| Tomaž Prosen | |
| Nationality: | Slovenian |
| Fields: | Physics |
| Workplaces: | University of Ljubljana |
| Alma Mater: | University of Ljubljana |
| Known For: | Many-body theory Quantum chaos |
| Awards: | Physik-Preis Dresden (2022),[1] Advanced grant of the European Research Council (ERC AdG 2015), Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Bessel Award (2009), Zois prize (2005) |
Tomaž Prosen (born 1970) is a Slovenian theoretical and mathematical physicist. His research has spanned non-equilibrium dynamics, statistical mechanics, quantum transport, and chaos theory.
Prosen earned his Diploma in Physics in 1991, and a Doctorate of Science in 1995, both from the University of Ljubljana. He finished both at a significantly younger age than usual. ISI named him a ‘Citation Superstar’ as one of the most cited young scientists in Slovenia in 2000.[2] He was made a Full Professor at the University of Ljubljana by outstanding early election in 2008.
Tomaž Prosen is primarily known for providing the first exact solutions for models of open quantum many-body systems and for the discovery of novel kinds of quantum conservation laws that settled long-standing questions about the nature of transport in fundamental models of low-dimensional quantum materials, such as the Heisenbeg spin chains and the one-dimensional Hubbard model.[3] [4] The latter work also provided a full description of canonical ensembles of quantum integrable systems[5] paving the way for extensions of thermodynamics to integrable systems. He is also known for pioneering a novel approach for establishing quantum chaos in spin-1/2 systems, for which previously known semi-classical methods fail.[6] This approach challenged conventional beliefs in theoretical physics by providing an exact solution to the dynamics of a chaotic model.[7] [8]