Michael Knap

Fellowship
Rudolf Mößbauer Tenure Track

Appointment
2015

Institution
Technische Universität München

Department
Physics

Focus Group
Collective Quantum Dynamics

Scientific Report on TUM-IAS Fellowship 

Matter appears in phases with distinct properties. Some materials become magnetic when they are cooled to low enough temperatures; others conduct power without dissipation – they turn into superconductors. Both of these phases are examples of collective quantum phenomena, arising due to the interactions between the electrons in a solid. full report

Short CV

Michael Knap studied physics at Graz University of Technology, Austria. After obtaining his PhD he moved to Harvard University, USA, where he held a postdoctoral fellowship in the Condensed Matter Theory Group and at the Institute for Theoretical Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics (ITAMP). In 2015 Knap was awarded a Rudolf Mößbauer Tenure Track Assistant Professorship.


Selected Awards

  • 2018, Supervisory Award, TUM Department of Physics
  • 2013, Promotion sub auspiciis
  • 2012, Schrödinger Fellowship
  • 2011, Fellowship awarded by the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation

Research Interests

The research of Rudolf Mößbauer Tenure Track Professor Michael Knap aims at a broad range of questions from condensed matter theory and bridges to quantum optics, atomic physics, and computational sciences. Interactions and correlations in condensed matter systems often manifest in striking and novel properties. These properties emerge from collective behavior of the quantum particles. Many examples can be found in nature, including superconductors, quantum magnets and superfluids. The main focus of Knap's work has been on the development of analytical and numerical techniques to elucidate the effects of strong interactions. His research has addressed various questions in non-equilibrium quantum dynamics and transport in ultracold quantum gases, interacting light-matter systems, and correlated quantum materials.


Selected Publications

  • Knap, Michael; Sau, Jay D.; Halperin, Bertrand I.; Demler, Eugene: Transport in Two-Dimensional Disordered Semimetals. Phys. Rev. Lett. 113 (18), 2014
  • Knap, Michael; Mathy, Charles J. M.; Ganahl, Martin; Zvonarev, Mikhail B.; Demler, Eugene: Quantum Flutter: Signatures and Robustness. Phys. Rev. Lett. 112 (1), 2014 
  • Knap, Michael; Kantian, Adrian; Giamarchi, Thierry; Bloch, Immanuel; Lukin, Mikhail D.; Demler, Eugene: Probing Real-Space and Time-Resolved Correlation Functions with Many-Body Ramsey Interferometry. Phys. Rev. Lett. 111 (14), 2013 
  • Knap, Michael; Shashi, Aditya; Nishida, Yusuke; Imambekov, Adilet; Abanin, Dmitry A.; Demler, Eugene: Time-Dependent Impurity in Ultracold Fermions: Orthogonality Catastrophe and Beyond. Phys. Rev. X 2 (4), 2012 
  • Knap, Michael; von der Linden, Wolfgang; Arrigoni, Enrico: Nonequilibrium steady state for strongly correlated many-body systems: Variational cluster approach. Phys. Rev. B 84 (11), 2011

Publications as TUM-IAS-Fellow

2019

  • Alexander Schuckert, Izabella Lovas, Michael Knap: Non-local emergent hydrodynamics in a long-range quantum spin system. 2019 mehr… BibTeX
  • B. Chiaro, C. Neill, A. Bohrdt, M. Filippone, F. Arute, K. Arya, R. Babbush, D. Bacon, J. Bardin, R. Barends, S. Boixo, D. Buell, B. Burkett, Y. Chen, Z. Chen, R. Collins, A. Dunsworth, E. Farhi, A. Fowler, B. Foxen, C. Gidney, M. Giustina, M. Harrigan, T. Huang, S. Isakov, E. Jeffrey, Z. Jiang, D. Kafri, K. Kechedzhi, J. Kelly, P. Klimov, A. Korotkov, F. Kostritsa, D. Landhuis, E. Lucero, J. McClean, X. Mi, A. Megrant, M. Mohseni, J. Mutus, M. McEwen, O. Naaman, M. Neeley, M. Niu, A. Petukhov, C. Quintana, N. Rubin, D. Sank, K. Satzinger, A. Vainsencher, T. White, Z. Yao, P. Yeh, A. Zalcman, V. Smelyanskiy, H. Neven, S. Gopalakrishnan, D. Abanin, M. Knap, J. Martinis, P. Roushan: Growth and preservation of entanglement in a many-body localized system. 2019 mehr… BibTeX
  • Bohrdt, Annabelle; Chiu, Christie S.; Ji, Geoffrey; Xu, Muqing; Greif, Daniel; Greiner, Markus; Demler, Eugene; Grusdt, Fabian; Knap, Michael: Classifying snapshots of the doped Hubbard model with machine learning. Nature Physics 15 (9), 2019, 921-924 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • C. Hubig, A. Bohrdt, M. Knap, F. Grusdt, J. I. Cirac: Evaluation of time-dependent correlators after a local quench in iPEPS: hole motion in the t-J model. 2019 mehr… BibTeX
  • Chiu, Christie S.; Ji, Geoffrey; Bohrdt, Annabelle; Xu, Muqing; Knap, Michael; Demler, Eugene; Grusdt, Fabian; Greiner, Markus; Greif, Daniel: String patterns in the doped Hubbard model. Science 365 (6450), 2019, 251-256 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Clemens Kuhlenkamp, Michael Knap: Periodically Driven Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Models. 2019 mehr… BibTeX
  • Feldmeier, Johannes; Pollmann, Frank; Knap, Michael: Emergent Glassy Dynamics in a Quantum Dimer Model. Physical Review Letters 123 (4), 2019 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Julian Klein, Michael Lorke, Matthias Florian, Florian Sigger, Jakob Wierzbowski, John Cerne, Kai Müller, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Ursula Wurstbauer, Michael Kaniber, Michael Knap, Richard Schmidt, Jonathan J. Finley, Alexander W. Holleitner: Atomistic defect states as quantum emitters in monolayer MoS2. 2019 mehr… BibTeX
  • Klein, J.; Lorke, M.; Florian, M.; Sigger, F.; Sigl, L.; Rey, S.; Wierzbowski, J.; Cerne, J.; Müller, K.; Mitterreiter, E.; Zimmermann, P.; Taniguchi, T.; Watanabe, K.; Wurstbauer, U.; Kaniber, M.; Knap, M.; Schmidt, R.; Finley, J. J.; Holleitner, A. W.: Site-selectively generated photon emitters in monolayer MoS2 via local helium ion irradiation. Nature Communications 10 (1), 2019 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Pablo Sala, Tibor Rakovszky, Ruben Verresen, Michael Knap, Frank Pollmann: Ergodicity-breaking arising from Hilbert space fragmentation in dipole-conserving Hamiltonians. 2019 mehr… BibTeX
  • Schuckert, Alexander; Knap, Michael: Many-body chaos near a thermal phase transition. SciPost Physics 7 (2), 2019 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Tibor Rakovszky, Pablo Sala, Ruben Verresen, Michael Knap, Frank Pollmann: Statistical localization: from strong fragmentation to strong edge modes. 2019 mehr… BibTeX
  • You, Jhih-Shih; Schmidt, Richard; Ivanov, Dmitri A.; Knap, Michael; Demler, Eugene: Atomtronics with a spin: Statistics of spin transport and nonequilibrium orthogonality catastrophe in cold quantum gases. Physical Review B 99 (21), 2019 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )

2018

  • Bohrdt, A.; Greif, D.; Demler, E.; Knap, M.; Grusdt, F.: Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy with quantum gas microscopes. Physical Review B 97 (12), 2018 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Knap, Michael: Entanglement production and information scrambling in a noisy spin system. Physical Review B 98 (18), 2018 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Pancotti, Nicola; Knap, Michael; Huse, David A.; Cirac, J. Ignacio; Bañuls, Mari Carmen: Almost conserved operators in nearly many-body localized systems. Physical Review B 97 (9), 2018 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Schmidt, Richard; Knap, Michael; Ivanov, Dmitri A; You, Jhih-Shih; Cetina, Marko; Demler, Eugene: Universal many-body response of heavy impurities coupled to a Fermi sea: a review of recent progress. Reports on Progress in Physics 81 (2), 2018, 024401 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Weidinger, Simon A.; Gopalakrishnan, Sarang; Knap, Michael: Self-consistent Hartree-Fock approach to many-body localization. Physical Review B 98 (22), 2018 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Žunkovič, Bojan; Heyl, Markus; Knap, Michael; Silva, Alessandro: Dynamical Quantum Phase Transitions in Spin Chains with Long-Range Interactions: Merging Different Concepts of Nonequilibrium Criticality. Physical Review Letters 120 (13), 2018 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )

2017

  • Agarwal, Kartiek; Altman, Ehud; Demler, Eugene; Gopalakrishnan, Sarang; Huse, David A.; Knap, Michael: Rare-region effects and dynamics near the many-body localization transition. Annalen der Physik 529 (7), 2017, 1600326 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Babadi, Mehrtash; Knap, Michael; Martin, Ivar; Refael, Gil; Demler, Eugene: Theory of parametrically amplified electron-phonon superconductivity. Physical Review B 96 (1), 2017 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Bohrdt, A; Mendl, C B; Endres, M; Knap, M: Scrambling and thermalization in a diffusive quantum many-body system. New Journal of Physics 19 (6), 2017, 063001 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Bordia, Pranjal; Lüschen, Henrik; Schneider, Ulrich; Knap, Michael; Bloch, Immanuel: Periodically driving a many-body localized quantum system. Nature Physics 13 (5), 2017, 460-464 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Gopalakrishnan, Sarang; Islam, K. Ranjibul; Knap, Michael: Noise-Induced Subdiffusion in Strongly Localized Quantum Systems. Physical Review Letters 119 (4), 2017 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Meinert, Florian; Knap, Michael; Kirilov, Emil; Jag-Lauber, Katharina; Zvonarev, Mikhail B.; Demler, Eugene; Nägerl, Hanns-Christoph: Bloch oscillations in the absence of a lattice. Science 356 (6341), 2017, 945-948 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Weidinger, Simon A.; Heyl, Markus; Silva, Alessandro; Knap, Michael: Dynamical quantum phase transitions in systems with continuous symmetry breaking. Physical Review B 96 (13), 2017 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Weidinger, Simon A.; Knap, Michael: Floquet prethermalization and regimes of heating in a periodically driven, interacting quantum system. Scientific Reports 7 (1), 2017 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )

2016

  • Cetina, M.; Jag, M.; Lous, R. S.; Fritsche, I.; Walraven, J. T. M.; Grimm, R.; Levinsen, J.; Parish, M. M.; Schmidt, R.; Knap, M.; Demler, E.: Ultrafast many-body interferometry of impurities coupled to a Fermi sea. Science 354 (6308), 2016, 96-99 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Gopalakrishnan, Sarang; Agarwal, Kartiek; Demler, Eugene A.; Huse, David A.; Knap, Michael: Griffiths effects and slow dynamics in nearly many-body localized systems. Physical Review B 93 (13), 2016 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Gopalakrishnan, Sarang; Knap, Michael; Demler, Eugene: Regimes of heating and dynamical response in driven many-body localized systems. Physical Review B 94 (9), 2016 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Knap, Michael; Babadi, Mehrtash; Refael, Gil; Martin, Ivar; Demler, Eugene: Dynamical Cooper pairing in nonequilibrium electron-phonon systems. Physical Review B 94 (21), 2016 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Wild, Dominik S.; Gopalakrishnan, Sarang; Knap, Michael; Yao, Norman Y.; Lukin, Mikhail D.: Adiabatic Quantum Search in Open Systems. Physical Review Letters 117 (15), 2016 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )

2015

  • Agarwal, Kartiek; Gopalakrishnan, Sarang; Knap, Michael; Müller, Markus; Demler, Eugene: Anomalous Diffusion and Griffiths Effects Near the Many-Body Localization Transition. Physical Review Letters 114 (16), 2015 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Babadi, Mehrtash; Demler, Eugene; Knap, Michael: Far-from-Equilibrium Field Theory of Many-Body Quantum Spin Systems: Prethermalization and Relaxation of Spin Spiral States in Three Dimensions. Physical Review X 5 (4), 2015 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Bukov, Marin; Gopalakrishnan, Sarang; Knap, Michael; Demler, Eugene: Prethermal Floquet Steady States and Instabilities in the Periodically Driven, Weakly Interacting Bose-Hubbard Model. Physical Review Letters 115 (20), 2015 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Gopalakrishnan, Sarang; Müller, Markus; Khemani, Vedika; Knap, Michael; Demler, Eugene; Huse, David A.: Low-frequency conductivity in many-body localized systems. Physical Review B 92 (10), 2015 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Smacchia, Pietro; Knap, Michael; Demler, Eugene; Silva, Alessandro: Exploring dynamical phase transitions and prethermalization with quantum noise of excitations. Physical Review B 91 (20), 2015 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )