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thundara · 3208 days ago · link · · parent · post: Scientists of hubski, what science do you science?
What are the other options? Emit light / heat? Form a different crystalline structure? ...?The out-of-equilibrium problems I study basically aim to address the following question: if one dumps a load of energy in to a quantum system very suddenly, what happens? The natural conjecture is that if one leaves the system alone for a sufficiently long time, it should settle and become hot. In fact, it turns out that the story is quite a bit more complicated than that, and these kinds of questions are being studied quite a lot at the moment.