Current placement of recent graduates of the CM curriculum

Supervisor: Michele Fabrizio
Thesis title: Emergent phenomena in twisted Van der Waals materials

Thesis related publications:
Phys. Rev. B 98, 235137 (2018)
Phys. Rev. X 9, 041010 (2019)
Eur. Phys. J. Plus 135, 630 (2020)
arXiv:2008.01735

Supervisor: Massimo Capone
Thesis title: Mott transition, topology, and magnetism of interacting fermions in confined geometries

Thesis related publications:
Phys. Rev. A 101, 033611 (2020)

Supervisor: Massimo Capone, Adriano Amaricci
Thesis title: Local and non-local correlations in Topological Insulators and Weyl Semimetals

Thesis related publications:
Phys. Rev. Research 2, 012023(R)

Supervisor: Simone Piccinin, Stefano Fabris, Stefano De Gironcoli
Thesis title: Ab-initio Characterization of a Novel Photocathode for Water Splitting: Bulk and Surface Properties of CuFeO2

Thesis related publications:
J. Phys. Chem. C 123 (49), 29589 (2019)
Phys. Rev. B 101 (15), 155201 (2020)
ACS Catalysis 11, 1897-1910 (2021)

Supervisor: Sandro Sorella
Thesis title: Geminal Power in QMC

Thesis related publications:
arXiv:1911.09748 (2019)
J. Chem. Phys. 150 (8), 084102 (2019)
arXiv:2002.03347 (2020)
J. Chem. Phys. 152 (20), 204121 (2020)
Phys. Rev. X 10 (3), 031058 (2020)

Supervisor: Stefano Baroni, Marco Garavelli, Stefano Corni
Thesis title: Simulating Plasmon Enhancement of Optical Properties in Hybrid Metal-Organic Nanoparticles

Thesis related publications:
J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2020, 16, 6, 3807-3815

Supervisor: Rosario Fazio, Alessandro Silva
Thesis title: Entanglement dynamics and chaos in long-range quantum systems

Thesis related publications:
Journal of Statistical Mechanics, 053104 (2017)
Physical Review B 98, 134303 (2018)
Journal of Statistical Mechanics 073102 (2019)
Physical Review Research 2, (2020)
Physical Review Letter 124, 040605 (2020)
SciPost Physics, 9, 021 (2020)
Physical Review A 102, 032404, (2020)

Supervisor: Alessandro Silva
Thesis title: Cluster mean-field dynamics of the long-range interacting Ising chain

Thesis related publications:
J. Stat. Mech. (2019) 094017
Phys. Rev. B 100, 180402(R) (2019)
arXiv:2101.05710

Supervisor: Stefano De Gironcoli
Thesis title: Interatomic Potential for Li-C Systems from Cluster Expansion to Artificial Neural Network Techniques

Thesis related publications:
J. Phys. Chem. C 122 (36), 20800-20808 (2018)
Computer Phys. Comm. 256 107402, (2020)
arXiv:2011.04604 (2020)

Supervisor: Andrea Dal Corso
Thesis title: Lattice dynamics with Fully Relativistic Pseudopotentials for magnetic systems, with selected applications

Thesis related publications:
Surf. Science 671, 17-26 (2018)
Surf. Science 686, 22-29 (2019)
Phys. Rev. B 100, 045115 (2019)
J. Chem. Phys. 152, 154105 (2020)
Phys. Rev. B 102, 115126 (2020)

Supervisor: Giuseppe Santoro
Thesis title: Adiabatic approaches to non-equilibrium systems: Topology, Optimization, and Learning

Thesis related publications:
Phys. Rev. A 96 (2), 022326 (2017)
Phys. Rev. B 98 (20), 205112 (2018)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 123 (26), 266601 (2019)
arXiv:2003.07419
Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033446 (2020)
arXiv:2101.05710

Supervisor: Giuseppe Santoro
Thesis title: Dissipation effects in driven quantum many-body systems

Thesis related publications:
Phys. Rev. B 96, 054301 (2017)
Phys. Rev. B 98, 019902 (2018)
Phys. Rev. B 98, 064307 (2018)
Phys. Rev. B 99, 064201 (2019)
arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.08808 (2019)
arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.00817 (2019)

Supervisor: Federico Becca
Thesis title: Static and dynamical properties of frustrated spin models

Thesis related publications:
Phys. Rev. B 96, 104401 (2017)
Phys. Rev. B 97, 235103 (2018)
Phys. Rev. B 98, 100405 (2018)
arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.05691 (2019)
arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.00463 (2019)

Supervisor: Michele Fabrizio, Massimo Capone
Thesis title: Beyond simple variational approach for strongly electron systems

Thesis related publications:
Phys. Rev. B 96, 201106(R) (2017)
Phys. Rev. B 97, 125103 (2018)
Phys. Rev. Materials 3, 054605 (2019)
Phys. Rev. B 99, 195409 (2019)
arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.06444 (2019)

Supervisor: Federico Becca
Thesis title: Towards next-generation methods to optimize two-dimensional tensor networks: Algorithmic differentiation and applications to quantum magnets

Thesis related publications:
arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.02164 (2019)

Supervisor: Michele Fabrizio, Mikhail Kiselev
Thesis title: Multi-color Fermi-liquid theory of quantum transport through a multilevel Kondo impurity

Thesis related publications:
Phys. Rev. B 96, 121403(R) (2017)
Phys. Rev. B 97, 195403 (2018)
Phys. Rev. B 98, 165443 (2018)
Phys. Rev. B 100, 125426 (2019)
arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.00724 (2019)

Supervisor: Giuseppe Santoro
Thesis title: Quantum annealing and digital quantum ground state preparation algorithms

Thesis related publications:
J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 50 194001 (2017)
Phys. Rev. B 99, 064201 (2019)
arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.08948 (2019)
arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.00817 (2019)

Supervisor: Stefano Baroni, Ali A Hassanali, Ralph Gebauer
Thesis title: A Multi-scale Approach to Studying the Complexity in Glutamine Aggregates: Structure, Dynamics and Electronic Properties.

Thesis related publications:
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 21, 16083 (2019)

Supervisor: Giuseppe Santoro, Erio Tosatti, Alessandro Laio
Thesis title: Markov State Modeling of 2D Nanofriction

Thesis related publications:
The Journal of chemical physics 147 (15), 152721 (2017)

Supervisor: Massimo Capone
Thesis title: Exploring Hund's correlated metals: charge instabilities and effect of selective interactions

Thesis related publications:
Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 186401 (2019)

Supervisor: Federico Becca, Luca Fausto Tocchio
Thesis title: Magnetism and Superconductivity in the Two-Band Hubbard Model: A Variational Monte Carlo Perspective

Thesis related publications:
Phys. Rev. B 98, 075117 (2018)

Supervisor: Stefano Baroni
Thesis title: Ab Initio Simulation of Heat Transport in Silica Glass

Thesis related publications:
J. Low Temp. Phys. 185, 79 (2016)
Scientific Reports 7, 15835 (2017)
Handbook of Materials Modeling pp 1-36 (2018)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 255901

Supervisor: Giuseppe Santoro, Erio Tosatti
Thesis title: Friction and Adhesion of graphene nanoribbons on gold: an MD investigation

Thesis related publications:
2D Mater. 4 045003 (2017)
Nanoscale 10, 2073-2080 (2018)
ACS Nano 13, 1, 689-697 (2019)

Supervisor: Michele Fabrizio, Adriano Amaricci
Thesis title: Mott insulators in disguise

Thesis related publications:
Phys. Rev. B 98, 045105 (2018)

Supervisor: Sandro Sorella
Thesis title: Variational and auxiliary field Monte Carlo for the Hubbard and Hubbard-Holstein models: an accurate finite-size scaling and a "sign problem" solution

Thesis related publications:
Phys. Rev. B 94, 245108 (2016)
Phys. Rev. B 96, 205145 (2017)
Phys. Rev. B 98, 075156 (2018)
Phys. Rev. B 98, 201108(R) (2018)

Supervisor: Alessandro Silva, Rosario Fazio
Thesis title: Coupled quantum kicked rotors: a study about dynamical localization, slow heating and thermalization

Thesis related publications:
Phys. Rev. E 97, 022202 (2018)

Supervisor: Stefano Baroni, Alessandra Magistrato
Thesis title: Color optical properties of anthocyanins in solution: a multi-scale computational study

Thesis related publications:
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 21, 8757-8766 (2019)