Michael Buchhold

Institute for Theoretical Physics
University of Cologne
Zülpicher Str. 77
Room 2.09 (New Building)
D-50937 Cologne
Germany
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Research Interests

    Hybrid Quantum Systems
  • Measurement-Induced Quantum Phase Transitions in Monitored Fermion Systems
  • Effective Theory of Measurement-Induced Dynamics
  • Non-Hermitian Field Theory
  • Non-equilibrium dynamics of driven, strongly interacting cold atoms
  • Emergent, Dynamical Networks and the Role of Heterogeneity on Cold Atom Dynamics
  • Self-organized Criticality
  • Dark State Phase Transitions
  • Disorder and Quantum Dynamics
  • Frustrated Magnets
  • Disorder Effects in Topological Semimetals

Scientific CV

since 04/2020 PostDoc at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne, Germany
08/2017 - 03/2020 Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the IQIM
(California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA)
12/2015 - 07/2017 PostDoc in the group of Prof. Dr. Sebastian Diehl
(University of Cologne, Germany)
09/2015 - 11/2015 PostDoc in group of Prof. Dr. Sebastian Diehl
(Technical University Dresden, Germany)
09/2014 - 08/2015 PhD student in group of Prof. Dr. Sebastian Diehl
(Technical University Dresden, Germany)
09/2012 - 08/2014 PhD student in group of Prof. Dr. Sebastian Diehl
(University of Innsbruck, Austria)
04/2007 - 08/2012 Undergraduate studies, Bachelors and Masters in the group of Prof. Dr. Walter Hofstetter
(University of Frankfurt, Germany)

Teaching

Summer 2021: Lecturer of Nonequilibrium Field Theory
Winter 2020/21: Tutor for lecture Modern Mathematical Methods for Physicists
Winter 2016/17: Tutor for lecture Advanced Statistical Mechanics
Summer 2012: Tutor for lecture Theoretical Physics IV: Quantum Mechanics
Winter 2011/12: Tutor for lecture Theoretical Physics III: Classical Electrodynamics
Summer 2011: Tutor for lecture Theoretical Physics VI: Advanced Quantum Mechanics
Winter 2010/2011: Tutor for lecture Theoretical Physics V: Statistical Physics
Summer 2010: Tutor for lecture Theoretical Physics IV: Quantum Mechanics
Winter 2009/2010: Tutor for lecture Theoretical Physics V: Statistical Physics

Publications

Please have a look at the complete list of my publications on the arXiv or my Google Scholar profile.
More information and a summary of my research can be found on my personal website.

Thesis

  1. Thermalization and Out-of-Equilibrium Dynamics in Open Quantum Many-Body Systems
  2. Michael Buchhold, PhD Thesis, 2015

  3. Topological Phases of Interacting Fermions in Optical Lattices with Artificial Gauge Fields
  4. Michael Buchhold, Masters Thesis, 2012

  5. Collapse and Revival of Interacting Bosons in Optical Lattices
  6. Michael Buchhold, Bachelor Thesis, 2010