I am a theoretical physicist working at the interface of statistical physics, condensed matter, quantum information and mathematical physics.
Since 2019 I am a CNRS researcher (chargé de recherche). After five years at the LPTM in Cergy, I moved in 2025 to the LPENS, École Normale Supérieure, Paris. Most of my work asks the same question in different guises: what is universal in the way a quantum system made of many parts evolves, thermalizes, or resists being observed.
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Organising in 2026
- Threefold Quantum — Theory, experiment, computation out of equilibrium. ENS Paris, 11–13 March.
- QLANDS2026 — Quantum landscapes: non-equilibrium, circuits, complexity. CY Advanced Studies, Neuville-sur-Oise, 17 May – 6 June.
- FRAME2026 — Fluctuations and randomness in many-body evolution. Institut Pascal, Orsay, 16–18 September.
What I work on
Many-body quantum chaos
Spectral form factors, random unitary circuits, and how random-matrix universality emerges in systems that are extended in space as well as in time.
Monitored dynamics
What measurement does to a chaotic system: measurement-induced phase transitions, purification timescales, and the replica structure behind non-unitary evolution.
Randomness and quantum information
Deep thermalization and projected ensembles, quantum state designs, anticoncentration and nonstabilizerness — the resources that make a quantum circuit hard to simulate.
Integrability, noise and transport
Generalized hydrodynamics, transport in spin chains, integrability breaking, and the diffusive behaviour that noise and dephasing impose on otherwise ballistic systems.
Selected recent work
- Universality in the anticoncentration of noisy quantum circuits at finite depths
A. Sauliere, G. Lami, C. Boyer, J. De Nardis, A. De Luca — PRX Quantum 7, 020365 (2026) · arXiv:2508.14975 - Emergence of universality in transport of noisy free fermions
J. Costa, P. Ribeiro, A. De Luca — Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 020403 (2026) · arXiv:2504.00188 - Quantum state design and emergent confinement mechanism in measured tensor network states
G. Lami, A. De Luca, X. Turkeshi, J. De Nardis — npj Quantum Information (2026) · arXiv:2504.16995 - Universality classes for purification in nonunitary quantum processes
A. De Luca, C. Liu, A. Nahum, T. Zhou — Phys. Rev. X 15, 041024 (2025) · arXiv:2312.17744 - Quantum Mpemba effect in random circuits
X. Turkeshi, P. Calabrese, A. De Luca — Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 040403 (2025) · arXiv:2405.14514
Latest news
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Event in Pollica: Universality in non-equilibrium quantum matter: thermalization, hydrodynamics, entanglement
I had the opportunity to co-organise together with Maxime Serbyn, Silvia Pappalardi and Federica Surace an event in the nice castle of Capuano in Pollica. I admit that I originally had some…
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Harvard program (may 2025) at the boundary between math and physics
I have been invited to participate to the program Classical, Quantum, & Probabilistic Integrable Systems – Novel Interactions and Applications Program at Harvard CMSA . It is really a pleasure for me to join…
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Quantum mpemba effect in random circuits
After a long peer review process, our paper about quantum Mpemba effect was finally accepted for publication on PRL. I have to say that the first round of review really helped us…
Contact
Write to andrea.de-luca [at] phys.ens.fr. I am always glad to hear from students and postdocs interested in these topics.