Internship and thesis proposals
Monitored Quantum Many-Body Systems
Master 2 ICFP
Physique de la matière condensée
Physique quantique
Physique théorique

Domaines
Condensed matter
Statistical physics
Nonequilibrium statistical physics
Quantum information theory and quantum technologies
Quantum optics

Type of internship
Théorique, numérique
Description
Unitarity is a fundamental property of quantum mechanics which underlies the dynamics of closed quantum many-body systems, the concept of thermalisation and the emergence of statistical mechanics. A different paradigm for quantum dynamics arises in presence of an external monitoring apparatus which locally measures a system observable. The resulting dynamics, conditioned to the a set of measurement outcomes describe a stochastic quantum trajectory[1]. The goal of this project is to explore the dynamics of monitored quantum many-body systems and the statistical properties of the resulting quantum trajectories, their entanglement properties and phase transitions. Examples include study the monitored dynamics in gaussian monitored systems[2,3], fully connected models[4,5] or or explore the connections with classical models for stochastic resetting[6,7]. During this theoretical internship, the Master's student will acquire, develop, and apply state- of-the-art techniques for open quantum many-body physics to solve paradigmatic models for non-unitary quantum systems. This internship can naturally evolve into a PhD Thesis at the interface between nonequilibrium quantum dynamics, open quantum systems, statistical physics and quantum information.

Contact
Marco Schiro
Laboratory : JEIP -
Team : JEIP - Quantum Matter Out of Equilibrium
Team Website
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