Theoretical Physics

 

 

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Sito della Commissione Scientifica Nazionale 4

I teorici della Sezione INFN di Catania sono attivi su cinque linee di ricerca della Commissione Scientifica Nazionale IV, e sono coinvolti nelle seguenti Iniziative Specifiche :

   

• FLAG (Linea 1: Campi e Stringhe). Referente locale : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  FieLd And Gravity

  Our activities can be divided into the following specific fields:
  Effective QFT of gravity: 
  asymptotic safety; general f(R) theories of gravity from quantum gravity;
  non-trivial UV completions in QFT and topological QFT.
  Black hole physics: 
  Formation and theory of regular BH; Quantum and classical evolution of BH interior.
  Cosmology: 
  inflationary scenario and the CMB; dark energy. 
  Further detail can be found at flag CT.

 

• • • • QFT_HEP (Linea 2: Fenomenologia). Referente locale : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
        QFT for High Energy Physics, Physics of the Standard Model and Beyond

        Stability condition of the electroweak vacuum.
        Non-standard UV behavior of the Standard Model.
        Renormalization group.

 

• SIM (Linea 3: Fisica Nucleare). Referente locale : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  Strongly Interacting Matter at high density and temperature

  Strongly interacting relativistic matter and QCD plasma.

 

• MONSTRE  (Linea 3: Fisica Nucleare). Referente locale : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  Structure and Reactions of Nuclei: towards a global Theory

  Quartet structure of N=Z nuclei in a boson formalism.
  Many body correlation in semiclassical molecular dynamics and effective interaction.
  Properties of low lying dipole states in nuclei far from the stability line.

 

• DYNSYSMATH  (Linea 4: Metodi Matematici). Referente locale : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  DYNamical systems and non equilibrium states of complex SYStems : MATHematical methods and physical concepts

  Noise, decoherence and entanglement in quantum systems.
  Collective behavior, noise and random strategies in models of Self-Organized Criticality and coupled systems.
  Applications to financial markets and opinion dynamics.
  Non-equilibrium dynamics of systems with long-range correlations on complex networks.

 

• QUANTUM  (Linea 4: Metodi Matematici). Referente locale : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  Finite and Infinite Quantum Systems : Entanglement, Coherence and Control

  Coherent effects in atomtronic circuits for quantum technologies.
  Driven and quench dynamics in atomtronic circuits.
  Hybrid quantum systems: coupling ultracold atoms and superconducting devices.
  Search for 'quantum KAM' theorem: Rise and fall of integrability in quantum phases of matter.

 

• NEUMATT  (Linea 5: Astroparticelle). Referente locale : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  NEUtron star MAtter Theory

  BHF EOS of High-Density (Hyper)-Nuclear Matter at Zero and Finite Temperature.
  Microscopic Nuclear TBF, Hyperon-Nucleon and Hyperon-Hyperon Potentials.
  Hybrid Stars and the Hadron-Quark Phase Transition with Different Quark Models.
  Microscopic Energy Density Functional for the NS Crust.
  Cooling of NS Matter.

 

• LINCOLN  (Linea 6: Meccanica Statistica e Applicazioni). Referente locale : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  Physics of Complex Networks

  Random processes in social, political and economic systems.
  Multilayer agent-based models of price dynamics in financial markets&nbsp
  Agent-based models of decision dynamics in stakeholders networks
  Applications of natural computation algorithms to engineering structures
  Self-organized criticality model for the seismic assessment in urban areas
  Cascading failures in power grids
  Emerging collective phenomena and synchronization in multiplex networks
  Network dynamics of cognitive processes