activity
20242026
collaborators

5 papers

quant-ph2026

Tunable Mpemba Effect in a Prethermal Many-Body Spin Network

Chaitali Shah, Cooper M. Selco, Leo Joon Il Moon +1

Relaxation in an interacting system is determined not only by its initial distance from equilibrium, but also by the relaxation modes populated by the initial state. Here we experi…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Continuous-Time Random Walk Description of Anomalous Spin Transport in Dilute Dipolar Networks

Cooper M. Selco, Christian Bengs, Ashok Ajoy

Nuclear spin diffusion is often summarized by a single diffusion coefficient, but this coarse-grained description can fail in dilute solids where positional disorder and long-range…

quant-ph2026

Breakdown of Disorder-Suppressed Floquet Heating under Two-Frequency Driving

Cooper M. Selco, Christian Bengs, Chaitali Shah +1

Periodic (Floquet) driving enables Hamiltonian engineering and nonequilibrium phases, but interacting systems eventually heat by absorbing energy from the drive. Disorder can great…

quant-ph2025

Emergent Decoherence Dynamics in Doubly Disordered Spin Networks

Cooper M. Selco, Christian Bengs, Chaitali Shah +2

Elucidating the emergence of irreversible macroscopic laws from reversible quantum many-body dynamics is a question of broad importance across all quantum science. Many-body decohe…

quant-ph2024

Cryogenic field-cycling instrument for optical NMR hyperpolarization studies

Noella D'Souza, Kieren A. Harkins, Cooper Selco +10

Optical dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) offers an attractive approach to enhancing the sensitivity of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Efficient, optically-generat…