Research group

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Antonio received his PhD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and has held research appointments in the Université Paris-Sud and Princeton University (2004-2009) where he was also a lecturer and Marie Curie Fellow. He was an assistant professor in the University of Lisbon and then staff member of the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University for six years. In 2017, he joined Shanghai Jiao Tong University as a tenured associate professor and a senior 1000 talent of Shanghai municipality. From 2020, he is a full Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy. He has over one hundred publications (h-index = 35), including papers in Nature Materials, (2) Physical Review X, (14) Physical Review Letters and Nanoletters, and over forty invitations to international conferences. He has supervised nine postdocs, six PhD students and several master students. and has been the recipient of fellowship and grants from public research agencies and private foundations in the UK, Portugal, Japan, Spain and China. Highlights of his previous research includes a theory of finite size effects in blackbodies and nano-superconductors, and its experimental demonstration. The development of a novel theory of defect formation in dynamical phase transitions, an analytical description of the Anderson metal-insulator, and its characterization in quantum chaotic systems, and a symmetry classification of dissipative Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model and the identification of the field theory dual of Euclidean wormholes. The main themes of his current research is the physics of strongly-interacting quantum-chaotic systems with a special focus on the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model and its gravity dual, the description of dissipative and monitored many-body quantum systems and the study and optimization of superconducting circuits. You can find here a recent talk at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook.

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Yin Can received his BSc degree in Physics from Wuhan University before joining Antonio's group. His research interests include many-body physics and its interdisciplinary connections to gravity through gauge/gravity duality. He has research experience in open quantum systems, especially focusing on quantum information; quantum chaos explored via random matrix theory (RMT); and the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model and its AdS duality. He is also interested in GPU computation, quantum gravity, and analytical aspects of RMT.

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Bo Fan is interested in the numerical and theoretical study of condensed matter physics. He received a BSc degree in Microelectronic Science and Technology from Wuhan University, and a PhD degree in Condensed Matter Physics from Shanghai Jiaotong University under Antonio M. García-García. His doctoral research focused on the physics of the weakly-coupled disordered superconductors. His current interests focus on the non-equilibrium dynamics, the open/monitored quantum system and the topological superconducting system.

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Liu Chang is broadly interested in interdisciplinary sciences connecting computing, intelligence, and the universe. He received a BSc degree from the Univesity of Science and Technology of China, an MEng degree in software engineering from the University of Auckland, an MSc degree in cosmology from the University of Auckland in New Zealand under Richard Easther, and a PhD degree in theoretical high energy physics from Brown University in the United States under David A. Lowe. During his PhD he worked on issues relating to information scrambling in conformal field theories and on constructing holographic theories for the de-Sitter universe. At Prof. Garcia-Garcia's group he developed a GPU-optimized C++ simulation library for quantum spin systems called REAPERS, enabling simulations of sparse SYK models with up to N=64 fermions on single GPU systems. He is also interested in low-level systems programming and is the lead developer of Neptune OS.

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Xianlong's research interests include the process of quantum continuous measurements/monitoring and Gauge/Gravity duality. He received a BSc degree in physics and a BSc degree in electronic science and technology from Nankai University, and a PhD degree in high energy theoretical physics from Brown University under Antal Jevicki. During his PhD he worked on various aspects of large N theories, including solving large N multi-matrix systems, dynamical symmetry and the structure of Hilbert space of large N thermofield double states, and the SpinXY (SYK-like) model. At Prof. García-García’s group, using the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model and SYK-like models as testbeds, he aims to explore and understand the physics of quantum continuous measurements/monitoring in the context of quantum black holes and traversable wormholes. Besides, he is also interested in matrix models, matrix quantum mechanics, and the physics of quantum chaotic systems.

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Holographic dual between SYK model and wormhole, quantum chaos in dissipative system

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I received a BSc degree in Applied Physics from China University of Petroleum and a MSc degree in Theoretical Physics from Sichuan University. In the past few years, I have actively engaged in research projects centered around the thermodynamics of AdS black holes, encompassing aspects such as their topology and holography. Now I am working on my PhD under Antonio M. García-García's supervision. My current research interest is the SYK model and its relation to low dimensional quantum gravity.