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Quantum Complex Matter 2018

QCM 2018 Workshop and FCMP School

JUNE 11-15, 2018, FRASCATI, ROME, ITALY

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3rd 2018 RICMASS Workshop

Correlated disorder in biological and complex matter

Monday 22 January 2018
RICMASS Via dei Sabelli 119 A , 00185 Rome. Italy

Program

• 10:30 Alessia Cedola, Michela Fratini (CNR- Nanotec, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy)
  Morphological and structural analysis of central nervous system with advanced x-ray imaging techniques
  
  
• 11:00 Michael Di Gioacchino (Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy)
  Correlated disorder in out-of-equilibrium myelin ultrastructure at nanoscale and mesoscale
  
  
• 11:30 Fabio Bruni  (Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy)
  Water network at a protein interface: percolation and beyond
  
  
• 12:00 Andrea Giansanti  (Sapienza University, Rome, Italy)
  Protein intrinsic disordered, hydration and food science
  
  
• 12:30 Gabriele Ciasca  (Cattolica University, Rome, Italy) to be confirmed
  Elasticity of cancer cells and tissues: from the physics laboratory to the clinical practice
  
  
• 13:00 Lunch
  
  
• 14:30 Discussion and short communications

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2018 Quantum Complex Matter QCM workshop on nanostructures, spin orbit coupling, Metal-to-Insulator transitions

January 4, 2018
RICMASS Via dei Sabelli 119 A , 00185 Rome. Italy

Program

• 10:30 Opening: Antonio Bianconi (Ricmass)
  Fano resonances from 1935 to 2018
  
  
• 11:00 Maria Vittoria Mazziotti (Roma Tre University)
  Fano Resonance near a Lifshitz transition in is a superlattice of weakly interacting quantum wires
  
  
• 11:30 Augusto Marcelli  (LNF, INFN Italy)
  Metallic films: conductivity properties vs. work function. New opportunities for accelerators and other technological applications
  
  
• 12:00 Nicola Poccia  (Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA)
  
  
  
• 12:30 Alessandra Lanzara  (Physics Department at the University of California, Berkeley and in the Materials Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - LBNL)
  
  
  
• 13:00 Giancarlo Della Ventura  (Roma Tre University) to be confirmed
  The iron oxidation dynamics vs. temperature of a synthetic potassic-ferro-richterite
  
  
• 13:30 Lunch
  
  
• 14:30 Alessandro D'Elia (Università di Trieste & Elettra)
  Electronic and structural properties at the nanoscale across the metal-insulator transition in VO₂ thin films
  
  
• 14:45 Salvatore Macis (Universita’ di Tor Vergata, Roma)
  Deposition and characterization of MoO3 films on copper to improve accelerating technologies
  
  
• 15:10 Giannantonio Cibin  (Diamond, Oxford) to be confirmed
  
  
  
• 15:30 Michael Di Gioacchino  (Roma Tre University)
  Levy Distribution in Active matter out-of equilibrium
  
  
• Round Table

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Unconventional Lifshitz transitions and spin orbit coupling in non centrosymmetric structures

Friday Dec 1st 2017
RICMASS Via dei Sabelli 119 A , 00185 Rome. Italy

Program

• 10:30 Prof. Sergio Caprara (Sapienza University, Rome, Italy)
  Dynamical charge density waves rule the phase diagram of cuprates
  
  
• 11:00 Prof. Roberto Raimondi (Roma 3 University, Rome Italy)
  Spin Galvanic Effect in two-dimensional electron gases
  
  
• 11:30 Prof. Andrea Perali  (Camerino University, Camerino Italy)
  Superconductivity in a new metalorganic conductor: the case of p-terphenyl
  
  
• 12:00 Maria Vittoria Mazziotti  (Roma 3 University)
  Fano Resonance near a Lifshitz transition in is a superlattice of weakly interacting quantum wires
  
  
• 12:30 Antonio Valletta  (CNR Tor Vergata, Rome Italy)
  Band structure in a striped phase: the centrosymmetric and non centrosymmetric cases
  
  
• 13:00  Discussion and short communications, with the participation of Antonio Bianconi, Carmen Monaco, Ruben Albertini, Salvatore Macis.
  
  
• 13:30 Lunch

A SCIENTIFIC NOTE ON THE HYPERBOLIC GEOMETRY FAVORING MACROSCOPIC QUANTUM PHENOMENA AT HIGH TEMPERATURE

The picture shows the pathways of superconducting pairs running around the CDW puddles. The puddle size distribution is a power law. Between two points (black dots) there are an infinite number of pathways not only distinguished by the number of times a path goes around a single puddle, but also distinguished by the way the path is passing though the pattern of CDW puddles. This space can be mapped into a hyperbolic space

The evolution of the Universe after the Big Bang started from a disordered state of massless particles at a very high temperature. Later, with the temperature decreasing down, these particles begin to gain a mass thanks to the spontaneous symmetry breaking of Gauge symmetries. This effect, is the base for the Higgs mechanism. The massive particles form protons and neutrons and finally the atoms.

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PRESS RELEASE

The picture shows superconducting pairs running in the interstitial space between puddles of electronic crystals (yellow bubbles)

An international research team, involving researchers of RICMASS, shows that heterogeneous systems not only display fascinating phenomena such as the emergence of life made of jiggling atoms in the cell, and the self organization of social networks, bur also could favor the emergence of a macroscopic quantum coherent state of many particles at high temperature. New experimental results, published in the NATURE issue of 17 Sept 2015, show that superconductivity at high temperature takes advantage from a non Euclidean space created by intertwining of inhomogeneity of charge density wave order and material complexity.

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