An invitation to quantum spin glasses
Simone Warzel (TU Munich)
Abstract: Quantum spin glass models of mean-field type are prototypes of quantum systems exhibiting phase transitions related to the spead of the eigenstates in configuration space. Originally motivated by spin glass physics, they are discussed in relation to many-body localisation phenomena, quantum adiabatic algorithms as well as in the context of models in mathematical biology. Quantum effects transform the rich phase diagram of classical spin glasses as described by Parisi’s theory into an even more colourful landscape of phases which range from purely quantum paramagnetic to intermediate behavior in which eigenstates occupy only a fraction of configuration space.
In this talk, I will give an introduction to the multifaceted motivations and challenges behind the study of these quantum glasses and explain existing and expected results.
mathematical physics
Audience: researchers in the discipline
( video )
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| Organizers: | Margherita Disertori*, Wojciech Dybalski*, Ian Jauslin, Hal Tasaki* |
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