This book presents new experimental tools and theoretical concepts of collective nonequilibrium behavior of quantum systems. The book is based on the Les Houches Summer School of August 2012, "Strongly interacting quantum systems out of equilibrium".

• Part I: Lectures


• 1: Ehud Altman: Non Equilibrium Quatum Dynamics in Ultra-Cold Quantum Gases


• 2: Jürgen Berges: Nonequilibrium Quantum Fields: From Cold Atoms to Cosmology


• 3: Giulio Biroli: Slow Relaxations and Non-Equilibrium Dynamics in Classical and Quantum Systems


• 4: Ulrich Schollwöck: Numerical Methods in the Study of Non-Equilibrium Strongly Interacting Quantum Many-Body Physics


• Part II: Short Lectures


• 5: Nathan Andrei: An Exact Formalism for Quench Dynamics


• 6: Benjamin Doyon: Nonequilibrium Density Matrix for Thermal Transport in Quantum Field Theory


• 7: Thomas Gasenzer: Non-Thermal Fixed Points: Universality, Topology, and Turbulence in Bose gases


• 8: Patrycja Paruch: Ferroic Domain Walls as Model Disordered Elastic Systems


• 9: Luca Perfetti: Real Time Monitoring of a Fluctuating Condensate in High Temperature Superconductors


• 10: Hubert Saleur: Exact Field Theoretic Methods in out of Equilibrium Quantum Ipurity Problems

Thierry Giamarchi was a student at Ecole Normale Superieure. He undertook thesis under the advise of Heinz Schultz. He was a researcher at CNRS working at Universite Paris-Sud, next professor at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and has been member of the French Academy of Sciences since 2013. He is head of the condensed matter division at University of Geneva.
Andrew J. Millis studied at Harvard University, USA, and received his PhD from MIT, USA (1986). He is Professor of Physics at Columbia University, USA. He has previously held positions as Professor of Physics, Rutgers University, USA (1999-2001); and Professor of Physics, The John Hopkins University, USA (1996-1997).
Olivier Parcollet was a student at Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS), PhD at ENS under the advise of Antoine Georges, post-doc at Rutgers in the group of Gabriel Kotliar, and curerntly has a research position at CEA Saclay.
Hubert Saleur was a student at Ecole Normale Superiere de Paris (1981-1985). He previously held a CNRS research position at SPhT Saclay (1986-1990), and after that was a professor at Yale University, USA (1991-1992), and a professor at the University of South California, USA (1993-2004). He currently holds a CEA position at IPhT Saclay (2004-present).
Leticia F. Cugliandolo received her Masters and PhD from the National University of Mar del Plata, Argentina. She has a post-doc degree from Univ. di Roma I, Saclay and ENS Paris. She was an associate professor at ENS from 1997 to 2003 and has been a full professor at Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris since 2003.