Fisica Teorica

 

 

Coordinatore : Isaac Vidaña 
Stanza: 313
Telefono: 095/378 5360
e-mail: isaac.vidana@ct.infn.it

 

 

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 : Alfio Bonanno 
  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 : Vincenzo Branchina 
        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 : Fabio Siringo
  Strongly Interacting Matter at high density and temperature

  Strongly interacting relativistic matter and QCD plasma.

 

• MONSTRE  (Linea 3: Fisica Nucleare). Referente locale : Michelangelo Sambataro
  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 : Andrea Rapisarda
  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 : Luigi Amico
  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 : Hans-Josef Schulze
  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 : Alessandro Pluchino
  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