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INFN PostDoctoral position in Statistical Theory of Fields and Quantum Many-Body Systems

Date: October 2023

INFN has opened postdoctoral positions in theoretical physics.

We are opening a call for a highly motivated postdoctoral research working within
the area of "Statistical theory of fields, quantum many-body systems". The
fellowship is associated with SFT's research node in Pisa (reference person: Prof.
Davide Rossini).

The research group in Pisa is composed of the following staff members:
- Vincenzo Alba (Senior Researcher);
- Mihail Mintchev (INFN Senior Associate);
- Davide Rossini (Associate Professor);
- Ettore Vicari (Full Professor);
- Alessandro Vichi (Associate Professor).


The research project will involve one of the following topics of interest, which are
strictly related to the present activity in the Pisa SFT group:

- Entanglement and criticality in closed and open quantum many-body systems.
- Out-of-equilibrium physics and quantum quenches.
- Bethe Ansatz solvable models and quantum integrability.
- Tensor networks and numerical methods for quantum many-body physics.
- Quantum engagement, modular conjugation and holography.
- Conformal field theories and conformal invariance (bootstrap).


Some recent publications:

- D. Poland, S. Rychkov, and A. Vichi, The conformal bootstrap: Theory, numerical
techniques, and applications, Rev. Mod. Phys. 91, 015002 (2019).

- S. M. Chester, W. Landry, J. Liu, D. Poland, D. Simmons-Duffin, N. Su, and A.
Vichi, Carving out OPE space and precise O(2) model critical exponents, JHEP 2020,
142 (2020).

- D. Rossini and E. Vicari, Coherent and dissipative dynamics at quantum phase
transitions, Phys. Rep. 936, 1 (2021).

- V. Alba, B. Bertini, M. Fagotti, L. Piroli, and P. Ruggiero, Generalized
hydrodynamic approach to inhomogeneous quenches: correlations, entanglement and
quantum effects, J. Stat. Mech. (2021) 114004.

- M. Mintchev and E. Tonni, Modular Hamiltonians for the massless Dirac field in the
presence of a defect, JHEP 03, 205 (2021).

- F. Carollo and V. Alba, Dissipative quasiparticle picture for quadratic Markovian
open quantum systems, Phys. Rev. B 105, 144305 (2022).

- G. Piccitto, A. Russomanno, and D. Rossini, Entanglement transitions in the
quantum Ising chain: A comparison between different unravelings of the same
Lindbladian, Phys. Rev. B 105, 064305 (2022).

Please also note:

a) The winner will be associated to I.N.F.N. research activity and will receive extra funds for travel and for purchasing personal equipment.