Thermally isolated many-body systems out of equilibrium

by Alessandro Silva (SISSA, Trieste)

Tuesday 6 Oct 2015, 16:00 → 18:00 Europe/Rome

Aula Conversi (Dipartimento di Fisica - Ed. G. Marconi)

This Seminar gives an overview of recent theoretical and experimental progress in the area of nonequilibrium dynamics of isolated quantum systems, with particular emphasis on cold atomic gases and trapped ions. Focusing on the response of the system to a time variation of one of its parameters we will describe several aspects of the dynamics in driven systems, such as generation of defects, work statistics, thermalization, pre-thermalization, and entropy production. Finally we will describe how universality emerges in out of equilibrium isolated quantum systems in particular in the study of! genuine dynamical quantum phase transitions.