Giuseppe D Auria

My research focuses on non-equilibrium dynamics in low-dimensional many-body systems, with a particular emphasis on the dynamical stabilization of glassy phases in one-dimensional spin glasses under quenched dynamics. I am interested in how slow relaxation, memory effects, and complex energy landscapes emerge and persist far from equilibrium, and in identifying dynamical regimes where glassy behavior can be protected or enhanced by the quench protocol itself. More broadly, I also work on the theory of open quantum systems, studying the interplay between coherent many-body dynamics and dissipation, and how environmental couplings can be engineered or exploited to control non-equilibrium phases and dynamical transitions.