Strongly correlated materials: dynamics and quantitative predictions

Abstract: Quantitatively predicting properties of strongly correlated materials and experimentally detecting novel phases are two central challenges in condensed matter physics. In the first part of the talk, I will discuss how pump-probe experiments help detect strongly correlated materials and potentially create new phases of matter. In the second part of the talk, I will discuss new developments in two-dimensional isometric tensor network methods. I will show how this method helps simulate ground states and low-energy dynamics of two-dimensional systems despite the exponential growth of the many-body Hilbert space.