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SUMMARY:Shaking up statistical physics in interacting quantum systems
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Anushya Chandran\, Perimeter Institute\n\nPart of the
	 Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Series.\n\nAbstract:\nStatistical mechanic
	s is a central pillar of modern science with applications ranging from soci
	ology to economics. At its core is the idea of thermal equilibrium\, which 
	allows for a simple description of an interacting quantum system in terms o
	f a few properties like temperature\, without keeping track of the entire w
	avefunction. But what if a quantum system fails to equilibrate? \n\nIn this
	 talk\, I will discuss how we are discovering the answer to this question t
	heoretically and experimentally. I’ll focus on two settings: disordered s
	ystems and periodically driven systems. In the former\, many-body localizat
	ion can prevent thermalization even at very high energy densities. The tran
	sition between the localized and the thermal phase is a fascinating dynamic
	al quantum transition about which little is known. I will derive a rigorous
	 constraint on this transition and apply it to current numerical studies an
	d cold atomic experiments. Clean periodically driven systems\, on the other
	 hand\, generically heat indefinitely. I will present one physical setting 
	of interacting bosons in which this expectation fails.
LOCATION:SCI 352\, 590 Commonwealth Avenue\, 02215
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