David Luitz

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Quantum systems are generally extremely hard to isolate from their
environment, even more so if we want to exert control or perform
measurements. It is therefore important to understand the effect of
the coupling to the environment. I will discuss a random matrix
approach to quantum many-body systems with strong dissipation and
show that the locality of dissipation processes gives rise to a
hierarchy of relaxation timescales, which can be experimentally
observed. This theory can also be applied to the case of a strong
variance in dissipation strengths, which can lead to an emerging set
of metastable states.

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MPI-PKS Dresden / Uni Bonn
Seminar Room 0.03, ETP
Contact: Simon Trebst