Luca D'Alessio
Graduate Student (Fall '09: Research Assistent)
Office: SCI, Room 344.
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Research Interests:
My research field is Condensed Matter Theory. At the moment I am engaged into two projects:
1) I am working with Porf. Polkovnikov on non-equilibrium stat. mech. We are trying to understand how the energy distribution of a closed system evolves when the environment can perform work on the system. Right now we are using classical models but soon we will address the quantum counterpart. This is a hot field in the scientific community nowadays. We use results from sudden quenches, adiabatic theorem, Jarzinsky equality, Crooks theorem and many others to try to investigate our questions.
2) I am collaborating with Prof. Castro Neto. I am studying the properties of curved, SP2 carbon structures, mainly graphite and schwarzites. This work is the natural continuation of my thesys work in which I performed a topological study of the smallest genus-2 schwarzites.
Education:
2005: Bachelor Degree in Physics (110/110 cum laude) Università degli Studi Milano-Bicocca, Italy
2007: Master Degree in Physics (110/110 cum laude) Università degli Studi Milano-Bicocca, Italy
