Ionut-Dragos Potirniche
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About me
Update (October 16, 2019): I have recently joined the Research team at Edgestream Partners, L.P. in Princeton (New Jersey). This website describes the work that I have done while in graduate school and it will not be further updated. The information and views contained herein belong solely to the author and do not reflect the opinions of Edgestream.
Previously, I received my PhD in Condensed Matter Theory from UC Berkeley. My thesis adviser was Professor Ehud Altman. Our group, as part of the ERC synergy grant UQUAM, focused on the study of strongly-correlated ‘‘synthetic’’ quantum matter by analyzing highly-entangled states and their dynamics far from equilibrium.
Research interests
I am interested in questions pertaining to the dynamics of many-body quantum systems, quantum statistical mechanics, and non-equilibrium phases of matter. The exciting program has been to explore and understand the interplay between strong interactions, disorder, symmetry, topology, and external driving.
In particular, I have been focusing on the following topics:
Thermalization, decoherence, and chaos in disordered, many-body quantum systems
Non-ergodicity, coherent dynamics, and phase transitions in
Many-body localized systems
Driven (Floquet) systems
Quantum glasses
Integrable systems
Applications to experiments and engineering exotic phases of matter using ultra-cold atoms
Read more about my research or see a list of publications and talks.
Education
Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics (August 2019)
University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation: ‘‘Many-body quantum dynamics and non-equilibrium phases of matter’’
M.A. in Physics (2016)
University of California, Berkeley
A.B. in Physics, magna cum laude (2014)
Princeton University
Senior Thesis: ‘‘Phase transitions and classical-quantum mixing in the satisfiability problem’’