ERC Starting Grant · 2018
Local Control of Macroscopic Properties in Isolated Many-body Quantum Systems
Studies of many-body quantum systems in the last century have been mainly focussed on equilibrium properties; the systems of interest were typically coupled to an environment, which brings about relaxation after short times. The situation changed with the advent of experiments on clouds of ultra-cold, trapped atoms. These are by design almost isolated, and allow for investigations into nonequilibrium dynamics before the onset of dissipative processes. The characterization of such dynamics is now a main frontier of theoretical physics. One of the most exciting phenomena observed was the emergence of a new kind of relaxation, not caused by dissipation. The system acts as its own bath and at…
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