Bubble formation is a signal of false vacuum decay, in which a system transitions from a local energy minimum to a true vacuum. Now, simulations on a quantum annealer show how interactions between bubbles drive the long-time dynamics of this process. nature.com/articles/s4156…

A recent study published in Nature Physics marks a significant step in understanding the early Universe's formation through quantum simulation. In this work, researchers from Forschungszentrum Jülich | @[email protected] , the University of Leeds, and Institute of Science and Technology Austria used D-Wave’s

Great to see our work on false vacuum bubbles featured in Scientific American scientificamerican.com/article/quantu… The Leverhulme Trust Jean-Yves Desaules

Our work on how entangled the non-Fermi liquids are is now in Physical Review B as the Editors' Suggestion. Thanks Cristian Voinea and Ajit C Balram for this collaboration and to The Leverhulme Trust for support. journals.aps.org/prb/pdf/10.110…

PRB Editors' Suggestion: #Entanglement scaling and #charge fluctuations in a #FermiLiquid of composite #fermions C. Voinea et al., PRB 111, 115119 ➡️ go.aps.org/4klT3a1 #OpenAccess #EdSugg @APSPhysics #condmat #physics Cristian Voinea Quantum Many-Body Physics @ Leeds Ajit C Balram The Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Our paper on STM spectra of fractional quantum Hall states in bilayer graphene is now available in Nature Physics Thanks to Yazdani Lab for these beautiful experiments and to The Leverhulme Trust for their support. nature.com/articles/s4156…

In our new preprint, we show that noisy quantum many-body scars can display a PT-symmetry breaking transition, explaining their unexpected robustness to dephasing. arxiv.org/abs/2504.12291 The Leverhulme Trust

Meet ScarFinder --our new algorithm for detecting initial conditions that defy thermalization in general chaotic models. arxiv.org/abs/2504.12383 A complementary algorithm by our colleagues Maks Serbyn is also on arXiv today arxiv.org/abs/2504.12472 The Leverhulme Trust

Latest preprint with E. Petrova, M. Ljubotina and G. Yalniz ISTAustria on finding periodic orbits inside MPS manifold arxiv.org/abs/2504.12472 (see also arxiv.org/abs/2504.12383 for alternative approach from Quantum Many-Body Physics @ Leeds). Image shows a 3d projection of 4-dimensional KAM torus.

Our paper on the difficulty of disentangling many-body localisation from Hilbert space fragmentation is now published in Communications Physics nature.com/articles/s4200… The Leverhulme Trust

A lovely day to be in Garching for Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics conference on quantum thermalization events.gwdg.de/event/879/ and to present some updates regarding the recent mysteries of thermalization in Rydberg atom arrays. The Leverhulme Trust

Recently, the Mpemba effect -- hot water freezing faster than cold one -- has attracted much attention in quantum physics. In arxiv.org/abs/2505.17181 we argue that this effect is ubiquitous in a wide range of quantum systems and propose its simple diagnostic. The Leverhulme Trust

It was fun leading a discussion on quantum thermalization in Rydberg atom arrays earlier today at Erwin Schrödinger Institute The Leverhulme Trust

Our student Cristian Voinea presenting our recent works on 3D conformal field theories on the fuzzy sphere during a “Fuzzy sphere meets conformal bootstrap” meeting at Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques - IHES The Leverhulme Trust

Our work on magic in scar states is now published in Physical Review B journals.aps.org/prb/pdf/10.110… Thanks to our postdoc Andrew Hallam and PhD student Ryan Smith for doing all the heavy lifting on this one! The Leverhulme Trust

It was a pleasure to present our recent work on STM studies of topological quantum matter at CMQM2025 conference in Bristol. iop.eventsair.com/cmqm2025/ IOP Publishing The Leverhulme Trust

How do you get a free conformal field theory from a system of strongly interacting electrons? Our new fuzzy sphere paper by our PhD students, Joe and Cristian, gives one recipe. arxiv.org/abs/2506.22539 The Leverhulme Trust

Our first fuzzy sphere paper is now available in Physical Review X Thanks to our PhD student Cristian Voinea for these excting results. journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/1… The Leverhulme Trust

Wonderful to be back at ICTP to present our recent results on 3D conformal field theories, just before a storm kicked in. The Leverhulme Trust ICTP indico.ictp.it/event/10855/ov…