GENERAL INFORMATION
The workshop takes place from 17 to 21 August 2026 at the Institute for Theoretical Physics (THP) in Cologne and is organized by Jonas Haferkamp (Saarland University), Markus Heinrich (U Cologne), Jonas Helsen (QuSoft/CWI), and Xhek Turkeshi (U Cologne).
Registration will open in spring 2026 and we will provide more details on the programme, such as a list of confirmed speakers, by then. For an impression, you may have a look at the participants and programme of the 2024 workshop in Amsterdam.
SCOPE
This workshop aims at bringing together a small group of people with different backgrounds and a common interest in random circuits. The workshop will feature a small number of talks and a poster session, but will otherwise leave plenty of time for discussions and spontaneous sessions. We want to create a vivid atmosphere which will ideally spark many new ideas and collaborations. The main topics are:
- approximate unitary designs, pseudo-randomness, and other properties of random quantum circuits
- connections to many-body physics
- noise in random circuits
- applications: random circuit sampling, algorithms, quantum characterization and learning, classical simulation
We acknowledge funding and general support by:
