Marco Merkli
| Professor of Mathematics PhD Toronto 2000 Office: HH-3055 |
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Dr. Merkli received his PhD from the University of Toronto in 2000. After a three-year postdoc at ETH Zurich (Switzerland), a two-year postdoc at McGill University and the Centre de Recherches Mathematiques (Montreal) and a six-month research visit at the Fields Institute (Toronto), he joined the faculty of ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ University in 2006. His research is in mathematical physics, currently centered around the mathematics of open quantum systems. The goal is to rigorously describe various effects on the evolution of a quantum system due to its interaction with some environment (a very large other quantum system). These effects include, for instance, asymptotic relaxation (e.g. thermalization), (de)coherence, (dis)entanglement. They are important from a basic conceptual point of view, as well as from a practical one (quantum information, quantum computing). Mathematical tools used in his investigations are, other than standard functional analysis, (basic) theory of operator algebras, spectral theory of (unbounded non-normal) operators, spectral deformation theory, probability theory. |
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