Alumni of the Condensed Matter Theory Curriculum

Name	Year	Supervisors	Thesis
Luca Arceci	2019	Giuseppe Santoro	Dissipation effects in driven quantum many-body systems
Francesco Ferrari	2019	Federico Becca	Static and dynamical properties of frustrated spin models
Daniele Guerci	2019	Michele Fabrizio Massimo Capone	Beyond simple variational approach for strongly electron systems
Juraj Hasik	2019	Federico Becca	Towards next-generation methods to optimize two-dimensional tensor networks: Algorithmic differentiation and applications to quantum magnets
Deepak Bahadur Karki	2019	Michele Fabrizio Mikhail Kiselev	Multi-color Fermi-liquid theory of quantum transport through a multilevel Kondo impurity
Glen Bigan Mbeng	2019	Giuseppe Santoro	Quantum annealing and digital quantum ground state preparation algorithms
Muhammad Nawaz Qaisrani	2019	Stefano Baroni Ali A Hassanali Ralph Gebauer	A Multi-scale Approach to Studying the Complexity in Glutamine Aggregates: Structure, Dynamics and Electronic Properties.
Martina Teruzzi	2019	Giuseppe Santoro Erio Tosatti Alessandro Laio	Markov State Modeling of 2D Nanofriction
Maja Berovic	2018	Massimo Capone	Exploring Hund's correlated metals: charge instabilities and effect of selective interactions
Caterina De Franco	2018	Federico Becca Luca Fausto Tocchio	Magnetism and Superconductivity in the Two-Band Hubbard Model: A Variational Monte Carlo Perspective
Loris Ercole	2018	Stefano Baroni	Ab Initio Simulation of Heat Transport in Silica Glass
Lorenzo Gigli	2018	Giuseppe Santoro Erio Tosatti	Friction and Adhesion of graphene nanoribbons on gold: an MD investigation
Francesco Grandi	2018	Michele Fabrizio Adriano Amaricci	Mott insulators in disguise
Seher Karakuzu	2018	Sandro Sorella	Variational and auxiliary field Monte Carlo for the Hubbard and Hubbard-Holstein models: an accurate finite-size scaling and a "sign problem" solution
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
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
Ye Luo	2014	Sandro Sorella	Ab initio molecular dynamics of water by quantum Monte Carlo
Aris Marcolongo	2014	Stefano Baroni	Theory and ab initio simulation of atomic heat transport
Guglielmo Mazzola	2014	Sandro Sorella	Metallization and dissociation in high pressure liquid hydrogen by an efficient molecular dynamics with quantum Monte Carlo
Angelo Russomanno	2014	Giuseppe Santoro	Periodic driving of a coherent quantum many body system and relaxation to the Floquet diagonal ensemble
Matteo Sandri	2014	Michele Fabrizio	The Gutzwiller Approach to out-of-equilibrium correlated fermions
Xiao-Chuan Ge	2013	Stefano Baroni Arrigo Calzolari	Seeing Colors with Time Dependent Density Functional Theory
Sebastiano Saccani	2013	Saverio Moroni	Quantum Monte Carlo studies of soft bosonic systems and minimum energy pathways
Hu Wenjun	2013	Sandro Sorella Federico Becca	Unconventional phases in doped or frustrated quantum antiferromagnets: a systematic Quantum Monte Carlo Study
Mohammad Zhian Asadzadeh	2013	Federico Becca Michele Fabrizio	Interplay of superconductivity and magnetism in the two dimensional Kondo lattice model
Simone Ziraldo	2013	Giuseppe Santoro	Thermalization and relaxation after a quantum quench in disordered hamiltonians
Pier Paolo Baruselli	2012	Michele Fabrizio Erio Tosatti	Kondo conductance anomalies from first principles
Mauro Iazzi	2012	Augusto Smerzi Stefano Fantoni	Ginzburg-Landau description of superfluid layered fermions
Changru Ma	2012	Stefano Fabris Simone Piccinin	Modeling Ru-based molecular catalysts for water oxidation
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
Riccardo Sabbatini	2012	Stefano de Gironcoli	Non-local correlation in Density Functional Theory
Jiawei Xian	2012	Stefano Baroni Paolo Umari	Electronic properties of gold nanoclusters from GW calculations
Hong-Yi Xie	2012	Michele Fabrizio Vladimir Kravtsov Markus Muller	Anderson Localization in Disordered Systems with Competing Channels
Giovanni Borghi	2011	Michele Fabrizio Erio Tosatti	Gutzwiller Approximation applied to inhomogeneous lattice models and solid-state systems
Giuseppe Carleo	2011	Stefano Baroni Federico Becca Saverio Moroni	Spectral and dynamical properties of strongly correlated systems
Emine Kucukbenli	2011	Stefano de Gironcoli	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of Complex Molecular Crystals From First Principles: Case of Cholesterol
Franco Pellegrini	2011	Erio Tosatti Giuseppe Santoro	Quantum Dissipation at the Nanoscale
Pietro Silvi	2011	Giuseppe Santoro Rosario Fazio Vittorio Giovannetti	Tensor Networks: a quantum-information perspective on numerical renormalization groups
Davide Venturelli	2011	Denis Feinberg Rosario Fazio Vittorio Giovannetti Fabio Taddei	Channel Mixing and Spin Transport in the Integer Quantum Hall Effect
Juan Felipe Carrasquilla Alvarez	2010	Federico Becca Michele Fabrizio	The Bose-Hubbard model with disorder in low-dimensional lattices
Yanier Crespo Hernandez	2010	Alessandro Laio Giuseppe Santoro Erio Tosatti	Calculating Thermodynamic Properties of Classical and Quantum Systems by a Metadynamics Monte Carlo Procedure
Marco Schiro'	2010	Michele Fabrizio	Nonequilibrium Dynamics in Strongly Correlated Systems
Gabriele Sclauzero	2010	Andrea Dal Corso	Modeling CO adsorption on Pt and Au monatomic chains and nanocontacts
Tommaso Caneva	2009	Giuseppe Santoro Rosario Fazio	Adiabatic dynamics of many-body systems close to a quantum critical point
Nicola Lanata	2009	Michele Fabrizio	The Gutzwiller variational approach to correlated systems
Lorenzo Paulatto	2009	Stefano de Gironcoli	Ammonia Synthesis on Proton-enriched Palladium Substrate
Tatiana Skrbic	2009	Saverio Moroni Stefano Baroni	Dynamics of doped 4He and 3He clusters from reptation quantum Monte Carlo
Huy-Viet Nguyen	2008	Stefano de Gironcoli	Efficient calculation of RPA correlation energy in the adiabatic connection fluctuation-dissipation theory
Maria Elisabetta Pezzoli	2008	Michele Fabrizio Federico Becca	Disorder and interaction: ground state properties of the disordered Hubbard model
Luca Fausto Tocchio	2008	Sandro Sorella Federico Becca	A new variational wave function with backflow correlations for frustrated Hubbard models
Paola Gava	2007	Stefano de Gironcoli Anton Kokalj	Modeling the catalyst selectivity in the ethylene epoxidation reaction A first principles study
Sandra Patricia Gonzalez Camelo	2007	Stefano Fantoni	BCS superfluid Fermi systems with large scattering length
Yungfeng Liang	2007	Sandro Scandolo	Modelling structure, phase transition, and vibrational spectroscopy of silica at extreme conditions
Massimo Lugas	2007	Sandro Sorella Federico Becca	d-wave Superconductivity and antiferromagnetism in strongly correlated systems by a new variational approach
Javier Antonio Montoya Martinez	2007	Sandro Scandolo Roger Rousseau	Ab-initio study on synthesis of new materials at high pressure transition-metal nitrides and non-molecular CO2 phases
Adriano Mosca Conte	2007	Stefano Baroni Stefano Fabris	Quantum mechanical modeling of nano magnetism: new tools based on Density-Functional theory with case applications to solids, surfaces, wires, and molecules
Dario Rocca	2007	Stefano Baroni Ralph Gebauer	Time-Dependent Density Functional Perturbation Theory New algorithms with applications to molecular spectra
Antonio Suriano	2007	Stefano Baroni	Quantum mechanical modeling of the chemical reactivity of metal surfaces: two case studies involving water formation and dissociation
Manuela Capello	2006	Sandro Sorella Michele Fabrizio Federico Becca	Variational description of Mott insulators
Michel Ferrero	2006	Michele Fabrizio Federico Becca	Competing Mechanism in Strongly Correlated Systems Close to a Mott Insulator
Stefano Paolini	2006	Stefano Baroni Saverio Moroni	Rotational dynamics of molecular impurities of solvated 4He clusters: a computational study based on reptation quantum Monte Carlo
Claudio Attaccalite	2005	Sandro Sorella	RVB phase of hydrogen at high pressure: towards the first ab-initio Molecular Dynamics by Quantum Monte Carlo
Demian Battaglia	2005	Giuseppe Santoro Riccardo Zecchina	Survey Propagation Methods For Efficient Optimization and Probing of Glassy States
Michele Casula	2005	Sandro Sorella	New QMC approaches for the simulation of electronic systems: a first application to aromatic molecules and transition metal compounds
Guido Fratesi	2005	Stefano de Gironcoli	Low temperature methane-to-methanol conversion on transition metal surfaces
Carlo Sbraccia	2005	Stefano Baroni Pier Luigi Silvestrelli	Computer Simulation of Thermally Activated Processes: Theory, Algorithms, and a Few Case Applications to Surface Chemistry
Lorenzo Stella	2005	Giuseppe Santoro Erio Tosatti	Studies of Classical and Quantum Annealing
Tania Zykova	2005	Erio Tosatti	High temperature physics and nanofriction properties of alkali halide surfaces
Lorenzo De Leo	2004	Michele Fabrizio	Non-Fermi liquid behavior in multi-orbital Anderson impurity models and possible relevance for strongly correlated lattice models
Mahdi Zarea Ahmadabadi	2003	Alexander A. Nersesyan Michele Fabrizio	Role of frustration in quantum spin chains and ladders: a field theory approach
Oleg Chalaev	2003	Vladimir Kravtsov	Nonequilibrium persistent current in mesoscopic disordered systems
Paola Mosconi	2003	Giuseppe Mussardo	Ghost models in two-dimensional condensed matter physics
Giuliano Orso	2003	Pieralberto Marchetti Lu Yu	Spin-charge gauge approach to HTS cuprates: theory versus experiments
Evgenij Plekhanov	2003	Michele Fabrizio Sandro Sorella	Hubbard U enhanced superconductivity
Davide Ceresoli	2002	Erio Tosatti	Berry Phase Calculation of the Rotational and Pseudorotational g-factor in Molecules and Solids
Matteo Cococcioni	2002	Stefano de Gironcoli	A LDA+U study of selected iron compounds
Luca Dell'Anna	2002	Michele Fabrizio Claudi Castellani	Disordered d-wave superconductors: the role of nesting and interactions in transport properties
Paul Tangney	2002	Sandro Scandolo	Improving molecular-dynamics simulations of simple ionic systems
Geraldo Ballabio	2001	Erio Tosatti Sandro Scandolo Stefano de Gironcoli	Some Theoretical Surprises on a Germanium Surface
Andrea Trombettoni	2001	Stefano Fantoni Augusto Smerzi	Discrete Nonlinear Dynamics of Bose-Einstein Condensates
Federico Becca	2000	Sandro Sorella	Electronic properties driven by strong correlation
Massimo Capone	2000	Michele Fabrizio Erio Tosatti	The Mott Transition: Role of Frustration and Orbital Degeneracy
Luca Capriotti	2000	Sandro Sorella	Quantum effects and broken symmetry in frustrated antiferromagnets
Gabriele Cipriani	2000	Andrea Dal Corso Stefano de Gironcoli Stefano Baroni	Ab-initio study of oxygen adsorption on selected transition metal surfaces
Matteo Calandra	1999	Sandro Sorella	Superconductivity from strong electron correlation
Lorenzo De Santis	1999	Raffaele Resta Paolo Carloni	Theory of electron localization function and its applications: Surfaces, impurities, and enzymatic catalysis
Alessandro Laio	1999	Guido Chiarotti Sandro Scandolo Erio Tosatti	Simulation of Iron at Earth's Core Conditions
Michele Lazzeri	1999	Stefano de Gironcoli	A first principles study of the thermal expansion in some metallic surfaces
Carlo Cavazzoni	1998	Guido Chiarotti Sandro Scandolo	Large Scale First-Principles Simulations of Water and Ammonia at High Pressure and Temperature
Cecilia Clementi	1998	Amos Maritan	Effective potentials for protein folding models
Stefano Giovanazzi	1998	Stefano Fantoni Augusto Smerzi	Macroscopic Quantum Coherence Phenomena in Bose-Einstein Condensates
Daniele Passerone	1998	Erio Tosatti Furio Ercolessi Guido Chiarotti	Structural Order and Thermal Disorder at the Surface of Selected Crystals: Theory and Simulations
Dario Alfe	1997	Stefano Baroni	First Principles Study of Two Rhodium Surfaces upon Carbon-Monoxide and Oxygen Adsorption
Orion Ciftja	1997	Stefano Fantoni	Variational Study of two Strongly Correlated Fermi Systems: Fractional Quantum Hall Effect and Atomic He3 at Zero Temperature
Alice Ruini	1997	Raffaele Resta Stefano Baroni	Dynamical Charges at Surfaces and Interfaces: Their Role in the Schottky Barrier Problem
Antonino Marco Saitta	1997	Stefano de Gironcoli Stefano Baroni	Theoretical study of the structural, thermodynamic and electronic properties of quaternary semiconductor alloy: (Zn,Mg)(S,Se)
Claudio Tebaldi	1997	Attilio L. Stella Amos Maritan	Rare events dominance in non equilibrium critical phenomena: selected examples
Lucian Anton	1996	Amos Maritan	Diffusion approach to non-equilibrium extremal dynamics
Guido Caldarelli	1996	Amos Maritan Attilio L. Stella	From self organized criticality to patters formation. Theoretical aspects, occurence in nature.
Francesca Colaiori	1996	Amos Maritan	River networks dynamics, branching patterns and aggregation phenomena
Paolo De Los Rios	1996	Amos Maritan	Strongly disordered systems from polymer statistics to phase transitions
Alessandro Flammini	1996	Amos Maritan	Scaling behavior for models of river network
Franjo Franjic	1996	Sandro Sorella	A Variational Approach to Strongly Correlated Systems
Zhong-Yi Lu	1996	Guido Chiarotti Sandro Scandolo Erio Tosatti	First-principles study of a-Sn surfaces
Michele Vendruscolo	1996	Amos Maritan	Folding, stability and design of proteins
Marco Airoldi	1995	Michele Fabrizio Giuseppe Santoro Alberto Parola Erio Tosatti	Selected Problems in Strongly Correlated Electronic Models
Claudia Bungaro	1995	Stefano Baroni Stefano de Gironcoli	Dynamical Properties of Clean and H-covered W(110) Surfaces
Alberto Debernardi	1995	Stefano Baroni	Anharmonic Properties of Semiconductors from Density Functional Perturbation Theory
Francesco D. Di Tolla	1995	Furio Ercolessi Erio Tosatti	Interplay of Melting, Wetting, Overheating and Faceting on Metal Surface: Theory and Simulations
Nicola Manini	1995	Erio Tosatti	Electron-Vibron Coupling in Charged Fullerene, Berry Phase and Superconductivity
Paolo Focher	1994	Michele Parrinello Guido Chiarotti	First-principle studies of structural phase transformations
Matteo Marsili	1994	Amos Maritan	From interface growth to dynamics in disordered media and self organized criticality
Francesco Mauri	1994	Roberto Car	New developments in quantum molecular dynamics: excited state dynamics and large scale simulations
Francesco Pederiva	1994	Stefano Fantoni Luciano Reatto	Quantum theory of non-homogeneous phases of Helium
Qingfeng Zhong	1994	Sandro Sorella	Numerical study of strongly correlated electron systems
Marco Bernasconi	1993	Erio Tosatti Guido Chiarotti	Ab initio calculation of structural and electronic properties of alfa-Ga surfaces
Marco Buongiorno Nardelli	1993	Stefano Baroni	Phonon softening and high-pressure low-simmetry phases of cesium halides from first-principles techniques
Andrea Dal Corso	1993	Raffaele Resta Stefano Baroni	Density Functional Theory beyond the Pseudopotential Local Density Approach: a Few Cases Studies
Michela Di Stasio	1993	Giuseppe Morandi Arturo Tagliacozzo	From quantum Spins to correlated fermions: a new strong coupling method
Alberto Franceschetti	1993	Stefano Baroni	Density-functional theory without orbitals: a path towards very large scale electronic structure calculations
Guido Goldoni	1993	Annalisa Fasolino	Properties of spin-orbit coupled bands in semiconductors heterostructures
Roman Martonak	1993	Erio Tosatti	Models of quantum paraelectric behaviour of Perovskites
Michele Fabrizio	1992	Erio Tosatti Alberto Parola	New results for interacting Fermi systems: the 2D Hubbard model at low density and the two coupled chain problem
Andrea Ferrante	1992	Stefano Fantoni Mario P. Tosi	Auxiliary variables in classical and quantum liquids
Jose' Lorenzana	1992	Yu Lu	Doping states in cuprate oxide superconductors
Giorgio Mazzeo	1992	Giancarlo Jug Erio Tosatti	Interplay between surface in-plane ordering and roughening
Pier Luigi Silvestrelli	1992	Stefano Baroni Roberto Car	Auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo for systems with repusive interactions
Xiaoqun Wang	1992	Stefano Fantoni Erio Tosatti Yu Lu	Variational studies on the Hubbard model within the FHNC theory
Miklos Gulacsi	1991	Andrea C. Levi	Study and solution of the five-vertex model
Pasquale Pavone	1991	Stefano Baroni	Lattice Dynamics of Semiconductors from Density-Functional Perturbation Theory
Zeenet Badirkhan	1990	Mario P. Tosi	Density functional theory of freezing: some applications
Xiaojie Chen	1990	Andrea C. Levi Erio Tosatti	New theoretical results and simulations of surface melting
Enrico Smargiassi	1990	Roberto Car	Lattice vacancies and diffusion processes in crystalline silicon: a first-principles molecular dynamics study
Ivan Stich	1990	Roberto Car Michele Parrinello	First principles molecular dynamics study of liquid and amorphous silicon
Francesco Buda	1989	Roberto Car Michele Parrinello	Hydrogen in silicon: a first principles molecular dynamics study
Maria Peressi	1989	Alfonso Baldereschi Stefano Baroni	Energy-Band Discontinuities at Lattice-Matched Semiconductor Heterojunctions
Sandro Sorella	1989	Michele Parrinello Stefano Baroni Roberto Car Erio Tosatti	A Novel Technique for the Simulation of Interacting Fermion Systems
Li Wang	1989	Mario P. Tosi	Concentration fluctuations in liquid metal alloys
Xiaoqian Wang	1989	Erio Tosatti Stefano Fantoni	Correlated basis function method for fermions on a lattice: applications to the Hubbard model
Linfang Xu	1989	Annabella Selloni Michele Parrinello	Quantum molecular dynamics study of dilute Na-NaBr liquid solutions
Qiming Zhang	1989	Annabella Selloni Roberto Car Michele Parrinello	First-principle molecular dynamics simulations of disordered GaAs
Francesco Ancilotto	1988	Annalisa Fasolino Annabella Selloni Erio Tosatti	Theoretical investigations of optical absorption and of tunneling behaviour of heterostructures in strong magnetic fields
Anna Bartolini	1988	Erio Tosatti Furio Ercolessi	Low-index surfaces reconstruction and its influence on vicinal surfaces: the case of AU (100) and AU (111)
Furio Ercolessi	1987	Erio Tosatti Michele Parinello	Molecular dynamics studies of gold: bulk, defects, surfaces and clusters
Abdallah Qteish	1987	Raffaele Resta	Ab-initio study of Si-Ge alloys and ultra-thin superlattices
Cai-zhuang Wang	1987	Erio Tosatti Michele Parrinello	A molecular dynamics study of the displacive surface recostruction phase transitions
Giulia Galli	1986	Mario P. Tosi	On the structure and bonding of neutral and ionized molecules
Andrzej Fleszar	1985	Raffaele Resta	Dielectric response in semiconductors: theory and applications
Sandro Massidda	1985	A. Baldereschi	Electronic properties of the compound with AlB2 structure. Self-consistent LAPW study of BeB2, AlB2, CaGa2, and TiB2
Giorgio Pastore	1985	Mario P. Tosi	Theory of the structure of charged liquids and some applications
Chun-Da Chen	1984	Erio Tosatti	Topics in the theory of two-dimensional electron systems
Bruno D'Aguanno	1984	Mario P. Tosi	Freezing of ionic liquids in correlation to hot solid structure
Jerzy Glazer	1984	Erio Tosatti	Theory of spin effects in electron-electron scattering in metals
Chuan Hong Chen	1983	Michele Parrinello	Polymorphic transitions in alkali halides
Eduardo Roman	1983	Mario P. Tosi	A study of physical properties of ionic systems

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