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We reproduced the experimental deuterium Hugoniot curve by machine learning
the interatomic potential from accurate QMC calculations!
Principal deuterium Hugoniot via quantum Monte Carlo and Δ-learning
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By combining variational quantum Monte Carlo with path
integral molecular dynamics, we discovered a
temperature sweet
spot for proton transfer in the protonated water hexamer!
Thermal dependence of the hydrated proton and optimal proton transfer in the protonated water hexamer
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By combining diffusion quantum Monte Carlo for
electrons with the self consistent harmonic
approximaton for nuclear vibration, we provided a
comprehensive phase diagram of hydrogen at high pressure!
Quantum phase diagram of high-pressure hydrogen
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We found an efficient way to compute the Rényi
entropy in quantum systems!
Quantum Rényi entropy by optimal thermodynamic integration paths
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Paper on phonons in high-pressure molecular
hydrogen by a new method to treat quantum anharmonicity:
Hydrogen phase-IV characterization by full account of
quantum anharmonicity
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We explained the microscopic mechanism that allows the
Dirac cones to roam in k-space in BaNiS2!
Moving Dirac nodes by chemical substitution
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Paper on phonons of diamond by Quantum Monte Carlo including anharmonic
contributions published as Editor's suggestion! Atomic
forces by quantum Monte Carlo: Application to phonon
dispersion calculations
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CNRS DR2 researcher at IMPMC, Paris, France
since October 2021 in the group
Théorie
quantique des materiaux (head of the group since 2018).
CNRS CR researcher at IMPMC, Paris, France
from October 2010 to September 2021.
French Habilitation: Habilitation à diriger des recherches (Specialité physique) issued by the Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.
Thesis:
Resonating valence bond ansatz for real materials: from electronic structure to molecular dynamics of correlated compounds.
December 2017.
Postdoctoral fellow at École Polytechnique, Paris, France
from September 2008 to September 2010
in the strongly correlated quantum materials group
in collaboration with Silke Biermann.
Postdoctoral fellow at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
from October 2005 to August 2008 in the group of Professors
David M. Ceperley and
Richard M. Martin.
Doctor Philosophiae in Condensed Matter Theory at
the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA),
Trieste, Italy.
Thesis:
New QMC approaches for the simulation of electronic systems:
a first application to aromatic molecules and transition metal compounds.
Supervisor: Prof. Sandro Sorella.
Thesis defense: October 2005.
Magister Philosophiae in Condensed Matter Theory at
SISSA, Trieste, Italy.
Thesis:
The antisymmetrized geminal wave function in Quantum
Monte Carlo calculations.
Supervisor: Prof. Sandro Sorella.
Thesis defense: October 2002.
Degree in Physics at University of
Trieste, Italy.
Thesis: Wave
function optimization for a quasi one dimensional electron gas and
ergodicity problems.
Supervisor: Prof. Gaetano Senatore.
Thesis defense: November 2001.
Undergraduate studies at University of Trieste, Italy,
Facoltà di scienze MM.FF.NN. from 1996 to 2001.
Specialization in Theoretical Physics.
1999 summer student internship at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
Collaboration in the tile calorimeter group of the ATLAS experiment (LHC).
Supervisor: Dr. Marina Cobal.
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