Federico BECCA's homepage

There are places I'll remember
All my life though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places had their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I've loved them all

But of all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new
Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto Officina dei Materiali
International School for Advanced Studies (ISAS-SISSA)

Via Bonomea 265
34126, Trieste, ITALY
Phone: +39 040 3787 405
Fax: +39 040 3787 528
Email: becca(at)sissa.it

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Fourth Summer School on ``Atomistic Simulation Techniques for Material Science, Nanotechnology, and Biophysics''
SISSA/CECAM (8-26 July 2013).

Summer School on ``Quantum Spin Liquids: from Theory to Numerical Simulations''
SISSA/CECAM (9-20 September 2013).

Research Interests

I am a condensed matter theorist, working in the field of strongly correlated systems. My main interests are related to low-temperature properties of itinerant electrons and frustrated magnetic systems. By using numerical methods, like classical and quantum Monte Carlo, exact diagonalization, density-matrix renormalization group, and analytic approaches (slave particles, Gutzwiller approximation, and spin waves), I focused my attention on Hubbard-like models and their generalizations. I work on:
  • Charge and spin instabilities in strongly correlated systems
  • Frustrated magnetic systems
  • Metal-insulator and superfluid-insulator transitions
  • Correlated systems in presence of disorder
  • Microscopic models for high-temperature superconductors
  • Thermalization and real-time dynamics for quantum systems
  • Classical and quantum Monte Carlo methods
  • Lanczos and exact diagonalizations

    • My personal beliefs are:

  • Projected fermionic wave functions for spin liquids
  • Resonating valence bond theory of superconductivity

    • Brief Curriculum Vitae

    Education

    Jan. 1996: Laurea (Degree) in Physics - Università La Sapienza, Roma (Italy)
                        Thesis : Charge instabilities in strongly correlated electron systems
                        Advisor : Prof. Carlo di Castro
    Oct. 1997: Magister Philosophie in Condensed Matter - ISAS-SISSA, Trieste (Italy)
                        Thesis: Charge-density waves in semiconductor surfaces
                        Advisor : Prof. Giuseppe Santoro
    Oct. 2000: Ph.D. in Condensed Matter - ISAS-SISSA, Trieste (Italy)
                        Thesis: Electronic properties from strong correlation
                        Advisor : Prof. Sandro Sorella

    Positions

    Nov. 2000 - Aug. 2002: Research Assistant at Institut de Physique Theorique, University of Lausanne

    Sep. 2002 - Oct. 2004: Research Associate for the Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica per la Materia (INFM), Trieste

    Nov. 2004 - Mar. 2008: Tenure Track research for the INFM-DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center, Trieste

    Since Apr. 2008: Research Assistant for Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)


    Other professional services

    Since Apr. 2010: Member of the Council of the Istituto Officina dei Materiali

    Since Feb. 2011: Teaching appointment at the International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste

    Since Jan. 2013: Member of the Board of Directors for the Centre Europeen de Calcul Atomique et Moleculaire (CECAM)