Felix A. Palm
I am a theoretical physicist at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels) in the group of Nathan Goldman. My research focuses on strongly correlated quantum many-body systems and cold atom quantum simulation, with an emphasis on fractional quantum Hall physics in optical lattices. In my work, I am combining analytical approaches (in particular variational states) and numerical methods (especially tensor network techniques like DMRG simulations) to understand exotic states of matter. More broadly, I am interested in interacting quantum phases of matter and the opportunities to understand them using quantum simulators.
Feel free to get in touch at felix.palm[at]ulb.be – I’m always happy to discuss!
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My ORCID is 0000–0001-5774–5546.
News
01/2025 // Can neural networks help with simulating topological quantum systems? The realistic answer is „yes, but…“: we’ve investigated the potential and limitations of recurrent neural networks by studying a long-range interacting Hofstadter model. Find out more in our latest paper in Phys. Rev. B.
01/2025 // Will quantum simulators soon find gapless Majorana edge modes? It might be harder than we thought, at least in bosonic flux ladders. Read the details in our new paper in Phys. Rev. Research.
05/2024 // How do you detect and characterize topological order in your quantum simulator using a smart basis choice? Check out our paper published in Phys. Rev. Research to find some hidden order!
02/2024 // Suppose you are not done after realizing a Laughlin state of two atoms in your optical lattice. How do you get a larger Laughlin state out of this important building block? Use our growing schemes, which were now published in Phys. Rev. Research – and even detect the fractional quasi-hole charge!
10/2023 // I’m starting my postdoc at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in the group of Nathan Goldman today! Looking forward to this very exciting opportunity to work with a great new team in Europe’s capital
07/2023 // How can a single center site stabilize Bose-Einstein condensation on a ring? Our paper on an emergent \(\mathbb{Z}_2\)-symmetry on a wheel was just published in Communications Physics. This is my first publication in the Nature portfolio! 🎉
06/2023 // I successfully defended my PhD thesis! 👨🎓🎉
05/2023 // I submitted my PhD thesis 👨💻 – Still have to defend it in June, but this really feels like a major milestone!
02/2023 // Our paper on ferromagnetism and skyrmions in the Hofstadter-Fermi-Hubbard model has been published in the New Journal of Physics (NJP)!
08/2022 // What can Fock basis snapshots tell us about the central charge of a Laughlin edge state? Check out our letter recently published in Phys. Rev. B.
11/2021 // I’ll be visiting the group of Mohammad Hafezi at the University of Maryland for a 5‑month research stay this winter.
04/2021 // Check out my first paper published in Phys. Rev. B! We studied the possibility to realize the bosonic Pfaffian state on a Hofstadter-Hubbard cylinder.