Directeur de Recherche CNRS
ivan.khaymovich(at)irsamc.ups-tlse.fr
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Main research areas:
– Non-ergodic (multifractal) phases of matter
– Random matrix models
– Anderson and many-body localization
– Relations between entanglement and multifractality
– Correlation-induced localization in long-range disordered systems
– Deviations from ergodicity in quantum many-body systems
Recent/Selected Invited Talks
Usually I give 4-5 invited talks a year in physical and math-physical conferences (see 2 recent examples Bielefeld’25, São Paulo’25 below). The major ones include: European (’24, ’22) and German Physical Society meetings (’23), Cargese meetings (’23, ’25).
Feb 2026 NanoX FERMI Days, Toulouse, FR
Dec 2025 XXI Brunel-Bielefeld Workshop “Random Matrix Theory and Applications”, Bielefeld, DE
Nov 2025 Cargese Workshop “Topology and Disorder in Wave Physics”, Cargese, FR
Sep 2025 Program on Quantum Many-Body Dynamics: Thermalization and its Violations, São Paulo, BR
Sep 2024 31th conference of the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society, Braga, PT.
Jun 2024 Bridging the Physics and Mathematics of Quantum Many-Body Chaos, Helsinki, FI.
Jun 2024 International Workshop on Disordered Systems, Salamanca, ES.
Jul 2023 School and workshop “Glassy Systems and Inter-Disciplinary Applications”, Cargese, FR
Mar 2023 German Physical Society (DPG) meeting in Condensed Matter Section (SKM), Dresden, DE
Aug 2022 29th conference of the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society, UK
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Organization of scientific events
Oct 2026 Nordita workshop “Quantum Thermalization Breakdown: Localization and Multifractality”, Stockholm, SE
Sep 2026 IIF Program “Quantum matter beyond ergodicity and thermalization”, Natal, BR
May 2025 Challenges in Theoretical Physics Education in Nordic Countries 2025, Stockholm, SE
Sep 2024 Nordita Summer School on Quantum Chaos, Dissipation & Information, Stockholm, SE
Aug 2024 BalCon for Theoretical Physics “New Avenues in Quantum Materials”, Chalmers, SE
Aug 2024 ICTP workshop “Localization and ergodicity”, Trieste, IT.
Jun 2023 BalCon for Theoretical Physics “Dynamical and Hidden Orders”, Nordita, Stockholm, SE.
Jan 2023 Nordita Winter School in Condensed Matter Physics, Stockholm, SE
Nov 2022 Ergodicity breaking and integrability in long-range systems, Nordita, Sweden.
Employment
2026 – now Directeur de Recherche 2, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, CNRS, Toulouse, FR.
2022 – 2026 Nordita Ass. Professor (fix-term), Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stockholm, SE.
2016 – 2022 Staff Scientist – independent researcher (5.5 years), Condensed Matter Division,
Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems (MPIPKS), Dresden, DE.
2015 – 2016 Postdoctoral researcher (1 year), Supervisor: D. Basko
Laboratory of Physics and Modeling of Condensed Media LPMMC, CNRS Grenoble, FR.
2013 – 2015 Postdoctoral researcher (2.5 years), Supervisors: N. B. Kopnin and J. Pekola
Theory group and experimental PICO group, Aalto University, Espoo, FI.
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Education
04/04/2013 PhD in Theoretical Physics, Institute for Physics of Microstructures Russian Academy of Sciences (IPM RAS), Nizhniy Novgorod, RU. PhD supervisor: Prof. A. S. Mel’nikov.
Title Influence of superconducting correlations and band structure peculiarities on the spectral and transport properties of quasi-two-dimensional Fermi-systems
01/07/2009 M.Sc. in Physics, Department “Advanced School of General and Applied Physics” (ASGAP), Nizhniy Novgorod State University, RU. Supervisor: Prof. A. S. Mel’nikov.
Title Magnetic properties of the hybrid structure “graphene – superconductor”
01/07/2007 B.Sc. in Physics, Department “Advanced School of General and Applied Physics”,
Nizhniy Novgorod State University (NNSU), RU. Supervisor: Prof. V. L. Bratman.
Title Cherenkov microwave frequency multiplier with self-excitation of low frequency wave.
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Supervision
Two postdocs are coming in August 2026 and January 2027.
2024 – 2026 I have supervised 3 Master interns within Nordita Summer Internship program.
07-09.2026 Summer intern Wanxiang Zhang (Oxford)
05-07.2026 Summer intern Sabarno Saha (IISER Kolkata)
2024-2025 Master intern Animesh Ghosh (now doing his PhD in University College Dublin)
05-06.2024 Visiting PhD student Bikram Pain, Nordita Visiting PhD Fellow program.
2023-2024 Master student Jose Afonso (co-supervision with Dr. P. Ribeiro), Lisbon University, Portugal
2018-2022 PhD student Anton Kutlin, MPIPKS, Dresden (defended in Oct 2024, now in CFM, Paris).
2017-2022 I have supervised 4 Master interns within MPIPKS Summer Internship program.
All 4 students found excellent PhD positions in the US and UK:
2021 – Vedant Motamarri (doing PhD in Cambridge),
2019 – Weichen Tang (doing PhD in Berkeley),
2018 – Pavel Nosov (defended his PhD in Stanford in 2024, now in Harvard),
2017 – Avinash Mandaiya (defended his PhD in Cornell in 2025, now at DESY).
Before that, I mentored 5 PhD students, 2 experimental ones in Aalto, 2 theoretical ones, visiting MPIPKS, and one, visiting Nordita. One of experimental ones, Shilpi Singh, works at Microsoft Quantum Lab Delft. Another is a founder of a robotic spin-off Athena Integrated Systems in Toronto.
Teaching
2024 Lecturer: “Ergodicity and its breaking in classical and quantum systems”, University of Iceland, Full-semester MSc course, 15 credits, IS
2021 Invited lecturer (online): “Eigenstate thermalization hypothesis and mechanisms of its breakdown”, 1/2-semester MSc/PhD course, ASGAP, NNSU, RU
2020 Invited lecturer (online): “Introduction to the non-equilibrium thermodynamics of classical systems and its relations to the information theory”, 1/2-semester MSc course, ASGAP, NNSU
2015 Lecturer: Introduction to the open quantum systems, full-semester MSc/PhD course,
Aalto University and University of Helsinki, shared with 3 other lecturers, FI.
During PhD studies – teaching assistant (TA) at Chair of Theoretical Physics Physical department, N. Novgorod State University, Russia:
2010 TA on Bachelor course Differential Equations with the lecturer A. I. Malyshev.
2010 TA on Bachelor course Theoretical mechanics with the lecturer A. A. Perov.
2009 TA on Bachelor course Electrodynamics with the lecturer A. A. Perov.
Pedagogical Training
At Stockholm University:
2025 Nov-Dec Research Supervision – Theory and Practice (3 credits).
2025 Dec Trial lecture for the docent degree at Stockholm University.
2024 Professional Development 1: Teaching and Learning (7.5 credits).