Complex many-body systems driven out of equilibrium pose many intriguing and long standing questions
Complex many-body systems driven out of equilibrium pose many intriguing and long standing questions
Quantum many-body systems out of equilibrium
ICFO in Nature Physics Insight
February 05, 2015
Our understanding of non-equilibrium many-body physics has advanced enormously over the last few years and many promising research directions are only just opening up.
This development is driven by the coalescence of three key factors: impressive experimental advances; novel information theory inspired insight from theoretical physics; and new numerical techniques in combination with rising computational power.
ICFO Postdoctoral Researcher, Christian Gogolin (MPQ-ICFO Fellow) along with collaborators Jens Eisert and Mathis Friesdorf from Freie Universität Berlin present a short review which is part of a special Nature Physics Insight issue on non-equilibrium physics, in which they provide an overview of this progress, specifically in studies probing dynamical equilibration and thermalization of systems driven out of equilibrium by quenches, ramps and periodic driving, and address a wide range of topics such as the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis, typicality, transport, many-body localization, and universality near phase transitions. They give key references and prospect for promising future developments in the field.
This development is driven by the coalescence of three key factors: impressive experimental advances; novel information theory inspired insight from theoretical physics; and new numerical techniques in combination with rising computational power.
ICFO Postdoctoral Researcher, Christian Gogolin (MPQ-ICFO Fellow) along with collaborators Jens Eisert and Mathis Friesdorf from Freie Universität Berlin present a short review which is part of a special Nature Physics Insight issue on non-equilibrium physics, in which they provide an overview of this progress, specifically in studies probing dynamical equilibration and thermalization of systems driven out of equilibrium by quenches, ramps and periodic driving, and address a wide range of topics such as the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis, typicality, transport, many-body localization, and universality near phase transitions. They give key references and prospect for promising future developments in the field.