This is just a short post to advertise our new pre-print that appeared on arXiv this morning: “Time Evolution in Many-Body Localized Phases with the Flow Equation Approach”. I’ll save the full write-up of it until the paper is properly published: for my non-academic readers, let me just be clear up front that this is… Continue reading New Paper: Time Evolution in Many-Body Localized Phases
Another week, another conference log! This is probably my last one for the foreseeable future – I’m a bit conferenced out at this point… Last week I was at Condensed Matter Physics in the City (CMP) in London. I received an ICAM funding award to attend, so before I go much further I should tip… Continue reading Conference Log: CMP In The City 2017
When I moved to St Andrews as a long-haired, clean-shaven 17-year-old, it wasn’t to embark on a career as a quantum theorist – my degree was originally to be in astrophysics. For two years, I was an astrophysics student, before eventually ditching space in favour of quantum physics. There were two main reasons for this.… Continue reading Seeing Into The Quantum Heart of Matter
I’m just back from a 4-day conference in Bad Honnef, just south of Bonn. It’s a beautiful place! My last workshop log went down fairly well, at least within the research community, so I figured I’d do another as a summary of what was discussed at the conference. Despite the length of this post, there’s… Continue reading Conference Log: Bad Honnef
In 1960, Theodore Maiman and co-workers created the world’s first laser. Working on the principle of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation, the beam produced by a laser is unique in that all the photons in the beam have both the same wavelength and the same phase. Because of this innocuous-sounding property, the humble… Continue reading Where Randomness Meets Subatomic Precision
I’ve just spent a really fun few days at King’s College London, at the PhD-student-run Workshop on Localisation in Quantum Systems, and since I blogged last week about the general research area I work in, I thought I’d do a little write-up of the workshop for anyone interested who couldn’t attend. Apologies that this is… Continue reading Workshop Log: King’s College London
It’s always exciting in science when a surprise comes along and something you thought you knew turns out to be wrong. In the last decade, spurred on by recent experimental advances, condensed matter theorists have turned back to an old problem with renewed enthusiasm, and have discovered an enigmatic phase of matter that behaves unlike… Continue reading My Current Research Topic: Many Body Localisation
So. Hi. Here we are again. Remember me? It’s been a while, I admit. Somewhere back in the mists of time, I launched this new blog with the promise of more frequent posts and in the time since then, I’ve barely posted anything and it’s been over six months since the last thing I wrote.… Continue reading It’s a bit quiet in here
Here we go again. I didn’t really want to write this post. I’m reluctant to give further visibility to something that’s already overly sensationalised. I’m also a little scared of wading back into this controversy, especially since others have already done fantastic jobs, but against my better judgement, here we are. The last time I… Continue reading The Impossible Space Engine is Back
Broken Symmetry 