Condensed Matter & Statistical Physics Seminar

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Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Section
Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar


Date:	Tuesday, 11 June 2013  at 11.30 a.m.

Venue:  Giambiagi Lecture Hall
	Adriatico Guest House, lower level 1


Speaker:
ANTONELLO SCARDICCHIO
ICTP, Condensed Matter & Statistical Physics Section


Title:
MANY-BODY LOCALIZATION. BUILDING A THEORY OF A QUANTUM GLASS


Abstract:
I will give a review of the recent works on many-body localisation. This 
topic, which was born as an answer to the question of whether Anderson 
localisation can survive a not too large amount of interaction between 
the electrons, has now presented deep implications for several, 
apparently distant topics of theoretical Physics (from the fundaments of 
statistical mechanics and ergodicity to the performance of quantum 
computers). The talk is supposed to be pedagogical: I will present some 
concrete examples and expose what is known today and what are the 
conjectures and open questions.