Dr. Zeno Bacciconi
Zeno Bacciconi is a postdoctoral Researcher at ICTP Italy. He received the Bachelor Degree from University of Trento in 2016, the Master Degree from University of Trento and Scuola Internazionale di Studi Superiori Avanzati in 2021, and the Ph. D. in Theory and numerical simulation of Condensed matter in 2025. His main research areas are the intersection of strong-interaction, topology and light-matter interaction.
Many-body physics of cavity-embedded quantum matter
Abstract:
Controlling the properties of quantum matter is a central goal of modern condensed matter physics. In recent years, cavity embedding that is, placing matter in a cavity has emerged as a new potential tuning knob. A key feature of such systems is the coexistence of degrees of freedom with distinct levels of locality, on one hand, atoms or electrons with local interactions while on the other cavity modes which are typically delocalized across the entire matter system. In this talk I will focus on this unconventional framework and its effect on different aspects of quantum many body physics, such as dynamical properties and topological order. In particular I will discuss two example systems, Fractional Quantum Hall liquids in THz cavities and a Rydberg atom array coupled to an optical cavity, where questions regarding the interplay between local and non-local dynamics are both theoretically and experimentally relevant.