Federico is an Assistant Professor (RTDa) of Physics (PHYS-04/A) since March 2025. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (September 2024–February 2025) in the ‘Non-Hermitian Topological Phenomena’ group led by Prof. Flore Kunst. From March to August 2024, he was a Fulbright Research Scholar at Columbia University, working in the Quantum Optics group led by Prof. Ana Asenjo-Garcia. Between March 2022 and February 2024, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Luxembourg in the group of Prof. Aurelia Chenu. Federico earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Palermo in March 2022 under the supervision of Prof. Francesco Ciccarello. He holds a Master’s degree in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics from Ludwig Maximilian University & Technical University of Munich (2018) and previously completed a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics at the University of Torino and Palermo, respectively. In 2023, he received the Fulbright Scholarship, awarded by the U.S.-Italy Fulbright Commission. In 2024, his Marie Curie proposal received the Seal of Excellence, and in 2025, it was accepted for funding. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Physics Communications.
Research
Research lines of Federico Roccati's papers on this site
Interests
- non-Hermitian physics
- waveguide QED
- topology in quantum optics
- many-body physics
Education
- 2022PhD in Physics
University of Palermo - 2018M.S. in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
Ludwig Maximilian University & Technical University of Munich
Publications 15
Search and filter2026
- Many-body quantum optics in a Bose-Hubbard waveguidePhys. Rev. Research 8, L032022 (2026)
- Atom-Photon Bound States in Fractal Photonic Lattices: Localization Length and Anomalous DiffusionPreprint Preprint, arXiv:2605.23625 (2026)
- Perspective: Interactions and Nonlinearity in Non-Hermitian PhysicsPreprint Preprint, arXiv:2603.13526 (2026)
2025
- Fibonacci Waveguide Quantum ElectrodynamicsPreprint Preprint, arXiv:2507.06308 (2025)
- Finite steady-state current defies non-Hermitian many-body localizationPreprint Preprint, arXiv:2504.02460 (2025)
- Two transitions in complex eigenvalue statistics: Hermiticity and integrability breakingPhys. Rev. Res. 7, 013098 (2025)
2024
- Controlling Markovianity with Chiral Giant AtomsPhys. Rev. Lett. 133, 063603 (2024)
- Diagnosing non-Hermitian many-body localization and quantum chaos via singular value decompositionPhys. Rev. B 109, L140201 (2024)
- Hermitian and Non-Hermitian Topology from Photon-Mediated InteractionsNature Communications 15, 2400 (2024)
2023
- Quantum correlations in dissipative gain–loss systems across exceptional pointsThe European Physical Journal Special Topics 232, 1783--1788 (2023)
2022
- Exotic interactions mediated by a non-Hermitian photonic bathOptica 9, 565--571 (2022)
- Exotic Interactions Mediated by a Non-Hermitian Photonic BathOptica 9 (2022)
- Non-hermitian physics and master equationsOpen Systems & Information Dynamics 29, 2250004 (2022)
- Quantum correlations beyond entanglement in a classical-channel model of gravityScientific Reports 12, 17641 (2022)
2021
- Quantum correlations in $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric systemsQuantum Science and Technology 6, 025005 (2021)