Research project is (co) funded by the Slovenian Research Agency.
UL Member: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Code: J1-1698
Project: Many-body transport engineering
Period: 1. 7. 2019 - 31. 12. 2022
Range per year: 1,44 FTE, category: C
Head: Marko Žnidarič
Research activity: Natural sciences and mathematics
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Project description:
The project will deal with questions at a crossroad of several fields, namely, of many-body quantum physics and of nonequilibrium statistical physics. Recent theoretical as well as numerical discoveries makes us confident that we can better understand transport in low-dimensional quantum systems and in particular find out what are the design principles that lead to a particular transport type, e.g., from ballistic transport (i.e., superconductivity, zero bulk resistance) all the way to localization (infinite bulk resistivity). Such knowledge can then be a stepping-stone towards future composite devices that would use materials with different transport properties in new ways. Furthermore, we propose a paradigm shift from studies of transport in given models to designing models with required transport properties.
We shall address the following questions:
1) Transport and engineering:
Discover systems with new transport types and better understand the existing results in,
a) quadratic systems
b) interacting systems
c) disordered systems
d) role of symmetries
2) Theory:
Get some analytical handle, in particular about
a) statistical properties of boundary driving
b) anomalous transport
c) pertubation theory
d) numerical algorithm improvement
3) Devices:
Use results of 1) and 2) to study useful devices, like
a) junctions
b) cross-transport
