamics, such systems also host relaxation and equilibration behaviour which cannot be simply described by traditional textbook methods, and can lead to long-lived non-thermal equilibrium states. This talk will provide an overview of this area, highlighting ideas and lessons for researchers in other 
fields and/or using methods complementary to integrability.