LAFLORENCIE Nicolas

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• Theory of condensed matter and strongly correlated systems
• Disordered quantum systems, Many-Body localization (MBL)
• Quantum magnetism, low dimensionality, frustration, high magnetic fields
• Quantum entanglement in condensed matter physics
• Numerical simulations, effective models, semi-classical approaches

Recent invited talks

• Some recent results on Majorana chains, seminar cycle interplay of CMT and quantum computing (QAMBS), Amsterdam, March 25 2025.
• Some fresh news from the MBL side, Workshop on Entanglement in Strongly Correlated Systems, Benasque (Spain) Feb 23 – Mar 08, 2025.
• Statistics of systemwide correlations in the random-field XXZ chain – A new perspective on MBL, Indo-French workshop on Classical and quantum dynamics in out of equilibrium systems, ICTS Bangalore (India) Dec 15-21, 2024.
• Interaction-Driven Instabilities in the Random-Field XXZ Chain, CEFIPRA French-Indian workshop on Topology and Entanglement in Quantum Matter 2024, Toulouse June 3-7 2024.
• Many-Body Localization in a simple quantum spin chain model, 46th National Congress on Numerical Analysis
  from May 27 to May 31, 2024 — Le-Bois-Plage-en-Ré, Ile de Ré.
• (Quasi) 2D Quantum Magnets when theory (tries to) meet experiments, LNCMI Toulouse April 2024.
• From Anderson to MBL, IHP Paris February 2024.

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MINI CV

• September 2021 – January 2022: Invited Professor at DIPC (Spain)
• Since 2020: Directeur de Recherche CNRS at LPT Toulouse
• 2016: Habilitation « Quantum entanglement in condensed matter systems »
• 2011-2020: Chargé de Recherche CNRS at LPT Toulouse
• 2007-2011: Chargé de Recherche CNRS at LPS Orsay
• 2006-2007: Postdoc at EPFL (Switzerland)
• 2004-2006: Postdoc at UBC (Canada)
• 2004: PhD at LPT Toulouse

Teaching 40 hours per year at ISAE (SupAero)

• Special Relativity
• Quantum Mechanics
• Statistical Physics
• Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics.

Recent fundings

• PI of ANR ManyBodyNet (Many-Body Localization and Complex Networks) [2024 – 2028]
• Partner of PEPR HQI (Hybrid Quantum Initiative) [2022 – 2027]
• PI of ClimbTheMBLwall (Labex NEXT) [2021-2024]
• Partner of ANR GLADYS (On the Glassy nature of Quantum Disordered Systems)
• Partner of METHOR (Labex NEXT) (Dynamical mean-field theory with disorder) [2019 – 2022]

• President of the Société Française de Physique (SFP) Midi-Pyrénées [since January 2022]
• Secretary of the SFP Midi-Pyrénées [January 2012 – December 2021]
• Regular animation of the Supra levitation workshop since 2011 (science fair, presentation to students…)