Quantum States in Random Environments

Wed Apr 27, 2022 4:15 p.m.—5:15 p.m.
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Seminar: 
Colloquium

Event time: 
Wednesday, April 27, 2022 - 4:15pm

Location: 
LOM 206

Speaker: 
David Damanik

Speaker affiliation: 
Rice University

Event description: 
In this talk we discuss some recent work on quantum states in random environments in the absence of independence. After recalling some of the key results in the case where independence holds (i.e., for the Anderson model), we explain the difficulties in establishing extensions of them when correlations are allowed and how they are overcome in one space dimension with the help of dynamical systems methods.