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“Many Body Localization “

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Thursday, 21. May 2015

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15:15 – 16:30

Abstract :

Famously, Anderson showed in 1958 that non-interacting quantum mechanical electrons placed in a random potential

could fail to exhibit diffusion. In 2005 Basko, Aleiner and Altshuler put the long conjectured extension of the Anderson

localization to the interacting setting, termed Many Body Localization, on a much firmer footing setting off a rapidly

growing volume of work on this phenomenon. I will describe the broad outlines of this work and discuss how it has

both enriched our understanding of the foundation of quantum statistical mechanics and led to the remarkable notion

of non-equilibrium quantum phase structure that lies outside the former.