Sven Bachmann

Krener Assistant Professor
University of California, Davis

Research interests: Mathematical physics
In particular statistical physics at and out of equilibrium: ground state properties of quantum spin systems and quantum phase transitions, fluctuations and universality of (charge) transport, specifically in disordered systems.

Mailing address:Department of Mathematics
One Shields Avenue
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA 95616

Mathematics Department Office: MSB 2149
Phone: (530) 554 1473
Email: svenbac@math.ucdavis.edu


Publications

  1. Product vacua with boundary states , with B. Nachtergaele, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett.
  2. The Mass Shell of the Nelson Model without Cut-Offs , with D.-A. Deckert and A. Pizzo, submitted to J. Functional Analysis
  3. Automorphic Equivalence within Gapped Phases of Quantum Lattice Systems , with S. Michalakis, B. Nachtergaele and R. Sims, Comm. Math. Phys., vol 309, no. 3, 835-871 (2012)
  4. From the Anderson model on a strip to the DMPK equation and random matrix theory, with W. De Roeck, J. Stat. Phys., vol. 139, no.4, 541-564
  5. Time ordering and counting statistics, with G.M. Graf and G. Lesovik, J. Stat. Phys., vol. 138, no.1, 333-350
  6. Fredholm determinants and the statistics of charge transport, with J.E. Avron, G.M. Graf and I. Klich, Comm. Math. Phys., vol. 280, no. 3, 807-829
  7. On the Casimir effect with general dispersion relations, with A. Kempf, J. Phys. A, vol 41, 164021
  8. Chaos in a three-body self-gravitating cosmological spacetime, with M.J. Koop and R.B. Mann, Phys. Rev. D, vol 76, 104051

Conference proceedings


Short CV

July 2009 -- : UC Davis, USA - Postdoc and Visiting assistant professor
September 2005 -- August 2009 : ETH Zurich, Switzerland - Doctoral student
September 2004 -- April 2005 : University of Waterloo, Canada - Master's thesis
October 2000 -- July 2004 : EPF Lausanne, Switzerland - Undergraduate studies in physics
- Includes one exchange year at the University of Waterloo, Canada

Recent Invited Talks


Teaching

Past teaching assistant (ETH Zurich)