Our research activities evolve dynamically, guided by concepts rather than tied to specific methods, or techniques. This page outlines the vision and ongoing efforts of the NEUQUAM team. While our approaches remain flexible, we share a unifying focus: uncovering principles of emergence and universality that govern complex non-equilibrium many-body dynamics.
Our overarching goal is to advance many-body light–matter interfaces into devices that operate beyond the NISQ era. To this end, we explore the dynamics of driven, open AMO systems through the combined perspectives of condensed matter theory and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. Ultimately, we aim to establish a universal framework for many-body quantum information, emerging from photon-matter interactions.
In the following we offer a selection of the most representative papers from the group, together with a summary of the review articles we have contributed so far. They are intended for guiding the external reader interested in learning more about our activities.
Reviews:
M. Stefanini, A. Ziolkowska, D. Budkler, U. Poschinger, F. Schmidt-Kaler, A. Browaeys, A. Imamoglu, D. Chang, J. Marino
Is Lindblad for me? arXiv2506.22436 (2025)
L. Sieberer, M. Buchhold, J. Marino, S. Diehl
Universality in driven open quantum matter Rev. Mod. Phys. 97, 025004 (2025)
J. Marino, M. Eckstein, M. Foster, A. M. Rey
Dynamical phase transitions in the collisionless pre-thermal states of isolated quantum systems Rep. Progr. Phys. 85, 116001 (2022)
A novel quantum instability, triggered by parametric driving, enhances antiferromagnetic correlations irrespective of the microscopic order of the underlying model. This instability gives rise to magnon nesting, Stoner instability and the emergence of Fermi surfaces for bosons —structures that are strictly forbidden in thermal equilibrium states.
H. Hosseinabadi, Y. Tserkovnyak, E. Demler, J. Marino
Cavity-coupled Rydberg arrays (part 1): use strongly correlated light-matter interfaces to explore quantum thermalization. Here light and matter pre-thermalize at different temperatures, echoing analog phenomena in high-energy physics.
A. Mikheev, H. Hosseinabadi, J. Marino
Low learning barrier, intuitive, fast: this variant of semi-classics for dissipative systems can solve for the dynamics of your favorite driven-open quantum problem in matter of minutes. Give it a try!
H. Hosseinabadi, O. Chelpanova, J. Marino
A new type of mobility edge might have key implications in our capability to simulate complex quantum many body dynamics using classical resources.
M. Babdaria, N. Pancotti, R. Singh, J. Marino, R. J. Valencia-Tortora
PRX Quantum 5, 040348 (2024)
A zoo of Kondo models can be realized with locally dissipative ultracold fermions: a combined Keldysh + non-Gaussian variational study.
M. Stefanini, Y-F. Qu, T. Esslinger, T. Shi, S. Gopalakrishnan, E. Demler, J. Marino
Phys. Rev. B 111, 155113 (2025), Editors' Suggestion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.13638
Commun. Phys. 8, 212 (2025)
Group theory classification of classical and quantum measurement-induced phase transitions
S. Kelly, J. Marino
Phys. Rev. A 111, 012425 (2025)
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.13271
Phys. Rev. A 111, L010402 (2025)
Non-equilibrium preparation of spin glasses in cavity QED, their quantum-to-classical crossover, and the 2PI-Dyson equations for strongly correlated light-matter interfaces.
H. Hosseinabadi, D. Chang, J. Marino
Phys. Rev. Research 6, 043314 (2024)
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.05682.pdf
Phys. Rev. Research 6, 043313 (2024)
'One ring to rule them all': A universal Rybderg platform for confinement, scarring and chiral flow of quantum information.
R. J. Valencia-Tortora, N. Pancotti, M. Fleischhauer, H. Bernien, J. Marino
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 223201 (2024)
Correlated emission, superradiance and subradiance of NV ensembles coupled to magnetic fluctuations.
X. Lin, J. Marino, D. Chang, B. Flebus
Phys. Rev. B 111, 064424 (2025), Editors' Suggestion
A scrambling transition in hybrid quantum circuits where information can be 'radiated'.
Z. Weinstein, S. Kelly, J. Marino, E. Altman
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 220404 (2023)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.14242
A merger of spintronics and quantum optics in search of novel dynamical phases in driven-dissipative quantum systems.
O. Chelpanova, A. Lerose, S. Zhang
I. Carusotto, Y. Tserkovnyak, J. Marino
Phys. Rev. B 108 (10), 104302 (2023)
Dissipation with power-law decaying spatial profile can deeply modify the universality class of critical systems.
J. Marino
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 050603 (2022)
A dynamically protected charge dictates a new class of non-thermal fixed points in two-dimensional quantum magnets.
J. Rodriguez-Nieva, A. Piñeiro-Orioli, J. Marino
PNAS 119, 28 (2022)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.00023
Cavity QED with engineerable non-local dissipation. Spin correlation functions can be molded to spread beyond the conventional light-cone paradigm.
K. Seetharam, A. Lerose, R. Fazio, J. Marino
Phys. Rev. Research 4, 013089 (2022)
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.06445.pdf