Upcoming Activities

• Seminar by Dr. Davide Venturelli (NASA, USA) - 22 JULY, 2021.
  
  
  
• November 30 - December 11, 2020 (Postponed)
  
  Workshop
  Frontiers of Quantum Simulations with Synthetic Systems
  
  Venue: International Institute of Physics, Natal-RN (Brazil).
  
  Directors:
  Leonardo Fallani (University of Florence, Italy);
  Mohammad Hafezi (University of Maryland, USA);
  Tommaso Macrì (UFRN, Natal-RN);
  Cristiane Morais Smith (University of Utrecht, Netherlands)
  
  To register, please visit the event page.
  
  

  November Workshop

  

Recent Activities

• Seminar by Dr. João Pinto Barros (University of Bern, Switzerland) - 15 JULY, 2021.
• Mass and Charge of the Quantum Vortex in the (2 + 1)-d O(2) Scalar Field Theory.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Alejandro Mendoza-Coto (UFSC, Brazil) - 08 JULY, 2021.
• Cluster quasi-crystals phases produced by quantum fluctuations.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Antun Balaz (Center for the Study of Complex Systems, Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia) - 01 JULY, 2021.
• Faraday and Resonant Waves in Dipolar Cigar-Shaped Bose-Einstein Condensates.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Cristiane de Morais Smith (Utrecht University, Netherlands) - 21 JUNE, 2021.

  

• Seminar by Dr. Rodrigo Pereira (International Institute of Physics, Brazil) - 17 JUNE, 2021.
• Majorana fermions in quantum spin liquids.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Pedro Ribeiro (IST, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) - 10 JUNE, 2021.
• Dissipative Quantum Dynamics – From Order to Chaos.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Peter Schauss (University of Virginia, United States) - 03 JUNE, 2021.
• A triangular-lattice Fermi gas microscope.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Richard Howl (University of Hong Kong, China & University of Nottingham, United Kingdom) - 27 MAY, 2021.
• Non-Gaussianity as a signature of a quantum theory of gravity in tabletop tests.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Andreas Läuchli (University of Innsbruck, Austria) - 20 MAY, 2021.
• Theoretical and Computional Modelling of Recent Rydberg Quantum Simulator Experiments.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Thereza Paiva (UFRJ, Brazil) - 13 MAY, 2021.
• Critical Temperature of the 2D Attractive Hubbard model.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Vanderlei Bagnato (USP-São Carlos, Brazil) - 10 MAY, 2021.
• Quantum Turbulence in Trapped atoms: universality for a far from equilibrium system.



• Seminar by Dr. Luca Barbiero (ICFO Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain) - 06 MAY, 2021.
• Quantum Simulation of Frustrated Quantum Magnetism in a Frustration-free Bose-Ladder.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Nicolo Defenu (ETH Zürich, Switzerland) - 29 ABR, 2021.
• Quantum adiabatic cycles and their breakdowns.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. André Cidrim (UFSCar, Brazil) - 22 ABR, 2021.
• Harnessing dipole-dipole interactions of ground-state neutral atoms.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Patrizia Vignolo (Institut de Physique de Nice, France) - 15 ABR, 2021.
• Quantum boomerang effect in disordered systems.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Alessandra Souza Barbosa (UFPR, Brazil) - 12 ABR, 2021.
• Electron and positron scattering by cyclic molecules.



• Seminar by Dr. Romain Bachelard (UFSCar, Brazil) - 25 MAR, 2021.
• Exploring many-body physics with a cloud of cold atoms and a laser.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Cesar Cabrera (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany) - 18 MAR, 2021.
• Interaction control and bright solitons in coherently-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Sylvio Canuto (USP, Brazil) - 15 MAR, 2021.
• Environment Contribution to Molecular Properties and Spectroscopy.
  From Simple to Complex Systems.







Seminars (SBF-ATO)



Our group is organizing a cycle of seminars with distinguished speakers from
the AMO community in collaboration with the Brazilian Physical Society (SBF).
Check it out!


• Congratulations to Dr. Diego Paiva for his new job at UFMA as a professor!
  
  


• Seminar by Dr. Alessandro Silva (SISSA, Italy) - 11 MAR, 2021.
• Multipartite entanglement, out of time order correlations and Eigenstate thermalization.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Tilman Enss (University of Heidelberg, Germany) - 04 MAR, 2021.
• Transport and contact correlations in ultracold Fermi gases.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Pablo Poggi (University of New Mexico, United States) - 25 FEB, 2021.
• Robust and fragile observables in noisy quantum simulators.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Luca Salasnich (University of Padova, Italy) - 04 FEB, 2021.
• Finite-size effects in a bosonic Josephson junction.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Igor Lesanovsky (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom & University of Tübingen, Germany) - 28 JAN, 2021.
• Exploring non-equilibrium physics with synthetic quantum systems.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Valentin Walther (Harvard University, United States) - 21 JAN, 2021.
• Rydberg physics in a semiconductor: a case study.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Jörg Götte (University of Glasgow, Scotland) - 14 JAN, 2021.
• Optical helicity and its interaction with chiral matter.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Rodrigo Arouca (UFRJ, Brazil) - 07 JAN, 2021.
• Unconventional scaling at non-hermitian critical points.
  
  
  
• New Serrapilheira grant 2021-2024
  
  Tommaso received a prestigious Serrapilheira research grant for the period 2021-2024.
  The funding will be used to generate new opportunities within our group and build new
  collaborations. Check our job opportunities page for information about current openings.
  Stay tuned!
  
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Lea Santos (Yeshiva University, USA) - 10 DEC, 2020.
• Time scales for the equilibration of many-body quantum systems.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Pietro Massignan (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain) - 03 DEC, 2020.
• A single impurity in a BEC: orthogonality catastrophe, macroscopic coherent dressing, and
  perturbative solution at unitarity.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Andrea Marini (University of L’Aquila, Italy) - 26 NOV, 2020.
• Nonlinear self-organization in dissipative systems and in epsilon-near-zero media.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Manuel Gessner (École Normale Supérieure, France) - 19 NOV, 2020.
• Quantum parameter estimation - from fundamentals to applications.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Massimo Ostilli (Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil) - 05 NOV, 2020.
• First-order quantum phase transitions as condensations in the space of states.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Weibin Li (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom) - 29 OCT, 2020.
• Blackbody Radiation Enhanced Superradiance in ultracold Rydberg Gases.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Matteo Ciardi (University of Florence, Italy) - 22 OCT, 2020.
• Path Integral Monte Carlo for bosons in quasiperiodic lattices.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Gabriel T. Landi (Instituto de Física da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil) - 08 OCT, 2020.
• Thermodynamics of continuously measured quantum systems.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Fabian Maucher (Aarhus University, Denmark) - 01 OCT, 2020.
• Supersolids with Honeycomb-Symmetry in Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensates.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Mohammad Hafezi (Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland, USA) - 24 SEP, 2020.
• Topological photonics.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Luca Lepori (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy) - 10 SEP, 2020.
• Long-range topological insulators and weakened bulk-boundary correspondence.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. William Guerin (Institut de Physique de Nice, France) - 03 SEP, 2020.
• Intensity interferometry for the 21st century.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Giandomenico Palumbo (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) - 27 AUG, 2020.
• Novel aspects of topological matter: from Floquet-engineering nodal-line semimetals to higher-order
  topological insulators for doublons.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Giulia Semeghini (Harvard University, USA) - 20 AUG, 2020.
• Quantum simulation and computation with programmable Rydberg atom arrays.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Guido Pagano (Rice University, USA) - 13 AUG, 2020.
• From Quantum Algorithms to Out-of-Equilibrium Phenomena in Interacting Trapped-Ion Spin Chains.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Abolfazl Bayat (UESTC, China) - 06 AUG, 2020.
• Accelerated variational algorithms for digital quantum simulation of many-body ground states.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Lisan Marcos Marques Durão (UFRN, Brazil) - 30 JUL, 2020.
• Quantum Dissipation: From Brownian Motion to Neural Networks.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Giulia Del Pace (University of Florence/LENS, Italy) - 23 JUL, 2020.
• Order parameter of fermionic superfluids from Josephson supercurrents.
  
  
  
• Congratulations to Nathane Souza for completing successfully her undergraduate studies
  with the dissertation: 'Elementary applications of Machine learning in Physics'.
  We look forward to your Master studies in our group!



• Seminar by Dr. Alexander Baumgartner (ETH Zürich, Switzerland) - 16 JUL, 2020.
• Novel structures and phase transitions in a superradiant crystal.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Nicole Yunger Halpern (Harvard University, United States) - 09 JUL, 2020.
• MBL-mobile: Many-body-localized engine.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Robin C. Verstraten (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) - 02 JUL, 2020.
• Time Glass: A Fractional Calculus approach.
  
  
  
• Congratulations to our postdoc Diego Paiva for the best PhD thesis 2016-2017 of the SBF!
• Click here to acess the SBF's page (in portuguese).
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Salvatore Marco Giampaolo (Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia) - 25 JUN, 2020.
• The Frustration of being Odd: destroying and reconstructing local orders.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Michele Burrello (Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark) - 18 JUN, 2020.
• Resonant states of interacting ultracold atoms on ladder geometries.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Luca Tanzi (CNR-INO and LENS, Italy) - 11 JUN, 2020.
• Exploring the supersolid phase of matter with a dipolar quantum gas.
  
  
  
• June 4, 2020
  
  Meeting: Spring Meeting on Ultracold Quantum Matter
  Venue: Department of Physics and Astronomy Galileo Galilei, Room R (Univerity of Padova, Italy).
  
  Organizers:
  Fabio Cinti (University of Florence, Italy);
  Luca Dell'Anna (University of Padova, Italy);
  Tommaso Macrì (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil);
  Luca Salasnich (University of Padova, Italy).
  
  For more information, please visit the website
  http://statphys.fisica.ufrn.br/macri/swqm.
  
  

  





• Seminar by Dr. Cristiane Morais Smith (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) - 29 MAY, 2020.
• Quantum Fractals.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Andrea Trombettoni (University of Trieste and SISSA, Trieste, Italy) - 21 MAY, 2020.
• Integrable Floquet Hamiltonian for a Periodically Tilted 1D Gas.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Miguel Ángel García-March (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain) - 14 MAY, 2020.
• Open quantum systems approach to Bose polaron problems: bi-polaron, two-component systems, and applications
  to thermometry and phononics.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Chi Zhang (Stockholm University, Brazil) - 7 MAY, 2020.
• Submicrosecond entangling gate between trapped ions via Rydberg interaction.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Diego Paiva (UFRN, Brazil) - 30 APR, 2020.
• Generalized Geometric Quantum Speed Limits.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Luca Pezzè (QSTAR, INO-CNR and LENS, Largo Enrico Fermi 2, 50125 Florence, Italy) - 23 APR, 2020.
• Eigenvalue estimation with spin-Gaussian states.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Giacomo Bighin (Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Austria) - 16 APR, 2020.
• Far-from-equilibrium dynamics of molecules in 4He nanodroplets: a quasiparticle perspective.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Van Sérgio Alves (UFPA, Brazil) - 09 APR, 2020.
• A Pseudo-Eletrodinâmica Quântica aplicada à sistemas bidimensionais da Matéria Condensada.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Leandro Nascimento (UFPA, Brazil) - 02 APR, 2020.
• Equações de Gap nos Modelos BCS e Gross-Neveu.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Alexis Askitopoulos (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Russia) - 26 MAR, 2020.
• Polariton Condensate Lattices, from Simulation of Magnetic Phases to Harnessing the Quantum Regime.
  
  
  
• Seminar by Dr. Fabio Cinti (University of Florence, Italy) - 19 MAR, 2020.
• Quantum Fluctuations in Non-Periodic Structures.
  
  
  
• October 22, 2019 - 10h
  
  Colloquium by Prof. Thaisa Storchi Bergmann.
  Supermassive Black Holes and their role in the evolution of the Universe.
  
  Venue: IIP.
  

  

• September 12, 2019
  
  Colloquium by Prof. Antônio José Roque da Silva (USP, Brazil).
  Sirius: The New Brazilian Synchrotron Light Source.
  
  

  

• July 15-19, 2019
  
  Workshop
  Quantum and Classical Systems with Long Range Interactions
  
  Venue: International Institute of Physics, Natal-RN (Brazil).
  
  Directors:
  Romain Bachelard (UFSCar, São Carlos-SP);
  Shamik Gupta (Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda U., India);
  Tommaso Macrì (UFRN, Natal-RN).
  
  To register, please visit the event page.
  
  

  July Workshop

  




• July 18, 2019
  
  Colloquium by Prof. Giovanna Morigi (Univerity of Saarland, Germany).
  Crystals of Trapped Ions: An Unusual Form of Condensed Matter.
  
  

  




• July 12-13, 2019
  
  Workshop
  Innovative Ideas In Quantum Technology
  
  Venue: International Institute of Physics, Natal-RN (Brazil).
  
  Directors:
  Tommaso Macrì (UFRN, Brazil);
  Claudionor Bezerra (UFRN, Brazil).
  
  

  




• July 11, 2019
  
  Colloquium by M. Zahid Hasan (Princeton University, USA)
  Crystals of Trapped Ions: An Unusual Form of Condensed Matter.
  
  

  




• June 5, 2019
  
  Colloquium by Prof. Alexandre Lazarian (University of Wisconsin, USA).
  Gradient Technique: New Ways of Magnetic Field Study.
  
  

  




• April 16, 2019
  
  Colloquium by Prof. Pedro Vieira (Perimeter Institute and ICTP-SAIFR).
  Bootstrap. What is possible and what is impossible in QFT
  
  

  

March 22, 2019

Colloquium by Prof. Michael Berry (University of Bristol).
Variations on a theme of Aharonov and Bohm

December 6, 2018

Colloquium by Prof. Gandhimohan M Viswanathan (UFRN, Brazil)
Lévy flights and anomalous diffusion in foraging

December 2-5, 2018

Third International Workshop on Ultracold Rydberg Physics

Venue: Boa Viagem Beach, Recife-PE (Brazil).

Organizing Committee:
Rosario Gonzalez Ferez (Universidad de Granada, Spain);
Tommaso Macrì (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil);
Emanuel Alves de Lima Henn (University of São Paulo, Brazil);
Paul Kunz (Army Research Laboratory, USA);
James P. Shaffer (Quantum Valley Ideas Laboratories, Canada);
Luis G. Marcassa (University of São Paulo, Brazil).

October 29 - November 9, 2018

Workshop
Advances in Quantum Simulation With Ultracold Atoms

Organizers: Prof. Carlos Egues (USP-São Carlos), Prof. Tommaso Macrì

Venue:
School: October 29 to November 2.
Workshop: November 5 to November 9.

Venue: International Institute of Physics, Natal - RN.

Directors:
Leonardo Fallani (University of Florence)
Tommaso Macrì (UFRN - IIP)
Christophe Salomon (École Normale Supérieure)
Luis Santos (University of Hannover)

Watch all the talks on this link


Congratulations to Patricia Castilho and Frederick Georg
for the Best Contributed Talk Prize!

Advances in Quantum Simulations With Ultracold Atoms - School and Workshop

November 8, 2018

Colloquium by Prof. Dan Stamper-Kurn (University of California).
Atoms interacting in interesting lattices

Watch the talk at this link

October 26, 2018

Colloquium by Prof. Sergei Gukov (Caltech).
Zed-hat

October 1-5, 2018

Workshop Meet the Editors - Scientific Writing

Organizers: Prof. Carlos Egues (USP-São Carlos), Prof. Tommaso Macrì

Venue:
First part (October 1-2): University of São Paulo (USP);
Second part (October 4-5): International Institute of Physics (UFRN).

Watch all the talks at this link

Meet the Editors - Scientific Writing
Interview with Prof. Tommaso Macrì (organizer), Dr. Julie Kim Zajong (Editor of Phys. Rev. Applied) and Prof. Laurens Molenkamp (Lead editor Phys. Rev. B).

September 13, 2018

Colloquium by Prof. Rodrigo Capaz (UFRJ).
Theory of Electrons in 2D Materials and van der Waals Heterostructures

Final Report Presentation by Victor Souza (UFRN) - 21 JUNE 2018
Estudo de Interações Locais e Soft-Core em Condensados de Bose-Einstein

May 22, 2018

Colloquium by Prof. Mark Warner (University of Cambridge).
Inducing curved metrics in materials gives new mechanics

March 5 - May 5, 2018

Lecture series on Machine Learning and Deep Learning
Instructors: Prof. Luciano Casarini, Prof. Askery Canabarro.

March 20, 2018

Colloquium by Prof. Eudenilson Albuquerque (UFRN, Brazil).
Quantum Simulation of Biological Molecules

February 27, 2018

Colloquium by Prof. Caslav Brukner (University of Vienna).
Causality in a Quantum World

Workshop On Long-Range Interactions in Atomic Systems - 5-8 DEC 2017

Organizers: E. Henn, T. Macrì, E. Santos, A. Lima, R. Rothganger
São Carlos Institute of Physics

For more information, please visit the event website by clicking on the image below

November 21, 2017

Colloquium by Prof. Antonio Acín (ICFO - Barcelona).
Quantum information theory with black boxes

Final Report Presentation by Samihr Hermes (UFRN) - 09 OCT 2017.
Transferência de estado quântico em cadeias de spins

October 5, 2017

Colloquium by Prof. Paulo Nussenzveig (USP).
Quantum optics on silicon chips

September 19, 2017

Colloquium by Prof. Harold U. Baranger (Duke University).
Nonlinear I-V curve at a quantum critical point produced by dissipation

Watch the talk at this link

August 15, 2017

Colloquium by Prof. Luiz Davidovich (UFRJ, Brazil).
Physics, information and the new quantum technologies

Watch the talk at this link

August 8, 2017

Colloquium by Prof. Bangalore Sathyaprakasho (Penn State University).
The dawn of gravitational-wave physics and astronomy

June 20, 2017

Colloquium by Prof. Jose Nelson Onuchic (Rice University).
Funnels and landscapes in protein folding: a historical perspective

Watch the talk at this link

May 23, 2017

Colloquium by Prof. Marcia Barbosa (UFRGS).
Water: from the ice age to the carbon nanotubes

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April 17, 2017

Colloquium by Prof. Rogerio Rosenfeld (UNESP).
The dark energy survey

March 28, 2017

Colloquium by Prof. Giuseppe Mussardo (SISSA - Italy).
Prime suspects and coprime accomplices: quantum tales in number theory

Watch the talk at this link

March 22, 2017

Colloquium by Prof. Gerard 't Hooft (Utrecht University).
Black holes as essential ingredients of a quantum gravity theory

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March 17, 2017

Colloquium by Prof. David R. Nelson (Harvard University).
Gene surfing and survival of the luckiest

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February 16, 2017

Colloquium by Prof. Herch Moysés Nussenzveig (UFRJ-Brazil).
Pinças Óticas: investigando como funciona a vida

Seminar by Dr. Giacomo Gori (SISSA - Italy) - 01 DEC 2016 (PROIN-DFTE)

• One-dimensional long-range percolation
  



• Short visit of Prof. Simoni Paganelli - 20-25 NOV 2016
• Short visit of Dr. Giacomo Gori - 20 NOV-02 DEC 2016

  • Lectures by Dr. Giacomo Gori on bosons trapped in double well potentials (24 and 29 NOV 2016)

• Focus Workshop on Long-range Interactions with Ultracold Atoms - 21-22 NOV 2016
Organizers: M. Giampaolo, T. Macrì, L. Salasnich
International Institute of Physics, Seminar Room 2

For more information, please visit the event website by clicking on the image below




• Visit of Prof. Luca Salasnich (University of Padova) - 11-22 NOV 2016
• Visit of Prof. Simone Paganelli (University of L'Aquila) - 18-26 NOV 2016
• Short visit Prof. Márcio Miranda (UFPE) - 28-30 JUNE 2016

  • Colloquium 29 JUNE 2016 (Auditório DFTE)

• Winter Workshop on Ultracold Matter - 11 JAN 2016
Organizers: T. Macrì, L. Salasnich
Department of Physics and Astronomy Galileo Galilei, Room S

For more information, please visit the event website by clicking on the image below