Akash Jain
Theoretical Physicist · University of Oxford
Building effective field theories of matter out of equilibrium
Research
All research →I work on the physics of many-body systems away from equilibrium: how fluids, plasmas, crystals and living matter flow and relax, and how quantum systems become chaotic. My main tool is effective field theory, which builds descriptions of long-distance, late-time behaviour from symmetries, thermodynamics and the random fluctuations present in every real system, complemented by holography and solvable models.
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Upcoming
Organising a workshop on Solvable Models of Quantum Chaos at Wadham College, University of Oxford.
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New paper: Out-of-time-order hydrodynamics and scrambling, with Marta Bucca, Márk Mezei and Alexey Milekhin.
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Giorgos Batzios defended his PhD thesis, “An effective approach to D-branes”, at the University of Amsterdam.
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Invited review talk, “Schwinger-Keldysh effective field theory”, at the Holography, Gauge Theories and Black Holes workshop, University of Southampton.
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Invited talk, “Schwinger-Keldysh hydrodynamics of the SYK lattice”, at Contours 2026, University of Cambridge.