Research interests

Quantum phases of trapped cold atoms / ions

  • Superlattice/disorder effects
  • Atomic mixtures
  • Long-range (dipolar, Coulomb) interactions
  • Geometric frustration and topological phases

Quantum phases of strongly fluctuating magnets

  • Disorder effects: magnetic Bose glass, magnetic Mott glass, etc.
  • Frustration effects
  • Low-dimensionality and anisotropy (spatial anisotropy, interaction anisotropy)

Quantum phase transitions

  • Disorder effects and novel universality classes
  • Entanglement signatures of quantum criticality

Simulations of quantum many-body systems

  • Quantum Monte Carlo, classical Monte Carlo
  • Mean-field methods (Gutzwiller Ansatz)
  • Exact diagonalization