Dr Bruno Bertini

School of Physics and Astronomy
Associate Professor

Contact details

Email: b.bertini@bham.ac.uk

Address: Physics East
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Bruno Bertini is an Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics. His research work is centred around quantum statistical mechanics, quantum many-body dynamics, and quantum chaos.

Qualifications

DPhil in Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, 2015
Diploma di Licenza in Fisica, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 2012
MSc in Theoretical Physics, University of Pisa, 2012
BSc in Physics, University of Pisa, 2010

Biography

After completing his undergraduate studies in Pisa, Italy, Bruno obtained his DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2015. He then had two stints as a postdoctoral research associate, the first one (2015-2017) at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA, Trieste, Italy) and the second one (2017-2020) at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), before moving back to Oxford in 2020 being awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. In 2021 he was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham. Bruno joined Birmingham as an Associate Professor in 2024.

Teaching

Bruno is interested in doctoral supervision. Please enquire via email.

Research

The main theme of Bruno’s research revolves around the study of out-of-equilibrium quantum matter. Specifically, his main goal is to identify the general principles governing the dynamics of quantum many-body systems. Bruno chose to work in this field because he believes it poses some of the most interesting questions of modern theoretical physics: it explores new emergent dynamical phenomena as well as long-standing gaps in our fundamental understanding of Nature. This quest also led him to consider aspects of quantum integrability and many-body quantum chaos.

Bruno’s research is mainly analytical and combines ideas from statistical mechanics, quantum information, quantum integrability, and random matrix theory.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Bertini, B 2026, 'Non-equilibrium quantum many-body physics with quantum circuits', SciPost Physics Lecture Notes, vol. 124, pp. 1-34. https://doi.org/10.21468/SciPostPhysLectNotes.124

Li, J, Jack, RL, Bertini, B & Garrahan, JP 2025, 'Efficient post-selection in light cone correlations of monitored quantum circuits', Physical Review B, vol. 111, no. 2, 024309. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.111.024309

Foligno, A & Bertini, B 2025, 'Entanglement of Disjoint Intervals in Dual-Unitary Circuits: Exact Results', Quantum, vol. 9, 1678. https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2025-03-26-1678

Krajnik, Ž, Klobas, K, Bertini, B & Prosen, T 2025, 'Fluctuations of stochastic charged cellular automata', Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, vol. 2025, no. 5, 053209. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-5468/add513

Foligno, A, Calabrese, P & Bertini, B 2025, 'Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Charged Dual-Unitary Circuits', PRX Quantum, vol. 6, no. 1, 010324. https://doi.org/10.1103/PRXQuantum.6.010324

Comment/debate

Bertini, B 2026, 'Mitigated chaos', Nature Physics, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 182-183. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-026-03173-y

Editorial

Bertini, B, Ho, WW, Piroli, L & Prosen, T 2026, 'Quantum-circuit models for many-body physics out of equilibrium', Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, vol. 59, no. 17, 170201. https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/ae5e2d

Letter

Szász-Schagrin, D, Mazzoni, M, Bertini, B, Klobas, K & Piroli, L 2026, 'Entanglement dynamics and Page curves in random permutation circuits', Physical Review Research, vol. 8, no. 1, L012061. https://doi.org/10.1103/d8tm-1586

Li, J, Bertini, B, Garrahan, JP & Jack, RL 2026, 'Exact large deviations and emergent long-range correlations in sequential quantum East circuits', Physical Review B, vol. 113, no. 10, L100305. https://doi.org/10.1103/72KX-56LT

Bertini, B, Klobas, K, Kos, P & Malz, D 2026, 'Random permutation circuits beyond qubits are quantum chaotic', Physical Review B, vol. 113, no. 10, L100302. https://doi.org/10.1103/ql9x-6kzj

Preprint

Bannister, J, Klobas, K, Rylands, C & Bertini, B 2026 'Initial State Memory in Finite Random Brickwork Circuits' arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.23469

Li, C, Bertini, B, Klobas, K & Zhou, T 2026 'Low Rank Structure of the Reduced Transition Matrix' arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.12665

Travaglino, R, Calabrese, P, Klobas, K & Bertini, B 2026 'Space-time duality approach to (inhomogeneous) integrable quenches' arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.20445

Krajnik, Ž, Klobas, K, Bertini, B & Prosen, T 2025 'Fluctuations of stochastic charged cellular automata' arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2502.02509

Review article

Bertini, B, Claeys, PW & Prosen, T 2026, 'Exactly solvable quantum many-body dynamics from space-time duality', Reviews of Modern Physics, vol. 98, no. 2, 025001. https://doi.org/10.1103/yx73-dk86

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