I am a fourth year physics Ph.D student at Boston University, advised by Professor Anatoli Polkovnikov. My research interests are in classical and quantum chaos in many-body systems, and tensor network algorithms. My work mainly involves numerics such as exact diagonalization, solving coupled ODEs, and tensor networks.
I received my B.A. in physics at Williams College, advised by Professor Frederick Strauch.
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We propose a formalism which defines chaos in both quantum and classical systems in an equivalent manner by means of \textitadiabatic transformations. The complexity of adiabatic transformations which preserve classical time-averaged trajectories (quantum eigenstates) in response to Hamiltonian deformations serves as a measure of chaos. This complexity is quantified by the (properly regularized) fidelity susceptibility. Physically this measure quantifies long time instabilities of physical observables due to small changes in the Hamiltonian of the system. Our exposition clearly showcases the common structures underlying quantum and classical chaos and allows us to distinguish integrable, chaotic but non-thermalizing, and ergodic/mixing regimes. We apply the fidelity susceptibility to a model of two coupled spins and demonstrate that it successfully predicts the universal onset of chaos, both for finite spin S and in the classical limit S →∞. Interestingly, we find that finite S effects are anomalously large close to integrability.
@article{lim2024definingclassicalquantumchaos,title={Defining classical and quantum chaos through adiabatic transformations},author={Lim, Cedric and Matirko, Kirill and Kim, Hyeongjin and Polkovnikov, Anatoli and Flynn, Michael O.},year={2024},journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.01927},}
Variational Adiabatic Transport of Tensor Networks
We discuss a tensor network method for constructing the adiabatic gauge potential—the generator of adiabatic transformations—as a matrix product operator, which allows us to adiabatically transport matrix product states. Adiabatic evolution of tensor networks offers a wide range of applications, of which two are explored in this paper: improving tensor network optimization and scanning phase diagrams. By efficiently transporting eigenstates to quantum criticality and performing intermediary density-matrix renormalization group (DMRG) optimizations along the way, we demonstrate that we can compute ground and low-lying excited states faster and more reliably than a standard DMRG method at or near quantum criticality. We demonstrate a simple automated step size adjustment and detection of the critical point based on the norm of the adiabatic gauge potential. Remarkably, we are able to reliably transport states through the critical point of the models we study.
@article{PRXQuantum.5.020361,title={Variational Adiabatic Transport of Tensor Networks},author={Kim, Hyeongjin and Fishman, Matthew and Sels, Dries},journal={PRX Quantum},volume={5},issue={2},pages={020361},numpages={13},year={2024},month=jun,publisher={American Physical Society},doi={10.1103/PRXQuantum.5.020361},}
The interplay between quantum chaos and integrability has been extensively studied in the past decades. We approach this topic from the point of view of geometry encoded in the quantum geometric tensor, which describes the complexity of adiabatic transformations. In particular, we consider two generic models of spin chains that are parameterized by two independent couplings. In one, the integrability breaking perturbation is global while, in the other, integrability is broken only at the boundary. In both cases, the shortest paths in the coupling space lead towards integrable regions and we argue that this behavior is generic. These regions thus act as attractors of adiabatic flows similar to river basins in nature. Physically, the directions towards integrable regions are characterized by faster relaxation dynamics than those parallel to integrability, and the anisotropy between them diverges in the thermodynamic limit as the system approaches the integrable point. We also provide evidence that the transition from integrable to chaotic behavior is universal for both models, similar to continuous phase transitions, and that the model with local integrability breaking quickly becomes chaotic but avoids ergodicity.
@article{PhysRevB.109.195162,title={Integrability as an attractor of adiabatic flows},author={Kim, Hyeongjin and Polkovnikov, Anatoli},journal={Phys. Rev. B},volume={109},issue={19},pages={195162},numpages={16},year={2024},month=may,publisher={American Physical Society},doi={10.1103/PhysRevB.109.195162},}
You can also reach me via hkim12 [at] bu [dot] edu.
