Research interests
- Quantum computation;
- Quantum dots, low-dimensional systems, Wigner molecules;
- Theory of magnetism in strongly correlated electronic systems (in and out of equilibrium);
- Superconductivity;
- Theory of electron-phonon interactions;
- Nonequilibrium phenomena in strongly correlated systems.
Biographical sketch
Since February 2020 - Researcher at CNR - Istituto Nanoscienze - S3 (Modena, Italy).
April 2016 - January 2020: postdoc in the group of Prof. Marco Polini, at the Italian Institute of Technology (Genova, Italy).
April 2012 - March 2016: postdoc in the group of Prof. Mikhail I. Katsnelson, at the Radboud University (Nijmegen, The Netherlands). During the same period, I also visited several times and had collaborations with the group of Prof. Alexander I. Lichtenstein (Hamburg, Germany).
February 2012: I obtained my PhD in Physics at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, under the supervision of Dr. Massimo Rontani.
2008: Master Degree in Physics at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (mark: 110/110 cum laude).
2006: Bachelor Degree in Physics at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (mark: 110/110 cum laude).
Selected publications
A. Secchi and M. Rontani, "Wigner molecules in carbon-nanotube quantum dots", Physical Review B 82, 035417 (2010).
S. Pecker, F. Kuemmeth, A. Secchi, M. Rontani, D. C. Ralph, P. L. McEuen, and S. Ilani, "Observation and spectroscopy of a two-electron Wigner molecule in an ultraclean carbon nanotube", Nature Physics 9, 576-581 (2013).
A. Secchi, S. Brener, A. I. Lichtenstein, and M. I. Katsnelson, "Non-equilibrium magnetic interactions in strongly correlated systems", Annals of Physics 333, 221-271 (2013).
A. Secchi, A. I. Lichtenstein, and M. I. Katsnelson, "Nonequilibrium itinerant-electron magnetism: A time-dependent mean-field theory", Physical Review B 94, 085153 (2016).
A. Secchi and M. Polini, "Adiabatic perturbation theory of nonequilibrium light-controlled superconductivity", Physical Review B 98, 144513 (2018).
A. Secchi, M. Polini, and M. I. Katsnelson, "Phonon-mediated superconductivity in strongly correlated electron systems: a Luttinger-Ward functional approach", Annals of Physics, in press: pre-proof available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aop.2020.168100