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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white">Please join us for a <b>Condensed Matter Seminar featuring Rajdeep Sensarma of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai</b> .
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white">His seminar on “Memories of Initial States in Dynamics of Many Body Localized Systems” will be held in the Smith Seminar Room tomorrow Thursday March 21 from 11:30am- 1:00pm.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b>Memories of Initial States in Dynamics of Many Body Localized Systems<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b>Rajdeep Sensarma<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"> Strongly disordered interacting systems cannot act as a thermal bath for a subsystem, a phenomenon called many body localization.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white">At long times, the system still remembers the initial state it started from, leading to a breakdown of applicability of equilibrium statistical mechanics.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white">This memory of initial states has been measured in recent experiments in ultracold atomic systems. We develop a new field theoretic description which<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white">can describe non-equilibrium dynamics of many body systems starting from arbitrary initial conditions.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white">We use this to derive exact answers for the experimental observables in the non-interacting system. In the interacting systems,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white">we show that the bath generated during the dynamics remembers the initial condition, leading to a finite memory in these systems.<o:p></o:p></p>
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