R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminars |
Events During the Week of September 8th through September 15th, 2024
Monday, September 9th, 2024
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Tuesday, September 10th, 2024
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Wednesday, September 11th, 2024
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Thursday, September 12th, 2024
- Measurement-induced criticality
- Time: 10:00 am
- Place: 5310 Chamberlin
- Speaker: Romain Vasseur, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Abstract: While many-body quantum physics has traditionally focused on the properties of cold matter in thermal equilibrium, emerging noisy intermediate scale quantum (NISQ) platforms allow access to far-from-equilibrium dynamics with local space and time control over interactions. In this new era of “interactive quantum dynamics”, a key challenge is to identify universal features of non-equilibrium quantum dynamics, transport and many-body entanglement. In this talk, I will discuss new types of non-equilibrium quantum phases of matter and phase transitions, with an emphasis on emergent classical statistical mechanics descriptions of quantum entanglement dynamics. In particular, I will focus on the recently discovered “entanglement phase transitions” that occur in monitored quantum systems, and separate phases characterized by the amount of quantum information that can be extracted from measurements. I will also highlight emerging connections between quantum entanglement, quantum communication theory and classical statistical physics.
- Host: Alex Levchenko
Friday, September 13th, 2024
- No events scheduled