UBC Mathematics Colloquium: Martin Fraas

  • Date: 01/30/2017
  • Time: 15:00
Lecturer(s):
Martin Fraas, Institute for Theoretical Physics, KU Leuven
Location: 

University of British Columbia

Topic: 

Adiabatic Theory: From Spinning Top to Gapped Matter

Description: 

Adiabatic theory studies dynamical systems featuring separation of motion into slow and fast components. When the system is driven these components start mixing. The basic premise of adiabatic theory is that this mixing is small for slow driving. Furthermore, the resulting driven motion is irreversible in the slow component but reversible in the fast component. In this talk, I first illustrate this phenomena on a spinning top and state the classical adiabatic theorem of quantum mechanics. Then, I will show extensions of the theory to abstract Banach spaces and stochastic equations, culminating with an adiabatic theorem for extended systems where the separation holds uniformly in the volume of the system. An important corollary of this theorem is a proof of the Kubo formula for gapped interacting systems.

Other Information: 

Location: ESB 2012

 

Coffee and tea will be served from 2:45 in the PIMS Lounge