MISSION

"The basic mission of the research work of the department is to solve outstanding theoretical problems in solid state physics, statistical physics, physics of elementary particles and fields, biophysics and soft condensed matter physics."

COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE

The Department of Theoretical Physics operates its own local computing cluster, named ATOS, comprised of approximately 3000 cores with each core having on average of 12 GB of memory. The 46 compute nodes that host the CPUs are connected through a fast 100GbE Ethernet connection, while 23 of the nodes also have 100GbE infiniband. Researchers have access to a large amount of storage capacitiy (3TB for long-term storage, that is backed up to an off-site tape drive; and “unlimited" scratch space), served through two fast network filesystems 200TB and 1.2PB in size respectively.

Usage possible upon prior agreement with Department Head and Administrators.

 

RESEARCH PROGRAMS (Slovenian Research Agency)

Program Title Program Leader
Theoretical physics of nuclei, particles and fields prof. dr. Jernej Fesel Kamenik
Theory of condensed matter and statistical physics prof. dr. Janez Bonča
Biophysics of polymers, membranes, gels, colloids and cells prof. dr. Primož Ziherl
Physics of quantum technologies prof. dr. Rok Žitko

NATIONAL RESEARCH GRANTS

Grant Title Grant Leader
Nonlinear mechanics of biological tissues and their tumors (Nelinearna mehanika bioloških tkiv in njihovih tumorjev)

(ARIS J1-3009)

1.10.2021―30.9.2024

dr. Matej Krajnc

Multi-scale modeling of non-equilibrium quantum materials (Modeliranje neravnovesnih kvantnih materialov na različnih skalah)
(ARIS J1-2455)
1.9.2020 - 31.08.2024

dr. Denis Golež

Symmetries and quantum pumping (Vloga simetrij pri vzbujanju kvantnih sistemov)
(ARIS J1-2463)

1.9.2020―31.8.2024

dr. Zala Lenarčič

Three advances towards realistic description of strongly correlated electron transport (Tri izboljšave na poti do realističnega opisa transporta močno koreliranih elektronov)
(ARIS J1-2458)

1.9.2020 - 31.8.2024

doc. dr. Jernej Mravlje

Cryptographically safe random number generator (Kriptografsko varen generator naključnih števil)
(ARIS - UVRS V1-2119)

1. 9. 2021 - 31. 8. 2024

prof. dr. Rok Žitko

Columbic subgap states in superconducting quantum devices (Coulombska stanja v energijski reži superprevodnih kvantnih naprav)
(ARIS J1-3008)

1. 10. 2021 - 30. 9. 2024

prof. dr. Rok Žitko
prof. dr. Jernej Fesel Kamenik

Lattice QCD study of electroweak transitions between heavy mesons and light hadronic resonances (Elektrošibki prehodi med težkimi mezoni in lahkimi hadronskimi resonancami v kromodinamiki na mreži)
(ARIS J1-3034)

1. 11. 2021 - 31. 10. 2023

dr. Luka Leskovec

Stability of biological fluids under tensile stress (Stabilnost bioloških tekočin pod natezno obremenitvijo)
(ARIS J1-4382)

1. 10. 2022 - 30. 9. 2025

dr. Matej Kanduč
Neutrino mass origin: from colliders to gravitational waves (Izvor nevtrinskih mas: od trkalnikov do gravitacijskih valov)
(ARIS J1-4389)

1. 10. 2022 - 30. 9. 2025

doc. dr. Miha Nemevšek
FLAMENCO: Flavor, Lepton number, And Mass Explorations of Neutrinos at the COmpact muon solenoid (FLAMENCO: okus, leptonsko število in raziskovanje mas nevtrinov na CMS)
(ARIS N1-0253)

  1. 10. 2022 - 30. 9. 2026
doc. dr. Miha Nemevšek
Coulombic subgap states in superconducting quantum devices (Coulombska stanja v energijski reži superprevodnih kvantnih naprav)

(ARIS J1-3008)

  1. 10. 2021 - 30. 9. 2024

 

prof. dr. Rok Žitko
Nonergodic dynamics in disorder-free systems (Neergodična dinamika v sistemih brez nereda)

(ARIS N1-0273)

  1. 1. 2023 - 31. 12. 2025

 

prof. dr. Lev Vidmar
Eta-pairing as a glue (Eta parjenje kot lepilo)

(ARIS N1-0318)
1. 4. - 30. 9. 2023

dr. Zala Lenarčič
Coloured physics beyond the Standard Model (Obarvani skalari v fiziki onkraj standardnega modela)

(ARIS N1-0321)
1. 12. 2023 - 30. 11. 2026

prof. dr. Svjetlana Fajfer
Ergodicity breaking phase transitions

(ARIS J1-50005)

  1. 10. 2023 - 30. 9. 2026

 

prof. dr. Lev Vidmar 
Multi-scale modelling of nonequIlibrium quantum materials (MINIMUM)
(ARIS MN-0016-106)

  1. 11. 2023 - 30. 6. 2026
dr. Denis Golež
Scale invariance at dynamical transitions

(ARIS N1-0369)

  1. 3. 2024 - 31. 8. 2024
prof. dr. Lev Vidmar 

 

INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS & GRANTS

Project Title Scientist in Charge (IJS)
Probing the origin of flavor through precision experiments, ARIS bilateral grant BI-FR/22-23-PROTEUS-001 dr. Nejc Košnik
Manifestation of quantum chaos in quantum many-body lattice systems, ARIS bilateral grant BI-US/22-24-048 prof. dr.  Lev  Vidmar
Machine learning in high energy physics, ARIS bilateral grant BI-US/22-24-041 prof. dr. Jernej Fesel Kamenik
QuSiED - Quantum simulation with engineered dissipation (ERA.NET) dr. Zala Lenarčič
T-NiSQ - Tensor networks in simulation of quantum matter (ERA.NET) dr. Zala Lenarčič
COST CA22130; COMETA - Comprehensive Multiboson Experiment-Theory Action prof. dr. Jernej Fesel Kamenik
SiQUID - Slovenian Quantum Communication Infrastructure Demonstration (DIGITAL EU) prof.  dr.  Rok Žitko
DrumS - Weakly driven quantum symmetries (ERC StG) dr. Zala Lenarčič
Left-Righty symmetry, neutrino masses and collider phenomenology, ARIS bilateral grant PROTEUS prof. dr. Miha Nemevšek
HE - SMASH; Researcher: Machine Learning for Sciences and Humanities prof. dr. Jernej Fesel Kamenik
Boundary - Boundaries of quantum chaos (ERC CG) prof. dr.  Lev  Vidmar