James R. Garrison, Ph.D. — Joint Quantum Institute

Research overview

My principal areas of interest include quantum thermalization, strongly correlated phases of matter, and entanglement.

Recent publications

“Lieb-Robinson bounds on n-partite connected correlation functions,” Minh Cong Tran, James R. Garrison, Zhe-Xuan Gong, and Alexey V. Gorshkov, Phys. Rev. A 96, 052334 (2017) [arXiv:1705.04355].
“Extracting entanglement geometry from quantum states,” Katharine Hyatt, James R. Garrison, and Bela Bauer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 140502 (2017) [arXiv:1704.01974].
“Partial breakdown of quantum thermalization in a Hubbard-like model,” James R. Garrison, Ryan V. Mishmash, and Matthew P. A. Fisher, Phys. Rev. B 95, 054204 (2017) [arXiv:1606.05650].
“Many-body localization in the presence of a small bath” Katharine Hyatt, James R. Garrison, Andrew C. Potter, and Bela Bauer, Phys. Rev. B 95, 035132 (2017) [arXiv:1601.07184].
“Does a single eigenstate encode the full Hamiltonian?” James R. Garrison and Tarun Grover, Phys. Rev. X 8, 021026 (2018) [arXiv:1503.00729].

Upcoming activities

From Physics to Applications of Quantum Computers, Aspen Summer Workshop, May – June 2018.

Recent activities

Advances in Quantum Algorithms and Computation conference, Aspen CO, March 2018.
Frontiers of Quantum Information Physics conference, Santa Barbara CA, October 2017.
Workshop on Computational Complexity and High Energy Physics, College Park, MD, July – August 2017.
DAMOP 2017 – “Partial breakdown of quantum thermalization in a Hubbard-like model” (abstract), Sacramento, CA, June 2017.
Non-equilibrium Quantum Matter workshop, Mainz, Germany, May – June 2017.
APS March Meeting, 2017 – “Partial breakdown of quantum thermalization in a Hubbard-like model” (abstract).
Designer Quantum Systems Out of Equilibrium conference, Santa Barbara CA, November 2016.
Visit to Oxford, June 27 - July 1, 2016.
“Universal Aspects of Quantum Thermalization,” QuICS Seminar, University of Maryland, June 1, 2016.
Dissertation defense, UC Santa Barbara, May 19, 2016.
Advances in Quantum Algorithms and Computation conference, Aspen CO, March 2016.
APS March Meeting, 2016 – “Universal aspects of thermalization after a quantum quench” (abstract).
Non-equilibrium dynamics of stochastic and quantum integrable systems conference, Santa Barbara CA, February 2016.
“Universal Aspects of Quantum Thermalization,” Caltech, December 2, 2015.
“Universal Aspects of Quantum Thermalization,” University of Toronto, November 25, 2015.
“Universal Aspects of Quantum Thermalization,” Perimeter Institute, November 23, 2015.
“Universal Aspects of Quantum Thermalization,” Cornell University, November 12, 2015.
Non-Equilibrium Quantum Matter conference, Aspen CO, March 2015.
APS March Meeting, 2015 – “Does the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis hold for non-local operators?” (abstract).
Boulder Summer School, July 2014.
APS March Meeting, 2014 – “Entanglement properties after a partial measurement: a numerical study of excited states in Hubbard-like models” (abstract).
Beyond Quasiparticles: New Paradigms for Quantum Fluids conference, Aspen CO, January 2014.
“Modeling strongly correlated quantum phases using numerical methods: insights and progress” (department colloquium), Cal State LA, November 14, 2013.
Invited tutorial on DMRG (with R. V. Mishmash) (link), Quantum spin liquids summer school, Trieste, Italy, September 2013.