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

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

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

Bertini, B, Klobas, K, Kos, P & Malz, D 2025, 'Quantum and Classical Dynamics with Random Permutation Circuits', Physical Review X, vol. 15, no. 1, 011015. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.15.011015

Klobas, K, Rylands, C & Bertini, B 2025, 'Translation symmetry restoration under random unitary dynamics', Physical Review B, vol. 111, no. 14, L140304. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.111.L140304

Bertini, B, Klobas, K, Collura, M, Calabrese, P & Rylands, C 2024, 'Dynamics of charge fluctuations from asymmetric initial states', Physical Review B, vol. 109, no. 18, 184312. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.109.184312

Rylands, C, Klobas, K, Ares, F, Calabrese, P, Murciano, S & Bertini, B 2024, 'Microscopic Origin of the Quantum Mpemba Effect in Integrable Systems', Physical Review Letters, vol. 133, no. 1, 010401. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.010401

Foligno, A, Kos, P & Bertini, B 2024, 'Quantum Information Spreading in Generalized Dual-Unitary Circuits', Physical Review Letters, vol. 132, no. 25, 250402. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.250402

Letter

Bertini, B, De Fazio, C, Garrahan, JP & Klobas, K 2024, 'Exact Quench Dynamics of the Floquet Quantum East Model at the Deterministic Point', Physical Review Letters, vol. 132, no. 12, 120402. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.120402

Bertini, B, Kos, P & Prosen, T 2024, 'Localized Dynamics in the Floquet Quantum East Model', Physical Review Letters, vol. 132, no. 8, 080401. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.080401

Preprint

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

Li, J, Jack, RL, Bertini, B & Garrahan, JP 2024 'Efficient post-selection in light-cone correlations of monitored quantum circuits' arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2408.13096

Foligno, A & Bertini, B 2024 'Entanglement of Disjoint Intervals in Dual-Unitary Circuits: Exact Results' arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2408.16750

Foligno, A, Calabrese, P & Bertini, B 2024 'Non-equilibrium dynamics of charged dual-unitary circuits' arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2407.21786

Bertini, B, Klobas, K, Kos, P & Malz, D 2024 'Quantum and Classical Dynamics with Random Permutation Circuits' arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2407.11960

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