Alumni of the Condensed Matter Theory Curriculum

Name Year Supervisors Thesis
Simone Notarnicola 2018
  • Alessandro Silva
  • Rosario Fazio
Coupled quantum kicked rotors: a study about dynamical localization, slow heating and thermalization
Mariam Rusishvili 2018
  • Stefano Baroni
  • Alessandra Magistrato
Color optical properties of anthocyanins in solution: a multi-scale computational study
Lorenzo Privitera 2017
  • Giuseppe Santoro
Non-equilibrium aspects of topological Floquet quantum systems
Nguyen Dung Tran 2017
  • Stefano Fabris
Stability and Reactivity of Supported Single-Atom Catalysts: Insight from Density Functional Theory
Tommaso Zanca 2017
  • Giuseppe Santoro
Landau-Zener processes in out-of-equilibrium quantum physics
Nicolo Defenu 2016
  • Andrea Trombettoni
  • Stefano Ruffo
Applications of Functional Renormalization Group to Spin Systems and Long Range Models
Lorenzo Del Re 2016
  • Massimo Capone
Multicomponent strongly correlated fermions in optical lattices
Tommaso Gorni 2016
  • Stefano Baroni
Spin-fluctuation spectra in magnetic systems: a novel approach based on TDDFT
Francesco Peronaci 2016
  • Massimo Capone
Transient dynamics of unconventional superconductors: d-wave symmetry and strong correlations
Francesco Petocchi 2016
  • Massimo Capone
Competing interactions in correlated heterostructures
Cong Huy Pham 2015
  • Stefano de Gironcoli
Molecular crystal structure prediction with evolutionary algorithm
Davide Mandelli 2015
  • Erio Tosatti
Sliding Nanofriction in Low Dimensional Model-Systems
Anna Maraga 2015
  • Alessandro Silva
  • Michele Fabrizio
Nonequilibrium dynamics in isolated quantum systems: absence of thermalization and dynamical phase transitions
Giacomo Mazza 2015
  • Michele Fabrizio
Non-Equilibrium Phenomena in Strongly Correlated Systems
Michele Ruggeri 2015
  • Saverio Moroni
Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of two dimensional 3He: low-density gas-liquid coexistence on substrates and iterative backflow wave functions for strongly correlated systems
Nicola Colonna 2014
  • Stefano de Gironcoli
Exchange and correlation energy in the adiabatic connection fluctuation-dissipation theory beyond RPA
Matteo Sandri 2014
  • Michele Fabrizio
The Gutzwiller Approach to out-of-equilibrium correlated fermions
Angelo Russomanno 2014
  • Giuseppe Santoro
Periodic driving of a coherent quantum many body system and relaxation to the Floquet diagonal ensemble
Guglielmo Mazzola 2014
  • Sandro Sorella
Metallization and dissociation in high pressure liquid hydrogen by an efficient molecular dynamics with quantum Monte Carlo
Aris Marcolongo 2014
  • Stefano Baroni
Theory and ab initio simulation of atomic heat transport
Ye Luo 2014
  • Sandro Sorella
Ab initio molecular dynamics of water by quantum Monte Carlo
Simone Ziraldo 2013
  • Giuseppe Santoro
Thermalization and relaxation after a quantum quench in disordered hamiltonians
Mohammad Zhian Asadzadeh 2013
  • Federico Becca
  • Michele Fabrizio
Interplay of superconductivity and magnetism in the two dimensional Kondo lattice model
Hu Wenjun 2013
  • Sandro Sorella
  • Federico Becca
Unconventional phases in doped or frustrated quantum antiferromagnets: a systematic Quantum Monte Carlo Study
Sebastiano Saccani 2013
  • Saverio Moroni
Quantum Monte Carlo studies of soft bosonic systems and minimum energy pathways
Xiao-Chuan Ge 2013
  • Stefano Baroni
  • Arrigo Calzolari
Seeing colors with TDDFT: theoretical modeling of the optical properties of natural dyes
Riccardo Sabatini 2012
  • Stefano de Gironcoli
Non-local correlation in Density Functional Theory
Mauro Iazzi 2012
  • Augusto Smerzi
  • Stefano Fantoni
Ginzburg-Landau description of superfluid layered fermions
Jiawei Xian 2012
  • Stefano Baroni
  • Paolo Umari
Electronic properties of gold nanoclusters from GW calculations
Ngoc Linh Nguyen 2012
  • Stefano de Gironcoli
  • Simone Piccinin
Toward Realistic DFT Description of Complex Systems: Ethylene Epoxidation on Ag-Cu Alloys and RPA Correlation in van der Waals Molecules