Nayan Myerson-Jain
Yale Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship
SPL 54
Research Areas:
Condensed Matter
Research Type:
Theorist
Biographical Sketch:
I received my Bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2020, and PhD in Physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2025.
Research:
I mainly study quantum criticality and critical phenomena, as well as information-theoretic properties of quantum many-body systems. Recently, I have been especially involved in studying new physics that may arise at boundaries or defects of quantum critical points, where gapless fluctuations in the bulk lead to novel universality classes of these impurities. Additionally, I am interested in the entanglement properties of quantum many-body systems under noise and measurement, as well as the classification of mixed-state phases more broadly.
Education:
Ph.D. 2025, University of California, Santa Barbara