Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy of Caltech.
Federica Surace is an AWS Quantum Postdoctoral Scholar at the California Institute of Technology, and a member of Caltech’s Institute for Quantum Information and Matter. She works at the intersection of condensed matter physics and quantum information, investigating the non-equilibrium dynamics of quantum many-body systems and the capabilities of quantum simulators.
Quantum systems with many strongly interacting particles are difficult to study with traditional techniques: because of the large computational cost, numerical simulations are typically limited to systems with a small number of components. A promising solution is to use other quantum systems (“quantum simulators”), that can be easily controlled in table-top experiments, and tune their parameters to mimic the properties of the model that we want to study. Federica’s research aims, in particular, at developing tools for simulating high-energy physics with quantum simulators and at understanding the emergence (or the absence) of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics in quantum many-body systems.
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