SP Seminar Tuesday 23 May at 11:00 at SISSA Via Bonomea: Masud Haque

[Condensed Matter Section]

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar

Tuesday, 23 May at 11:00 a.m.

SISSA, Via Bonomea, room 138
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Speaker: Masud Haque (Maynooth University)

Title: Non-equilibrium dynamics in isolated quantum systems --- the 
many-body spectrum

Abstract: Quantum many-body physics has traditionally focused on 
equilibrium properties
and low-energy excitations. However, in recent years, motivated by novel 
experimental
possibilities, the study of quantum matter far from equilibrium is 
emerging as an active and
exciting field of research. In the absence of external mechanisms for 
reaching equilibrium,
the behavior of an isolated quantum system poses many new challenges to 
our understanding
of quantum matter. I will motivate the study of quantum dynamics in 
isolated systems, contrast
with equilibrium physics and dissipative dynamics, and present a few 
examples of such
dynamical phenomena. In particular, I will highlight the role and some 
properties of the
many-body eigenspectrum.

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