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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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Nov
2024
30
Nov
2024
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
ICTP and Vietnamese Science: Celebrating 60 Years of Collaborations | (smr 3951)
Physical
28
Nov
2024
scientific activity
09
Dec
2024
13
Dec
2024
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
African Biophysics Workshop on Experimental and Computational Sciences | (smr 3973)
Physical
15
Oct
2024
workshop
08
Jan
2025
10
Jan
2025
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
22nd International Workshop on Computational Physics and Materials Science: Total Energy and Force Methods | (smr 4050)
Physical
14
Nov
2024
workshop
13
Jan
2025
24
Jan
2025
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
School on Synchrotron Light Sources and their Applications | (smr 4051)
Online
10
Dec
2024
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Upcoming Seminars

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Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
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Dec
2024
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2024
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Dec
2024
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CMSP Seminar (Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics): Recent progress on renormalisation group analysis of Anderson and MBL models
Physical
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
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05
Dec
2024
05
Dec
2024
05
Dec
2024
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Joint ICTP/SISSA Condensed Matter Seminar: Andreev Conductance in Disordered SF Junctions with Spin‐Orbit Scattering
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Call for Applications, STEP Programme
For Doctoral Students to Enrich their Studies
High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
Mathematics
Earth System Physics
Quantitative Life Sciences
Science, Technology and Innovation
ICTP 60th
ICTP's 60th Anniversary
Science frontiers, global collaborations to be highlighted at 15 November celebration
High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
Mathematics
Earth System Physics
Quantitative Life Sciences
Science, Technology and Innovation
Adriatico International Science Complex
Investing in ICTP's Future
ICTP receives generous grant for modern, international science complex
High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
Mathematics
Earth System Physics
Quantitative Life Sciences
Science, Technology and Innovation
Picture of water
Looking Deeper into Water
ICTP scientist contributes to new experimental method that unveils water’s hidden structure.
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
Atish Dabholkar, Stefan Jorda, Ralf Kaiser
Fostering Science Cooperation
ICTP joins forces with the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation.
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
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Dirac Conversations: Michele Parrinello
Dirac Medallist Michele Parrinello in conversation with Director Dabholkar and Sandro Scandolo,…
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Publications

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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
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
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
Journal article
2024
Entanglement – nonstabilizerness separation in hybrid quantum circuits
Physical Review Research (2024)
Gerald E. Fux | Emanuele Tirrito | Marcello Dalmonte | Rosario Fazio
Journal article
2024
Dissecting the hydrogen bond network of water: charge transfer and nuclear quantum effects
Science (2024)
Damien Laage | Ali Hassanali | Sylvie Roke | Giuseppe Cassone | David M. Wilkins | Mischa Flór | Miguel de la Puente
Journal article
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

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Condensed Matter & Statistical Physics Postdoctoral Position - HyBOP project
Postdoctoral Opportunity
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2024
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School on Synchrotron Light Sources and their Applications | (smr 4051)
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2024
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2024
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Arab Fund Postgraduate Fellowships at ICTP
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