DFG funding for LMU physicist

Dr. Jad C. Halimeh is a research group leader at the Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He was now awarded 1.5 million euros in research funding through the German Research Council (DFG) Emmy Noether program.

His group’s research focuses on the quantum simulation of gauge theories and far-from-equilibrium quantum many-body dynamics. Using analytic and numerical tools, they develop methods to stabilize gauge theories on various quantum-simulation platforms, ranging from cold atoms to superconducting qubits.

The goal is to propose the next generation of experimentally feasible reliable large-scale quantum simulators of gauge theories in higher spatial dimensions and with non-Abelian gauge groups. The purpose of this endeavor is to then utilize these quantum simulators with experimental colleagues in order to probe the rich physics of far-from-equilibrium gauge-theory dynamics that may not be accessible using classical methods. Conversely, the Halimeh group also employs analytic and numerical techniques to discover, enhance, and classify new exotic far-from-equilibrium gauge-theory dynamics that can be observed in current state-of-the-art quantum-simulation platforms.