Theory Seminar: Quantum Glasses: a biased overview (with some results)

 

Nicola Pancotti (MPQ Theory Department)
I will give a general biased perspective of spin glasses.

Nicola Pancotti (MPQ)
Herbert-Walther Lecture Hall G0.25
Wed 06. February 2019, 11:30 am (MEZ)

Abstract:

I will give a general biased perspective of spin glasses. After introducing classical constrained models, I will try to convince you that we can use them to model glassy behavior and, in particular, slow relaxation to equilibrium. I will then generalize this framework to quantum systems where slow dynamics has been elusive for many years. Finally I will show how numerical techniques ranging from tensor networks to exact diagonalization may be employed in order to understand dynamical properties of such systems.