Massimo D’Elia (UNIPI) is professor of Theoretical Physics at the Physics Department of the University of Pisa. He graduated in Physics at the University of Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore in 1994, he got his PhD from the University of Pisa in 1998, he has been postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cyprus and at ETH Zürich, and assistant professor at the University of Genoa. His research activity is focussed on the study of Fundamental Interactions by numerical simulations based on Quantum Monte-Carlo algorithms and High Performance Computing.
His recent interest in Quantum Computing stems for the necessity of going beyond the present state of the art in the numerical study of strong interactions. Classical computational schemes are limited to restricted values of the parameters of the theory;
Quantum Computing would represent a breakthrough, allowing to extend our knowledge to open issues of utmost importance, such as the behavior of matter in extreme conditions (like in the inner core of neutron stars) or the real time dynamics of strongly coupled systems.
Relevant Publications
G. Clemente, M. Cardinali, C. Bonati, E. Calore, L. Cosmai, M. D’Elia, A. Gabbana, D. Rossini, F. S. Schifano, R. Tripiccione, D. Vadacchino,
“Quantum computation of thermal averages in the presence of a sign problem”,
Phys. Rev. D 101, 074510 (2020) [arXiv:2001.05328].
M.~D’Elia,“High-Temperature QCD: theory overview’’,
plenary talk at Quark Matter 2018
Nucl. Phys. A 982, 99-105 (2019) [arXiv:1809.10660].
M. D’Elia, F. Manigrasso, F. Negro and F. Sanfilippo,“QCD phase diagram in a magnetic background for different values of the pion mass’’,
Phys. Rev. D 98, no.5, 054509 (2018) [arXiv:1808.07008].
M. D’Elia, G. Gagliardi and F. Sanfilippo,“Higher order quark number fluctuations via imaginary chemical potentials in N_f=2+1 QCD’’,
Phys. Rev. D 95, no.9, 094503 (2017) [arXiv:1611.08285].
C. Bonati, M. D’Elia, M. Mariti, M. Mesiti, F. Negro and F. Sanfilippo,“Curvature of the chiral pseudocritical line in QCD: Continuum extrapolated results’’,
Phys. Rev. D 92, no.5, 054503 (2015) [arXiv:1507.03571].
M. D’Elia, S. Mukherjee and F. Sanfilippo,“QCD Phase Transition in a Strong Magnetic Background’’, Phys. Rev. D 82, 051501 (2010) [arXiv:1005.5365].
M. D’Elia and M. P. Lombardo, “Finite density QCD via imaginary chemical potential’’,
Phys. Rev. D 67, 014505 (2003) [arXiv:hep-lat/0209146].
Teaching activities related to quantum computing and technologies
Numerical Methods in Physics (since 2018, for the master degree in Physics)