Dr Achilleas Lazarides

Research groups and centres

2018-present, Lecturer, Loughborough University, Department of Mathematical Sciences
2010-2018, Distinguished PKS Fellow, then Staff Member, Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden
2008-2010, Postdoc, Universiteit Utrecht
2005-2008, Postdoc, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
2002-2005, PhD, Imperial College London
1999-2002, Undergraduate, Imperial College London

Various topics in (Quantum) Many-Body Dynamics

Benedikt Kloss, Jad C. Halimeh, Achilleas Lazarides and Yevgeny Bar Lev. Absence of localization in interacting spin chains with a discrete symmetry,(2023). Nat. Commun. 14, 3778
Aydin Deger, Achilleas Lazarides, and Sthitadhi Roy. Constrained dynamics and directed percolation, 2022. Phys. Rev. Lett, 129, 190601 (selected as Editors’ Suggestion)
Aydin Deger, Sthitadhi Roy, and Achilleas Lazarides. Arresting classical many-body chaos by kinetic constraints. Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 160601 (2022).
Pedro Ribeiro, Achilleas Lazarides, and Masudul Haque. Many-body quantum dynamics of initially trapped systems due to a stark potential: thermalization versus bloch oscillations. Phys. Rev. Lett., 124, 110603 (2020).
Vedika Khemani, Achilleas Lazarides, Roderich Moessner, and Shivaji L Sondhi. Phase structure of driven quantum systems. Phys. Rev. Lett., 116, 250401 (2016).
Achilleas Lazarides, Arnab Das, and Roderich Moessner. Fate of many-body localization under periodic driving. Phys. Rev. Lett., 115, 030402 (2014).
Achilleas Lazarides, Arnab Das, and Roderich Moessner. Equilibrium states of generic quantum systems subject to periodic driving. Phys. Rev. E, 90, 012110 (2014)-- selected as the 2014 Physical Review E 25th Anniversary Milestone.

06/2024: "Bridging the themes of mathematics, physics and simulations of quantum many-body chaos", Helsinki, FI (Invited speaker)
06/2024: University of Goettingen Seminar, Goettingen, DE
02/2024: University of Warwick Seminar, Coventry, UK
11/2023: Fifth Nottingham Workshop on Quantum Non-Equilibrium Dynamics, Nottingham, UK
09/2023: University of Birmingham Theoretical Physics Seminar, Birmingham, UK
07/2023: DesOEQ 2023 Meeting, Glasgow, UK (Invited speaker)
06/2023: IQTN workshop on Tensor networks for quantum many-body dynamics, Edinburgh, UK (Invited speaker)
05/2023: University of Oxford Condensed Matter Seminar, Oxford, UK
08/2022: CMD29, Broken Ergodicity and Localisation Mini-Colloquium--European Condensed Matter physics meeting, Manchester, UK (Invited speaker)
07/2022: Windsor2022: Dynamics of Complex Quantum Systems, Windsor, UK (Invited speaker)
05/2022: From Quantum Chaos to Thermalization, Technion, IL (Invited speaker)

External examiner for Universities of Aarhus, Cambridge, Leeds
Panelist for EPSRC Physical Sciences panel
Grant proposal reviewer for EPSRC, ERC, FWO (Belgium), NWO (Netherlands), ISF (Israel)
Reviewer for journals: Nature Physics, Nature Communications, PRL/X/E/B, Quantum, EPL, others