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Prof. Dr. Boris Fine

Complex Quantum Systems


Institute for Theoretical Physics , Faculty of Physics and Earth System Science, University of Leipzig


Research Interests:

Dynamics-to-statistics and quantum-to-classical transition in nonequilibrium many-body systems; chaos, decoherence, foundations of quantum statistical physics;

Spin dynamics, spin-spin relaxation in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR);

High-temperature superconductivity, spin- and charge-density waves in strongly correlated electronic systems

Master projects are available!
If interested, please inquire at boris.fine(at)uni-leipzig.de

Members of the group:

Anastasia Aristova - Ph.D. student

Louisa Dreyer - Bachelor student

Jan Finke - Bachelor student

Philipp Zikeli - Bachelor student

Maximillian Zoschke - Bachelor student



Selected publications and preprints:

I. Ermakov, O. Lychkovskiy, B. V. Fine, Periodic classical trajectories and quantum scars in many-spin systems, preprint arXiv:2409.00258 (2024)

A. E. Tarkhov, A. V. Rozhkov and B. V. Fine, Transient ordering in the Gross-Pitaevskii lattice after an energy quench within a nonordered phase, Phys. Rev. B Letters 106, L201110 (2022)

W. Hahn and B.V. Fine, Attraction Induced by Mutual Quantum Measurements of Velocity, AIP Conference Proceedings 2362, 040004 (2021) , eprint arXiv:1903.09065

A. Zong, A. Kogar, Y.-Q. Bie, T. Rohwer, Ch. Lee, E. Baldini, E. Ergeçen, M. B. Yilmaz, B. Freelon, E. J. Sie, H. Zhou, J. Straquadine, P. Walmsley, P. E. Dolgirev, A. V. Rozhkov, I. R. Fisher, P. Jarillo-Herrero, B. V. Fine, N. Gedik, Evidence of topological defects in a photo-induced phase transition, Nature Physics 15, 27 (2019)

G. A. Starkov, B. V. Fine , Hybrid quantum-classical method for simulating high-temperature dynamics of nuclear spins in solids, Physical Review B 98, 214421 (2018)

A.A. E. Tarkhov, B. V. Fine, Estimating ergodization time of a chaotic many-particle system from a time reversal of equilibrium noise, New J. Phys. 20 123021 (2018)

W. Hahn, B.V. Fine, Stability of quantum statistical ensembles with respect to local measurements, Phys. Rev. E 94, 062106 (2016) 

B. V. Fine, Comment on “Broken translational and rotational symmetry via charge stripe order in underdoped YBa2Cu3O6+y”Science 351, 235-a (2016)

T. A. Elsayed and B. V. Fine, Sensitivity to small perturbations in systems of large quantum spins, Phys. Scr. 2015 014011, (2015)

T. A. Elsayed and B. V. Fine, Effectiveness of classical spin simulations for describing NMR relaxation of quantum spins, Phys. Rev. B 91, 094424 (2015)

T. A. Elsayed, B. Hess and B. V. Fine, Signatures of chaos in time series generated by many-spin systems at high temperatures, Phys. Rev. E 90, 022910 (2014)

B. V. Fine, T. A. Elsayed, C. M. Kropf, and A. S. de Wijn, Absence of exponential sensitivity to small perturbations in nonintegrable systems of spins 1/2, Phys. Rev. E 89, 012923 (2014)

A. S. de Wijn, B. Hess, and B. V. Fine, Lyapunov instabilities in lattices of interacting classical spins at infinite temperature, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 46 254012 (2013)

T. A. Elsayed, B. V. Fine,  Regression relation for pure quantum states and its implications for efficient computing, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 070404 (2013)

C. M. Kropf and B. V. Fine, Nonsecular resonances for the coupling between nuclear spins in solids, Phys. Rev. B 86, 094401 (2012)

A. S. de Wijn, B. Hess and B. V. Fine, Largest Lyapunov exponents for the lattices of interacting classical spins Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 034101 (2012)

K. Ji and B. V. Fine, Non-thermal statistics in isolated quantum spin clusters after a series of perturbations, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 050401 (2011)

B. V. Fine,  Typical state of an isolated quantum system with fixed energy and unrestricted participation of eigenstates, Phys. Rev. E 80, 051130 (2009)

S. W. Morgan, B. V. Fine, and B. Saam,  Universal Long-Time Behavior of Nuclear Spin Decays in a SolidPhys. Rev. Lett. 101, 067601 (2008)

B. V. Fine and T. Egami, Phase separation in the vicinity of quantum-critical doping concentration: Implications for high-temperature superconductors, Phys. Rev. B 77, 014519 (2008)

B. V. Fine, Magnetic vortices instead of stripes: another interpretation of magnetic neutron scattering in lanthanum cuprates, Phys. Rev. B 75, 060504 (2007)

B.V. Fine, Long-time behavior of spin echo, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 247601 (2005)

B. V. Fine, F. Mintert and A. Buchleitner, Equilibrium entanglement vanishes at finite temperature, Phys. Rev. B 71, 153105 (2005)

B. V. Fine, Long-Time Relaxation on Spin Lattice as a Manifestation of Chaotic Dynamics , Int. J. Mod. Phys. B 18, 1119 (2004)

B. V. Fine, Hypothesis of two-dimensional stripe arrangement and its implications for the superconductivity in high-Tc cupratesPhys. Rev. B 70, 224508 (2004)


For a popular description of some of my research, see news highlights:

ScienceDaily:  "Quantum Chaos Unveiled?"


Office:

Institute for Theoretical Physics
Brüderstr. 16
04103 Leipzig
Germany

Room: 115
Tel:
+49 341 97 32465
Email: boris.fine(at)uni-leipzig.de