Organizers:
F. Mila (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), D. Poilblanc (CNRS / U. Toulouse), E. Rico Ortega (Ikerbasque - UPV/EHU - DIPC - CERN), N. Schuch (University of Vienna)
Entanglement and topology in interacting quantum matter
(Benasque Science Center, Feb 15 - Feb 28, 2026)
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Sunday, February 15
| 15:00 | Bus ride to Benasque from Barcelona University |
| 15:30 | Bus ride to Benasque from Barcelona Airport |
Monday, February 16
| 09:45-11:00 | Registration and coffee |
| 11:00-12:00 | Talk Yasir Iqbal |
| 12:00-17:30 | Lunch & Discussions |
| 17:30-18:00 | Coffee |
| 18:00-18:30 | Pseudogap and Superconductivity in Hubbard and t-t'-J models Aritra Sinha |
| 18:30-19:00 | Emergent codes from Gauss laws Jose Garre Rubio |
| 19:00-19:30 | Quantum phase diagram of the spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the square-kagome lattice via tensor network Saeed Jahromi |
Tuesday, February 17
| 09:15-10:15 | Lecture Claudio Castelnovo |
| 10:15-11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00-12:00 | Talk Karlo Penc |
| 12:00-17:30 | Lunch & Discussions |
| 17:30-18:00 | Coffee |
| 18:00-18:30 | Quadrupolar Haldane phase of the bilinear-biquadratic spin-1 chain with single-ion anisotropy Zakaria Jouini |
| 18:30-19:00 | Measuring temporal entropies in experiments Aleix Bou Comas |
| 19:00-19:30 | Conformal Data for the O(3) Wilson-Fisher CFT from Fuzzy Sphere Realization of Quantum Rotor Model Arjun Dey |
Wednesday, February 18
| 09:15-10:15 | Lecture Claudio Castelnovo |
| 10:15-11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00-12:00 | Talk Chisa Hotta |
| 12:00-17:30 | Lunch & Discussion |
| 17:30-18:00 | Coffee |
| 18:00-18:30 | Overcoming the entanglement barrier with sampled tensor networks Stefano Carignano |
| 18:30-19:00 | Topological and Trivial Valence-Bond Orders in Higher-Spin Kitaev Models Yuchi He |
| 19:00-19:30 | Tensor Network investigation of the Kasteleyn transition in an effective monomer-dimer model Afonso Rufino |
Thursday, February 19
| 09:15-10:15 | Talk Yuan Gao |
| 10:15-11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00-12:00 | Talk Daniel Barredo |
| 12:00-18:30 | Lunch & Discussions / Coffee |
| 18:30-19:00 | Extracting quantum field theory dynamics from an approximate ground state Sophie Mutzel |
| 19:00-19:30 | Quantum supercritical regime with universal magnetocaloric scaling Enze Lv |
Friday, February 20
| 09:15-10:15 | Talk Johannes Motruk |
| 10:15-11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00-12:00 | Talk Örs Legeza |
| 12:00-17:30 | Lunch & Discussions |
| 17:30-18:00 | Coffee break |
| 18:00-18:30 | Robust detection of an entanglement transition in the projective transverse field Ising model Felix Roser |
| 18:30-19:00 | qpe-toolbox: Tensor Network Simulation of Quantum Phase Estimation Olivier Gauthé |
Monday, February 23
| 09:15-10:15 | Lecture Marin Bukov |
| 10:15-11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00-12:00 | Lecture Rahul Trivedi |
| 12:00-17:30 | Lunch & Discussions |
| 17:30-18:00 | Coffee |
| 18:00-18:30 | Disentangling Magic States with Classically Simulable Quantum Circuits Emanuele Tirrito |
| 18:30-19:00 | Gauging the variational optimization of projected entangled-pair states Wei Tang |
| 19:00-19:30 | 2kF instability and chiral spin density wave at the 1/9 magnetization plateau in the kagome antiferromagnets Tanja Duric |
Tuesday, February 24
| 09:15-10:15 | Lecture Marin Bukov |
| 10:15-11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00-12:00 | Lecture Philipp Schmoll |
| 12:00-17:30 | Lunch & Discussions |
| 17:30-18:00 | Coffee |
| 18:00-19:00 | Lecture Marin Bukov |
Wednesday, February 25
| 09:15-10:15 | Lecture Ludovic Jaubert |
| 10:15-11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00-12:00 | Lecture Rahul Trivedi |
| 12:00-17:30 | Lunch & Discussions |
| 17:30-18:00 | Coffee |
| 19:30-21:30 | Poster session / Welcome reception |
Thursday, February 26
| 09:15-10:15 | Lecture Ludovic Jaubert |
| 10:15-11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00-12:00 | Talk Artur Garcia-Saez |
| 12:00-17:30 | Lunch & Discussions |
| 17:3-18:00 | Coffee |
| 18:00-18:30 | Long-range resonances on the many-body localized side Jeanne Colbois |
| 18:30-19:00 | SIMPLEX CRYSTAL GROUND STATE AND MAGNETIZATION PLATEAUS IN THE SPIN-1/2 HEISENBERG MODEL ON THE RUBY LATTICE Pratyay Ghosh |
Friday, February 27
| 09:15-10:15 | Talk Marco Di Liberto |
| 10:15-11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00-11:30 | Tensor network simulations of 2+1D CFT: the Fuzzy sphere Loic Herviou |
| 11:30-12:00 | Local Topological Quantum Order and Spectral Gap Stability for Valence Bond Solids in 2D Thomas Jackson |
| 12:00-17:30 | Lunch & Discussions |
| 17:30-18:00 | Coffee |
| 18:00-18:30 | QUANTUM SPIN LIQUIDS AND LOCALITY FROM GLOBAL CAVITY INTERACTIONS Mark Oehlgrien |
| 18:30-19:00 | ENTANGLEMENT LEARNING FOR ANISOTROPIC XY AND XYZ MODELS Tymoteusz Tula |
Saturday, February 28
| 09:00 | Bus ride to Barcelona airport |
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