Chair of Quantum Mathematical Physics

About

Welcome to the Chair of Quantum Mathematical Physics. We conduct research on mathematical aspects of various branches of contemporary theoretical physics. Of our particular interest are formal features and exact results in quantum field theory – and among others in its incarnations, such as conformal, integrable, and topological quantum field theories – which arise in condensed matter, quantum information, high energy physics, quantum gravity, string theory and M-theory. We analyze quantum integrability and strongly correlated quantum systems, entanglement measures and computational complexity, and try to understand how gravity geometry emerges from quantum information. Of our interest are matrix models and topological recursion, as well as links between physics, knot theory, and low-dimensional topology, and relations of all these systems to topological string theory.

News

Februay 27, 2025: Prof. Tomasz Tylor obtained Maestro grant from the National Science Centre for realization of the project “Elementary particles in curved spacetime”. Congratulations!
You can apply now for The Ulam NAWA programme – a postdoctoral grant for scientists from abroad who wish to conduct research in Poland. Deadline: May 12, 2025.
You can apply now for an (assistant) professor position at the Institute of Theoretical Physics. Deadline: September 30, 2024.
September 2-6, 2024: Our Advanced School on Quantum Spacetime has been successfully completed – in the website you can now find some notes from the lectures.
March 1 – June 30: Our Simons semester on knots, homologies and physics has been successfully completed – in the website you can find various materials and the link to recordings of the lectures.
November 27, 2023: You can apply now (and visit us!) for Short Term Scientific Missions within the COST Action “Fundamental challenges in theoretical physics”. Deadline: December 12, 2023.
November 27, 2023: Miłosz Panfil and Piotr Sułkowski awarded with prizes of the Rector of the University of Warsaw for their activities in the past year. Congratulations!
November 23, 2023: Paweł Caputa has just obtained an ERC Consolidator Grant for realization of the project “Quantum Complexity from Quantum Field Theories to Quantum Gravity”. Congratulations!!!
October 10, 2023: The COST Action “Fundamental challenges in theoretical physics” that we participate in has officially started. Piotr Sułkowski has become a vice-chair of the Action.

Contact and address

Head of the Chair: prof. dr hab. Piotr Sułkowski

Chair of Quantum Mathematical Physics
Institute of Theoretical Physics
Faculty of Physics
University of Warsaw
ul. Pasteura 5, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland

tel. +48 22 55 32814, +48 22 55 32949
e-mail: psulkows [at] fuw.edu.pl

People

[Members of our Chair (with a guest), November 2022 – click the photo to enlarge]

Our contact details can be found here.

Faculty members

dr hab. Miłosz Panfil
prof. dr hab. Jacek Pawełczyk
prof. dr hab. Piotr Sułkowski – Head of the Chair
prof. Tomasz Taylor
dr hab. Paweł Caputa – affiliated professor

Postdocs

dr Arindam Bhattacharjee
dr Daniel Bryan
dr Luigi Guerrini
dr Saikat Santra

PhD students

Pedram Karimi
Jacek Kenig
Maciej Łebek
Dimitrios Patramanis
Souradeep Purkayastha
Abhigyan Saha
Jędrzej Wardyn

MSc students

Stanisław Kalinowski
Antoni Lis
Dawid Maskalaniec
Herbert Potrykus
Artur Strąg

Former members (affiliated after January 1, 2022)

dr Bowen Chen (postdoc, 2023-2024)
Sinong Liu (postdoc, 2021-2024)
Jan Boruch (PhD student, 2020-2024)
dr hab. Nikolai Iorgov (senior researcher, 2023)
Yurii Zhuravlov (PhD student, 2023)
dr Adam Bzowski (postdoc, 2021-2023 – project website)
dr Oleksandr Gamayun (postdoc, 2021-2023)
dr Dongsheng Ge (postdoc, 2021-2023)
Helder Larraguivel (PhD student, 2016-2023)
dr Aditya Bawane (postdoc, 2020-2023)
dr Kento Osuga (postdoc, 2021-2022)
Michał Bączyk (PhD student, 2021-2022)
dr Felipe Taha Sant’ana (postdoc, 2020-2022)
Shi Cheng (PhD student, 2019-2022)
Dmitry Noshchenko (PhD student, 2017-2022)

Research groups

Quantum Information in Quantum Gravity

Principal Investigator: dr hab. Paweł Caputa
Website
Our main goal is to explore quantum gravity using quantum information. Our current focus is on developing quantum information tools such as entanglement measures and computational complexity in quantum field theories and using them to understand how gravity geometry emerges from quantum information.

Strongly Correlated Systems and Quantum Integrability

Principal Investigator: dr hab. Miłosz Panfil
Website
Our primary interest is in the field of strongly correlated quantum systems and quantum integrability. We are also interested in mathematics and physics at the intersection of quantum groups, knots theory and topological string theory.

Quantum Fields and Strings

Principal Investigator: prof. Piotr Sułkowski
Website
We conduct research in formal aspects of quantum field theory, topological string theory, matrix models and topological recursion, knot theory and knots-quivers correspondence. We are interested in interrelations between these topics and still some other related problems.

Celestial Holography

Principal Investigator: prof. Tomasz Taylor
Research group on celestial holography under NAWA Professorship grant for prof. Tomasz Taylor (2023-2026).

Grants

ERC Consolidator Grant
“Quantum Complexity from Quantum Field Theories to Quantum Gravity”
2024-2029
Principal Investigator: dr hab. Paweł Caputa

COST (European Cooperation in Science & Technology)
COST Action 22113, “Fundamental challenges in theoretical physics”
2023-2027
Vice-chair of the Action and country representative for Poland: Prof. Piotr Sułkowski

NCN – OPUS
“Quantum geometry and BPS states”
2023-2027
Principal Investigator: Prof. Piotr Sułkowski

NCN – OPUS
“From a broken integrability to thermalization in quantum many-body systems”
2023-2027
Principal Investigator: dr hab. Miłosz Panfil

NAWA Professorship
“Holographic description of fundamental interactions”
2023-2026
Principal Investigator: Prof. Tomasz Taylor

NCN – Sonata Bis
“Quantum information in quantum field theories and holography: dynamics and complexity”
2020-2025
Principal Investigator: dr Paweł Caputa

NAWA – Polskie Powroty
“Holographic geometry and quantum information”
2020-2024
Principal Investigator: dr Paweł Caputa

University of Warsaw – Mobility grant for PhD students, ZIP
For research visit at Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and collaboration with Prof. Sergei Gukov
Spring 2023
Grantee: Pedram Karimi

University of Warsaw – Student mobility grant, IDUB
For research visit at Kyoto University and collaboration with Prof. Mayuko Yamashita
Spring 2023
Grantee: Jacek Kenig

Simons Collaboration
“It from Qubit”
2017-2023
Alumnus Investigator: dr Paweł Caputa

NCN – Sonata
“Dynamic correlation functions of integrable models in and out of the equilibrium”
2019-2023
Principal Investigator: dr Miłosz Panfil

Foundation for Polish Science – Team
“Random matrix models: from biomolecules to topological recursions”
2019-2023
Principal Investigator: Prof. Piotr Sułkowski

NCN – POLS
“Quantum singularities in holographic models”
2021-2023
Principal Investigator: dr Adam Bzowski

NAWA – Ulam programme
“Non-equilibrium dynamics in quantum and classical one dimensional system”
2020-2022
Principal Investigator: dr Oleksandr Gamayun

Fulbright – STEM grant
“Unifying quivers and BPS states”
2022
Principal Investigator: Prof. Piotr Sułkowski

Seminars

String Theory Journal Club
A regular seminar of our chair
Tuesday, 12:15, 5.42 lecture room
Website

Exact Results in Quantum Theory & Gravity
A regular seminar at the Faculty of Physics
Friday, 14:15, 1.40 lecture room
Website

Theory of Duality (Teoria Dwoistości)
A regular seminar of KMMF
Thursday, 10:15, 2.23 lecture room
Website

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
A regular seminar at the Faculty of Physics
Friday, 12:15, 1.02 lecture room
Website

Gravity, Quantum Fields and Information
Joint online international seminar
Tuesday, 15:00, online
Website

Topological Recursion and Integrability Seminar
Online international seminar on topological recursion and integrability
Thursday, 15:00, online
Website

Western Hemisphere Colloquium on Geometry and Physics
Online colloquium on geometry and physics aimed at a broad audience
Monday (biweekly), 21:00, online
Website

Conferences

Advanced school on complexity, integrability and quantum chaos
September 1-5, 2025
University of Warsaw,
Website

Eurostrings 2025
August 25-28, 2025
Nordita, Stockholm
Website

8th Warsaw School of Statistical Physics
June 29 – July 5, 2025
Chęciny, Poland
Website

String Math 2025
June 23-28, 2025
BIMSA, Beijing (China)
Website

stringtheory.pl/2025
May 23-24, 2025
University of Wrocław
Website

Advanced school on quantum spacetime
September 2-6, 2024
University of Warsaw
Website

Quantum information, quantum field theory and gravity
August 12 – September 6, 2024
ICTS, Bangalore
Website

stringtheory.pl/2024
June 7-8, 2024
Jagiellonian University, Kraków
Website

COST Action 22113 – kick-off meeting
May 13-15, 2024
University of Padova
Website

Simons semester on knots, homologies and physics
March 1 – June 30, 2024
Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences
This semester program includes two workshops (March 18-22 and May 6-10) and an advanced school (May 13-17), which can be attended independently of the rest of the program.
Website

Advanced school on asymptotically flat spacetime and celestial holography
August 28 – September 1, 2023
Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw
Website

stringtheory.pl/2023
May 19-20, 2023
Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw
Website

String Math 2022
July 11-15, 2022
Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw
Website

7th Warsaw School on Statistical Physics
June 26 – July 2, 2022
Sandomierz, Poland
Website

Links

Fundamental challenges in theoretical physics
COST Action 22113 – international network in theoretical physics
Website

stringtheory.pl
String theory community in Poland
Website

It from Qubit
Simons Collaboration on Quantum Fields, Gravity and Information
Website

Zapytaj fizyka
A science outreach initiative at the Faculty of Physics
Website

Jobs and positions

The Ulam NAWA programme – postdoctoral grant for scientists from abroad who wish to conduct research in Poland for a period of up to two years. Deadline for applications: May 12, 2025. Contact us if you are interested in applying!