Julia Wildeboer

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department
Bldg. 734
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-7352
jwildeboe@bnl.gov

Expertise | Research | Education | Appointments | Publications | Highlights

Expertise

• condensed matter theory
• quantum information
• various numerical methods (Monte Carlo, exact diagonalization, DMRG, ...)

Research Activities

• Out-of-equilibrium quantum many-body systems: nonergodic quantum dynamics, quantum thermalization, quantum many-body scars, ...
• Topological states of matter: topological order in 2D systems, physics of anyons, entanglement, new probes for  detecting and characterizing topological order, (frustrated) quantum magnetism, (exactly solvable) models especially  for investigating physics outside established paradigms
• Quantum information: robust storage and manipulation of quantum information

Education

Ph.D. in Physics, Washington University in St. Louis, advisor: Prof. Alexander Seidel,                                                                    Thesis in Condensed Matter Theory: “Physics of Resonating Valence Bond Spin Liquids”

M.Sc. in Physics, Technical University of Dresden, Germany

Professional Appointments

2023 - present Scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory

2020-2022 postdoctoral researcher at Iowa State University

2019-2020 postdoctoral researcher at Arizona State University

2019 visiting postdoctoral researcher at Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany

2016-2018 postdoctoral researcher at the University of Kentucky

2013-2016 postdoctoral researcher at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Selected Publications

• Wildeboer J, Langlett CM, Yang Z-C, et al (2022) Quantum many-body scars from Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen states in bilayer systems. Physical Review B 106:. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.106.205142
• Wildeboer J, Seidel A, Srivatsa NS, et al (2021) Topological quantum many-body scars in quantum dimer models on the kagome lattice. Physical Review B 104:. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.104.l121103
• Wildeboer J, Seidel A, Melko RG (2017) Entanglement entropy and topological order in resonating valence-bond quantum spin liquids. Physical Review B 95:. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.95.100402
• Wildeboer J, Seidel A (2012) Correlation Functions in SU(2)-Invariant Resonating-Valence-Bond Spin Liquids on Nonbipartite Lattices. Physical Review Letters 109:. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.109.147208
• Wildeboer J, Iadecola T, Williamson DJ (2021) Symmetry-Protected Infinite-Temperature Quantum Memory from Subsystem Codes. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2110.05710

Research Highlights

• design of special type of quantum many-body scars (rainbow scars and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen scars)
• design of new exactly solvable models to investigate quantum phenonema
• solution of the sign-problem that afflicts Monte Carlo simulations for special cases of RVB systems on nonbipartite lattices such as the kagome and the triangular lattice