Statistical Physics of Disordered Systems (SPoDS) is a research line at the Institute of Nanotechnology of the Italian National Research Council (CNR-NANOTEC), Rome Unit, hosted at the Physics Department of Sapienza University of Rome.
The activity concerns the statistical physics of disordered and complex systems: the fundamental theory of quenched disorder and its applications to photonics, inference, neural networks, optimization and unconventional computation.
Research areas
- Theory of disordered systems — spin glasses, structural glasses, neural networks. Replica and cavity methods, replica symmetry breaking, renormalization in finite dimension in the presence of non-perturbative randomness.
- Off-equilibrium dynamics and stochastic processes — memory, aging, critical slowing down, complex landscapes and marginal states; random walks in random environments.
- Neural networks and learning — associative memory and its capacity, dreaming and pattern decorrelation, inverse problems, generative models.
- Optimization and inference — combinatorial and constrained optimization, compressed sensing, message passing, machine-learning-enhanced Monte Carlo.
- Light in random media and photonic computation — random lasers, analog and quantum simulation of disordered models, imaging, phase retrieval, transmission matrices.
- Algorithms and high-performance computing — cluster and massively parallel Monte Carlo, GPU simulation, solvers for dynamical mean-field equations.
A detailed account is given on the Research page. Ongoing and past grants are listed under Projects.