Research Area: PHYS-02/A - Fisica Teorica delle Interazioni Fondamentali, Modelli, Metodi Matematici e Applicazioni
Research activities
My research activity has focused on issues ranging from fundamental interactions to statistical and condensed matter physics, from lattice gauge theories to quantum many-body systems, etc. Most used frameworks are quantum field theories using perturbative and nonperturbative approaches, renormalization-group theory, lattice field theories, numerical simulations, which allow us to address problems arising in different physical contexts. Some recent research lines are: (i) Coherent and dissipative quantum dynamics of many-body systems at quantum first-order and continuous phase transitions; (ii) Critical phenomena at quantum and thermal transitions in several physically interesting systems; (iii) Interplay between global and gauge symmetries in lattice gauge theories with scalar and fermion fields; (iv) Emerging gauge theories in condensed matter physics; (v) Nonperturbative aspects of the theory of the strong interactions, i.e. the quantum chromodynamics (QCD).
Recent publications
- Out-of-equilibrium spinodal-like scaling behaviors at the thermal first-order transitions of three-dimensional q-state Potts models [2026]
- Critical dynamics of three-dimensional Z2 gauge models and the inverted XY universality class [2025]
- Critical relaxational dynamics at the continuous transitions of three-dimensional spin models with Z2 gauge symmetry [2025]
- Kibble-Zurek dynamics across the first-order quantum transitions of quantum Ising chains in the thermodynamic limit [2025]
- Out-of-equilibrium critical dynamics of the three-dimensional Z2 gauge model along critical relaxational flows [2025]