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Quantum Many-Body Physics in Open Systems: Measurement and Strong Correlations

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  • Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the University of Tokyo, Japan
  • Demonstrates the emergence of qualitatively new quantum many-body phenomena in nonunitary open and out-of-equilibrium systems
  • Presents a versatile and efficient theoretical approach to solving fermionic and bosonic quantum impurity problems in and out of equilibrium
  • Honored with the JSPS Ikushi Prize and the President’s Award from the University of Tokyo

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
  2. Motivation and Outline

    • Yuto Ashida
    Pages 1-12
  3. Quantum Critical Phenomena

    • Yuto Ashida
    Pages 29-85
  4. Out-of-Equilibrium Quantum Dynamics

    • Yuto Ashida
    Pages 87-143
  5. Quantum Spin in an Environment

    • Yuto Ashida
    Pages 145-203
  6. Quantum Particle in a Magnetic Environment

    • Yuto Ashida
    Pages 205-224
  7. Conclusions and Outlook

    • Yuto Ashida
    Pages 225-226
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 227-228

About this book

This book studies the fundamental aspects of many-body physics in quantum systems open to an external world. Recent remarkable developments in the observation and manipulation of quantum matter at the single-quantum level point to a new research area of open many-body systems, where interactions with an external observer and the environment play a major role.

The first part of the book elucidates the influence of measurement backaction from an external observer, revealing new types of quantum critical phenomena and out-of-equilibrium dynamics beyond the conventional paradigm of closed systems. In turn, the second part develops a powerful theoretical approach to study the in- and out-of-equilibrium physics of an open quantum system strongly correlated with an external environment, where the entanglement between the system and the environment plays an essential role. The results obtained here offer essential theoretical results for understanding the many-body physicsof quantum systems open to an external world, and can be applied to experimental systems in atomic, molecular and optical physics, quantum information science and condensed matter physics.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Yuto Ashida

About the author

Yuto Ashida is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied Physics, the University of Tokyo. His work is concerned with an interdisciplinary field of condensed matter physics, AMO physics, and statistical physics. He received his Ph.D. in science from the University of Tokyo in March 2019. Since August 2016, he has intermittently visited Harvard University as a visiting researcher. He received the President's award from the University of Tokyo and Ikushi Prize from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) in 2019.

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