Publications

For an updated list, check my Google Scholar profile.


2025

    • Quasiconservation laws and suppressed transport in weakly interacting localized models

      Jessica K. Jiang, Federica M. Surace, Olexei I. Motrunich

    • Theory of metastable states in many-body quantum systems

      Chao Yin, Federica M. Surace, Andrew Lucas

    • Simulating meson scattering on spin quantum simulators

      Elizabeth R Bennewitz, Brayden Ware, Alexander Schuckert, Alessio Lerose, Federica M Surace, Ron Belyansky, William Morong, De Luo, Arinjoy De, Kate S Collins, Or Katz, Christopher Monroe, Zohreh Davoudi, Alexey V Gorshkov

      • Preprints

    • Observation of ballistic plasma and memory in high-energy gauge theory dynamics

      Daniel K. Mark, Federica M. Surace, Thomas Schuster, Adam L. Shaw, Wenjie Gong, Soonwon Choi, Manuel Endres

    • Quantum simulation of bubble nucleation across a quantum phase transition

      De Luo, Federica Maria Surace, Arinjoy De, Alessio Lerose, Elizabeth R Bennewitz, Brayden Ware, Alexander Schuckert, Zohreh Davoudi, Alexey V Gorshkov, Or Katz, Christopher Monroe

2024

    • Detecting a long lived false vacuum with quantum quenches

      Gianluca Lagnese, Federica M. Surace, Sid Morampudi, Frank Wilczek

    • Finite-size generators for weak integrability breaking perturbations in the Heisenberg chain

      Sara Vanovac, Federica M. Surace, Olexei Motrunich

    • Unraveling PXP Many-Body Scars through Floquet Dynamics

      Giuliano Giudici, Federica M. Surace, Hannes Pichler

    • A Maximum Entropy Principle in Deep Thermalization and in Hilbert-Space Ergodicity

      Daniel K. Mark, Federica Surace, Andreas Elben, Adam L. Shaw, Joonhee Choi, Gil Refael, Manuel Endres, Soonwon Choi

    • Scalable, ab initio protocol for quantum simulating SU(N)xU(1) Lattice Gauge Theories

      Federica M. Surace, Pierre Fromholz, Francesco Scazza, Marcello Dalmonte

    • Robustness and eventual slow decay of bound states of interacting microwave photons in the Google Quantum AI experiment

      Federica M. Surace, Olexei Motrunich

      • Preprints

    • The Ising dual-reflection interface: symmetry, Majorana strong zero modes and SPT phases

      Juliane Graf, Federica Maria Surace, Marcus Berg, Sergej Moroz

    • Probing false vacuum decay on a cold-atom gauge-theory quantum simulator

      Zi-Hang Zhu, Ying Liu, Gianluca Lagnese, Federica Maria Surace, Wei-Yong Zhang, Ming-Gen He, Jad C Halimeh, Marcello Dalmonte, Siddhardh C Morampudi, Frank Wilczek, Zhen-Sheng Yuan, Jian-Wei Pan

    • String-Breaking Dynamics in Quantum Adiabatic and Diabatic Processes

      Federica Maria Surace, Alessio Lerose, Or Katz, Elizabeth R Bennewitz, Alexander Schuckert, De Luo, Arinjoy De, Brayden Ware, William Morong, Kate Collins, Christopher Monroe, Zohreh Davoudi, Alexey V Gorshkov

    • Observation of string-breaking dynamics in a quantum simulator

      Arinjoy De, Alessio Lerose, De Luo, Federica M Surace, Alexander Schuckert, Elizabeth R Bennewitz, Brayden Ware, William Morong, Kate S Collins, Zohreh Davoudi, Alexey V Gorshkov, Or Katz, Christopher Monroe

2023

    • Weak integrability breaking perturbations of integrable models

      Federica M. Surace, Olexei Motrunich

    • Ab initio derivation of lattice gauge theory dynamics for cold gases in optical lattices

      Federica M. Surace, Pierre Fromholz, Nelson Darkwah Oppong, Marcello Dalmonte, Monika Aidelsburger

    • Quantum local random networks and the statistical robustness of quantum scars

      Federica M. Surace, Marcello Dalmonte, Alessandro Silva

2022

    • Trimer states with Z3 topological order in Rydberg atom arrays

      Giuliano Giudici, Federica M. Surace, Hannes Pichler

    • Gauge-theoretic origin of Rydberg quantum spin liquids

      Poetri S. Tarabunga, Federica M. Surace, Riccardo Andreoni, Adriano Angelone, Marcello Dalmonte

    • Quenches and confinement in a Heisenberg-Ising spin ladder

      Gianluca Lagnese, Federica M. Surace, Márton Kormos, Pasquale Calabrese

    • Dissipative Floquet Dynamics: from Steady State to Measurement Induced Criticality in Trapped-ion Chains

      Piotr Sierant, Giuliano Chiriacò, Federica M. Surace, Shraddha Sharma, Xhek Turkeshi, Marcello Dalmonte, Rosario Fazio, Guido Pagano

2021

2020

    • Confinement in the spectrum of a Heisenberg-Ising spin ladder

      Gianluca Lagnese, Federica M. Surace, Márton Kormos, Pasquale Calabrese

    • Weak-ergodicity-breaking via lattice supersymmetry

      Federica M. Surace, Giuliano Giudici, Marcello Dalmonte

    • Quantum clock models with infinite-range interactions

      Adu Offei-Danso, Federica M. Surace, Fernando Iemini, Angelo Russomanno, Rosario Fazio

    • Breakdown of ergodicity in disordered U(1) lattice gauge theories

      Giuliano Giudici, Federica M. Surace, Joel E. Ebot, Antonello Scardicchio, Marcello Dalmonte

    • Quasilocalized dynamics from confinement of quantum excitations

      Alessio Lerose, Federica M. Surace, Paolo P. Mazza, Gabriele Perfetto, Mario Collura, Andrea Gambassi

    • Homogeneous Floquet time crystal protected by gauge invariance

      Angelo Russomanno, Simone Notarnicola, Federica M. Surace, Rosario Fazio, Marcello Dalmonte, Markus Heyl

    • Lattice Gauge Theories and String Dynamics in Rydberg Atom Quantum Simulators

      Federica M. Surace, Paolo P. Mazza, Giuliano Giudici, Alessio Lerose, Andrea Gambassi, Marcello Dalmonte

2019

    • Floquet time crystals in clock models

      Federica M. Surace, Angelo Russomanno, Alessandro Silva, Marcello Dalmonte, Rosario Fazio, Fernando Iemini