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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 12: Focus Session: Relaxation Timescales in Open Quantum Systems (joint session TT/DY)

Monday, March 9, 2026, 15:00–18:00, CHE/0089

In the quantum year 2025 many applications of quantum systems are revisited for their actual physical implementability. Realizing that no quantum system is truly isolated from its environment highlights the need for a thorough understanding of the coupling between an open system and its environment. While many standard treatments lead to Lindblad equations, the underlying approximations are not always applicable and require detailed case-by-case studies. This theoretical focus session provides a platform discussing modern developments in the field in the regime of strongly interacting or driven open systems and their impact on relaxation timescales. We aim to enhance attention and trigger also experimental activity in the field of system-environment interactions and the induced relaxation timescales.

Coordinators: Gernot Schaller (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf), Nikodem Szpak (Universität Duisburg-Essen)

	15:00	DY 12.1	Topical Talk: Markovian and non-Markovian approaches to quantum relaxation — •Heinz-Peter Breuer
	15:30	DY 12.2	Topical Talk: Asymptotic relaxation in quantum Markovian dynamics — •Susana Huelga
	16:00	DY 12.3	Topical Talk: Floquet engineering of open quantum Systems — •André Eckardt
	16:30		15 min. break
	16:45	DY 12.4	Topical Talk: Nonequilibrium thermodynamics of time-dependent quantum transport — •Janine Splettstoesser
	17:15	DY 12.5	Topical Talk: Connecting time-nonlocal and time-local quantum master equations — •Maarten Wegewijs
	17:45	DY 12.6	Coupling--energy driven pumping through quantum dots: The role of coherences — •Lukas Litzba, Gernot Schaller, Jürgen König, and Nikodem Szpak