Postdoctoral researchers

Arash Jafarizadeh

My research interests lie specifically in the areas of quantum entanglement, spin chains, and many-body physics. I am interested to know the properties of quantum many-body systems, with a particular emphasis on the role of entanglement in these systems. I investigate the properties of spin chains, such as their ground-state properties and dynamics, and analyze the entanglement properties of these systems using a variety of theoretical and numerical methods.

Luke Causer

EPSRC Doctoral Prize

My research interests lie in the area of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. Specifically, I am interested in the dynamical fluctuations and large deviations of classical stochastic processes, and the dynamics of quantum many-body systems subject to kinetic constraints. Much of my work includes the application of numerical tensor network methods for non-equilibrium dynamics.

PhD students

Molly Gibbins

My research interests are currently focused on the dynamics of various many-body systems after quenching. My first project in the group is based on the quasiparticle description for entanglement growth. This description provides an exact picture for entanglement in the semiclassical limit and assuming that correlations do not develop between quasiparticles over time. The aim of our project is to extend the above case from previous literature to general translation invariant initial states and to higher spatial dimension.