About me
Hi, my name is Cheryne. I study dynamics and emergent phenomena in interacting many-body systems. In particular, I like to ask how entanglement, operators, and information spread. I am interested in the question of if and how a system relaxes to equilibrium, probing universal aspects, as well as engineering mechanisms that defy thermalization and retain memory of their initial state. I like to combine analytical methods, including random matrix theory, random quantum circuits, and coarse-graining, with large-scale numerics to understand these systems. My computer is my lab: I iterate between thinking about a problem and running numerical experiments, testing ideas through prototyping.
Research
Many-body quantum dynamics, thermalization, entanglement growth, operator spreading, and mechanisms for preserving memory in complex systems.
Background
I'm a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, working in Tomaž Prosen's group on quantum many-body dynamics. I also hold a Start-up Fellowship from the German Research Foundation, as part of the FOR 5522 research unit .
I obtained my Ph.D. in Physics from Stanford University in 2024, working under the supervision of Vedika Khemani. Before Stanford, I completed an MSc at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics under Timothy Hsieh. Along the way, I spent a semester at the Independent University of Moscow through the Math in Moscow program. I completed my undergraduate studies at Princeton University, where I worked with David Huse, and before that I did the International Baccalaureate at UWC Atlantic College in Wales.
I grew up in a small town in central Switzerland.
Misc
When I'm not at my desk, I'm usually upside down, out in nature, somewhere new. Or at least I used to be, these days I'm mostly chasing a little potato around.