Akash Jain
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Akash Jain

Postdoctoral Research Associate · University of Oxford

Theoretical physicist working on how many-body systems behave out of equilibrium.

Research

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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.

Recent talks

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  • Holography, Gauge Theories and Black Holes Workshop

    University of Southampton, UK

    Schwinger-Keldysh effective field theory

  • Contours 2026: EFTs Meet the Schwinger-Keldysh Formalism

    University of Cambridge, UK

    Schwinger-Keldysh hydrodynamics of the SYK lattice

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  • Correlated Quantum Systems Workshop

    Institut Pascal, Université Paris-Saclay, France

    Schwinger-Keldysh hydrodynamics of the SYK lattice

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