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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…

Solar panels
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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2025
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2025
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
School on Synchrotron Light Sources and their Applications | (smr 4051)
Online
10
Dec
2024
school
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Feb
2025
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Feb
2025
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
Joint ICTP-IAEA-MAMBA School on Materials Irradiation: from Basics to Applications | (smr 4055)
Physical
24
Nov
2024
school
28
Apr
2025
02
May
2025
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
Quantum-NEST International School on Quantum Science and Technology | (smr 4065)
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2025
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May
2025
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
Joint ICTP-Lincei Conference on Quantum Physics: from Foundations to Emerging Technologies | (smr 4073)
Physical
15
Mar
2025
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Upcoming Seminars

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Joint ICTP/SISSA Condensed Matter Seminar: Selective Mott states and anomalous responses with controlled breaking of SU(N) symmetry
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Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
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2025
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2025
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2025
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CMSP Seminar (Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics): Novel Platforms for Quantum Information Processing with Rydberg Atom Arrays
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News

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The Hidden Force
The Hidden Force, Public Event
ICTP and INFN celebrate women in science with a play showcasing stories of four female physicists
High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
Mathematics
Earth System Physics
Quantitative Life Sciences
Science, Technology and Innovation
Rafael Gonzalez Hernandez at the Walter Kohn Prize Ceremony on 9 January 2025, ICTP
Altermagnets, a new magnetic phase
An interview with Rafael Gonzalez Hernandez, winner of the 2024 Walter Kohn Prize
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
PWF call for projects 2025
PWF Call for Project Proposals
ICTP's Physics Without Frontiers Programme seeks project ideas for the coming year
High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
Mathematics
Earth System Physics
Quantitative Life Sciences
Science, Technology and Innovation
Spirit of Salam award
Call for Nominations, Spirit of Abdus Salam Award 2025
Deadline for nominations has been extended to Wednesday 15 January 2025
High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
Mathematics
Earth System Physics
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ICTP conference
Call for Proposals, ICTP Scientific Calendar 2026
ICTP now accepting proposals for conferences, schools and workshops
High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
Mathematics
Earth System Physics
Quantitative Life Sciences
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Walter Kohn Prize 2024 recipient Rafael Gonzalez Hernandez
Walter Kohn Prize Ceremony  
2024 recipient to be honoured Thursday 9 January 2025
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

Publications

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Journal article
2025
Symmetry-based guidelines for the momentum-space spin textures of magnetic centrosymmetric crystals
Physica B: Condensed Matter (2025)
Sukanya Ghosh | Anita Yadav | Nataša Stojić | Nadia Binggeli
Preprint
2025
Meson-polariton and string dynamics via cavity coupling in Rydberg atom array
Zeno Bacciconi | Hernan B. Xavier | Matteo Marinelli | Devendra Singh Bhakuni | Marcello Dalmonte
Preprint
2024
Investigating finite-size effects in random matrices by counting resonances
Anton Kutlin | Carlo Vanoni
Journal article
2024
Novel exciton behavior in low-dimensional polarized MoSSe/GaN heterostructures: A first-principles study
Physical Review Materials (2024)
Jifeng Luo | Dawei Deng | Qingxia Ge | Nicola Seriani | Wen-Jin Yin | Ralph Gebauer
Journal article
2024
Spin fluctuations in the dissipative phase transitions of the quantum Rabi model
Physical Review Research (2024)
Jiahui Li | Rosario Fazio | Yingdan Wang | Stefano Chesi
Journal article
2024
Non-adiabatic Couplings in Surface Hopping with Tight Binding Density Functional Theory: The Case of Molecular Motors
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (2024)
Gonzalo Díaz Mirón | Carlos R. Lien-Medrano | Debarshi Banerjee | Marta Monti | Bálint Aradi | Michael A. Sentef | Thomas A. Niehaus | Ali Hassanali
Preprint
2024
Probing false vacuum decay on a cold-atom gauge-theory quantum simulator
Zi-Hang Zhu | Ying Liu | Gianluca Lagnese | Federica Maria Surace | Wei-Yong Zhang | Ming-Gen He | Jad C. Halimeh | Marcello Dalmonte | Siddhardh C. Morampudi | Frank Wilczek | Zhen-Sheng Yuan | Jian-Wei Pan
Preprint
2024
Stabilizer disentangling of conformal field theories
Martina Frau | Poetri Sonya Tarabunga | Mario Collura | Emanuele Tirrito | Marcello Dalmonte
Preprint
2024
Theory of fractional quantum Hall liquids coupled to quantum light and emergent graviton-polaritons
Zeno Bacciconi | Hernan Xavier | Iacopo Carusotto | Titas Chanda | Marcello Dalmonte
Journal article
2024
Revisiting the Enhanced Chemical Reactivity in Water Microdroplets: The Case of a Diels–Alder Reaction
Journal of the American Chemical Society (2024)
Ke Gong | Abhijit Nandy | Zhexuan Song | Quan-Song Li | Ali Hassanali | Giuseppe Cassone | Shibdas Banerjee | Jing Xie
Journal article
2024
Chirality- and Rashba- related effects in the spin texture of a two-dimensional centrosymmetric ferromagnet: The case of the CrI3 bilayer
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (2024)
Sukanya Ghosh | Nataša Stojić | Nadia Binggeli
Journal article
2024
Inducing out-of-plane magnetic anisotropy by chemical substitutions in the multiferroic CuCrP2S6 monolayer
Physical Review B (2024)
Anita Yadav | Nataša Stojić | Nadia Binggeli

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Call for Nominations, ICTP-IBM AI Prize for Young Scientists
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