Status | Confirmed |
Seminar Series | IPHT-STA |
Subjects | cond-mat |
Date | Monday 9 April 2018 |
Time | 14:00 |
Institute | IPHT |
Seminar Room | Salle Claude Itzykson, Bât. 774 |
Speaker's Last Name | Juan P. Garrahan |
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Speaker's Institution | University of Nottingham |
Title | Soft matter ideas in quantum slow dynamics and non-ergodicity |
Abstract | I will discuss the applicability of concepts from classical soft matter physics to the problem of slow relaxation and non-ergodicity in quantum many-body systems. Soft materials which display slow cooperative dynamics such as glasses often do so as a consequence, not of quenched disorder, but of effective dynamical constraints. These give rise to metastability, spatially fluctuating relaxation and eventual arrest. I will consider how analogous concepts may be useful when thinking about slow dynamics, metastability and non-equilibrium in quantum systems, connecting to the question of many-body localisation in the absence of disorder and to the fate of MBL in the presence of dissipation. |
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