Many systems in nature can remain for a long time in states far from equilibrium, such as supercooled water or the magnetic memory in our computers. This occurs when the system becomes trapped in a local energy minimum. In our research, we focus on understanding how such metastable behavior can arise in quantum many-body systems.
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