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Professor JUAN GARRAHAN's Outputs (93)

Signatures of many-body localisation in a system without disorder and the relation to a glass transition (2016)
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Hickey, J. M., Genway, S., & Garrahan, J. P. (2016). Signatures of many-body localisation in a system without disorder and the relation to a glass transition. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 2016(5), https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-5468/2016/05/054047

We study a quantum spin system—adapted from a facilitated spin model for classical glasses—with local bilinear interactions and without quenched disorder which seems to display characteristic signatures of a many-body localisation (MBL) transition. F... Read More about Signatures of many-body localisation in a system without disorder and the relation to a glass transition.

Experimental observation of controllable kinetic constraints in a cold atomic gas (2016)
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Valado, M., Simonelli, C., Hoogerland, M., Lesanovsky, I., Garrahan, J. P., Arimondo, E., Ciampini, D., & Morsch, O. (2016). Experimental observation of controllable kinetic constraints in a cold atomic gas. Physical Review A, 93(4), Article 040701. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.93.040701

Many-body systems relaxing to equilibrium can exhibit complex dynamics even if their steady state is trivial. In situations where relaxation requires highly constrained local particle rearrangements, such as in glassy systems, this dynamics can be di... Read More about Experimental observation of controllable kinetic constraints in a cold atomic gas.

Emergence of cooperative dynamics in fully packed classical dimers (2016)
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Oakes, T., Garrahan, J. P., & Powell, S. (2016). Emergence of cooperative dynamics in fully packed classical dimers. Physical Review E, 93(3), Article 032129. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.93.032129

We study the behavior of classical dimer coverings of the square lattice—a paradigmatic model for systems subject to constraints—evolving under local stochastic dynamics, by means of Monte Carlo simulations and theoretical arguments. We observe clear... Read More about Emergence of cooperative dynamics in fully packed classical dimers.

Dynamical phase transitions as a resource for quantum enhanced metrology (2016)
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Macieszczak, K., Guţă, M., Lesanovsky, I., & Garrahan, J. P. (2016). Dynamical phase transitions as a resource for quantum enhanced metrology. Physical Review A, 93(2), Article 022103. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.93.022103

We consider the general problem of estimating an unknown control parameter of an open quantum system. We establish a direct relation between the evolution of both system and environment and the precision with which the parameter can be estimated. We... Read More about Dynamical phase transitions as a resource for quantum enhanced metrology.

Phase transition for quenched coupled replicas in a plaquette spin model of glasses (2016)
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Jack, R. L., & Garrahan, J. P. (2016). Phase transition for quenched coupled replicas in a plaquette spin model of glasses. Physical Review Letters, 116(5), Article 055702. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.055702

We study a three-dimensional plaquette spin model whose low temperature dynamics is glassy, due to localized defects and effective kinetic constraints. The thermodynamics of this system is smooth at all temperatures. We show that coupling it to a sec... Read More about Phase transition for quenched coupled replicas in a plaquette spin model of glasses.

Self-similar non-equilibrium dynamics of a many-body system with power-law interactions (2015)
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Gutierrez, R., Garrahan, J. P., & Lesanovsky, I. (2015). Self-similar non-equilibrium dynamics of a many-body system with power-law interactions. Physical Review E, 92(6), Article e062144. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.92.062144

The influence of power-law interactions on the dynamics of many-body systems far from equilibrium is much less explored than their effect on static and thermodynamic properties. To gain insight into this problem we introduce and analyze here an out-o... Read More about Self-similar non-equilibrium dynamics of a many-body system with power-law interactions.

Non-equilibrium universality in the dynamics of dissipative cold atomic gases (2015)
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Marcuzzi, M., Levi, E., Li, W., Garrahan, J. P., Olmos, B., & Lesanovsky, I. (2015). Non-equilibrium universality in the dynamics of dissipative cold atomic gases. New Journal of Physics, 17(July), Article 72003. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/17/7/072003

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.

Emergent Rhombus Tilings from Molecular Interactions with M-fold Rotational Symmetry (2015)
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Whitelam, S., Tamblyn, I., Garrahan, J. P., & Beton, P. H. (2015). Emergent Rhombus Tilings from Molecular Interactions with M-fold Rotational Symmetry. Physical Review Letters, 114(11), Article 115702. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.115702

© 2015 American Physical Society. We show that model molecules with particular rotational symmetries can self-assemble into network structures equivalent to rhombus tilings. This assembly happens in an emergent way, in the sense that molecules sponta... Read More about Emergent Rhombus Tilings from Molecular Interactions with M-fold Rotational Symmetry.

Spatial complementarity and the coexistence of species (2014)
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Velázquez, J., Garrahan, J. P., & Eichhorn, M. P. (2014). Spatial complementarity and the coexistence of species. PLoS ONE, 9(12), Article e114979. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0114979

© 2014 Velázquez et al. Coexistence of apparently similar species remains an enduring paradox in ecology. Spatial structure has been predicted to enable coexistence even when population-level models predict competitive exclusion if it causes each spe... Read More about Spatial complementarity and the coexistence of species.

Universal nonequilibrium properties of dissipative rydberg gases (2014)
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Marcuzzi, M., Levi, E., Diehl, S., Garrahan, J. P., & Lesanovsky, I. (2014). Universal nonequilibrium properties of dissipative rydberg gases. Physical Review Letters, 113(21), Article 210401. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.210401

© 2014 American Physical Society. We investigate the out-of-equilibrium behavior of a dissipative gas of Rydberg atoms that features a dynamical transition between two stationary states characterized by different excitation densities. We determine th... Read More about Universal nonequilibrium properties of dissipative rydberg gases.

Out-of-equilibrium structures in strongly interacting Rydberg gases with dissipation (2014)
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Lesanovsky, I., & Garrahan, J. (2014). Out-of-equilibrium structures in strongly interacting Rydberg gases with dissipation. Physical Review A, 90(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.90.011603

The nonequilibrium dynamics of a gas of cold atoms in which Rydberg states are off-resonantly excited is studied in the presence of noise. The interplay between interaction and off-resonant excitation leads to an initial dynamics where aggregates of... Read More about Out-of-equilibrium structures in strongly interacting Rydberg gases with dissipation.

Common Physical Framework Explains Phase Behavior and Dynamics of Atomic, Molecular, and Polymeric Network Formers (2014)
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Whitelam, S., Tamblyn, I., Haxton, T. K., Wieland, M. B., Champness, N. R., Garrahan, J. P., & Beton, P. H. (2014). Common Physical Framework Explains Phase Behavior and Dynamics of Atomic, Molecular, and Polymeric Network Formers. Physical Review X, 4(1), Article 011044. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.4.011044

We show that the self-assembly of a diverse collection of building blocks can be understood within a common physical framework. These building blocks, which form periodic honeycomb networks and nonperiodic variants thereof, range in size from atoms t... Read More about Common Physical Framework Explains Phase Behavior and Dynamics of Atomic, Molecular, and Polymeric Network Formers.