Contact Information
Full Professor
Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome
P.le A. Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
Office: Marconi Building, First Floor, room 120
Tel. +39-06-49914408
Email: lara.benfatto at roma1.infn.it
Research Interests
My activity concerns theoretical problems connected to the physics of correlated electron systems in low dimensions. In particular I have been dealing with the physics of high-temperature cuprate and pnictide superconductors, graphene, and more recently conventional superconductors at strong disorder. The main topics of my work can be summarized as:
- Out-of-equlibrium spectroscopies
- Superconducting collective modes
- Multiband physics in pnictides
- Superconductor-Insulator transition in conventional
superconductors
- Kosterlitz-Thouless behavior in quasi-2D systems
- Spectroscopic and optical properties of graphene
- Unconventional magnetism due to Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya
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