Joint ICTP/SISSA SP Seminar @ICTP Stasi Room: P.BORDIA Tuesday 6 June at 11:00

[Condensed Matter Section]

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar

Tuesday, 6 June at 11:00 a.m.
Luigi Stasi Seminar Room, first floor, ICTP Leonardo building

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Speaker: Pranjal BORDIA (LMU Munich, Germany)

Title:
Many-Body Localization Through the Lens of Ultracold Quantum Gases

Abstract:
A fundamental assumption of quantum statistical mechanics is that closed
isolated systems always thermalize under their own dynamics. Progress on
the topic of many-body localization (MBL) has challenged this vital 
assumption,
describing a phase where thermalization, and with it, equilibrium 
thermodynamics,
breaks down.

In this talk, I will describe how we can realize such a phase of matter 
with
ultracold fermions in both driven and undriven optical lattices, with a 
focus on
the relevance of realistic experimental platforms. Furthermore, I will 
describe
new results on the observation of a regime exhibiting extremely slow 
scrambling,
even for "infinite-temperature states" in one and two dimensions. Our 
results
demonstrate how controlled quantum simulators can explore fundamental 
questions
about quantum statistical mechanics in genuinely novel regimes, often not
accessible to state-of-the-art classical computations.