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Disorder enhanced quantum many-body scars in Hilbert hypercubes (2021)
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We consider a model arising in facilitated Rydberg chains with positional disorder which features a Hilbert space with the topology of a d-dimensional hypercube. This allows for a straightforward interpretation of the many-body dynamics in terms of a... Read More about Disorder enhanced quantum many-body scars in Hilbert hypercubes.

Signatures of Associative Memory Behavior in a Multimode Dicke Model (2020)
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© 2020 American Physical Society. Dicke-like models can describe a variety of physical systems, such as atoms in a cavity or vibrating ion chains. In equilibrium these systems often feature a radical change in their behavior when switching from weak... Read More about Signatures of Associative Memory Behavior in a Multimode Dicke Model.

Dynamics of strongly coupled disordered dissipative spin-boson systems (2020)
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Spin-boson Hamiltonians are an effective description for numerous quantum few-and many-body systems such as atoms coupled to cavity modes, quantum electrodynamics in circuits and trapped ion systems. While reaching the limit of strong coupling is pos... Read More about Dynamics of strongly coupled disordered dissipative spin-boson systems.

Strong zero modes in a class of generalized Ising spin ladders with plaquette interactions (2019)
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© 2019 American Physical Society. We study a class of spin-1/2 quantum ladder models with generalized plaquette interactions in the presence of a transverse field. We show that in certain parameter regimes, these models have strong zero modes respons... Read More about Strong zero modes in a class of generalized Ising spin ladders with plaquette interactions.

Localization in spin chains with facilitation constraints and disordered interactions (2019)
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Quantum many-body systems with kinetic constraints exhibit intriguing relaxation dynamics. Recent experimental progress in the field of cold atomic gases offers a handle for probing collective behavior of such systems, in particular for understanding... Read More about Localization in spin chains with facilitation constraints and disordered interactions.

Quantum accelerated approach to the thermal state of classical all-to-all connected spin systems with applications to pattern retrieval in the Hopfield neural network (2019)
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We explore the question as to whether quantum effects can yield a speedup of the nonequilibrium evolution of fully connected quadratic spin models towards a classical thermal state. In our approach we exploit the fact that the thermal state of a spin... Read More about Quantum accelerated approach to the thermal state of classical all-to-all connected spin systems with applications to pattern retrieval in the Hopfield neural network.

Synthetic lattices, flat bands and localization in Rydberg quantum simulators (2019)
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© 2019 IOP Publishing Ltd. The most recent manifestation of cold Rydberg atom quantum simulators that employs tailored optical tweezer arrays enables the study of many-body dynamics under so-called facilitation conditions. We show how the facilitatio... Read More about Synthetic lattices, flat bands and localization in Rydberg quantum simulators.

Discrete time crystals in the absence of manifest symmetries or disorder in open quantum systems (2019)
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We establish a link between metastability and a discrete time-crystalline phase in a periodically driven open quantum system. The mechanism we highlight requires neither the system to display any microscopic symmetry nor the presence of disorder, but... Read More about Discrete time crystals in the absence of manifest symmetries or disorder in open quantum systems.

Singularities in large deviations of work in quantum quenches (2018)
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We investigate large deviations of the work performed in a quantum quench across two different phases separated by a quantum critical point, using as an example the Dicke model quenched from its superradiant to its normal phase. We extract the distri... Read More about Singularities in large deviations of work in quantum quenches.

A terahertz-driven non-equilibrium phase transition in a room temperature atomic vapour (2018)
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There are few demonstrated examples of phase transitions that may be driven directly by terahertz frequency electric fields, and those that are known require field strengths exceeding 1 MV cm?1. Here we report a non-equilibrium phase transition drive... Read More about A terahertz-driven non-equilibrium phase transition in a room temperature atomic vapour.

Open quantum generalisation of Hopfield neural networks (2018)
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We propose a new framework to understand how quantum effects may impact on the dynamics of neural networks. We implement the dynamics of neural networks in terms of Markovian open quantum systems, which allows us to treat thermal and quantum coherent... Read More about Open quantum generalisation of Hopfield neural networks.

Non-adiabatic quantum state preparation and quantum state transport in chains of Rydberg atoms (2017)
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Motivated by recent progress in the experimental manipulation of cold atoms in optical lattices, we study three different protocols for non-adiabatic quantum state preparation and state transport in chains of Rydberg atoms. The protocols we discuss a... Read More about Non-adiabatic quantum state preparation and quantum state transport in chains of Rydberg atoms.

Experimental signatures of an absorbing-state phase transition in an open driven many-body quantum system (2017)
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Understanding and probing phase transitions in non-equilibrium systems is an ongoing challenge in physics. A particular instance are phase transitions that occur between a non-fluctuating absorbing phase, e.g., an extinct population, and one in which... Read More about Experimental signatures of an absorbing-state phase transition in an open driven many-body quantum system.

Epidemic dynamics in open quantum spin systems (2017)
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We explore the non-equilibrium evolution and stationary states of an open many-body system which displays epidemic spreading dynamics in a classical and a quantum regime. Our study is motivated by recent experiments conducted in strongly interacting... Read More about Epidemic dynamics in open quantum spin systems.

Facilitation dynamics and localization phenomena in Rydberg lattice gases with position disorder (2017)
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We explore the dynamics of Rydberg excitations in an optical tweezer array under anti-blockade (or facilitation) conditions. Due to the finite temperature the atomic positions are randomly spread, an effect that leads to quenched correlated disorder... Read More about Facilitation dynamics and localization phenomena in Rydberg lattice gases with position disorder.

Nonequilibrium effective field theory for absorbing state phase transitions in driven open quantum spin systems (2017)
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Phase transitions to absorbing states are among the simplest examples of critical phenomena out of equilibrium. The characteristic feature of these models is the presence of a fluctuationless configuration which the dynamics cannot leave, which has p... Read More about Nonequilibrium effective field theory for absorbing state phase transitions in driven open quantum spin systems.

Prethermalization from a low-density Holstein-Primakoff expansion (2016)
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We consider the non-equilibrium dynamics arising after a quench of the transverse magnetic field of a quantum Ising chain, together with the sudden switch-on of a long-range interaction term. The dynamics after the quantum quench is mapped onto a ful... Read More about Prethermalization from a low-density Holstein-Primakoff expansion.

Emergent kinetic constraints, ergodicity breaking, and cooperative dynamics in noisy quantum systems (2016)
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Kinetically constrained spin systems play an important role in understanding key properties of the dynamics of slowly relaxing materials, such as glasses. Recent experimental studies have revealed that manifest kinetic constraints govern the evolutio... Read More about Emergent kinetic constraints, ergodicity breaking, and cooperative dynamics in noisy quantum systems.

Absorbing state phase transition with competing quantum and classical fluctuations (2016)
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Stochastic processes with absorbing states feature examples of non-equilibrium universal phenomena. While the classical regime has been thoroughly investigated in the past, relatively little is known about the behavior of these non-equilibrium system... Read More about Absorbing state phase transition with competing quantum and classical fluctuations.

Non-equilibrium universality in the dynamics of dissipative cold atomic gases (2015)
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The theory of continuous phase transitions predicts the universal collective properties of a physical system near a critical point, which for instance manifest in characteristic power-law behaviours of physical observables. The well-established conce... Read More about Non-equilibrium universality in the dynamics of dissipative cold atomic gases.