PhD Student

Enrico Di Benedetto

I graduated from University of Palermo in 2023, where I subsequently joined the group of my thesis advisor Prof. Ciccarello. My Master’s Thesis was conducted partly during a stay at the Institute of Fundamental Physics, where I had the chance to work on “Quantum Optics near a Flat Band” together with Dr. A. Gonzalez-Tudela. My interests span a broad area of subjects, primarily (topological) photonics but also solid-state physics in its entirety. When I’m not working, most likely I am either listening to music or spending some quality time with my dog.

Research

Research lines of Enrico Di Benedetto's papers on this site

Interests

  • Waveguide QED
  • Slow-light physics
  • Topological photonics/physics
  • Solid-state physics

Education

  1. 2023
    Master’s Degree in Physics
    University of Palermo
  2. 2021
    Bachelor’s Degree in Physics
    University of Palermo

Publications 6

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2026

  1. Enabling Deterministic Passive Quantum State Transfer with Giant Atoms
    Oliver Diekmann, Enrico Di Benedetto, Nicolas Jungwirth, Daniele De Bernardis, Zeyu Kuang, Francesco Ciccarello, Stefan Rotter, Peter Rabl, Alejandro González-Tudela and Carlos Gonzalez-Ballestero
    PRX Quantum 7, 043013 (2026)
  2. Emergent cavity-QED dynamics along the edge of a photonic lattice
    Enrico Di Benedetto, Xuejian Sun, Marcel A Pinto, Luca Leonforte, Chih-Ying Chang, Vincent Jouanny, Léo Peyruchat, Pasquale Scarlino and Francesco Ciccarello
    Quantum Sci. Technol. 11, 045055 (2026)
  3. Non-Markovian dynamics of a qubit on the zigzag edge of photonic graphene
    Il Nuovo Cimento C, Year 2026 - Issue 5-6 - September-December (2026)

2025

  1. Superstrong Dynamics and Chiral Emission of a Giant Atom in a Structured Bath
    Vincent Jouanny, Léo Peyruchat, Marco Scigliuzzo, Alberto Mercurio, Enrico Di Benedetto, Daniele De Bernardis, Davide Sbroggiò, Simone Frasca, Vincenzo Savona, Francesco Ciccarello and Pasquale Scarlino
    Preprint Preprint, arXiv:2509.01579 (2025)
  2. Dipole-dipole interactions mediated by a photonic flat band
    Enrico Di Benedetto, Alejandro Gonzalez-Tudela and Francesco Ciccarello
    Quantum 9, 1671 (2025)
  3. Manipulation by magnetic frustration in ferrotoroidal spin chains via curvature and torsion
    Oleksandr V. Pylypovskyi, Enrico Di Benedetto, Carmine Ortix and Denys Makarov
    Phys. Rev. Res. 7, 013088 (2025)