Felix A. Palm
I am a theoretical physicist at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels) in the group of Nathan Goldman. My research focuses on strongly correlated quantum many-body systems and cold atom quantum simulation, with an emphasis on fractional quantum Hall physics in optical lattices. In my work, I am combining analytical approaches (in particular variational states) and numerical methods (especially tensor network techniques like DMRG simulations) to understand exotic states of matter. More broadly, I am interested in interacting quantum phases of matter and the opportunities to understand them using quantum simulators.
Feel free to get in touch at felix.palm[at]ulb.be – I’m always happy to discuss!
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My ORCID is 0000–0001-5774–5546.
News
07/2024 // Will quantum simulators soon find gapless Majorana edge modes? It might be harder than we thought, at least in bosonic flux ladders. Read the details in our latest preprint.
05/2024 // How do you detect and characterize topological order in your quantum simulator using a smart basis choice? Check out our paper published in Phys. Rev. Research to find some hidden order!
05/2024 // Can neural networks help with simulating topological quantum systems? The realistic answer is „yes, but…“: we’ve investigated the potential and limitations of recurrent neural networks by studying a long-range interacting Hofstadter model. Find out more in our new paper on the arXiv.
02/2024 // Suppose you are not done after realizing a Laughlin state of two atoms in your optical lattice. How do you get a larger Laughlin state out of this important building block? Use our growing schemes, which were now published in Phys. Rev. Research – and even detect the fractional quasi-hole charge!
10/2023 // I’m starting my postdoc at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in the group of Nathan Goldman today! Looking forward to this very exciting opportunity to work with a great new team in Europe’s capital
07/2023 // How can a single center site stabilize Bose-Einstein condensation on a ring? Our paper on an emergent \(\mathbb{Z}_2\)-symmetry on a wheel was just published in Communications Physics. This is my first publication in the Nature portfolio! 🎉
06/2023 // I successfully defended my PhD thesis! 👨🎓🎉
05/2023 // I submitted my PhD thesis 👨💻 – Still have to defend it in June, but this really feels like a major milestone!
02/2023 // Our paper on ferromagnetism and skyrmions in the Hofstadter-Fermi-Hubbard model has been published in the New Journal of Physics (NJP)!
08/2022 // What can Fock basis snapshots tell us about the central charge of a Laughlin edge state? Check out our letter recently published in Phys. Rev. B.
11/2021 // I’ll be visiting the group of Mohammad Hafezi at the University of Maryland for a 5‑month research stay this winter.
04/2021 // Check out my first paper published in Phys. Rev. B! We studied the possibility to realize the bosonic Pfaffian state on a Hofstadter-Hubbard cylinder.