Current placement of recent graduates of the CM curriculum

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)

Supervisor: Giuseppe Santoro
Thesis title: Non-equilibrium aspects of topological Floquet quantum systems

Thesis related publications:
Phys. Rev. B 93, 241406(R) (2016)
Phys. Rev. B 95, 205120 (2017)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 106601 (2018)
Phys. Rev. B 99, 064201 (2019)

Supervisor: Stefano Fabris
Thesis title: Stability and Reactivity of Supported Single-Atom Catalysts: Insight from Density Functional Theory

Thesis related publications:
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2019, 7, 13019-13028
J. Phys. Chem. C20181223117917-17927

Supervisor: Giuseppe Santoro
Thesis title: Landau-Zener processes in out-of-equilibrium quantum physics

Thesis related publications:
Phys. Rev. B 93, 224431 (2016)
arXiv:1708.03362 [cond-mat.mes-hall] (2017)
PNAS April 3, 115 (14) 3547 (2018)