CME Seminar with Rajdeep Sensarma- Smith Seminar Room Tomorrow Thursday March 21 11:30am-1:00pm

[Bauder, Erin E.]

Please join us for a Condensed Matter Seminar featuring Rajdeep Sensarma of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai .
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.

Memories of Initial States in Dynamics of Many Body Localized Systems
Rajdeep Sensarma
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

 Strongly disordered interacting systems cannot act as a thermal bath for a subsystem, a phenomenon called many body localization.
At long times, the system still remembers the initial state it started from, leading to a breakdown of applicability of equilibrium statistical mechanics.
This memory of initial states has been measured in recent experiments in ultracold atomic systems.  We develop a new field theoretic description which
can describe non-equilibrium dynamics of many body systems starting from arbitrary initial conditions.
We use this to derive exact answers for the experimental observables in the non-interacting system. In the interacting systems,
we show that the bath generated during the dynamics remembers the initial condition, leading to a finite memory in these systems.

Best,
Erin

[The Ohio State University]
Erin Bauder, Fiscal Associate
Department of Physics
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