Tommaso Rizzo

Address: Room 309 Fermi Building, Physics Department, Sapienza University of Rome, P.le A. Moro 2, 00185 Roma

Short Bio

Born in Rome 1975, PhD in Physics in Naples 2002, Post-Doc in Paris at Ecole Normale Superieure (2004-2006), Researcher at CNR (2011), Primo Ricercatore (2023). invited Speaker at StatPhys 29

Research interests

Disordered systems and glasses are pivotal in statistical physics for exploring non-equilibrium dynamics, metastability, and complex energy landscapes. They challenge traditional ordered-phase theories, revealing universal behaviors like aging and avalanches. Studies of spin glasses, structural glasses, and amorphous materials deepen our understanding of emergent disorder-driven phenomena, with applications in artificial intelligence, biophysics, and material science.

Key models in disordered statistical physics include the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass for frustration, Edwards-Anderson for local disorder, and Random Energy Model for extreme landscapes. Mean-field glasses (Mode-Coupling Theory) and RFIM (random-field Ising) capture metastability, avalanches, and non-equilibrium dynamics, bridging theory and amorphous materials.

I investigate these systems—along with kinetically constrained models—using a range of analytical and numerical approaches, such as the replica and cavity methods, dynamical field theory, Monte Carlo simulations, and path integral techniques.

Fundamental questions driving my research include: What governs the glass transition? How does the spin-glass transition manifest in finite dimensions?