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Seminar Series SEM-INFOR
Subjects cond-mat.stat-mech
Date Thursday 28 September 2017
Time 11:00
Institute LPTHE
Seminar Room Bibliothèque
Speaker's Last Name Aron
Speaker's First Name Camille
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Speaker's Institution LPTENS
Title (Non) equilibrium dynamics: a (broken) symmetry
Abstract It is fascinating that most many-body systems, if unperturbed, tend to relax towards thermal equilibrium. I will discuss a recent result showing that quantum equilibrium dynamics can be elevated to the rank of a universal (model-independent) symmetry of Keldysh field theories. This fundamental symmetry imposes strong constraints on the equilibrium correlation functions. But more importantly, this allows to study non-equilibrium dynamics as symmetry-breaking processes, providing important clues on the so-far poorly understood production of entropy in quantum mechanical systems.
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