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

2009

Statistical properties of determinantal point processes in high-dimensional Euclidean spaces

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics (2009)

Scardicchio, A. | Zachary, C.E. | Torquato, S.

Journal article

2008

Estimates of the optimal density of sphere packings in high dimensions

Journal of Mathematical Physics (2008)

Scardicchio, A. | Stillinger, F.H. | Torquato, S.

Journal article

2008

Griffiths-McCoy singularities, Lee-Yang zeros, and the cavity method in a solvable diluted ferromagnet

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics (2008)

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

Journal article

2008

Phase transitions of bipartite entanglement

Physical Review Letters (2008)

Facchi, P. | Marzolino, U. | Parisi, G. | Pascazio, S. | Scardicchio, A.

Journal article

2008

Point processes in arbitrary dimension from fermionic gases, random matrix theory, and number theory

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (2008)

Torquato, S. | Scardicchio, A. | Zachary, C.E.

Journal article

2008

Bipartite quantum systems: On the realignment criterion and beyond

Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (2008)

Lupo, C. | Aniello, P. | Scardicchio, A.

Journal article

2008

Cavity method for quantum spin glasses on the Bethe lattice

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (2008)

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

Journal article

2007

Test of the anti-de sitter-space/conformal-field-theory correspondence using high-spin operators

Physical Review Letters (2007)

Benna, M.K. | Benvenuti, S. | Klebanov, I.R. | Scardicchio, A.

Journal article

2007

Casimir forces in a piston geometry at zero and finite temperatures

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology (2007)

Hertzberg, M.P. | Jaffe, R.L. | Kardar, M. | Scardicchio, A.

Journal article

2006

Parity doubling and SU(2)L×SU(2)R restoration in the hadron spectrum

Physical Review Letters (2006)

Jaffe, R.L. | Pirjol, D. | Scardicchio, A.

Journal article

2006

Pion decoupling and SU(2)L×SU(2)R restoration in the hadron spectrum

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology (2006)

Jaffe, R.L. | Pirjol, D. | Scardicchio, A.

Journal article

2006

Casimir effects: An optical approach II. Local observables and thermal corrections

Nuclear Physics B (2006)

Scardicchio, A. | Jaffe, R.L.

Journal article

2006

Casimir interaction between a plate and a cylinder

Physical Review Letters (2006)

Emig, T. | Jaffe, R.L. | Kardar, M. | Scardicchio, A.

Journal article

2006

On the connection between random waves and quantum fields: Duality between nodal lines statistic and the Casimir energy

Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (2006)

Scardicchio, A.

Journal article

2006

Parity doubling among the baryons

Physics Reports (2006)

Jaffe, R.L. | Pirjol, D. | Scardicchio, A.

Journal article

2005

Casimir energy for a hyperboloid facing a plate in the optical approximation

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics (2005)

Schrder, O. | Scardicchio, A. | Jaffe, R.L.

Journal article

2005

Attractive Casimir forces in a closed geometry

Physical Review Letters (2005)

Hertzberg, M.P. | Jaffe, R.L. | Kardar, M. | Scardicchio, A.

Journal article

2005

Casimir buoyancy

Journal of High Energy Physics (2005)

Jaffe, R.L. | Scardicchio, A.

Journal article

2005

Casimir dynamics: Interactions of surfaces with codimension >1 due to quantum fluctuations

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology (2005)

Scardicchio, A.

Journal article

2005

Casimir effects: An optical approach I. Foundations and examples

Nuclear Physics B (2005)

Scardicchio, A. | Jaffe, R.L.

Journal article

2004

Casimir Effect and Geometric Optics

Physical Review Letters (2004)

Jaffe, R.L. | Scardicchio, A.

Journal article

2004

Zeno dynamics and constraints

Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics (2004)

Facchi, P. | Marmo, G. | Pascazio, S. | Scardicchio, A. | Sudarshan, E.C.G.

Journal article

2003

Fractal entropy of a chain of nonlinear oscillators

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics (2003)

Scardicchio, A. | Facchi, P. | Pascazio, S.

Journal article

2002

Slow relaxation, confinement, and solitons

Physical Review Letters (2002)

Journal article

2002

Zeno dynamics yields ordinary constraints

Physical Review A. Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics (2002)

Facchi, P. | Pascazio, S. | Scardicchio, A. | Schulman, L.S.

Journal article

2002

Classical and quantum dynamics of a particle constrained on a circle

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics (2002)

Scardicchio, A.

Journal article

1999

Measurement-induced quantum diffusion

Physical Review Letters (1999)

Facchi, P. | Pascazio, S. | Scardicchio, A.

HECAP Seminar - The Conformal Generators On the Fuzzy Sphere

Joint ICTP-WE Heraeus Conference on Sustainability and Resilience Thro...

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

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

PWF Latin America - Physics Latam: Course on Theoretical Particle Phys...

PWF Latin America - Physics Latam: Commutative Algebra; Toward Algebra...