
Quantum entropy thermalization
Yichen Huang Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Condensed matter physics is the branch of physics that studies systems of very large numbers of particles in a condensed state, like solids or liquids. Condensed matter physics wants to answer questions like: why is a material magnetic? Or why is it insulating or conducting? Or new, exciting questions like: what materials are good to make a reliable quantum computer? Can we describe gravity as the behavior of a material? The behavior of a system with many particles is very different from that of its individual particles. We say that the laws of many body physics are emergent or collective. Emergence explains the beauty of physics laws.
Yichen Huang Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Xun Gao Harvard University
Shiyu Zhou Boston University
Jianhao Zhang Pennsylvania State University
Nikita Sopenko California Institute of Technology (Caltech)