Summary
Dr. Galitski, holding two PhDs in applied mathematics and condensed matter physics, joined the University of Maryland in 2002 as a postdoc and became a professor in 2005. His group specializes in theoretical physics and quantum information science, with twenty alumni now in professorial and leading industry roles. Galitski's educational efforts include authoring the Oxford-published 'Exploring Quantum Mechanics,' collaborating with Montgomery Blair High School's Magnet Program, and teaching a Coursera MOOC course on quantum physics (taken by 200,000+ students). Galitski is a board member of tech companies and a co-founder of Aspen Quantum Consulting. The group's research interests, detailed below with representative publications, also include exploring links among spin glasses, chaos, and deep learning.
Research Topics
• Quantum chaos & hydrodynamics
Probing Many-Body Quantum Chaos with Quantum Simulators
Spontaneous Breaking of Unitarity
Turbulence in hydrodynamic materials
• Glasses
Spectral statistics of a minimal quantum glass model
Quantum packing problem
Spectral form factor of a quantum spin glass
• Non-equilibrium quantum matter
Floquet topological insulators
Many-body dynamical (de)localization
• Quantum circuits
Effective field theory of random quantum circuits
Chaotic Roots of Shor's Factoring Algorithm
• Superconductivity
Surface Cooper-Pair Spin Waves in Triplet Superconductors
Cavity Quantum Eliashberg Enhancement of Superconductivity
• Strongly-correlated topological materials
Strongly correlated electron–photon systems
Topological Kondo Insulators
• Synthetic gauge fields & synthetic gravity
Artificial gauge fields with ultracold atoms
Spin–orbit coupling in quantum gases
Moiré gravity