Note: Title -- Preface -- Organization -- Table of Contents -- Keynote Talk -- Born's Rule as an Empirical Addition to Probabilistic Coherence -- Language -- Introducing Scalable Quantum Approaches in Language Representation -- Introduction -- Heterogeneous Computing -- Quantum Approaches in Language Processing -- Methods and Planned Outcomes -- Conclusion -- References -- Similarity Metrics within a Point of View -- Introduction -- Vector Space Models of the Mental Lexicon -- Motivating the Angle as a Measure of Similarity -- Requirements for a Metric Space -- Are Semantic Spaces Good Models of Human Cognition? -- Homographs and the Non-identity of Indiscernible -- Human Similarity Judgements Are Not Symmetric -- Human Similarity Judgements Violate the Triangle Inequality -- The Point of View Model -- The Evocation Data Set -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Toward a Formal Model of the Shifting Relationship between Concepts and Contexts during Associative Thought -- Introduction -- The SCOP Theory of Concepts -- The Study -- Participants and Method -- Results -- Analysis of Experimental Data and Application to the Model -- Assumptions and Goals -- Analysis of the States and Contexts -- Expected Context Typicality -- Discussion and Future Directions -- References -- Semantic Spaces -- A Compositional Distributional Semantics, Two Concrete Constructions, and Some Experimental Evaluations -- Introduction -- Sketching the Problem and a Hybrid Solution -- Two Concrete Constructions for Sentence Spaces -- Structured Vector Spaces and a Toy Corpus -- Plain Vector Spaces and the BNC -- Evaluation and Experiments -- Conclusion and Future Work -- References -- Finding Schizophrenia's Prozac Emergent Relational Similarity in Predication Space -- Introduction -- Background -- Mathematical Structure and Methods -- Analogical Retrieval -- Evaluation -- Results. , Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- Spectral Composition of Semantic Spaces -- Introduction -- Related Concepts in Quantum Mechanics and Spectroscopy -- A Brief Overview of Semantic Spaces -- Spectral Composition of Semantic Spaces -- Semantic Spaces as Observables -- Semantic Spectrum -- Evolving Semantics and Considerations for Future Work -- Conclusions -- References -- Economics, Politics and Decision -- Dynamic Optimization with Type Indeterminate Decision-Maker: A Theory of Multiple-self Management -- Introduction -- Dynamic Single Player Optimization -- An Illustrative Example -- A TI-model of Dynamic Optimization -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Pseudo-classical Nonseparability and Mass Politics in Two-Party Systems -- Introduction -- Balancing Theory -- Classical Views of Separability and Nonseparability -- Toward a More General Framework -- A Pseudo-classical Model of Voter Preference -- References -- A Quantum Cognition Analysis of the Ellsberg Paradox -- Introduction -- The Sure-Thing Principle and the Ellsberg Paradox -- A Preliminary Analysis of the Paradox -- An Experiment Testing the Ellsberg Paradox -- A Quantum Model for Conceptual Landscapes -- References -- Psychology and Cognition -- Can Classical Epistemic States Be Entangled? -- Introduction -- Non-commutative Operations -- Phase Space Partitions -- Dynamics -- Dynamical Entropy -- Symbolic Dynamics -- Improper Partitions -- Compatibility and Other Relations Between Partitions -- Epistemic Entanglement -- Acategorial Mental States -- Temporal Nonlocality -- References -- Quantum Structure in Cognition: Why and How Concepts Are Entangled -- Introduction -- Detecting Entanglement between Concepts -- Description of the Experiment -- Explanation of Entanglement in Concepts -- References -- Options for Testing Temporal Bell Inequalities for Mental Systems -- Introduction. , Bell Inequalities -- Bell Inequality for a Two-State System -- Temporal Bell Inequalitites for Two-State Systems -- Generalized Temporal Bell Inequalities -- Experimental Tests of Bell Inequalities in Mental Systems -- Conclusions -- References -- Information Representation and Retrieval -- Quantum-Like Uncertain Conditionals for Text Analysis -- Introduction -- Conditionals in Quantum Logics -- Uncertain Conditional and Text Analysis -- Conditionals for SEs -- Material Implication -- Subjunctive Conditional -- Topic-Specific Lattices -- An Example -- Anomalies in the Ordering -- Lattices for Two Languages -- Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- Modelling the Acitivation of Words in Human Memory: The Spreading Activation, Spooky-activation-at-a-distance and the Entanglement Models Compared -- Introduction -- Activation Models -- Spooky Action at a Distance -- Spreading Activation Model -- Entanglment Activation Model -- Analysis of Activation Models -- Spooky Action at a Distance -- Spreading Activation Model -- Entanglement Activation Model -- Discussion -- Summary and Outlook -- References -- Senses in Which Quantum Theory Is an Analogy for Information Retrieval and Science -- Introduction -- Analogy at the Level of Ontology and Epistemology -- Nature at Micro-level vs Collection -- Types of Observation -- Selecting Phenomena and Making Statements -- Analogy of Individual Phenomena -- Superposition -- Entanglement -- Analogies at the Level of Models and Expression -- Conclusion -- References -- Computation and Information -- A Hierarchical Sorting Oracle -- Introduction -- Sorting -- Oracle Development -- First Requirement -- Second Requirement -- General Circuit -- Final Considerations -- Conclusions -- References -- Quantum-Like Paradigm: From Molecular Biology to Cognitive Psychology -- Introduction. , Classical Law of Total Probability and Its Quantum-Like Modification -- Violation of the Law of Total Probability in Microbiology: Glucose Effect on E. Coli Growth -- Decision Making as Decoherence of Quantum-Like Mental State -- References -- Posters -- A Quantum-Conceptual Explanation of Violations of Expected Utility in Economics -- Introduction -- The Sure-Thing Principle and the Disjunction Effect -- Quantum Modeling of the Hawaii Disjunction Effect -- Concept Combinations, The Disjunction Effect and Conceptual Landscapes -- Conclusion -- References -- On the Nature of the Human Mind: The Cognit Space Theory -- Introduction -- The Two Mind Distinction -- The Human Evolutionarily Adapted Mind (HEAM) -- The Tabula Rasa Mind (TRM) -- Consciousness, Sleep and the Silent Man -- Conclusions -- References -- Quantum Phenomenology and Dynamic Co-emergence -- Introduction -- Monism and Dualism -- Quantum Phenomenology: Being-in-the-World -- A Pertinent Example: Being-in-the-Air -- References -- Envisioning Dynamic Quantum Clustering in Information Retrieval -- Introduction -- Document Clustering -- Dynamic Quantum Clustering -- Experiments on DQC in Information Retrieval -- Final Remarks -- References -- Contextual Image Annotation via Projection and Quantum Theory Inspired Measurement for Integration of Text and Visual Features -- Introduction and Related Work -- Projection-Based Approach to Associating Textual and Visual Features -- Quantum Measurement-Based Approach to Associating Textual and Visual Features -- Experimental Settings -- Results and Analysis -- Conclusion and Future Work -- References -- MPEG-7 Features in Hilbert Spaces: Querying Similar Images with Linear Superpositions -- Introduction -- Related Work -- Image Representation and Relevance Computation -- Implementation and Testing -- Conclusions and Future Work -- References. , Author Index.

Note: Non-locality and Modality -- Editor's page -- Copyright -- Contents -- PREFACE -- RE-EXAMINING THE LEGACY OF BOHR AND VON NEUMANN -- RECONSIDERING BOHR'S REPLY TO EPR -- BOHR ON BELL: A PROPOSED READING OF BOHR AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR BELL'S THEOREM1 -- BELL, BOHM, AND VON NEUMANN: SOME PHILOSOPHICAL INEQUALITIES CONCERNING NO-GO THEOREMS AND THE AXIOMATIC METHOD * -- INTERPRETING QUANTUM THEORY -- WHY QUANTUM THEORY? -- QUANTUM MECHANICS OF THE ELECTRIC CHARGE AND ITS CONNECTION WITH THE PROBLEM OF INTERPRETATION OF QUANTUM MECHANICS -- SIGNAL-LOCALITY AND SUBQUANTUM INFORMATION IN DETERMINISTIC HIDDEN-VARIABLES THEORIES -- REMARKS ON SPACE-TIME AND LOCALITY IN EVERETT'S INTERPRETATION -- ENTANGLEMENT AND NON-LOCALITY -- IS QUANTUM MECHANICS NON-LOCAL? -- MEASURING QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT -- ON FINE'S INTERPRETATION OF QUANTUM MECHANICS: GHZ EXPERIMENT -- LOCALITY AND REALITY REVISITED -- UNSHARP OBSERVABLES -- EPR-BELL TESTS WITH UNSHARP OBSERVABLES AND RELATIVISTIC QUANTUM MEASUREMENT -- A KOCHEN-SPECKER THEOREM FOR UNSHARP SPIN 1 OBSERVABLES -- THE BELL PHENOMENON IN A PROBABILISTIC APPROACH -- CAUSATION -- NON-LOCALITY AND THEORIES OF CAUSATION * -- ON CAUSAL LOOPS IN THE QUANTUM REALM* -- REICHENBACH'S COMMON CAUSE PRINCIPLE AND QUANTUM CORRELATIONS -- BRANCHING MODELS OF EPR PHENOMENA -- BRANCHING SPACE-TIME, MODAL LOGIC AND THE COUNTERFACTUAL CONDITIONAL -- EPR-LIKE "FUNNY BUSINESS" IN THE THEORY OF BRANCHING SPACE-TIMES -- PARTIAL INDETERMINISM IS ENOUGH: A BRANCHING ANALYSIS OF BELL-TYPE INEQUALITIES -- Subject Index -- Index of Names.

Note: Lecture Notes in Physics -- Geometry and Quantum Physics -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Notes on Equivariant Localization -- An Introduction to Spin Foam Models of BF Theory and Quantum Gravity -- T-Duality and the Gravitational Description of Gauge Theories -- Noncommutative Geometry and Basic Physics -- An Introduction to Noncommutative Geometry -- Geometric Properties of Transport in Quantum Hall Systems -- q-Deformed Heisenberg Algebras -- Quantum Gravity with Matter Fields in Two Dimensions -- A Quantum Minkowski Space-Time -- Supersymmetry and Nonperturbative Aspects in Quantum Cosmology -- Noncommutative Supergeometry of Graded Matrix Algebras -- Duals for Nonabelian Lattice Gauge Theories -- Absolute Conservation Law for Black Holes -- Double Numbers and Two Dimensional Anomaly Free Field Models -- A Global Path Integral for Yang Mills Theory -- Anyonic Solutions to the Thirring Model -- Twisting of Quantum Differentials -- Wigner Solid and Laughlin Liquid of Bose Condensed Charge-Vortex Composites -- The Modular Closure of Braided Tensor Categories -- Clifford Algebra as a Useful Language for Geometry and Physics -- Fields on Noncommutative Manifolds -- Geometry of 2-Fold Degenerated 2-Level System -- On q-Deformations and Dunkl-Deformations of Harmonic Oscillators -- Quantum Field Theory in Non-globally Hyperbolic Space-Times -- Steps Beyond the Standard Model in Noncommutative Geometry -- Vacuum Polarization Effects in the Background of Nontrivial Topology -- F-Theory and Toric Geometry -- Actions for Duality-Symmetric Fields -- Unitary Representations of the Quantum Anti-de Sitter Group at Roots of Unity and Elementary Particles -- The Limits of D-Brane Action.

Note: Intro -- Lecture Notes in Physics -- Springer -- Relativistic Quantum Measurement and Decoherence -- Preface -- List of Participants -- Contents -- Special Relativity as an Open Question -- 1 The Measurement Problem -- 2 Degrees of Compatibility with Special Relativity -- 3 The Theory I H ve in Mind -- 4 Approximate Compatibility with Special Relativity -- References -- Event-Ready Entanglement -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Parametric Down-Conversion and Entanglement Swapping -- 3 Event-Ready Entanglement -- 4 Conclusions -- Appendix:Transformation of Maximally Entangled States -- References -- Radiation Damping and Decoherence in Quantum Electrodynamics -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Reduced Density Matrix of the Matter Degrees of Freedom -- 3 The In .uence Phase Functional of QED -- 4 The Interaction of a Single Electron with the Radiation Field -- 4.1 Representation of the Electron Density Matrix in the Non-Relativistic Approximation -- 4.2 The Path Integral Representation -- 4.3 The Abraham-Lorentz Equation -- 4.4 Construction of the Decoherence Function -- 5 Decoherence Through the Emission of Bremsstrahlung -- 5.1 Determination of the Decoherence Function -- 5.2 Wave Packet Propagation -- 6 The Harmonically Bound Electron in the Radiation Field -- 7 Destruction of Coherence of Many-Particle States -- 8 Conclusions -- References -- Decoherence: A Dynamical Approach to Superselection Rules? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Elementary Concepts -- 2.1 Superselection Rules -- 2.2 Dirac 's Requirement -- Gaining intuition in .nite dimensions. -- The general case. -- 2.3 Dirac 's Condition and Gauge Symmetries -- Non-abelian gauge groups -- 3 Superselection Rules via Symmetry Requirements -- 4 Bargmann 's Superselection Rule -- 5 Charge Superselection Rule -- References -- Quantum Histories and Their Implications -- 1 Introduction. , 2 Partial Ordering of Quantum Histories -- 3 Consistent Histories -- 4 Consistent Sets and Contrary Inferences:A Brief Review -- 5 Relation of Contrary Inferences and Subspace Implications -- 6 Ordered Consistent Sets of Histories -- 7 Ordered Consistent Sets and Quasiclassicality -- 8 Ordering and Ordering Violations:Interpretation -- 9 Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix:Ordering and Decoherence Functionals -- References -- Quantum Measurements and Non-locality -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Measurements on 2-Particle Systems with Parallel or Anti-Parallel Spins -- 3 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- False Loss of Coherence -- 1 Massive Field Heat Bath and Two Level System -- 2 Spin-1/2 System -- 3 Oscillator -- 4 Spin Boson Problem -- 5 Instantaneous Change -- 6 Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References.

Note: Title Page -- Indice -- Preface -- Gruppo fotografico dei partecipanti al Corso -- RELAXATION MECHANISMS IN MESOSCOPIC SYSTEMS -- Interaction corrections in 2D disordered systems: From intermediate to low temperatures -- Introduction -- Most important results -- Single-valley semiconductors -- Two-valley semiconductors -- Words of caution -- Friedel oscillations as the source of the interaction corrections to transport coefficients -- Multiple-impurity scattering -- Magnetoresistance in parallel field -- Longitudinal conductivity: Perturbation theory -- Hartree-Fock considerations -- Soft modes -- Disorder averaging -- Charge channel -- Triplet channel -- Appendix -- Kinetic-equation approach -- Final form of the kinetic equation -- Longitudinal conductivity -- Hall coefficient -- Magnetoresistance in parallel field -- Energy and phase relaxation in mesoscopic metals -- Introduction -- Background -- Two surprises of 1997 -- A correlation between energy and phase relaxation -- Magnetic impurities - the signs -- Magnetic impurities - the tests -- Conclusions and outlook -- QUANTUM TRANSPORT AND ENTANGLEMENT IN DOTS -- The physics of artificial atoms -- Introduction -- Weak-coupling regime -- Kondo regime -- Fano regime -- Mesoscopic fluctuations in driven systems -- Introduction -- The Landauer conductance in the time domain -- The limit of high frequencies -- Conductance fluctuations for the noise and harmonic ac pumping -- Conductance fluctuations for an almost periodic ac field and statistics of zeros of the dephasing functions -- Effect of commensurability in the frequency domain -- Computational approaches for electronic transport in molecular devices -- Introduction -- Landauer formalism -- Master equation for the electronic density matrix -- Effective single-particle approximation. , Application to a 1D tunneling system: the current continuity problem -- Master equation and charge continuity -- 1D tunneling revisited, conclusions -- Dynamics of entanglement between quantum-dot spin-qubits -- Introduction -- Quantum entanglement between distinguishable parties -- Quantum entanglement with electron spins in quantum-dots -- General remarks -- Decoherence properties -- Modeling of the double-quantum-dot system -- Quantum correlations between indistinguishable particles -- Dynamics of entanglement in quantum gate operations -- Conclusions -- QUANTUM COHERENCE IN JOSEPHSON DEVICES -- Josephson qubits in charge and phase domains -- Superconducting qubits -- Charge qubit -- Device -- Qubit control -- Multi-pulse experiment -- Coexistence of charge and phase oscillation -- Summary -- Decoherence in Josephson qubits -- Introduction -- Simple estimates of decoherence -- Master equation -- Pure dephasing -- Model for circuit fluctuations -- 1/f noise -- Model for 1/f noise -- Qubit at the optimal point -- Pure dephasing -- Nearly incoherent BC dynamics -- Single BC -- 1/f noise in single-shot measurements -- Comparison with the oscillator environment -- Repeated measurements and inhomogeneuos broadening -- Charge echo -- Conclusions -- Appendix A. Linear quantum noise -- Appendix B. Dephasing due to classical stochastic fluctuations -- Algebraic strategies to defeat decoherence in quantum information processing: A survey -- Quantum computation, decoherence -- Error-avoiding codes, universality -- Symmetrization and computation within error-avoiding codes -- Josephson junctions: Effects of non-linearity in quantum physics -- Josephson junctions: Quantum dynamical algebra -- Josephson junctions: The phase-number problem -- ELECTRON INTERACTIONS IN QUANTUM WIRES -- Microscopic structure of the metal-insulator transition in two dimensions. , Electron transport in quantum wires -- Introduction -- The Tomonaga-Luttinger model -- The Tomonaga-Luttinger Hamiltonian -- Potential barriers -- Inhomogeneous interaction energy -- Charge and spin currents -- The effective action -- Dissipative kernels -- Charge and spin addition energies -- The spectral densities -- Current transport -- Conditions for linear and non-linear transport -- Quantum rates -- Results -- Linear conductance of an ideal quantum wire -- Linear conductance of the dot in the presence of inhomogeneity -- Non-linear transport spectra for homogeneous interaction -- The control of the spin -- Conclusion -- MODELS FOR ELECTRONS WITH INTERACTION AND DISORDER -- Nonlinear sigma model for normal and superconducting systems: A pedestrian approach -- Introduction -- From the TOE model to a functional integral -- Introducing Green's functions -- From Gaussian to functional integrals -- Green's function as a functional integral -- Fermions do it like bosons -- Averaging over disorder -- The NL sigma M functional -- Hubbard-Stratonovich decoupling -- Gradient expansion -- Mesoscopic fluctuations within the NL sigma M -- Coulomb and pairing interactions in the sigma model -- Hubbard-Stratonovich decoupling -- Ginzburg-Landau Functional -- Electronic glasses -- Introduction -- Basic description -- Elastic description -- Consequences for pure system -- Disorder -- Basic description and preconceived ideas -- Relevance of disorder and basic length scales -- Conventional wisdom and dynamics -- Methods -- Variational method -- Functional renormalization group -- Bragg glass and disordered Wigner crystal -- Elastic model and experiments -- Defects -- Further steps and unsolved questions -- Enhancement of superconductivity by strong correlations: A model study -- Introduction -- A model for alkali-doped fullerenes -- Dynamical mean-field results. , Fermi-liquid theory of the model -- Conclusions -- Chiral anomaly, polarizability and field effect in carbon nanotubes -- Introduction -- Dirac fermions in 2D carbon -- Electrons in a nanotube -- Field effect -- Screening and chiral anomaly -- Energy anomaly for 1D dirac fermions -- Conclusions -- Interaction among particles with fractionalized quantum numbers in one-dimensional samples -- Introduction -- The Haldane-Shastry model of a one-dimensional antiferromagnet and its elementary excitations -- Ground state of H HS -- One- and two-spinon states of the Haldane-Shastry model -- Spinon dynamics in the Haldane-Shastry model -- The Kuramoto-Yokoyama model of a one-dimensional insulator and its elementary excitations -- One-holon and one-holon one-spinon states of the KY model -- One-spinon one-holon dynamics in the Kuramoto-Yokoyama model -- Physical consequences of the interaction between spinons and holons -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. Norms and probability enhancements -- Composite Fermions with spin at nu = 1/2 -- Introduction -- Introduction to Composite Fermion theory -- The Aharonov-Bohm effect -- Attaching fluxes to Fermions -- The mean-field approximation -- The fractional quantum Hall effect -- The Chern-Simons transformation with spin -- The propagator of the gauge field fluctuations -- The propagator of the Composite Fermions -- Solution of the Dyson equation -- The energy gap -- Conclusion -- Projected BCS wave functions for low-dimensional frustrated spin systems -- Spin-1 chains in a staggered magnetic field -- Introduction -- The Haldane chain in a staggered field -- Calculations of physical quantities -- Continuum in the spectrum of CsNiCl 3 -- Elenco dei partecipanti.

Note: Intro -- CONTENTS -- Part I Quantum Dynamics and Spectroscopy -- Quantum Theory in Terms of Cumulant Variables -- Nonclassical Phase Space Jumps and Optimal Spawning -- On the Differential Cross Sections in Complex-Forming Atom-Diatom Reactive Collisions -- Shared Memory Parallelization of the Multiconfiguration Time-Dependent Hartree Method and Application to the Dynamics and Spectroscopy of the Protonated Water Dimer -- Structural Properties and Torsional Dynamics of Peroxides and Persulfides -- Theoretical Spectroscopy of Inner-Shell Electronic Processes and Photochemistry of Fluorescent Molecules -- Electron-β-Nuclear Spectroscopy of Atoms and Molecules and Chemical Bond Effect on the β-Decay Parameters -- Part II Complexes and Clusters -- Quantum Chemical Approach to Interatomic Decay Rates in Clusters -- Spectroscopy of Atoms in Liquid Helium Environment: A Theoretical Perspective -- Level-Structure and Magnetic Properties from One-Electron Atoms to Clusters with Delocalized Electronic Orbitals: Shell Models for Alkali Trimers -- Part III Nanostructures and Complex Systems -- Influence of the Level of Protonation on the Geometry and the Electronic Structure of Emeraldine Oligomers -- Quantum Mechanical Examination of Optical Absorption Spectra of Silver Nanorod Dimers -- On the Electronic Spectra of a Molecular Bridge Under Non- Equilibrium Electric Potential Conditions -- Index.

Note: Intro -- Contents -- Abstract -- Kurzzusammenfassung -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Introduction of the models -- 3. Correlation functions -- 4. Bath spectral functions -- 5. Numerical Renormalization Group -- 6. Results -- Summary -- Outlook -- A. Impurity displacement-displacement correlation function -- B. Calculation of the ξn -- References -- Danksagungen -- Erklärung -- Lebenslauf.

Note: Cover -- Previous sessions -- Preface -- Contents -- List of participants -- Part I Lectures -- 1 Nonequilibrium quantum dynamics in ultracold quantum gases -- Ehud Altman -- 1.1 Introduction to ultracold quantum gases -- 1.2 Dynamics of ultracold atom interferometers: quantum phase diffusion -- 1.3 Dynamics of ultracold bosons in optical lattices -- 1.4 Fast-quench dynamics of bosons in optical lattices -- 1.5 Quench dynamics and equilibration in closed one-dimensional systems -- 1.6 Quantum dynamics in random systems: many-body localization -- References -- 2 Nonequilibrium quantum fields: from cold atoms to cosmology -- Jürgen Berges -- Preface -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Nonequilibrium quantum field theory -- 2.3 Thermalization -- 2.4 Classical aspects of nonequilibrium quantum fields -- 2.5 Nonequilibrium instabilities -- 2.6 Nonthermal fixed points and turbulence -- 3 Slow relaxations and nonequilibrium dynamics in classical and quantum systems -- Giulio Biroli -- Preface -- 3.1 Coupling to the environment: what is a reservoir? -- 3.2 Field theory, time-reversal symmetry, and fluctuation theorems -- 3.3 Thermalization -- 3.4 Quenches and coarsening -- 3.5 Quenched disorder and slow dynamics -- 3.6 Effective temperature -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 4 Numerical methods in the study of nonequilibrium strongly interacting quantum many-body physics -- Ulrich Schollwöck -- 4.1 Setting the problem -- 4.2 Describing quantum many-body dynamics -- 4.3 Dynamics by full diagonalization -- 4.4 A reminder of linear algebra -- 4.5 Handling large sparse matrices -- 4.6 Large sparse eigensystem solvers -- 4.7 Large sparse equation solvers -- 4.8 Exact time evolutions and spectral functions -- 4.9 Quantum simulatability and matrix product states -- 4.10 Entanglement and MPS representability -- 4.11 Matrix product states (MPS). , 4.12 Matrix product operators (MPO) -- 4.13 Ground-state calculations with MPS -- 4.14 Time evolutions (real and imaginary) with MPS -- 4.15 Linear response in the MPS formalism -- References -- Part II Short lectures -- 5 Quench dynamics in integrable systems -- Natan Andrei, Deepak Iyer, and Huijie Guan -- Preface -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Time evolution on the infinite line -- 5.3 Conclusions and the dynamic renormalization group hypothesis -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 6 Nonequilibrium density matrix for thermal transport in quantum field theory -- Benjamin Doyon -- Preface -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Basic notions -- 6.3 Energy-flow steady states in massive (1+1)-dimensional quantum field theory -- 6.4 Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 7 Nonthermal fixed points: universality, topology, and turbulence in Bose gases -- Boris Nowak, Sebastian Erne, Markus Karl, Jan Schole, Dénes Sexty, and Thomas Gasenzer -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Strong wave turbulence and vortical flow -- 7.3 Nonthermal fixed point of a vortex gas -- 7.4 Other systems -- 7.5 Outlook -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 8 Ferroic domain walls as model disordered elastic systems -- Patrycja Paruch -- Preface -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Pinned elastic interfaces -- 8.3 Ferroic domain walls -- 8.4 Experimental methods -- 8.5 Ferroic domain walls as pinned elastic interfaces -- 8.6 Open questions and ongoing research -- 8.7 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 9 Real-time monitoring of a fluctuating condensate in high-temperature superconductors -- Luca Perfetti, B. Sciolla, G. Biroli, and T. Kampfrath -- Preface -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Methods -- 9.3 Equilibrium -- 9.4 Transient conductivity and scaling law -- 9.5 Theoretical modeling -- 9.6 Odd behavior of underdoped cuprates -- 9.7 Dynamics below the critical temperature -- 9.8 Conclusions. , References -- 10 Exact field-theoretic methods in out-of-equilibrium quantum impurity problems -- Hubert Saleur -- Preface -- 10.1 The low-energy field-theoretic limit -- 10.2 Perturbation near the IR fixed point -- 10.3 Our goal: transport -- 10.4 Integrability: general idea and classical limit -- 10.5 Integrability in perturbed conformal field theory -- 10.6 What integrability is good for -- 10.7 The DC current -- 10.8 A word on Keldysh -- 10.9 The full counting statistics -- 10.10 A conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Additional basic references.