Statistical Physics Group

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  - Statistical Physics

  - Complex systems and complex networks

  - Chaos and nonlinear systems

  - Non-equilibrium quantum dynamics

Statistical mechanical problems include the behavior of spin glasses and other complex systems, magnetism of classical and quantum spin systems, critical phenomena.

The area of complex system and chaos includes the study of non trivial properties of social, technological, biological or epidemiological complex networks.

Finally, the study of non-equilibrium quantum systems embraces phenomena such as Bose-Einstein condensation, quantum simulation of exotic phases of matter, complex dynamics of fermionic and bosonic particles, application to quantum technology.

In all of these endeavors the theory group enjoys close contact with the other groups of the Physics Department and in related departments on campus as well as at the national and international level.

Faculty

• Ananias Monteiro Mariz: critical phenomena, complex systems and methods of numerical simulations for spin systems, percolation, complex networks, and non gaussians walks.

  Ezequiel Silva de Sousa: Statistical physics.

  Francisco Alexandre da Costa: Statistical physics, phase transitions and critical phenomena, spin glasses and random fields, chaos and nonlinear systems, climate physics, and modeling of complex systems.

  Luciano Rodrigues da Silva: statistical mechanics, self-organized criticality, thermostatistics, stock market models, diffusion problems and networks.

  João Medeiros de Araujo: Statistical physics applied to geophysics, Magnetic systems and materials, spin glasses, high performance computing.

  Gandhi Visvanathan: Complex systems, random walks, Levy flights, anomalous diffusion, random search, econophysics and fotovoltaic solar energy.

  Tommaso Macrì: Ultracold atoms, many-body physics out of equilibrium, strongly interacting quantum systems, entanglement and metrology, quantum spin systems - Quantum Many-Body Dynamics group page

Group activities

Statistical Physics Journal Club – Meetings held at the Physics Department every other Monday at 4:45 pm.

For information on the presentations and to propose a journal club write to macri(at)fisica.ufrn.br