 Antonello Scardicchio
2006-2009 Postdoctoral Fellow
Quantum Field Theory and Statistical Physics
Quantum Mechanics
609-258-5859
413B Jadwin Hall
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My research interests span over quantum and statistical field theory and quantum mechanics. In the recent past I have been researching, in collaboration with R.Jaffe and M.Kardar, the geometry dependence of the fluctuation (Casimir) forces mainly using methods borrowed from semiclassical quantum mechanics. In 2006 Jaffe, D.Pirjol and I proposed an explanation for the observed abundance of parity doublets in the mass spectrum of hadrons. Very recently I have been interested in issues of integrability in supersymmetric gauge theories. With I.Klebanov and other collaborators, basing on recent works on spin chains and gauge theories, we have calculated the cusp anomalous dimension for N=4 exactly, getting an independent check of some predictions of the AdS/CFT conjecture. In parallel, I have become interested in issues of algorithmic complexity in classical and quantum computing and its connections with spin glasses and quantum phase transitions.
Recent publications:
- A test of the AdS/CFT correspondence using high-spin operators
M.K.Benna, S.Benvenuti, I.R.Klebanov and A.Scardicchio, arXiv:hep-th/0611135; submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett.
- Parity doubling among the baryons
R.L.Jaffe, D.Pirjol and A.Scardicchio, Phys. Rept. 435, 157 (2006)
- Casimir interaction between a plate and a cylinder
T.Emig, R.L.Jaffe, M.Kardar and A.Scardicchio, Phys.Rev.Lett. 96, 080403 (2006)
- The Casimir Effect and Geometric Optics
R.L.Jaffe and A.Scardicchio, Phys.Rev.Lett. 92, 070402 (2004)
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