Postdoctoral Research Associate in Non-Equilibrium Many-Body Physics

at  Kings College London

Job id: 099768. Salary: £46,421 per annum, including London Weigthing Alloowance.
Posted: 13 November 2024. Closing date: 27 November 2024.
Business unit: Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sci. Department: Mathematics.
Contact details: Benjamin Doyon. benjamin.doyon@kcl.ac.uk
Location: Strand Campus. Category: Research.
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About us
The Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences (NMES) comprises the Departments of Chemistry, Informatics, Mathematics, Physics.
The Department of Mathematics has a distinguished scientific tradition in pure and applied mathematics and statistics. Since its foundation in 1830, it has established a reputation as a world-leading centre for the research and study of mathematics.
About the role
The Department of Mathematics at King’s College London invites applications for 1 postdoctoral research associate position for a duration of 24 months starting in October 2025.
The successful candidate will work on several projects related to many-body systems, with particular interest in the regime when they are inhomogeneous and out-of-equilibrium, and they are well described via hydrodynamics theories. They will be supported by EPSRC under grant UNIHYPE: Universal hydrodynamic principles and emergent physics, EP/Z534304/1 (assessed under the ERC Advanced Grant scheme).
The ideal candidate will hold a PhD in theoretical/condensed matter physics, with knowledge of non-equilibrium many-body physics and some methods of integrability, and with some numerical skills.
The post is offered at a competitive salary (Grade 6, Spine Point 33 on the KCL salary scale), and includes provisions for travel money, computing equipment, and academic and leadership training.
This is a full-time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered on a fixed term contract, ending in September 2027.
About you
To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:
Essential criteria
1. PhD qualified in relevant subject area (or pending results) (theoretical physics, statistical/condensed matter physics or related areas)
2. Knowledge and analytical skills in the subjects of entanglement and/or non-equilibrium behaviours in many-body physics
3. Some knowledge of methods of integrability such as Bethe ansatz, form factors, conformal field theory or inverse scattering techniques.
4. Solid track record of publications
5. Robust presentation skills
6. Competence in spoken and written English
7. Ability to work in a team
Desirable criteria
1. Some knowledge of numerical methods in many-body physics, such as Monte Carlo methods, Density Matrix Renormalisation Group or Truncated Conformal Space Approach
2. Some knowledge of field theory
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