Federica Surace

Federica Surace is a Researcher in Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), affiliated with the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy. Her research focuses on quantum many-body systems, lattice gauge theories, and quantum simulation methodologies. She investigates phenomena such as false vacuum decay, string-breaking dynamics, and quantum phase transitions using cold-atom and trapped-ion quantum simulators.

Her work bridges theoretical frameworks with experimental quantum systems, addressing fundamental questions in non-equilibrium dynamics, topological phases, and ergodicity. She has contributed to protocols for simulating gauge theories and exploring metastable states in quantum systems. Federica's research also examines integrability-breaking perturbations and the emergence of quantum scars in Floquet systems.

Her publications (2020–2025) emphasize scalable quantum simulation techniques for meson scattering, confinement mechanisms in spin ladders, and the statistical robustness of quantum dynamics. Collaborations involve theoretical and experimental groups advancing cold-atom and trapped-ion technologies to probe quantum phenomena inaccessible via classical computation.