CMSP Seminar Series @ICTP Leonardo building Tuesday 9 May 11 am - C. HOOLEY

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Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Seminar Series

Tuesday 9 May at 11:00 a.m.
Luigi Stasi Seminar Room, first floor, ICTP Leonardo building

Christopher Andrew HOOLEY
University of St. Andrews, U.K.

'Stark Many-body Localisation'

Abstract:
Commonly used diagnostics of many-body localisation include Poissonian
statistics of the many-body eigenenergies and logarithmic-in-time growth
of the entanglement entropy after a quantum quench.  In this talk, I shall
show that these features are present in a model with no quenched disorder
at all – interacting spinless fermions on a 1D lattice in a strong electric
field – and discuss how to interpret this fact.