Federico Becca

Federico Becca is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Trieste. He is a theoretical condensed matter physicist specializing in strongly correlated electronic systems, with a focus on spin liquids, superconductivity, and topological phases. His research employs quantum Monte Carlo and exact diagonalizations to study lattice models like the Hubbard and Heisenberg models.

Education:

• Laurea in Physics, Università La Sapienza, Roma (1996)
• PhD in Condensed Matter, ISAS-SISSA, Trieste (2000)

Research Interests:
Prof. Becca’s work centers on Mott insulators, spin-liquid phases, and superconductivity in systems with magnetic frustration and strong electron correlations. He investigates unconventional electronic states in reduced dimensions and explores the interplay between spin-phonon interactions and quantum phase transitions.

Scientific Collaborations:

• Alberto Parola (Insubria University)
• Michele Fabrizio (SISSA)
• Roser Valenti (University of Frankfurt)
• Didier Poilblanc (University of Toulouse)
• Yasir Iqbal (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)

Current Projects: Unravelling the intertwined correlated states of matter in moiré superlattices (funded by MINISTERO DELL'UNIVERSITA' E DELLA RICERCA). He also leads the "Studio computazionale del modelli di Kane and Mele" project as a Scholar at risk.