{"id":3750,"date":"2019-04-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.hmc.edu\/physics\/2019\/04\/30\/quantum-matter-out-of-equilibrium\/"},"modified":"2019-04-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T00:00:00","slug":"quantum-matter-out-of-equilibrium","status":"publish","type":"physics_colloquium","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/research\/colloquium\/quantum-matter-out-of-equilibrium\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Matter Out of Equilibrium"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"page-featured-image\" class=\"wp-block-image is-style-alignleft\" data-pic=\"pic-636.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/01\/pic-636.jpg\" alt=\"Promotional image for talk: Elements of a successful scientific talk\" data-pic=\"pic-636.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Speaker(s):<\/strong> Vedika Khemani<\/p>\n<p>Statistical mechanics is one of the foundational pillars of modern physics. At its core is the idea of thermal equilibrium, which allows for a simple description of a many-particle system in terms of a few macroscopic, equilibrium properties like temperature or pressure. Although many of the fundamentals of <em>quantum<\/em> statistical mechanics were formulated almost a century ago, recent developments have motivated a rebirth of this subject. <br \/> In this talk, I will discuss some recent advances in our understanding of quantum statistical mechanics, focusing in particular on settings in which systems <em>fail<\/em> to reach thermal equilibrium.&nbsp; This out-of-equilibrium setting can allow for novel phases of matter which are disallowed by the usual rules of statistical mechanics. This includes the recent discovery of <em>time-crystals<\/em> as a new out-of-equilibrium phase of matter, and I&#8217;ll describe our work in predicting and creating these time-crystalline phases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-3750","physics_colloquium","type-physics_colloquium","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium\/3750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/physics_colloquium"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}