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Force-free molecular dynamics on Nature Machine Intelligence

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ISC researcher Fausto Martelli coauthored an interesting research on Nature Machine Intelligence.

Force-free molecular dynamics through autoregressive equivariant networks, F. L. Thiemann,T. Reschützegger, M. Esposito,T. Taddese, J. D. Olarte-Plata, F. Martelli, Nature Machine Intelligence 8, 764 (2026).

Abstract

Molecular dynamics simulations play a crucial role in scientific research. Yet their computational cost often limits the timescales and system sizes that can be explored.

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Lateral Stress on the Interfacial Water of Biological Membranes on ACS Materials and Interfaces

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ISC reseracher Fausto Martelli coauthored  an interesting work on ACS Materials and Interfaces, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2026, 18, 8, 12368–12382

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Interfacial water plays a key role in membrane mechanics, yet its response to lateral stress remains poorly understood. Using molecular dynamics simulations, we investigate how lateral stress affects interfacial water in well-defined lipid bilayer model membranes representative of mammalian- and bacterial-like compositions under physiological conditions.

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Paola Verrucchi’s talk at TEDxMilano

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ISC researcher Paola Verrucchi gave an enthusiastic talk at TEDx. Take a look!

Andare oltre: lo straordinario viaggio della fisica quantistica

Il desiderio di comprendere le leggi che descrivono l’universo è una spinta propulsiva straordinaria per l’umanità, da sempre. Oggi è la fisica quantistica che ci conduce avanti ed oltre, in un viaggio collettivo che riempie di stupore. Le nuove tecnologie aprono prospettive inedite, ma a portarci davvero lontano sono i principi fondamentali di una teoria che sconvolge la nostra percezione della realtà, disegnando un mondo naturale ancora più bello di quello che già conosciamo: vale la pena mollare gli ormeggi per andarlo a scoprire.… Read the rest

Kick-off meeting QCIMED

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The Kickoff Meeting of the QCIMED project was held in Trieste on 10–11 February 2026.
The meeting brought together all project partners to align scientific objectives, project structure, and the initial work plan.
It also defined the first operational activities and the coordination mechanisms among the different work packages.

 

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Le macchine linguistiche e l’erosione del pensiero critico su MICROMEGA

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Antonio Scala, ricercatore CNR-ISC, ha pubblicato su MicroMega un saggio che estende il framework costruttivista di Paul Watzlawick all’era dei Large Language Models.

Il pezzo affronta l’atrofia epistemica come conseguenza strutturale della delega cognitiva ai sistemi linguistici. Quando la produzione di senso viene delegata a macchine che simulano competenza senza possederla, si innesca un processo che non è semplicemente un declino individuale, ma una trasformazione delle condizioni stesse che rendono possibile la trasmissione della competenza.

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QCIMED – Mediterranean Quantum Connectivity

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Il Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) e la Regione autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia annunciano l’avvio di QCIMED – Mediterranean Quantum Connectivity, un’iniziativa europea strategica co-finanziata dal programma Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) che punta allo sviluppo di un’infrastruttura avanzata di comunicazione quantistica tra Italia, Austria e area mediterranea.

 

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Newsletter ISC Settembre-Ottobre 2025

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La nostra Newsletter di Settembre-Ottobre 2025 è finalmente disponibile!

In questo numero

  • Andrea Puglisi ci parla del micronuoto, ovvero dela capacità di molti organismi in microbiologia di nuotare in fluidi simili all’acqua (ad esempio il nostro sangue) nonostante abbiano dimensioni di pochi millesimi di millimetro.
  • Giulio Costantini, ci racconta  come la trasmissione di segnali tra siti distanti di una proteina, o allostericità, rappresenti un meccanismo cruciale nella regolazione molecolare.

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Star-Like Thermoresponsive Microgels as an Emerging Class of Soft Nanocolloids

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ISC Researchers Francesco Brasili, Simona Sennato and Emanuela Zaccarelli  and the PhD student Elisa Ballin coauthored an interesting research now published in ACS NANO

Star-Like Thermoresponsive Microgels as an Emerging Class of Soft Nanocolloids

Elisa Ballin, Francesco Brasili, Tommaso Papetti, Jacopo Vialetto, Michael Sztucki, Simona Sennato, Marco Laurati, and Emanuela Zaccarelli ACS Nano202519 (40), 35447-35458  DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5c08174
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We provide experimental and numerical evidence of an emerging class of soft nanocolloids: star-like microgels with thermoresponsive character.

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Thermoresponsive Copolymer Microgels via Single-Step Precipitation Polymerization: Random or Block structure?

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ISC researchers. Letizia Tavagnacco, Francesco Brasili and Emanuela Zaccarelli,  working on soft matter coauthored an interesting work on Small

Thermoresponsive Copolymer Microgels Synthesized via Single‐Step Precipitation Polymerization: Random or Block Structure?.” Small (2025): e09795

The internal structure of polymeric colloids is a key property that has attracted increasing attention in soft matter research. The inner morphology of these systems critically influences their phase behavior and functionality, governing their mechanical properties and their physical and chemical interactions.… Read the rest

Un segno contro la violenza di genere – 26 novembre ore 13.00

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Nel Novembre dello scorso anno ci siamo incontrate e incontrati per ricordare insieme, rumorosamente, il femminicidio di Giulia Cecchettin. L’iniziativa è nata spontaneamente per rispondere allo smarrimento di tante di noi, toccate dalla vicinanza dell’esperienza di Giulia, studentessa universitaria (peraltro, in ambito scientifico) come noi siamo state o siamo. È servita però anche ad aprire una discussione sul tema della violenza di genere all’interno agli spazi che viviamo quotidianamente, come lavoratrici e studentesse del dipartimento e degli enti di ricerca che vi sono ospitati.

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ERC Starting grant to Claudia Fasolato for the project “CHIROLE”

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ISC researcher Claudia Fasolato was awarded with the prestigious ERC Starting grant from the European Community. The CHIROLE project aims at exploring “the quantum role of chirality in biology by all optical experiments”. It will last 5 years with a 1.5 M€ funding.

Chirality is the lack of mirror symmetry, and it is a widespread property in biological systems, from atomic arrangements in molecules (e.g.… Read the rest

Time as an illusion created by entanglement in Physical Review A featured in WIRED

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ISC researchers Alessandro Coppo and Paola Verrucchi, in collaboration with Prof. A. Cuccoli from the University of Florence, have published an intriguing study in Physical Review A. The work has garnered attention from prominent publications such as New Scientist and Wired.

They consider  a simple and physically relevant example  where the time evolution of a system can  be determined by the entanglement with its clock.… Read the rest

Optimal Quantum Key Distribution Networks in npj Quantum information

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ISC researchers C. Castellano, V.Brosco and L. Pilozzi coauthored an interesting work published in npj quantum information.

Optimal quantum key distribution networks: capacitance versus security

L. Cirigliano, V.Brosco, C. Castellano, C. Conti, L. Pilozzi,  npj Quantum Information 10, 44 (2024)

Abstract

The rate and security of quantum communications between users placed at arbitrary points of a quantum communication network depend on the structure of the network, on its extension and on the nature of the communication channels.

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Meeting ISC-NPU

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On April 24 ISC researchers will meet researchers from  the Chinese Northwestern Polytechnical University at the ISC headquarter in Via dei Taurini, 19. Below you can find the final program of the meeting

 

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Seminar by S. De Palo, April 4th at 15.00

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 Title: Quasi-one dimensional dipolar bosonic systems: from gas to droplet formation

 Speaker: Stefania De Palo, Researcher, IOM-CNR

 Date & Room: April 4th, h. 15.00 -Sala lauree

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We study a tightly trapped one-dimensional dipolar gas of bosonic atoms for which we derive the equation of state using  a variational approximation based on the Lieb-Liniger gas Bethe ansatz wave function. We test our results by computing the breathing mode after solving the stationary generalized Gross-Pitaevskii equation, finding very good agreement with experiments.… Read the rest

Superradiant Thomson scattering from graphite in the extreme ultraviolet on PNAS

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ISC researcher Claudia Fasolato coauthored a research paper, recently published on PNAS, based on experimental work carried out at the free electron laser FERMI, at Elettra Synchrotron, in Trieste. See Superradiant Thomson scattering from graphite in the extreme ultraviolet C. Fasolato, E. Stellino, et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121(4), e2221293121 (2024).

Radiation-matter interaction is typically understood through low order perturbation theory, yet this framework falters in exotic environments, such as pulsars, where radiation exists in coherent states with large occupation numbers.… Read the rest

She Rocks Science! on February 12 2024 @ Sapienza

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12 Febbraio 2024 – She Rocks Science! – Evento in occasione dell’International Day of Girls and Women in Science

In occasione della giornata internazionale delle donne nella scienza, che si celebra tutti gli anni l’11 Febbraio, il Dipartimento di Fisica, in collaborazione con gli Enti di ricerca attivi nel dipartimento (CNR, INFN, INAF, IIT), organizza un evento di formazione, divulgazione e networking aperto al corpo docente e studentesco.L’evento… Read the rest

ERC Proof-of-Concept grant awarded to E. Zaccarelli and S. Sennato

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Two ISC researchers supported to turn their science into practice.

ISC researchers, E. Zaccarelli, S. Sennato in collaboration with I. Viola from CNR – NANOTEC won the ERC Proof-of-Concept grant with their project Microgel-nanoparticles colorimetric sensor for pesticide detection. This financial support will enable them to translate their pioneering research into tangible innovations.

More information can be found here.

 

 

 

 

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Long-Lived Higgs Modes in Strongly Correlated Condensates in Physical Review Letters

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ISC-Director José Lorenzana  has recently collaborated on a compelling research work that appeared  in Physical Review Letters. J. Lorenzana and G. Seibold, Long-Lived Higgs Modes in Strongly Correlated Condensates, Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 026501 (2024).

Condensed matter physics and high-energy physics has cross fertilizing each other for decades. One paradigmatic example is superconductivity, where Anderson’s mechanism giving mass to the Goldstone mode in a superconductor was taken by Higgs to explain mass generation in the

Standard model of elementary particles.… Read the rest

Superconducting Qubit Based on Twisted Cuprate Van der Waals Heterostructures in Physical Review Letters

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ISC researcher Valentina Brosco coauthored an interesting research proposing a novel superconduting qubit desigm. The work has been selected for an Editor’s Suggestion in Physical Review Letters, see Superconducting Qubit Based on Twisted Cuprate Van der Waals Heterostructures V. Brosco, G. Serpico, V. Vinokur, N. Poccia and U. Vool, Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 017003 (2024).

Abstract

Van-der-Waals assembly enables the fabrication of novel Josephson junctions featuring an atomically sharp interface between two exfoliated and relatively twisted Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x (Bi2212) flakes.

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Toward a Unified Description of the Electrostatic Assembly of Microgels and Nanoparticles in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

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ISC researchers  F. Brasili, S. Sennato and E. Zaccarelli coauthored an interesting research published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces,  Toward a Unified Description of the Electrostatic Assembly of Microgels and Nanoparticles, F. Brasili, G. Del Monte, A. Capocefalo, E. Chauveau, E. Buratti, S. Casciardi, D. Truzzolillo, S. Sennato, E. Zaccarelli ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, December 2023

 

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The interplay of soft responsive particles, such as microgels, with nanoparticles (NPs) yields highly versatile complexes that show great potential for applications, ranging from plasmonic sensing to catalysis and drug delivery.

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Optimal tracking strategies in a turbulent flow in Communication Physics

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ISC researcher, M. Cencini  coauthored  an interesting work recently published in Communications Physics, C. Calascibetta, L.  Biferale, F. Borra, F.  and M. Cencini, Optimal tracking strategies in a turbulent flow,  Commun. Phys. 6, 256 (2023).

Abstract

Pursuing a drifting target in a turbulent flow is an extremely difficult task whenever the searcher has limited propulsion and maneuvering capabilities. Even in the case when the relative distance between pursuer and target stays below the turbulent dissipative scale, the chaotic nature of the trajectory of the target represents a formidable challenge.

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Enhanced Critical Field at an Oxide Interface in Nano Letters

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Almost uncharged and non-magnetic electrons explain resilience to magnetic fields in exotic superconductors

ISC Director, J. Lorenzana, coauthored an interesting work on Nano Letters, Enhanced Critical Field of Superconductivity  at an Oxide Interface, Athby H. Al-Tawhid
A. H. Al-Tawhid, S. J. Poage, S. Salmani-Rezaie, A. Gonzalez, S. Chikara, D. A. Muller, D. P. Kumah, Maria N. Gastiasoro, J. Lorenzana, and K.… Read the rest

MoSwarm

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Demystifying mosquito sex: unraveling MOsquito SWARMs with lab-based 3D video tracking

CNR-ISC

Founding Body: MUR
Total grant: €103k *
Principal Investigator: Roberta Spaccapelo Dip. Medicina e Chrurgia, Universita’ degli Studi di Perugia
Other participants: Stefania Melillo
Project duration: 2023-2025
Website:

Finanziato Dall’unione Europea – Next Generation EU – Piano Nazionale Di Ripresa E Resilienza (PNRR) – Missione 4 “Istruzione E Ricerca” – Componente C2 Investimento 1.1.”Fondo… Read the rest

MetaComputing

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Light-programmed two-dimensional meta-holograms for integrated neuromorphic computing

Founding Body: MUR
Total grant: €115k *
Principal Investigator: Davide Pierangeli
Other participants: Università de L’Aquila
Project duration: 2023-2025
Website:

Finanziato Dall’unione Europea – Next Generation EU – Piano Nazionale Di Ripresa E Resilienza (PNRR) – Missione 4 “Istruzione E Ricerca” – Componente C2 Investimento 1.1.”Fondo Per Il Programma Nazionale Di Ricerca E Progetti Di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (PRIN)
* importo finanziamento pari a 114.949,00 € … Read the rest

MOCA

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Motility and communication in active matter: from aggregation in quorum sensing to signal transmission in biofilms

Founding Body: MUR
Total grant: €90k *
Principal Investigator: Nicoletta Gnan
Other participants: NANOTEC-CNR
Project duration: 2023-2025
Website:

Finanziato Dall’unione Europea – Next Generation EU – Piano Nazionale Di Ripresa E Resilienza (PNRR) – Missione 4 “Istruzione E Ricerca” – Componente C2 Investimento 1.1.”Fondo Per Il Programma Nazionale Di Ricerca E Progetti Di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (PRIN)
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Co-MGELS

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Exploiting double thermoresponsivity for a new class of biocompatible Composite MicroGELS

Founding Body: MUR
Total grant: € 89k *
Principal Investigator: Emanuela Zaccarelli
Other participants: Others
Project duration: 2023-2025
Website:

Finanziato Dall’unione Europea – Next Generation EU – Piano Nazionale Di Ripresa E Resilienza (PNRR) – Missione 4 “Istruzione E Ricerca” – Componente C2 Investimento 1.1.”Fondo Per Il Programma Nazionale Di Ricerca E Progetti Di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (PRIN)
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2D High-Temperature Superconductor Integration in Contact Printed Circuit Boards in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

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ISC researcher Valentina Brosco coauthored an interesting research article published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, C. Saggau et al.,  2D High-Temperature integration in Contact Printed Circuit Boards, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 44, 51558 (2023).  The work paves the way to the realization of novel  printed circuits and devices integrating atomically thin high-Tc superconducting  films.

2D High-Temperature Superconductor Integration in Contact Printed Circuit Boards

Inherent properties of superconducting Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x films, such as the high superconducting transition temperature Tc, efficient Josephson coupling between neighboring CuO layers, and fast quasiparticle relaxation dynamics, make them a promising platform for advances in quantum computing and communication technologies.

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Soft Discussions – next webinar on December 13th

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ISC reseracher Nicoletta Gnan co-organize the  interesting webinar series “Soft Discussions: Roads to the Isodays” covering various topics in soft matter.

Each webinar, of  the duration of approximately 1 hour,  cosists of  two parts:

Part1 – Ask me Anything!

Our Ask Me Anything (AMA) session is a unique opportunity to interact with an internationally renowned scientist in the field of soft matter.

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Rome Maker Faire October 20 2023

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Le Ricercatrici Roberta Angelini e Barbara Ruzicka dell’Istituto dei  Sistemi Complessi partecipano a Maker Faire Rome (https://makerfairerome.eu/it/anteprima/) nello stand Rome Technopole  con un laboratorio interattivo rivolto principalmente agli studenti, ma  adatto anche ad un pubblico generico, basato sulla manipolazione di  diversi materiali soffici per scoprire di più sulle proprietà di questi  materiali del futuro e sulle loro applicazioni.

 

 

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Domain statistics in the relaxation of the 1D Ising model with long-range interactions in Chaos, Solitons and Fractals

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ISC researcher Paolo Politi coauthored an interesting article published  in Chaos, Solitons and Fractals.
F. Corberi, M. Kumar, E. Lippiello and P. Politi, Domain statistics in the relaxation of the one-dimensional Ising model with strong long-range interactions, Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 173,113681, (2023).

After a zero temperature quench, we study the kinetics of the one-dimensional Ising model with long-range interactions between spins at a distance r decaying as r-α with α≤1.

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29 Settempre 2023: Notte europea dei ricercatori

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La Ricercatrice Roberta Angelini dell’Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi  partecipa alla Notte euopea dei Ricercatori nello stand di Rome Technopole per accogliere ed introdurre il pubblico al nuovo  ecosistema  dell’innovazione della regione Lazio, il primo polo multi-tecnologico per l’insegnamento, la ricerca e e il trasferimento tecnologico nei settoridella transizione energetica e della sostenibilità, della transizione digitale e della salute e biofarmaceutica con 6 spokes e 8 flagships.… Read the rest

Extreme transport of light in spheroids of tumor cells in Nature communications

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ISC researchers Davide Pierangeli and Valentina Pamieri coauthored an interesting reasearch article published in Nature Communications.

“Extreme transport of light in spheroids of tumor cells”

Giordano Perini, Valentina Palmieri, Ivana Grecco, Ginevra Friggeri, Marco De Spirito, Massimiliano Papi, Eugenio Del Re  and Claudio Conti,

Nature Communications  14, 4662 (2023)

Abstract

Extreme waves are intense and unexpected wavepackets ubiquitous in complex systems.

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109th Meeting of the Italian Physical Society

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This year, the Italian Physical Society (SIF) is organizing its 109th meeting from September 11th to September 15th, 2023, at the Department of Physics of the University of Salerno in Fisciano.

Plenary talk by ISC Researcher E. Zaccarelli, “The physics of thermoresponsive polymer networks: Insisghts from computer simulations”  More information on the many contributions of ISC reserachers can be found on the Conference Website.… Read the rest

Mechanism for fluctuating pair density wave in Nature Communications

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ISC researcher L. Fanfarillo coauthored an interesting article now published in Nature Communications, C. Setty, L. Fanfarillo and P. J. Hirschfeld Nat. Comm.  3181 (2023).

In weakly coupled BCS superconductors, only electrons within a tiny energy window around the Fermi energy, EF, form Cooper pairs. This may not be the case in strong coupling superconductors such as cuprates, FeSe, SrTiO3 or cold atom condensates where the pairing scale, EB, becomes comparable or even larger than EF.

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Second School of the Italian Society of Statistical Physics @ IMT Lucca starts on August 28th 2023

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The second edition of the School of the Italian Society of Statistical Physics – SIFS will be
held at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca in Italy from the 28th of August to the 7th of September
2023.
The school will offer intensive two-weeks courses with follow up meetings. It will be structured into two long
courses, four short courses and tutoring activities.… Read the rest

SILS 2023, Rome, August 30th – September 1st 2023

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Annual Conference of the Italian Synchrotron Radiation Society (SILS)

The annual conference of the Italian Synchrotron Radiation Society (SILS) will be held in Rome at the Sapienza University from Wednesday 30 August until Friday 1 September 2023.

The conference aims at bringing together the wide Italian community working on instrumentation and
applications of synchrotron radiation and free electron laser. It will serve as an opportunity to highlight recent scientific results in different fields and to present the status and future directions of synchrotron radiation and free electron laser sources.… Read the rest

Là fuori. Festival della scienza e arte. Roma, 17-21 Giugno 2023

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Claudia Fasolato, ricercatrice ISC, partecipa a Là fuori. Festivale della scienza e arte.

Là Fuori Festival è parte di un progetto più grande che nasce a Roma con l’obiettivo di piantare un seme per la creazione di una cittadinanza scientifica e critica, partendo dall’idea che le sperimentazioni artistiche, affiancate all’indagine scientifica, possano stimolare non solo la partecipazione attiva ma anche la qualità dell’esplorazione della realtà, affiancando alla prospettiva oggettiva della scienza quella dell’espressione soggettiva dell’arte.

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Sapienza Career Days: B. Ruzicka presents ISC activities

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Sapienza Career Days – STEM

Il 18 maggio 2023 Barbara Ruzicka, direttore dell’unità di ricerca ISC-Sapienza, presenterà le attività dell’Istituto alla prima edizione del Sapienza Career Days – STEM, evento  dedicato all’incontro tra domanda e offerta di lavoro in ambito STEM.

L’evento coinvolgerà imprese e organizzazioni che presso i desk allestiti saranno a disposizione per incontrare gli studenti e i laureati delle Facoltà STEM: 

  • Architettura
  • Ingegneria civile e industriale
  • Ingegneria dell’informazione, informatica e statistica
  • Scienze Matematiche, fisiche e naturali

Saranno inoltre organizzati sessioni parallele con focus tematici sulle professioni e presentazioni in aula nel corso delle quali le aziende illustreranno la propria cultura, descriveranno le opportunità di carriera, i principali profili ricercati e l’iter di selezione.… Read the rest

Italian Quantum Weeks March 13th – May 14th 2023

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Cosa sono le Italian Quantum Weeks?

Si tratta di eventi diffusi su tutto il territorio nazionale, grazie all’ampia rete di partner scientifici che aderiscono, programmati in presenza e on-line e dedicati a un pubblico di tutte le età. L’obiettivo è diffondere il mondo dei quanti e le opportunità che la rivoluzione quantistica sta per portare. Le Italian Quantum Weeks vengono promosse da scienziati, ingegneri, divulgatori ed educatori italiani in occasione del World Quantum Day, previsto per il 14 Aprile.… Read the rest

Rome Science Festival 18-23 Aprile 2023

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ISC researchers  Marco Montuori, Roberta Angelini, Claudia Fasolato, Barbara Ruzicka participate to Roma Science Festival

Dall’immaginazione alla realtà: giochi da tavolo e game design per la didattica

I giochi da tavolo, il loro uso e la loro creazione, possono essere un prezioso supporto per la didattica grazie alla capacità di coinvolgimento, e alla possibilità che danno di manipolare concetti astratti fornendo metafore e illustrazioni.

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Photonic machine learning polarimetry in Nature Communications

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A new method allows the measurement of the polarization of light in a single shot without requiring any polarization optics. The single-shot polarization camera exploits photonic machine learning and enables the use of polarization-structured light in communication, sensing, and computing.

Generating, manipulating, and detecting the polarization of light has crucial importance in many areas such as sensing, microscopy, and quantum information and computation.

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Molecular origin of the two-step mechanism of gellan aggregation in Science Advances

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ISC researchers in collaboration with the University of Ferrara and University of Rome Tor Vergata recently published a beautiful research work, Molecular origin of the two-step mechanism of gellan aggregation,  on Science Advances. The work provides the first microscopic overview of gellan aggregation detecting the coil to single-helix transition at dilute conditions and the formation of higher-order aggregates at high concentration.… Read the rest

Heat flow on the nanoscale in La Rivista del Nuovo Cimento (2023)

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ISC researcher Stefano Lepri and ISC associate Roberto Livi coauthored an interesting review article  showing how heat flow is different on the nanoscale.

G. Benenti, D. Donadio, S. Lepri and R. Livi, Non Fourier heat transport in nanosystems, La Rivista del Nuovo Cimento (2023)

Energy transfer in small nano-sized systems can be very different from that in their macroscopic counterparts due to reduced dimensionality, interaction with surfaces, disorder, and large fluctuations.

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Richardson Medal 2023 awarded to Prof. A. Vulpiani

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Our colleague from the Physics Department of the University of Rome “La Sapienza” Prof. Angelo Vulpiani, ISC associate, has been awarded the 2023 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal is awarded “for contributions to stochastic resonance, as a mechanism for climate variability, the development of multifractals to describe turbulence and chaotic systems, and its implications for predictability”.

Angelo Vulpiani has significantly advanced nonlinear and statistical physics, nonlinear processes and nonlinear geoscience.

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Seminar by Shlomo Havlin on January 16th 2023.

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We are pleased to announce a seminar by Prof.Shlomo Havlin, from Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
The seminar will be held in Aula conversi on Monday Jan 16, 2023, 2:30 PM.

Interdependent Networks: Novel Physical Phase Transitions

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A framework for studying the percolation theory of interdependent networks will be presented. In interdependent networks, such as infrastructures, when nodes in one network fail, they cause dependent nodes in other networks to also fail.

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The Hyperspin Machine in Nature Communications

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Our colleagues Claudio Conti and Marcello Calvanese-Strinati have recently published a beautiful theoretical work showing how coupled parametric oscillators can simulate multidimensional continuous spin models. Read more on Nature Communications, 13 7248 (2022)

Abstract

From condensed matter to quantum chromodynamics, multidimensional spins are a fundamental paradigm, with a pivotal role in combinatorial optimization and machine learning. Machines formed by coupled parametric oscillators can simulate spin models, but only for Ising or low-dimensional spins.

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Epidemic spreading under mutually independent intra- and inter- host pathogen evolution – Nature Communications

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Stefano Boccaletti, researcher @ ISC – Firenze, coauthored an interesting work discussing how evolving pathogens impact the reproduction number and macroscopic dynamics of spreading processes. The article is also featured in  the Applied Physics and Mathematics Focus page selecting “the most interesting papers published in Nature Communications in the interdisciplinary areas where diverse approaches at the boundaries of physics, mathematics, materials science and engineering take place to create new research opportunities”

Epidemic spreading under mutually independent intra- and inter-host pathogen evolution, X.… Read the rest

SIF Prize “Sergio Panizza e Gabriele Galimberti” to D. Pierangeli

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The prize Sergio Panizza e Gabriele Galimberti from the Italian Physical Society (SIF) was awarded to  Dr.Davide Pierangeli, researcher in our Institute, “for his groudbreaking experimental work in the field of  non-linear photonics. Among D. Pierangeli’s works, of particular relevance is the first observation of the breaking of replica symmetry in disordered photorefractive media.”

The original work D. Pierangeli, A. Tavani, F.… Read the rest

Thouless pumping of light with a twist – Nature Physics News and Views

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ISC researchers L. Pilozzi and V. Brosco write on a recent experiment [1] with photonic waveguides  which demonstrates the connection between non-Abelian holonomies and adiabatic particle transport, paving the way to the geometric and topological control of light trajectories.

The experiment by Sun and colleagues represents one of the few observations so far of the non-Abelian Wilczek–Zee holonomy. But by employing Thouless pumping as a tool for probing non-Abelian topological physics, it also paves the way for the geometric control of photon states and light trajectories in real space — a fundamental step in the direction of photonic information processing [2].… Read the rest

Chaos, Solitons and Fractals ranked 1 out of 108 in Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications by Clarivate.

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The 2021 Impact Factor of Elsevier’s Chaos, Solitons and Fractals: the interdisciplinary journal of Nonlinear Science, and Nonequilibrium and Complex Phenomena  is 9.922, ranking it 1 out of 108 in Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications.

ISC researchers strongly contributed to the success of Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, as Editors as well as Authors through publications of high scientific value.  Congratulations to ISC researchers Stefano Lepri and Stefano Boccaletti who have been respectively Editor and Chief Editor of this journal for many years.

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First School of the Italian Society of Statistical Physics starts on August 29 2022 @ IMT Lucca

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Summer school of statistical physics @ IMT Lucca: ISC researchers among the organizers and speakers!

The first edition of the School of the Italian Society of Statistical Physics (Società Italiana di Fisica Statistica, SIFS) will be held at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca in Italy.

The school will offer intensive two-weeks courses with follow up meetings. It will be structured into two long courses, four short courses and tutoring activities.

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Coexistence of Plasmoid and Kelvin–Helmholtz Instabilities in Collisionless Plasma Turbulence published in Astrophysical Journal April 2022

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ISC researchers Dario Borgogno e Daniela Grasso have  recently published the following interesting work,
Abstract
The plasmoid formation in collisionless plasmas, where magnetic reconnection within turbulence may take place
driven by the electron inertia, is analyzed. We find a complex situation in which, due to the presence of strong
velocity shears, the typical plasmoid formation, observed to influence the energy cascade in the
magnetohydrodynamic context, has to coexist with the Kelvin–Helmholtz (KH) instability.

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ISC for Italian Quantum Weeks – Alla scoperta del mondo dei quanti

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Le Italian Quantum Weeks vengono promosse da scienziati, ingegneri, divulgatori ed educatori italiani in occasione del primo World Quantum Day (14 Aprile 2022) con lo scopo di far conoscere meglio il mondo dei quanti e le opportunità che la rivoluzione quantistica sta per portare.

I ricercatori del nostro Istituto hanno contribuito all’organizzazione di diverse iniziative nell’ambito di Italian Quantum Weeks 2022 in collaborazione con il Centro di Ricerca Enrico Fermi, con l’università Sapienza di Roma e con le università di Firenze e Pisa.… Read the rest

Italian Quantum Weeks from March 31st to April 8th, 2022

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ISC  participate to the Organization of the Italian Quantum Weeks.

La meccanica quantistica, l’insieme delle leggi che regolano il mondo degli atomi e delle particelle elementari, ha sconvolto il nostro modo di concepire la realtà con le sue affascinanti bizzarrie. Le tecnologie quantistiche, basate sull’uso della meccanica quantistica nelle applicazioni della vita quotidiana, stanno portando una nuova rivoluzione tecnologica che dobbiamo imparare a comprendere e gestire.… Read the rest

Dagli storni al traffico è tutto un movimento. Collettivo. – Intervista a Stefania Melillo, ricercatrice ISC

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Stefania Melillo, ricercatrice ISC, spiega la connessione tra la fisica dei sistemi complessi e lo studio dei movimenti degli stormi in una video intervista su CNR WebTV.

Roma d’inverno offre uno spettacolo naturalistico impressionante, quasi inaspettato da vedere in una città così grande. Ogni sera, poco prima del tramonto, migliaia di uccelli coordinano il loro movimento e appaiono come un unico organismo per difendersi dai predatori.… Read the rest

Photonics and the Nobel Prize in Physics – News and Views on Nature Photonics

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ISC director, Prof. Claudio Conti and Prof. Eugenio Del Re  share their thoughts on  the role of  photonics experiments in the development of complex systems and spin glass theory. Read the full story  on Nature Photonics News and Views.

Photonics and the Nobel Prize in Physics
Giorgio Parisi recently shared a Nobel Prize in Physics for his contribution to the theory of complex systems.

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Tau Cleavage Contributes to Cognitive Dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease Mouse Model

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ISC researchers coauthored an interesting work on International Journal of Molecular Science,

Tau Cleavage Contributes to Cognitive Dysfunction in Strepto-Zotocin-Induced Sporadic Alzheimer’s Disease (sAD) Mouse Model

V. Latina et al. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 22, 12158 (2021)

Tau cleavage plays a crucial role in the onset and progression of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), a widespread neurodegenerative disease whose incidence is expected to increase in the next years.… Read the rest

Alzheimer, individuato anticorpo monoclonale contro la malattia

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Uno studio coordinato da ricercatori del nostro Istituto e dall’Istituto di farmacologia traslazionale del Cnr, svolto in collaborazione con Irccs Fondazione S. Lucia e Fondazione Ebri, ha dimostrato come l’anticorpo monoclonale 12A12 determini miglioramenti significativi nelle principali alterazioni prodotte da questa malattia neurodegenerativa. La ricerca è stata pubblicata sull’International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

Roberto Coccurello spiega i risultati in questi interessanti contributi divulgativi  su Le Scienze e Sky Tg24.… Read the rest

Nature Communications : Hyperbolic optics and superlensing from self-induced topological transitions

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Claudio Conti and Eugenio Del Re co-authored an interesting work published on Nature Communications  demonstrating experimentally self-induced topological transitions from elliptical to hyperbolic k-space manifolds in room-temperature photorefractive KTN.

Hyperbolic optics and superlensing in room-temperature KTN from self-induced k-space topological transitions

Y.Gelkop, F.Di Mei, S. Frishman, Y. Garcia, L. Falsi, G. Perepelitsa, C. Conti, E. Del Re , and A. J.

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Seminar by S. Felicetti Friday October 22 at 4 pm in Conversi

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We are pleased to announce a seminar by  Dr. Simone Felicetti  from the Institute for Photonics and Nanostructures of CNR, to be held on October Friday 22nd in Aula Conversi at 4 pm.

Title: “Critical parametric quantum sensing”

Abstract
Quantum critical systems in proximity of phase transitions exhibit a divergent susceptibility, suggesting that an arbitrarily-high precision may be achieved when they are used as probes to estimate a physical parameter.

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QUANCOM

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Sviluppo di sistemi e tecnologie quantistiche per la sicurezza informatica in reti di comunicazione

Founding Body: MUR
Total grant: € 78k *
Principal Investigator: Prof. Giovanni Piero Pepe – Università di Napoli Federico II e CNR – SPIN
Other participants: Progetto coordinato dal Dipartimento di scienze fisiche e tecnologie dei materiali del CNR.

Membri del gruppo di Ricerca CNR ISC:  Claudio Conti, Laura Pilozzi, Valentina Brosco

Altri partner pubblici: Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Università di Padova, INRIM

Partner privati: EXPRIVA Spa, Memory Consult srl, DEMETRIX srl
Project duration: 30 months starting March 2021
Website: https://www.cnr.it/it/pon-2014-2020-cluster

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L’alfa-sinucleina stimola le cellule staminali neurali

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Roberto Coccurello, ricercatore nel nostro Istituto, ha collaborato ad uno studio che ha identificato il ruolo anti-invecchiamento neurale e di mantenimento della produzione di neuroni svolto in vivo da questa molecola. I risultati sono pubblicati su Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology.

In questo breve articolo divulgativo ci spiega il suo contributo.

Il cervello dei mammiferi continua a generare neuroni per tutta la vita, a partire da cellule staminali neurali, in due zone specifiche dette nicchie neurogeniche: il giro dentato dell’ippocampo e la zona subventricolare.

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Talk by Maxime Bergman on October 5 at 3:00 p.m in Aula 2 Ed. Fermi, Sapienza

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We are pleased to announce a seminar by Dr. Maxime Bergman (University of Fribourg) to be held in Aula 2 (2nd floor of the Fermi building, Department of Physics, Sapienza) on Tuesday, October 5 at 3:00 p.m.

Title Wave-driven particles at a fluid interface: quantum analogs and active dynamics

Abstract

Microgels have been shown to compress in stages: with increasing concentration, interpenetration of the networks occurs first, followed by faceting and finally isotropic compression.

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Frontiers in Cell Biology: Rescue of Alpha-Synuclein Deficit by Virus-Driven Expression or by Running Restores the Defective Neurogenesis

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ISC researcher R. Coccurello coauthored an interesting article now published in Frontiers in Cell and developmental biology

 

Transcriptome Analysis in a Mouse Model of Premature Aging of Dentate Gyrus: Rescue of Alpha-Synuclein Deficit by Virus-Driven Expression or by Running Restores the Defective Neurogenesis

L. Micheli, T. Creanza, M. Ceccarelli, G. D’Andrea, G. Giacovazzo, N. Ancona, R. Coccurello, R. Scardiglli, F.… Read the rest

Talk by Giuseppe Pucci Sept. 29 at 12 in Aula 2 Ed. Fermi, Sapienza

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On septembre 29th, our colleague and friend Dr. Giuseppe Pucci from CNR-Nanotec (Calabria), is going to give a talk in Aula 2, Edificio Fermi of the Physics Department of La Sapienza, Roma.

Title Wave-driven particles at a fluid interface: quantum analogs and active dynamics

Abstract

I review the potential and limitations as quantum analog and active systems of particles driven by self-generated waves at a fluid interface.

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QUANCOM project launched!

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ISC researchers, C. Conti, L. Pilozzi and V. Brosco, participate in the new PON project QUANCOM.

Security technologies in both the network transmission layers and in the application layers are becoming more and more complex and sophisticated but, nevertheless these efforts, they are not completely immune to attacks. In fact, even the computing power (parallel and distributed thanks to the network resource) is increasing and available to organizations that, for various purposes, have interests in appropriating of sensitive data.

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BIOTRACK

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Fluorescent Nuclear Track Detector for Radiobiology

Founding Body: Lazioinnova – Regione Lazio
Total grant: € 149k *
Principal Investigator: Rosa Maria Montereali
Other participants: Membri del gruppo di Ricerca ENEA: Rosa Maria Montereali, Enrico Nichelatti, Valentina Nigro, Massimo Piccinini, Concetta Ronsivalle, Maria Aurora Vincenti

Membri del gruppo di Ricerca Istituto Superiore di Sanità: Evaristo Cisbani, Giuseppe Esposito

Membri del gruppo di Ricerca CNR ISC: Elena Buratti
Project duration: 24 months starting  April 2021
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Progetto di Ricerca, finanziato da Regione Lazio attraverso il Bando Gruppi di Ricerca 2020
* importo finanziamento pari a € 148.930… Read the rest

EPS prize for Statistical and Nonlinear Physics awarded to Prof. A Vulpiani

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Theoretical physicist A. Vulpiani, professor at the Physics Department of the University of Rome  “La Sapienza”  has been awarded the prestigious EPS prize for Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

for his seminal contributions to statistical and nonlinear physics, touching fundamentally important issues in dynamical systems theory and statistical mechanics, including the mechanism of stochastic resonance, multifractality of invariant sets of dynamical systems, the dynamics and multifractal properties of turbulent flows, chaos in Hamiltonian systems, and the limits of predictability in complex systems.

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SR40 – September 13-15 2021 Perugia, Italy

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SR40 is an international conference that has the ambition to be devoted to all phenomena associate with noise, in general and to Stochastic Resonance, in particular. In fact, SR40 aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Noise and Fluctuations, providing a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as practical applications.… Read the rest

Nature Reviews: The physics of financial networks

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ISC associates Guido Caldarelli  and Gulio Cimini coauthored an interesting review on modelling the financial systems and networks now published in Nature Reviews, M. Bardoscia, P. Barucca, S. Battiston, F. Caccioli, G. Cimini, D. Galaschelli, F. Saracco, T. Squartini, and G. Caldarelli. Nat. Rev. Phys. June (2021).

As the total value of the global financial market outgrew the value of the real economy, financial institutions created a global web of interactions that embodies systemic risks.… Read the rest

Nonlinear Optics Topical Meeting – Virtual OSA Meeting 9 – 13 August 2021

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ISC Director Claudio Conti co-organizes an OSA Virtual meeting from 9th to 13th August 2021.

An international forum for discussion of all aspects of nonlinear optics, including new phenomena, novel devices, advanced materials and applications. Nonlinear optical phenomena play a key role in many applications of photonics. They are now studied and applied over a wide range of energies and powers, from single-photons to zettawatts and above, and over broad spectral ranges, from THz to Gamma-ray frequencies.… Read the rest

Science: Mapping out a future for ungulate migrations

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ISC researcher Stefano Focardi coauthored an interesting work in Science,”Mapping out a future for ungulate migrations” Science 372, 567 (2021).

The article shows how limited mapping of mammalians migrations hampers conservation  and envisions a digital archive translating migration data into actionable migration maps that are standardized, in a central database, and publicly available.

 

Migration of ungulates (hooved mammals) is a fundamental ecological process that promotes abundant herds, whose effects cascade up and down terrestrial food webs.… Read the rest

Seminar by Paola Verrucchi, Monday April 19 at 3 pm

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There is only one time

We draw a picture of physical systems that allows us to recognize what “time” is by requiring consistency with the way that time enters the fundamental laws of Physics. Elements of the picture are two non-interacting and yet entangled quantum systems, one of which acting as a clock. In this setting, employing the Page and Wootters mechanism with tools from large-N quantum approaches, we show that there is not a “quantum time”, possibly opposed to a “classical” one; there is only one time, and it is a manifestation of entanglement.… Read the rest

Nature Communications: Stochastic sampling effects favor manual over digital contact tracing

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ISC researcher Claudio Castellano and collaborators unveil the roles of contact tracing procedures in mitigating COVID-19 pandemic, now published in Nature Communications, see M. Mancasroppa, C. Castellano, A. Vezzani and R. Burioni, Stochastic sampling effects favor manual over digital contact tracing, Nature Communications 12, 1919 (2021).

 

Abstract

Isolation of symptomatic individuals, tracing and testing of their nonsymptomatic contacts are fundamental strategies for mitigating the current COVID-19 pandemic.… Read the rest

Una scuola sull’intelligenza artificiale in fotonica

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Creare “cervelli di luce” per macchine intelligenti più veloci, efficienti e “green” degli attuali computer che funzionano grazie ai chip con elettroni e semiconduttori.

L’idea, suggestiva sì, ma già molto concreta, tra scienza e mercato, viene discussa, in questi giorni al Corso “Machine Learning Photonics” organizzata dal  Prof. Claudio Conti e dal Prof. Stefan Wabnitz.

Maggiori informazioni in questo articolo divulgativo apparso sul quotidiano La Provincia di Como.… Read the rest

Time and classical equations of motion from quantum entanglement

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ISC Researcher Paola Verrucchi and Collaborators wrote a beatiful and elegant work investigating the concept of time in quantum mechanics, now published in  Nature Communications, see C. Foti, A.Coppo, G. Barni, A. Cuccoli and P. Verrucchi, Time and classical equations of motion from quantum entanglement via the Page and Wootters mechanism with generalized coherent states, Nature Communications 12,  1787 (2021).

The figure shows the interaction between a classical clock and a quantum system.… Read the rest

Machine Learning Photonics Lake Como School of Advanced Studies

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The school brings together experts in emerging photonic technologies, machine learning techniques, and fundamental physics who will share with young researchers their knowledge and interdisciplinary approaches for understanding and designing complex photonic systems and their practical applications. In the new era of artificial intelligence, algorithms and computational interfaces are broadly emerging as novel tools to do scientific research. The paradigms of machine learning also inspire interpretations and methodologies, in both theories and experiments.… Read the rest

Photonics Research Special Issue now available online

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ISC researcher Laura Pilozzi, co-edited the Photonics Research Special Issue Topological Photonics and beyond: novel concepts and recent avances, now available online

 

 

Topological photonics has been opening exciting opportunities in recent optics research. This Special Issue provides a snapshot and overview of the recent advances in this thriving field of research. It features six papers and one review article, by some of the leading experts in the field, covering various aspects of topological photonics research.… Read the rest

Advances in interacting complex systems

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A joint online event organized by the Department of Physics of Bar-Ilan and the CNR-Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi (ISC-CNR) as a part of project EXPLICS “Towards a physical realization of explosive phenomena in interacting complex systems”, granted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI).

See the Conference Website for more information.

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Wolf prize in Physics 2021 to Giorgio Parisi

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Theoretical physicist Giorgio Parisi, professor at the Physics Department of the University of Rome , “La Sapienza”  and  president of  Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, has been awarded the prestigious Wolf Prize for Physics 2021 “for his pioneering discoveries in quantum field theory, statistical mechanics and complex systems”.… Read the rest

Face masks and nanotechnology

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ISC researcher V. Palmieri coauthored an article  on NanoToday explaining the role of nanotechnologies in improving the performance of facial masks and  warning on possible future consequences caused by a poorly regulated use of nanotechnology in textiles.

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century. While researchers are working on vaccine development and elucidating the mechanism of action and evolution of the harmful SARS-CoV-2, the current most important public health measure, second only to social distancing, is the obligatory wearing of facial protection.… Read the rest

Replica Symmetry Breaking Maps in Random Laser, ACS Photonics (2021)

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ISC Researchers build for the first time replica symmetry breaking  maps to visualize Random Laser activity on ACS Photonics 2021

In the past decade, complex networks of light emitters are proposed as novel platforms for photonic circuits and lab-on-chip active devices. Lasing networks made by connected multiple gain components and graphs of nanoscale random lasers (RLs) obtained from complex meshes of polymeric nanofibers are successful prototypes.… Read the rest

Can graphene take part in the fight against COVID-19? Nano Today (2020)

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ISC researcher, Valentina Palmieri, and her collaborator M. Papi discuss the promising applications of functionalized graphene in the fight against COVID 19. Their research has been published in Nano Today, “Can graphene take part in the fight against COVID-19?“

Nano Today

M. Papi and V. Palmieri, Nano Today, Vol. 33,  100883 (2020)

Abstract

The pneumonia outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) represents a global issue.

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Analytical Model for Particle Capture in Nanopores, ACS Nano (2020)

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Our researcher, Fabio Cecconi, has developed an analytical model elucidating the competition among electrophoresis, electroosmosis, and dielectrophoresis. The work is published on ACS Nano, M. Chinappi, Misa Yamaji, Ryuji Kawano, and Fabio Cecconi, “Analytical Model for Particle Capture in Nanopores Elucidates Competition among Electrophoresis, Electroosmosis, and Dielectrophoresis” ACS Nano, 14, 15816 (2020).

 

Abstract

The interaction between nanoparticles dispersed in a fluid and nanopores is governed by the interplay of hydrodynamical, electrical, and chemical effects.… Read the rest

Roberta Angelini is guest Editor of Polymers

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Our staff researcher Roberta Angelini is Guest Editor of a Special Issue  of Polymers on “Polymer Microgels: Synthesis and Application”

Polymer microgels have attracted great attention in fundamental studies as good model systems for understanding the intriguing behaviors of soft colloids thanks to their elastic and deformable particles that provide a very rich phenomenology. These cross-linked particles with nanometric to micrometric dimensions are characterized by many fascinating properties such as swelling, softness, and responsivity that depend on their macromolecular architecture and can be triggered during the synthesis process.… Read the rest

Dispersionless pulse transport in harmonic chains

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Ruggero Vaia has published a new article on Physical Review E “Dispersionless pulse transport in mass-spring chains: All possible perfect Newton’s cradles“,  R. Vaia, Phys. Rev. E 102, 023005 (2020).

Coherent pulse transmission along an arbitrarily long mass-spring chain is a prototype for several material systems: atom/ion chains, polymer molecules, in 1D, but also 2D and 3D systems with symmetry, such as multilayers.… Read the rest