Quantum Many Body Systems and Control

The study of entanglement in many-body systems has led to a deeper understanding of quantum phase transitions and the performance of numerical algorithms such as the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG). Understanding the structure of state space and particular states such as ground and thermal states is one of the major topics in the quantum information theoretical assessment of many-body systems. As their complexity scales exponentially in the number of particles, it is important to identify subsets in state space that are well suited to describe a certain system and allow for an efficient description. One branch within this line of research is concerned with so called entanglement area laws, which has shown that the entanglement content of typical states occurring in nature is much lower than generic states. A review may be found here:

We also work on the development and implementation of DMRG–and its time-dependent version tDMRG–methods, and use them to address problems drawn from an extremely broad range of topics in physics, biology and chemistry. The breadth of our DMRG and t-DMRG work is strongly driven by our recent development of a DMRG/tDMRG method which accurately simulates the dynamics and ground states of a huge class of open quantum systems. With this tool we are currently investigating dissipation, decoherence and irreversibility in many-body systems and important theoretical models such as the spin-boson model.

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Ulm University
Institute of Theoretical Physics
Albert-Einstein-Allee 11
D - 89081 Ulm
Germany

Tel: +49 731 50 22911
Fax: +49 731 50 22924

Office: Building M26, room 4117

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Most Recent Papers

Efficient Information Retrieval for Sensing via Continuous Measurement, Phys. Rev. X 13, 031012arXiv:2209.08777

Active hyperpolarization of the nuclear spin lattice: Application to hexagonal boron nitride color centers, Phys. Rev. B 107, 214307, arXiv:2010.03334

Driving force and nonequilibrium vibronic dynamics in charge separation of strongly bound electron–hole pairs, Commun Phys 6, 65 (2023)arXiv:2205.06623

Asymptotic State Transformations of Continuous Variable Resources, Commun. Math. Phys. 398, 291–351 (2023)arXiv:2010.00044

Spin-Dependent Momentum Conservation of Electron-Phonon Scattering in Chirality-Induced Spin Selectivity, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2023, 14, XXX, 340–346arXiv:2209.05323