Research


Research Interests

I'm a Ph.D. student in Physics (XVIII cycle) at Genova University.

I have taken the degree in Physics with the thesis: "Analysis of Joos's and Zeh's decoherence model" (present, in italian, in the Documentation page of this site).
This work attempts to study in which way the coupling between mesoscopical physical systems and their environments takes place. In particular, it tries to point out that, contrarily to usual beliefs, this interaction is not able to theoretically explain the emergence of the classical world in a quantum description of reality. (More precisely, using only the rules present in orthodox quantum mechanics, continuous interaction of a system with its environment does not clarify how the collapse of the wavefunction ---which remains as postulate--- occurs in the framework of the unitary evolutions induced by Schrödinger equation).
This notwithstanding, this model can be found useful in order to describe phenomenologically the influence of an environment on a subsystem, for example in applications to interferometry with macrmolecules, where this coupling should be more relevant increasing the sizes and masses of the molecules (see some of the experimental results of the Zeilinger's group in the Talbot-Lau interferometry with macromolecules, e.g. http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0303093 and http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0309016).

Actually, the principal contribution to my research activity is a theoretical derivation of the relations able to describe the interference pattern revealed in such diffraction experiments, in particular in those with fullerenes [http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0307160, Phys. Rev. A 68, 063610 (2003)].



Group in Genova

My supervisor is prof. Nino Zanghì, and ---at Genova--- the group under his direction is made by:
Massimiliano Malgieri (e-mail: malgieri [at] ge.infn.it) who studies a manner to compute numerical simulation on chemical systems using Bohmian Mechanics.
Paolo Solinas (e-mail: solinas [at] ge.infn.it), post doc involved in the study of Quantum Computation in collaboration with prof. Maura Sassetti (e.g., see the URL of her group) and dr. Paolo Zanardi of ISI of Turin.
Daniele Parodi (e-mail: parodid [at] ge.infn.it), Ph.D. in Physics, working in collaboration with Paolo Solinas.



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