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

2016

Holographic disorder driven superconductor-metal transition

Physical Review D (2016)

Areán, D. | Pando Zayas, L.A. | Landea, I.S. | Scardicchio, A.

Journal article

2016

Many-body localization beyond eigenstates in all dimensions

Physical Review B (2016)

Chandran, A. | Pal, A. | Laumann, C.R. | Scardicchio, A.

Journal article

2016

The many-body localized phase of the quantum random energy model

Physical Review B (2016)

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

Journal article

2016

Diffusive and subdiffusive spin transport in the ergodic phase of a many-body localizable system

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 040601 (2016) (2016)

Antonello Scardicchio

Journal article

2016

Signatures of many-body localization in the dynamics of two-site entanglement

Physical Review B (2016)

Iemini, Fernando | Russomanno, Angelo | Rossini, Davide | Scardicchio, Antonello | Fazio, Rosario

Journal article

2015

Corrigendum to Integrals of motion in the many-body localized phase [Nucl. Phys. B 891, (2015), 420-465] doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2014.12.014

Nuclear Physics B (2015)

Ros, V. | Müller, M. | Scardicchio, A.

Journal article

2015

Random Coulomb antiferromagnets: From diluted spin liquids to Euclidean random matrices

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (2015)

Journal article

2015

Holographic p-wave superconductor with disorder

Journal of High Energy Physics (2015)

Areán, D. | Farahi, A. | Pando Zayas, L.A. | Salazar Landea, I. | Scardicchio, A.

Journal article

2015

Total correlations of the diagonal ensemble herald the many-body localization transition

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (2015)

Journal article

2015

Integrals of motion in the many-body localized phase

Nuclear Physics B (2015)

Ros, V. | Müller, M. | Scardicchio, A.

Journal article

2015

Large-N-approximated field theory for multipartite entanglement

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics (2015)

Facchi, P. | Florio, G. | Parisi, G. | Pascazio, S. | Scardicchio, A.

Journal article

2015

Localized systems coupled to small baths: From Anderson to Zeno

Phys. Rev. B (2015)

Antonello Scardicchio

Journal article

2015

Quantum annealing: The fastest route to quantum computation?

European Physical Journal: Special Topics (2015)

Laumann, C.R. | Moessner, R. | Scardicchio, A. | Sondhi, S.L.

Journal article

2014

Satisfiability-unsatisfiability transition in the adversarial satisfiability problem

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics (2014)

Bardoscia, M. | Nagaj, D. | Scardicchio, A.

Journal article

2014

Anderson localization on the Bethe lattice: Nonergodicity of extended states

Physical Review Letters (2014)

De Luca, A. | Altshuler, B.L. | Kravtsov, V.E. | Scardicchio, A.

Journal article

2014

Holographic superconductor with disorder

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology (2014)

Areán, D. | Farahi, A. | Pando Zayas, L.A. | Landea, I.S. | Scardicchio, A.

Journal article

2014

Many-body mobility edge in a mean-field quantum spin glass

Physical Review Letters (2014)

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

Journal article

2013

Ergodicity breaking in a model showing many-body localization

EPL (2013)

De Luca, A. | Scardicchio, A.

Book

2012

Statistical mechanics of classical and quantum computational complexity

Lecture Notes in Physics (2012)

Laumann, C.R. | Moessner, R. | Scardicchio, A. | Sondhi, S.L.

Journal article

2012

Quantum adiabatic algorithm and scaling of gaps at first-order quantum phase transitions

Physical Review Letters (2012)

Laumann, C.R. | Moessner, R. | Scardicchio, A. | Sondhi, S.L.

Journal article

2012

Random perfect lattices and the sphere packing problem

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics (2012)

Andreanov, A. | Scardicchio, A.

Journal article

2012

Statistical distribution of the local purity in a large quantum system

Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (2012)

Journal article

2011

How many eigenvalues of a Gaussian random matrix are positive?

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics (2011)

Majumdar, S.N. | Nadal, C. | Scardicchio, A. | Vivo, P.

Journal article

2011

Structure of typical states of a disordered Richardson model and many-body localization

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (2011)

Buccheri, F. | De Luca, A. | Scardicchio, A.

Journal article

2010

Distribution of partition function zeros of the ± J model on the Bethe lattice

Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (2010)

Matsuda, Y. | Müller, M. | Nishimori, H. | Obuchi, T. | Scardicchio, A.

Journal article

2010

Product, generic, and random generic quantum satisfiability

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics (2010)

Laumann, C.R. | Läuchli, A.M. | Moessner, R. | Scardicchio, A. | Sondhi, S.L.

Journal article

2010

Random quantum satisfiabiilty

Quantum Information and Computation (2010)

Laumann, C.R. | Moessner, R. | Scardicchio, A. | Sondhi, S.L.

Journal article

2010

Phase transitions and metastability in the distribution of the bipartite entanglement of a large quantum system

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics (2010)

De Pasquale, A. | Facchi, P. | Parisi, G. | Pascazio, S. | Scardicchio, A.

Journal article

2009

Index Distribution of Gaussian Random Matrices

Physical Review Letters (2009)

Majumdar, S.N. | Nadal, C. | Scardicchio, A. | Vivo, P.

Journal article

2009

Quantum Zeno effect in a model multilevel molecule

Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2009)

HECAP Seminar - The Conformal Generators On the Fuzzy Sphere

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11th Workshop on Collaborative Scientific Software Development and Man...

Joint ICTP-IAEA School of Nuclear and Radiological Leadership for Safe...

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