Shivaji Sondhi

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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.

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Princeton
seminar room TP 0.03
Contact: Simon Trebst