Antonello Scardicchio

Permanent Scientific Staff

Senior Research Scientist

Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

+39 040 2240 244

ascardic@ictp.it

+39 040 2240 244

ascardic@ictp.it

LB-246

0000-0003-0042-229X

Prof. Scardicchio (PhD at MIT in 2006), joined the faculty of ICTP in 2009. He has worked on equilibrium and non-equilibrium properties of disordered systems, focusing mainly on spin glasses and on the phenomena of Anderson and Many-body localization. He is also an expert on the implications of these phenomena for quantum computers and quantum sensors.

Prof. Scardicchio got his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA, USA) in 2006 with a thesis on semiclassical quantum mechanics applied to the calculation of Casimir forces, under the supervision of Prof. Robert L. Jaffe. He then went on to Princeton University as Junior Fellow of the Center for Theoretical Science, where he worked on disordered classical and quantum systems with S.Sondhi, S.Torquato and F.Stillinger, string theory with I.Klebanov, and quantum computing with R.Moessner, S.Sondhi, and C.Laumann. He left Princeton in 2009 to join the faculty of ICTP. Since then, he has worked on equilibrium and non-equilibrium properties of disordered systems, recently focusing on quantum spin glasses and the phenomena of Anderson and Many-body localization in collaboration with B.Altshuler, D.Huse, G.Parisi and many others. He has also worked on the implications of these phenomena for quantum computers (ideal and NISQ era) and quantum sensors, for which he got a Google faculty award in 2017. He has been visiting scholar at CUNY, Columbia University, and Princeton University. He has been advisor of about a dozen graduate students and about the same number of master students and he is external member of the faculty of SISSA, in the group of Statistical Physics, where over the years he has taught "Classical and Quantum Computation" and "Disordered Systems".

Publications

Journal article

2023

Slow melting of a disordered quantum crystal

Physical Review B (2023)

Federico Balducci | Antonello Scardicchio | Carlo Vanoni

Journal article

2022

Localization in the Discrete Non-linear Schrödinger Equation and Geometric Properties of the Microcanonical Surface

Journal of Statistical Physics (2022)

Claudio Arezzo | Federico Balducci | Riccardo Piergallini | Antonello Scardicchio | Carlo Vanoni

Journal article

2022

Localization and Melting of Interfaces in the Two-Dimensional Quantum Ising Model

Physical Review Letters (2022)

Federico Balducci | Andrea Gambassi | Alessio Lerose | Antonello Scardicchio | Carlo Vanoni

Journal article

2021

Subdiffusion in a one-dimensional Anderson insulator with random dephasing: Finite-size scaling, Griffiths effects, and possible implications for many-body localization

Physical Review B (2021)

Scott R. Taylor | Antonello Scardicchio

Journal article

2021

Quantum jamming: Critical properties of a quantum mechanical perceptron

Physical Review A (2021)

Antonello Scardicchio

Journal article

2021

Relaxation to equilibrium in controlled-not quantum networks

Physical Review A (2021)

Antonello Scardicchio

Journal article

2021

Signatures of many-body localization in the dynamics of two-level systems in glasses

Physical Review B (2021)

Antonello Scardicchio

Journal article

2021

Constraint-Induced Delocalization

Physical Review Letters (2021)

Piotr Sierant | Eduardo Gonzalez Lazo | Marcello Dalmonte | Antonello Scardicchio | Jakub Zakrzewski

Journal article

2020

Phenomenology of anomalous transport in disordered one-dimensional systems

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (2020)

Schulz, M. | Taylor, S.R. | Scardicchio, A. | Žnidarič, M.

Journal article

2020

Subdiffusion in the Anderson model on the random regular graph

Physical Review B (2020)

De Tomasi, G. | Bera, S. | Scardicchio, A. | Khaymovich, I.M.

Journal article

2020

Anderson transition on the Bethe lattice: An approach with real energies

Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (2020)

Parisi, G. | Pascazio, S. | Pietracaprina, F. | Ros, V. | Scardicchio, A.

Journal article

2020

Non-Abelian Symmetries and Disorder: A Broad Nonergodic Regime and Anomalous Thermalization

Physical Review X (2020)

Journal article

2019

Soap films with gravity and almost-minimal surfaces

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems- Series A (2019)

Maggi, F. | Stuvard, S. | Scardicchio, A.

Journal article

2019

Asymmetry in energy versus spin transport in certain interacting disordered systems

Physical Review B (2019)

Journal article

2019

Can we study the many-body localisation transition?

EPL (2019)

Panda, R.K. | Scardicchio, A. | Schulz, M. | Taylor, S.R. | Žnidarič, M.

Journal article

2019

Massively parallel implementation and approaches to simulate quantum dynamics using Krylov subspace techniques

Computer Physics Communications (2019)

Brenes, M. | Varma, V.K. | Scardicchio, A. | Girotto, I.

Journal article

2019

Phase diagram of bipartite entanglement

Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (2019)

Facchi, P. | Parisi, G. | Pascazio, S. | Scardicchio, A. | Yuasa, K.

Journal article

2019

Impact of jamming criticality on low-temperature anomalies in structural glasses

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2019)

Silvio Franz | Thibaud Maimbourg | Giorgio Parisi | Antonello Scardicchio

Journal article

2018

Energy transport in a disordered spin chain with broken U(1) symmetry: Diffusion, subdiffusion, and many-body localization

Physical Review B (2018)

Schulz, M. | Taylor, S.R. | Hooley, C.A. | Scardicchio, A.

Journal article

2018

Return probability for the Anderson model on the random regular graph

Physical Review B (2018)

Bera, S. | De Tomasi, G. | Khaymovich, I.M. | Scardicchio, A.

Journal article

2018

Statistics of orthogonality catastrophe events in localised disordered lattices

New Journal of Physics (2018)

Journal article

2018

Many-Body Localization Dynamics from Gauge Invariance

Physical Review Letters (2018)

Marcello Dalmonte

Journal article

2017

Local integrals of motion in many‐body localized systems

Annalen der Physik (2017)

John Z. Imbrie | Valentina Ros | Antonello Scardicchio

Journal article

2017

Clustering of Nonergodic Eigenstates in Quantum Spin Glasses

Physical Review Letters (2017)

Baldwin, C.L. | Laumann, C.R. | Pal, A. | Scardicchio, A.

Journal article

2017

Energy diffusion in the ergodic phase of a many body localizable spin chain

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (2017)

Varma, V.K. | Lerose, A. | Pietracaprina, F. | Goold, J. | Scardicchio, A.

Journal article

2017

Entanglement critical length at the many-body localization transition

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (2017)

Pietracaprina, F. | Parisi, G. | Mariano, A. | Pascazio, S. | Scardicchio, A.

Journal article

2017

On the quantum spin glass transition on the Bethe lattice

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (2017)

Mossi, G. | Parolini, T. | Pilati, S. | Scardicchio, A.

Journal article

2017

Ergodic and localized regions in quantum spin glasses on the Bethe lattice

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (2017)

G. Mossi | A. Scardicchio

Journal article

2016

Extreme lattices: Symmetries and decorrelation

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (2016)

Andreanov, A. | Scardicchio, A. | Torquato, S.

Journal article

2016

Forward approximation as a mean-field approximation for the Anderson and many-body localization transitions

Physical Review B (2016)

Pietracaprina, F. | Ros, V. | Scardicchio, A.

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