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

“Partial breakdown of quantum thermalization in a Hubbard-like model,” James R. Garrison, Ryan V. Mishmash, and Matthew P. A. Fisher [arXiv:1606.05650].
“Many-body localization in the presence of a small bath” Katharine Hyatt, James R. Garrison, Andrew C. Potter, and Bela Bauer [arXiv:1601.07184].
“Does a single eigenstate encode the full Hamiltonian?” James R. Garrison and Tarun Grover [arXiv:1503.00729].
“Theory of a Competitive Spin Liquid State for Weak Mott Insulators on the Triangular Lattice,” Ryan V. Mishmash, James R. Garrison, Samuel Bieri and Cenke Xu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 157203 (2013) [arXiv:1307.0829].
“Non-Fermi-liquid d-wave metal phase of strongly interacting electrons,” Hong-Chen Jiang, Matthew S. Block, Ryan V. Mishmash, James R. Garrison, D. N. Sheng, Olexei I. Motrunich and Matthew P. A. Fisher, Nature 493, 39–44 (2013) [arXiv:1207.6608]. (see also: commentary by Patrick Lee)

Recent activities

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.