Marie Skłodowska Curie Action "QMBDyn"

The Marie Skłodowska Curie Action “QMBDyn: Dynamical Phenomena in Quantum Many-Body Systems” is funded by the European Commission for two years and started in April 2017 at the Technical University of Munich. It is part of the European Research Council’s Horizon 2020 program under the call H2020-MSCA-IF-2016.

The project is focussed on dynamical phenomena in strongly interacting quantum systems, which currently receive increased attention due to recent experimental, numerical and theoretical breakthroughs. In our research we carry out state of the art numerical simulations of strongly interacting quantum matter out of equilibrium. We address the important question of the mechanism of thermalization (and its absence) in isolated quantum systems and focus in particular on the slow thermalization process in disordered quantum systems dubbed “anomalous thermalization”.

Project publications

• D. J. Luitz and Y. Bar Lev
  “Emergent locality in systems with power-law interactions”
  arXiv:1805.06895

• F. Pietracaprina, N. Macé, D. J. Luitz and F. Alet
  “Shift-invert diagonalization of large many-body localizing spin chains”
  arXiv:1803.05395
  [Open source code for the random XXZ chain at https://bitbucket.org/dluitz/sinvert_mbl/]

• B. Villalonga, X. Yu, D. J. Luitz and B. K. Clark
  “Exploring one-particle orbitals in large many-body Localized systems”
  Phys. Rev. B 97, 104406 (2018), arXiv:1710.05036
  [Editor’s Suggestion]

• S. Roy, Y. Bar Lev and D. J. Luitz
  “Anomalous thermalization and transport in disordered interacting Floquet systems”
  arXiv:1802.03401

• D. J. Luitz, A. Lazarides and Y. Bar Lev
  “Periodic and quasiperiodic revivals in periodically driven interacting quantum systems”
  Phys. Rev. B 97, 020303(R) (2018), arXiv:1710.11132
  [Rapid Communication]

• D. J. Luitz, Y. Bar Lev and A. Lazarides
  “Absence of dynamical localization in interacting driven systems”
  SciPost Phys. 3, 029 (2017), arXiv:1706.09429

• D. J. Luitz, F. Huveneers and W. de Roeck
  “How a small quantum bath can thermalize long localized chains”
  Phys. Rev. Lett 119, 150602 (2017), arXiv:1705.10807
  [Editors’ Suggestion]