Overview
Theoretical and Numerical Many-Body Physics:
- Quantum condensed matter systems
- Strongly correlated quantum matter
- Phase transitions, dynamic response, criticality, and universality
- Nonequilibrium phenomena, open driven-dissipative quantum systems, and transport
- Scaling and evolution of entanglement
- Integrable models
- Quantum computation and simulation for the investigation of quantum matter
- Ultracold atoms in optical lattices
- Stochastic dynamics in networks, rare events, and epidemic outbreaks
- Tensor network state methods
- Fundamental properties and information-theoretic aspects of many-particle systems
- Machine learning and artificial intelligence
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Physics
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2025 - Present
Physics,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Member of the Duke Quantum Center
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2024 - Present
Duke Quantum Center,
Pratt School of Engineering
Recent Publications
Nonequilibrium steady-state dynamics of Markov processes on graphs
Journal Article Scipost Physics · August 1, 2025 We propose an analytic approach for the steady-state dynamics of Markov processes on locally tree-like graphs. It is based on time-translation invariant probability distributions for edge trajectories, which we encode in terms of infinite matrix products. ... Full text CiteAbsence of Barren Plateaus and Scaling of Gradients in the Energy Optimization of Isometric Tensor Network States
Journal Article Communications in Mathematical Physics · April 1, 2025 Vanishing gradients can pose substantial obstacles for high-dimensional optimization problems. Here we consider energy minimization problems for quantum many-body systems with extensive Hamiltonians and finite-range interactions, which can be studied on cl ... Full text CiteScaling of contraction costs for entanglement renormalization algorithms including tensor Trotterization and variational Monte Carlo
Journal Article Physical Review B · January 15, 2025 The multiscale entanglement renormalization ansatz (MERA) is a hierarchical class of tensor network states motivated by the real-space renormalization group. It is used to simulate strongly correlated quantum many-body systems. For prominent MERA structure ... Full text CiteEducation, Training & Certifications
Rheinisch-Westfalische Technische Hochshule Aachen (Germany) ·
2009
Ph.D.