• Ph.D. Boston University, 2011

Research Interests:

• Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics

Selected Recent Publications:

1. Gia-Wei Chern, Armin Rahmani, Ivar Martin and Cristian D. Batista Quantum Hall ice, arXiv:1212.3617 (2012).
2. Armin Rahmani, Takuya Kitagawa, Eugene Demler and Claudio Chamon Cooling through optimal control of quantum evolution, arXiv:1210.5244 (2012).
3. Luca D'Alessio and Armin Rahmani, Thermally isolated Luttinger liquids with noisy Hamiltonians, arXiv:1207.1441v1 (2012).
4. Chang-Yu Hou, Armin Rahmani, Adrian Feiguin and Claudio Chamon, Junctions of multiple quantum wires with different Luttinger parameters, Phys. Rev. B 86, 075451 (2012).
5. Rodrigo A. Muniz, Armin Rahmani and Ivar Martin, Fractionalization in spontaneous integer quantum Hall systems, arXiv:1112.3347 (2012).
6. Armin Rahmani, Chang-Yu Hou, Adrian Feiguin, Masaki Oshikawa, Claudio Chamon and Ian Affleck, General method for calculating the universal conductance of strongly correlated junctions of multiple quantum wires, Phys. Rev. B 85, 045120 (2012).
7. Armin Rahmani and Claudio Chamon, Optimal control for unitary preparation of many-body states: application to Luttinger liquids, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 016402 (2011).
8. Armin Rahmani and Claudio Chamon, Exact results on the quench dynamics of the entanglement entropy in the toric code, Phys. Rev. B 82, 134303 (2010).
9. Armin Rahmani, Chang-Yu Hou, Adrian Feiguin, Claudio Chamon and Ian Affleck, How to find conductance tensors of quantum multi-wire junctions through static calculations: application to an interacting Y-junction, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 226803 (2010).
10. Armin Rahmani, Andrea Velenich and Claudio Chamon, Spanning trees for the geometry and dynamics of compact polymers, J. Stat. Mech. (2010) L03004.