ICTP RESEARCH SECTION

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Research in the CMSP section spans some of the most exciting areas of theoretical condensed matter physics.

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Research Areas

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Equilibrium and Non-equilibrium Many-body Quantum Systems

The investigations of quantum many-body systems at CMSP bridges different aspects of condensed matter, statistical mechanics and quantum information. The wide spectrum of topics covered includes…

Quantum Systems
Atomistic, Molecular, and Electronic Structure Simulations
Molcules
Materials for Renewable Energy Applications

Efficient collection and storage of renewable forms of energy like solar radiation or wind requires the development of advanced functional materials. CMSP research in the field of sustainable…

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Physics of Nanostructures

Understanding the physics of nano-devices offers the fascinating opportunity to explore quantum properties of matter at the mesoscopic level. Besides their fundamental impact on modern technology…

Physics of Nanostructures

Permanent Scientists

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Rosario Fazio

Head of the Section
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Nadia Binggeli

Research Scientist
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Marcello Dalmonte

Research Scientist
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Ralph Gebauer

Senior Research Scientist
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Ali Hassanali

Senior Research Scientist
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Asja Jelic

Research Scientist
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Mikhail Kiselev

Senior Research Scientist and Coordinator, Postgraduate Programme Unit
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Sandro Scandolo

Senior Research Scientist and Senior Coordinator, Research and Partnerships
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Antonello Scardicchio

Senior Research Scientist
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Nicola Seriani

Associate Research Scientist
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Upcoming Activities

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Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
Conference on Advances in Topological Condensed Matter | (smr 3980)
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2024
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2024
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
ICTP and Vietnamese Science: Celebrating 60 Years of Collaborations | (smr 3951)
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2024
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2024
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2024
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
African Biophysics Workshop on Experimental and Computational Sciences | (smr 3973)
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2024
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2025
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
22nd International Workshop on Computational Physics and Materials Science: Total Energy and Force Methods | (smr 4050)
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2024
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Upcoming Seminars

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Joint ICTP/SISSA Condensed Matter Seminar: Recent advances on quantum light-matter interaction
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CMSP Seminar (Atomistic Simulation Seminar Series): Integrated Analytical Approach for Cleaner Energy Solutions
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News

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Portrait of Michele Parrinello
Dirac Conversations: Michele Parrinello
Dirac Medallist Michele Parrinello in conversation with Director Dabholkar and Sandro Scandolo,…
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
2024 Physics Nobel laureate John Hopfield at the 2001 Dirac Medal ceremony
ICTP Dirac Medallist receives 2024 Nobel Prize
John Hopfield shares prize for work related to machine learning
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
Quantitative Life Sciences
Diracs and Nobels
From Diracs to Nobels
For 7 ICTP Dirac Medallists,  a Physics Nobel was soon to follow
High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
Portrait of Peter Zoller
Dirac Conversations: Peter Zoller
Dirac Medallist Peter Zoller Zoller is interviewed by Atish Dabholkar, Director of ICTP, and by…
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
Colloquium Giamarchi
ICTP Colloquium 25 September
Professor Thierry Giamarchi to talk about quantum physics
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
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NEW DEADLINE: Call for Nominations, ICTP Prize 2024
Nominate by 14 October 2024
High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
Earth System Physics
Quantitative Life Sciences

Publications

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2024
First-principles description of solid oxygen in the gigapascal pressure scale using the DFT+vdW+U approach
Physical Review B (2024)
M.-B. Attaiaa | M. Micoulaut | S. Klotz | S. Scandolo
Preprint
2024
Data-Driven Discovery of the Origins of UV Absorption in Alpha-3C Protein
Germaine Neza Hozana | Gonzalo Díaz Mirón | Ali Hassanali
Preprint
2024
Disentangling unitary dynamics with classically simulable quantum circuits
Gerald E. Fux | Benjamin Béri | Rosario Fazio | Emanuele Tirrito
Journal article
2024
Floquet time crystals as quantum sensors of ac fields
Rosario Fazio
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2024
Interactions and integrability in weakly monitored Hamiltonian systems
Rosario Fazio
Journal article
2024
Competing Phases of Iron at Earth's Core Conditions From Deep‐Learning‐Aided ab‐initio Simulations
Geophysical Research Letters (2024)
Zhi Li | Sandro Scandolo
Journal article
2024
Disparity of carriers in polarized GaSe/WSSe heterostructures: A first-principles study
Physical Review Applied (2024)
Zhusen Zhang | Dawei Deng | Qing-Xia Ge | Zhen-Kun Tang | Nicola Seriani | Wen-Jin Yin | Ralph Gebauer
Preprint
2024
Trajectory Surface Hopping with Tight Binding Density Functional Theory applied to Molecular Motors
Gonzalo Díaz Mirón | Carlos R. Lien-Medrano | Debarshi Banerjee | Marta Monti | B. Aradi | Michael A. Sentef | Thomas A. Niehaus | Ali Hassanali
Preprint
2024
Non-stabilizerness in U(1) lattice gauge theory
Pedro R. Nicácio Falcão | Poetri Sonya Tarabunga | Martina Frau | Emanuele Tirrito | Jakub Zakrzewski | Marcello Dalmonte
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2024
Nonstabilizerness of permutationally invariant systems
Physical Review A (2024)
G. Passarelli | R. Fazio | P. Lucignano
Journal article
2024
Interplay between van der Waals, Kubas, and chemisorption process when hydrogen molecules are adsorbed on pristine and Sc-functionalized BeN4
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (2024)
Vikram Mahamiya | Juhee Dewangan | Brahmananda Chakraborty
Journal article
2024
Waste-to-energy material: Winery-waste derived heteroatoms containing graphene-like porous carbon for high-voltage supercapacitor
Materials Today Sustainability (2024)
Harshitha B. Tyagaraj | Vikram Mahamiya | Supriya J. Marje | Moein Safarkhani | Gagankumar S K | Ebrahim Al-Hajri | Nilesh R. Chodankar | Yun Suk Huh | Young-Kyu Han

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