Andrea Secchi

Short Bio

  • Currently: Senior Postdoc (“Assegnista senior”) at CNR-Nano-S3 (Modena).
  • February 2020 – end of April 2024: Researcher (fixed-term) at CNR-Nano-S3 (Modena).
  • April 2016 – end of January 2020: Postdoc at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Genova, in the group of Prof. Marco Polini.
  • June 2012 – end of March 2016: Postdoc at Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen (The Netherlands), in the group of Prof. M. I. Katsnelson.
  • April 2012 – end of May 2012: Guest Researcher at Institute of Theoretical Physics, Hamburg (Germany) and at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (The Netherlands).
  • January 2009 – 17/02/2012: PhD in Physics at Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, under the supervision of Dr. Massimo Rontani.
  • 31/10/2008: Master degree in Physics at Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (mark: 110/110 cum laude).
  • 29/09/2006: Bachelor degree in Physics at Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (mark: 110/110 cum laude).

Research Interests

  • Theory of inhomogeneous strain
  • Quantum computing
  • Multipartite entanglement
  • Quantum dots in silicon and germanium nanostructures
  • Few-body strongly interacting systems (and exact diagonalization techniques)
  • Many-body strongly interacting systems (Green-function and path-integral techniques for equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium systems)
  • Theory of superconductivity
  • Theory of magnetism in and out of equilibrium
  • Wigner molecules
  • Carbon-nanotube quantum dots

 

Selected Recent Projects

Selected Publications

Envelope-function theory of inhomogeneous strain in semiconductor nanostructures. A. Secchi and F. Troiani. Phys. Rev. B 110, 045420 (2024).

 

Theory of multidimensional quantum capacitance and its application to spin and charge discrimination in quantum dot arrays. A. Secchi and F. Troiani. Phys. Rev. B 107, 155411 (2023).

 

Toward Hole-Spin Qubits in Si p-MOSFETs within a Planar CMOS Foundry Technology. L. Bellentani, M. Bina, S. Bonen, A. Secchi, A. Bertoni, S. P. Voinigescu, A. Padovani, L. Larcher, and F. Troiani. Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 054034 (2021).

 

Interacting holes in Si and Ge double quantum dots: From a multi band approach to an effective-spin picture. A. Secchi, L. Bellentani, A. Bertoni, and F. Troiani. Phys. Rev. B 104, 035302 (2021).

 

Phonon-mediated superconductivity in strongly correlated electron systems: A Luttinger-Ward functional approach. A. Secchi, M. Polini, and M. I. Katsnelson. Annals of Physics 417, 168100 (2020).

 

Adiabatic perturbation theory of nonequilibrium light-controlled superconductivity. A. Secchi and M. Polini. Phys. Rev. B 98, 144513 (2018).

 

Nonequilibrium itinerant-electron magnetism: A time-dependent mean-field theory. A. Secchi, A. I. Lichtenstein, and M. I. Katsnelson. Phys. Rev. B 94, 085183 (2016).

 

Ultrafast optical modification of exchange interactions in iron oxides. R. V. Mikhaylovskiy, E. Hendry, A. Secchi, J. H. Mentink, M. Eckstein, A. Wu, R. V. Pisarev, V. V. Kruglyak, M. I. Katsnelson, Th. Rasing, and A. V. Kimel. Nature Communications 6, 8190 (2015).

 

Non-equilibrium magnetic interactions in strongly correlated systems. A. Secchi, S. Brener, A. I. Lichtenstein, and M. I. Katsnelson. Annals of Physics 333, 221 (2013).

 

Observation and spectroscopy of a two-electron Wigner molecule in an ultraclean carbon nanotube. S. Pecker, F. Kuemmeth, A. Secchi, M. Rontani, D. C. Ralph, P. L. McEuen, and S. Ilani. Nature Physics 9, 576 (2013).

 

Spectral function of few electrons in quantum wires and carbon nanotubes as a signature of Wigner localization. A. Secchi and M. Rontani. Phys. Rev. B 85, 121410 (Rapid Comm.) (2012).

 

Wigner molecules in carbon-nanotube quantum dots. A. Secchi and M. Rontani. Phys. Rev. B 82, 035417 (2010).