Fabio Franchini

Permanent Researcher/Associate Professor

 

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Ruđer Bošković Institute

Division of Theoretical Physics

Condensed Matter & Statistical Physics Group

The Q-Team

 

External Consultant for the

SISSA Statistical Physics Group

Contact Details

 

Address:
c/o Ruđer Bošković Institute

Bijenička cesta 54,

10000 Zagreb,

Croatia

 


Phone:
(+385) 09-19719804

Email:

fabio at irb.hr
ffranchi at sissa.it

 

 

Projects

 

·      “Novel Characterizations of Classical and Quantum Many-Body Systems”

P.I.: Fabio Franchini

Funds: HrZZ (IP-2016-06-3347, DOK-2018-01-7464)

 

·      “Frustrated Complex Systems”

P.I.: Salvatore Marco Giampaolo

Funds: HrZZ (IP-2019-04-3321)

 

·      QuantiXLie

P.I.: Hrvoje Buljan

Funds: EU (KK.01.1.1.01.0004)

 

·      “Molecular Quantum Simulations”

P.I.: Guido Pupillo

P.I. for Hr node: Fabio Franchini

Funds: Marie Curie ITN

 

 

 

Research Interests

 

 

Disordered Systems:

·      Anderson Metal/Insulator Transition;

·      Matrix Models;

·      Hofstadter 6 Aubry-Harper Models

 

Spin Chains:

·      Entanglement;

·      Local & Non-local Correlation Functions;

·      Integrability

 

Cold Atom Systems:

·      Non-equilibrium dynamics;

·      Universality;

·      Quantum Quenches

 

Strongly Correlated Systems:

·      Conformal Field Theory & Bosonization;

·      Bethe Ansatz Methods;

·      Quantum Computation

 

Non-linear Systems:

·      Spin-Charge Interaction;

·      Semi-classical Hydrodynamics;

·      Integrable Differential Equations;

·      Shock Waves & Solitons

 

Quantum Field Theory:

·      Quantum Phase Transitions;

·      Topology;

·      String Theory;

·      QFT in Curved Space-Time

·      Hawking Radiation

 

Recent Updates

 

 

·      Frustrated Boundary Conditions influence local order:

Even weak topological frustration can destroy local order and replace the spontaneous magnetization of spin-1/2 chains with different types of order, separated by boundary-less wetting transitions..

 

·      Novel Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking mechanism in Invariant Matrix Models:

A gap in the eigenvalue distribution induces a localization of the eigenvectors. The full U(N) symmetry is spontaneously broken into a smaller one and ergodicity is lost.

 

·      Global Quantum Quench on a Localized Excitations:

The short time dynamics of a soliton after a quantum quench is universal: a reflected and transmitted profiles are generated, whose size and velocity depend only on the ration between the sound velocity before and after the quench

 

·      “Local Convertibility and edge states in quantum many body systems” published in Physical Review X:

Lack of local convertibility can be understood in terms of edge state recombination and their entanglement properties, providing a characterization for Universal Quantum Simulators

 

 

 

Last Update: July 2020