Our interest and expertise is in the dynamics and thermodynamics of open and Hamiltonian quantum systems. We are particularly interested in quantum many-body systems. Follow the link to our Publications page to know more about what we do, and the People page to find out who we are. There are often positions available: please check here!
News!
October 2023
Wenxuan’s birthday. Happy birthday young man!!!
September 2023
Xiansong’s birthday. Happy birthday young man!!!
Prof. Guo vising us. Thanks a lot for the great visit!
August 2023
Xiansong’s and Bo Xing’s commencement. Congratulations Doctors!!!
June 2023
Mikel and Ulf are visiting us. Nice to catch up with you guys!!!
April 2023
Celebrating Zheyu receiving a PhD scholarship. Congrats!!!
September 2018
- Xiansong has officially started his PhD training with us. All the best!
- Vinitha’s work on mobility edges and rectification has been posted on the arxiv
- Vinitha’s work on heat rectification and strong interactions has been posted on the arxiv
- A new paper with our friends in Bonn has been posted on the arxiv
July 2018
- Guo Chu’s latest analytical solutions to boundary driven problems on the arxiv
June 2018
- Nice work by Xiansong and our friends Juzar and Guo Chu on an MPS approach to the Redfield master equation on the arxiv
- Latest work by our friend Yuanjian on the role of disorder in work processes on the arxiv
May 2018
- Vinitha’s work on the perfect spin currents diode has been accepted in Physical Review Letters
- Dario invited to present the group results at Spice conference in Mainz
March 2018
- Guo Chu’s work on an MPS approach to sequence-to-sequence learning now on the arxiv
December 2017
- Kenny and Ulf’s work on dissipation and currents now on the arxiv
October 2017
- Dario has been invited to a conference at the Institute for Basic Science in Deajeon
- Ulf’s work arxiv has been posted on the arxiv
September 2017
- Guo Chu has obtained is well deserved PhD. Fantastic work Guo Chu!
- Mikel Palmero has joined our group
- Dario’s work arxiv has been accepted in Physical Review B
- Xiansong’s work arxiv has been posted on the arxiv
August 2017
- Guo Chu’s work arxiv has been posted on the arxiv
- Reuben and Bo Xing’s work arxiv has been posted on the arxiv
July 2017
- Vinitha’s work arxiv has been posted on the arxiv
May 2017
- Guo Chu’s work arxiv has been posted on the arxiv
March 2017
- Dario’s work arxiv has been accepted in Physical Review E
February 2017
- Ryan’s work arxiv has been posted on the arxiv
December 2016
- We have survived the group outing (cycling for countless hours in hot Singapore)!
- Ulf’s work arxiv has been accepted in Physical Review B
November 2016
- Dr Vinitha Balachandran has joined our group.
- Dr Gabriel Carlo, from CNEA (Argentina), has visited our group.
- Dario is invited to give a talk at the QuEST conference in Singapore.
September 2016
- Guo Chu has posted this work on the arxiv
- Guo Chu has posted this work on the arxiv
- Ulf has posted this work on the arxiv.
- Colin has posted this work on the arxiv
August 2016
- Guo Chu’s paper has been accepted in PRA. Congratulations!
- Ulf has posted this work on the arxiv.
- The group has received fundings from MoE Tier2 grant. Thank you for your support!
- Yuanjian has left to start his PhD at EPFL. All the best!
July 2016
- Dario visited the fanstastic group of Corinna Kollath in Bonn.
- Dario visited Giulio Casati and Giuliano Benenti in the beautiful city of Como.
- Dario visited Davide Rossini at the wonderful Scuola Normale di Pisa.
June 2016
- With our collaborators in Augsburg, we have posted this work on the arxiv.
May 2016
- Dario visits the fantastic group of Peter Hanggi in Augsburg.
April 2016
- Yuanjian has posted this work on the arxiv.
- Dario is an invited speaker at the Many-body Physics in Synthetic Quantum Systems Workshop in Stellenbosch, South Africa.
- The group receives a grant from the AOARD. THank you for your support!
March 2016
- Prof. Peter Hanggi has visited our group.
- Prof. Gabriele De Chiara has visited our group.
February 2016
- Guo Chu has posted a new work on the arxiv.
January 2016
- Dario has given a talk at the NTU Complexity Institute.
- Dario has given a talk at the Workshop SU(N), gauge fields and cold atoms.
- Dario received an MoE Tier1 grant.
December 2015
- The work with collaborators in NUS, led by Prof. Gong, has been accepted in PRA (arxiv link).
- Group outing with Mamma and Papa’ Poletti
November 2015
- Dario is giving a talk in Erice, at the conference New Horizons in Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics.
- Dario is giving a talk in Nanjing University.
- Dario is giving a talk in Hefei at the University of Science and Technology of China.
September 2015
August 2015
- Guo Chu’s work, “Tuning energy transport using interacting vibrational modes”, has appeared in Physical Review A.
July 2015
- Yuanjian’s work, “Quantum statistics and the performance of engine cycles”, has appeared in Physical Review E.
April 2015
- Our work, “Two-time Correlations Probing the Dynamics of Dissipative Many-Body Quantum Systems: Aging and Fast Relaxation”, has been accepted in Physical Review Letters.
March 2015
- We have posted a new work, “Density-dependent synthetic magnetism for ultra-cold atoms in optical lattices”, done together with some of our wonderful collaborators on the arxiv.
February 2015
- Dario is co-recipient of a Ministry of Education of Singapore grant.
December 2014
- Our work, “Density-Dependent Synthetic Gauge Fields Using Periodically Modulated Interactions”, has been accepted in Physical Review Letters.
November 2014
October 2014
- Ryan Tan has joined us as a researcher and from January he will be our new PhD student
- Our paper “Dissipative quantum dynamics of fermions in optical lattices: a slave-spin approach” has been accepted in Physical Review B
September 2014
- Our paper “Exploring unconventional Hubbard models with doubly-modulated lattice gases” has been accepted in Physical Review Letters
- Dr Ulf Bissbort has joined us here in Singapore
- Dario joins the Merlion MajuLab, CNRS-UNS-NUS-NTU International Joint Research Unit, UMI 3654
July 2014
- Yuanjian has published his first paper. “Work and Efficiency of Quantum Otto Cycles in Power Law Trapping Potentials” has been accepted in Physical Review E
- We have posted “Exploring unconventional Hubbard models with doubly-modulated lattice gases” on the arxiv
- We have posted “Two-time Correlations Probing the Dynamics of Dissipative Many-Body Quantum Systems: Aging and Fast Relaxation” on the arxiv
- We have posted “Dissipative quantum dynamics of fermions in optical lattices: a slave-spin approach” on the arxiv
June 2014
- Dario is visiting Prof Florian Schreck (Amsterdam), Prof Corinna Kollath (Bonn), Prof Gabriele De Chiara (Belfast) and Prof Luis Santos (Hannover)
May 2014
- Prof Joachim Brand (Auckland) is visiting us
April 2014
- we have posted “Work and Efficiency of Quantum Otto Cycles in Power Law Trapping Potentials” on the arxiv
January 2014
- Naresh Raghava has joined our group as a visiting student. He is a PhD student of Prof Gong’s group in NUS
December 2013
- Invited talk by Dario at Physics Department of Tsinghua University (Beijing) hosted by Prof You Li
November 2013
- Dr Peter Barmettler is visiting us for one week
- We have posted “Density dependent synthetic gauge fields using periodically modulated interactions” on the arxiv
October 2013
- Our paper “Emergence of glass-like dynamics for dissipative and strongly interacting bosons” has been accepted in Physical Review Letters
September 2013
- Dr Ulf Bissbort has joined us as a SUTD-MIT postdoctoral fellow. He will spend his first year at MIT with Prof Paola Cappellaro
- Guo Chu has joined us as our first PhD student
August 2013
- Yuanjian Zheng has joined us as a research assistant
July 2013
- Dr Ulf Bissbort (Frankfurt) is visiting us for a month
June 2013
- Vivian Tran (MIT) has joined us as a summer visiting student
May 2013
- Our paper “Emergence of long distance pair coherence through incoherent local environmental coupling” has been accepted in Physical Review A
February 2013
- Contributed talk by Dario at Finess 2013 (Queenstown)
- Invited talk by Dario at Massey University (Auckland) in the group of Prof. Joachim Brand
December 2012
- We have posted “Dissipative quantum systems: from two to many atoms” on the arxiv
- We have posted “Emergence of glass-like dynamics for dissipative and strongly interacting bosons” on the arxiv
November 2012
- We have posted “Emergence of long distance pair coherence through incoherent local environmental coupling” on the arxiv
July 2012
- Our paper “Interaction-induced impeding of decoherence and anomalous diffusion” has been accepted in Physical Review Letters
- The group starts