Welcome to the homepage of Mauritz van den Worm. 

Short bio:
I completed a PhD in quantum physics under the supervision of great mentors and leaders in the field of long-range interacting quantum systems. During the course of my PhD I worked with groups from the USA, Israel, Italy and Germany and have made many lasting friendships.

I am currently focusing my time and energy on data science and machine learning applied to international commodities markets. I have a passion for finding semblances of order in chaos. My favourite tools in this endeavour include state of the art artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms.

Current research results and write-ups can be found on this website.

News
2015-06-20
New Publication: David-Maximilian Storch, Mauritz van den Worm and Michael Kastner, Interplay of soundcone and supersonic propagation in lattice models with powerlaw interactions,
2015 New J. Phys. 17 063021
2015-05-25
Started first job outside of academia at a Hedge Fund  in Cape Town.
2015-03-09
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2015-03-20
Conference:  QUANTUM MANY-BODY SYSTEMS FAR FROM EQUILIBRIUM:
Quench dynamics, thermalization, and cold-atom experiments.
I will give a talk entitled "Exceptionally long-range quantum lattice models" based on a recent preprint with David Storch and Michael Kastner, and an old PRL with Jens Eisert, Salvatorre Manmana and Michael Kastner.
2015-02-23
New preprint: David-Maximilian Storch, Mauritz van den Worm, Michael Kastner, Interplay of Soundcone and Supersonic Propagation in Lattice Models with Power Law Interactions, arXiv:1502.05891


2014-12-15
New publication: Kaden R. A. Hazzard, Mauritz van den Worm, Michael Foss-Feig, Salvatore R. Manmana, Emanuele Dalla Torre, Tilman Pfau, Michael Kastner and Ana Maria Rey, Quantum Correlations and entanglement in far-from equilibrium spin systems,
Phys. Rev. A 90, (063622)

2014-11-03
Conference:  QIPC3 (Quantum Information Processing, Communication and Control 3).  I gave a talk on a recent preprint
Quantum Correlations and entanglement in far-from equilibrium spin systems, arXiv:1406.0937

14 Jul - 2 Aug 2014
School: I will be presenting a poster and attending the ICTP school on non-linear dynamics, dynamical transitions and instabilities in classical and quantum systems taking place in Trieste, Italy.

2014-06-05
New preprint: Kaden R. A. Hazzard, Mauritz van den Worm, Michael Foss-Feig, Salvatore R. Manmana, Emanuele Dalla Torre, Tilman Pfau, Michael Kastner and Ana Maria Rey, Quantum Correlations and entanglement in far-from equilibrium spin systems, arXiv:1406.0937

2014-07-13
Invited Talk: 
Quantum Computers and Simulators, Trapped Ions and Long-Range Interactions

Centre for Bioprocess Engineering Research
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Cape Town
14:00-15:00

2014-03-17
New preprint:  Michael Kastner and Mauritz van den Worm, Relaxation timescales and prethermalisation in d-dimensional long-range quantum spin models, arXiv: 1403.4187

2013-12-27
New publication: Jens Eisert, Mauritz van den Worm, Salvatore R Manmana and Michael Kastner, Breakdown of quasi-locality in long-range quantum lattice models, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 260401 (2013) 

2013-11-25
Conference: QIPC2 (Quantum Information Processing, Communication and Control 2) The second edition of the South African conference devoted to quantum information science and technology.

2013-09-11
New preprint: Jens Eisert, Mauritz van den Worm, Salvatore R Manmana and  Michael Kastner, Breakdown of quasi-locality in long-range quantum lattice models, arXiv: quant-ph 1309.2308

2013-08-01
New publication: Mauritz van den Worm, Brian C Sawyer, John J Bollinger and Michael Kastner, Relaxation timescales and decay of correlations in a long-range interacting quantum simulator,
2013 New J. Phys. 15 083007