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Thomas Barthel
Charles H. Townes Assistant Professor of Physics
Theoretical and Numerical Quantum Many-Body Physics:
- Strongly correlated quantum matter
- Phase transitions and criticality
- Nonequilibrium phenomena, open driven-dissipative quantum systems, and transport
- Information theoretic aspects of quantum many-body systems
- Integrable models
- Tensor network state methods (MPS, TTNS, PEPS, MERA)
- Quantum computation and simulation for the investigation of quantum matter
- Ultracold atoms in optical lattices
- Sotchastic dynamics in networks, epidemic outbreaks
Appointments and Affiliations
- Charles H. Townes Assistant Professor of Physics
- Assistant Professor of Physics
- Member of the Duke Quantum Center
Contact Information
- Office Location: 287 Physics Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
- Office Phone: +1 919 660 2965
- Email Address: barthel@phy.duke.edu
- Websites:
Education
- Ph.D. Rheinisch-Westfalische Technische Hochshule Aachen (Germany), 2009
Research Interests
• Strongly correlated quantum many-particle systems
• Nonequilibrium phenomena, open quantum systems, and transport
• Information theoretic aspects like entanglement
• Integrable models
• Tensor network state methods (DMRG, MPS, MERA, PEPS)
• Quantum computation and simulation for the investigation of quantum matter
• Ultracold atoms in optical lattices
• Stochastic dynamics in networks
Courses Taught
- PHYSICS 624: Open Quantum Systems
- PHYSICS 590: Selected Topics in Theoretical Physics
- PHYSICS 464D: Quantum Mechanics I
- PHYSICS 142L9D: General Physics II (Discussion)
- MATH 690-70: Topics in Applied Mathematics
- ECE 624: Open Quantum Systems
Representative Publications
- Miao, Q; Barthel, T, Equivalence of cost concentration and gradient vanishing for quantum circuits: an elementary proof in the Riemannian formulation, Quantum Science and Technology, vol 9 no. 4 (2024) [10.1088/2058-9565/ad6fca] [abs].
- Miao, Q; Barthel, T, Isometric tensor network optimization for extensive Hamiltonians is free of barren plateaus, Physical Review A, vol 109 no. 5 (2024) [10.1103/PhysRevA.109.L050402] [abs].
- Zhang, Y; Barthel, T, Criteria for Davies irreducibility of Markovian quantum dynamics, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, vol 57 no. 11 (2024) [10.1088/1751-8121/ad2a1e] [abs].
- Zhang, Y; Barthel, T, Driven-dissipative Bose-Einstein condensation and the upper critical dimension, Physical Review A, vol 109 no. 2 (2024) [10.1103/PhysRevA.109.L021301] [abs].
- Chen, H; Barthel, T, Machine learning with tree tensor networks, CP rank constraints, and tensor dropout, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (2024) [10.1109/TPAMI.2024.3396386] [abs].