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Maxim Olchanyi (Olshanii)
 

Associate Professor

Department of Physics
University of Massachusetts at Boston
100 Morrissey Blvd
Boston, MA 02125

Homepage
Office: S–3–084
Email: here
Phone: 617 287 6039
Fax: 617 287 6053



Research Interests
Theoretical Many-Body Physics:
  • Cold Atomic Gases
  • Quantum Non-Equilibrium Dynamics
  • Integrable Systems
  • Chaos in Classical Fields
  • Scattering in Restricted Geometries
Current Research Topics
  • Eigenstate Thermalization
  • Thermalization in and Chemical Kinetics of Integrable Quantum Gases
  • Chaos and Thermalization in Bose-Hubbard Model
  • Renormalization Group Approach to Computation of Correllation Functions of Quantum Gases
  • Quantum Anomalies in Two-Dimensional Quantum Gases
  • Kadomtsev-Petviashvili Solitons in Two-Dimensional Quantum Gases
Research Group
Dr. Marcos Rigol, Post-Doc
Dr. Vanja Dunjko, Post-Doc
Amy Cassidy, Graduate Assistant
 
Classes
Physics 613: Quantum Mechanics, Atomic, and Molecular Physics | syllabus
Physics 616: Mathematical Methods in Physics

Selected Publications 
Thermalization and its mechanism for generic isolated quantum systems
Marcos Rigol, Vanja Dunjko, and Maxim Olshanii
Nature 452, 854 (2008)  

Collisions, Correlations, and Integrability in Atom Waveguides
Vladimir Yurovsky, Maxim Olshanii, and David Weiss
Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics 55, 62 (2008)  

Relaxation in a completely integrable many-body quantum system: an ab initio study of the dynamics of the highly excited states of lattice hard-core bosons
Marcos Rigol, Vanja Dunjko, Vladimir Yurovsky, Maxim Olshani
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 050405 (2007)  

One-dimensional Bose chemistry: effects of non-integrability
V. A. Yurovsky, A. Ben-Reuven, M. Olshanii
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 163201 (2006)  

Theory of spinor Fermi and Bose gases in tight atom waveguides
M. D. Girardeau and M. Olshanii
Phys. Rev. A 98, 023608 (2004)  

Scattering in tight atom waveguides (lecture course, Les Houches School on "Quantum Gases in Low Dimensions")
M. G. Moore, T. Bergeman, and M. Olshanii
J. Phys. IV France 116, 69 (2004)  

Short-Distance Correlation Properties of the Lieb-Liniger System and Momentum Distributions of Trapped One-Dimensional Atomic Gases
Maxim Olshanii and Vanja Dunjko
Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 090401 (2003)  

Rigorous approach to the problem of ultraviolet divergencies in dilute Bose gases
Maxim Olshanii and Ludovic Pricoupenko
Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 010402 (2002)  

Atomic scattering in the presence of an external confinement and a gas of impenetrable bosons
M. Olshanii
Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 938 (1998)