Dr. Jacopo Simoni

Position title: Scientist I

Email: jsimoni@wisc.edu

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2024-Present
Scientist I, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin – Madison

2022-2024
Research Scientist/Software Developer, OTI Lumionics, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

2020-2022
Research Associate, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California

2017-2020
Research Associate, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM

2012-2015
Teaching Assistant, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

EDUCATION

2022
Micromaster program in Quantum Information Science from Purdue University

2020
Post-graduate diploma in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Columbia University, via Emeritus

2020
Master in Computer Science, University of Massachussets Dartmouth

2016
Ph.D. in Physics with Computational Condensed Matter Physics Focus, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

2012
Master of Science in Physics, Bologna University, Bologna, Italy

2008
Bachelor of Science in Physics and Astrophysics, Ferrara University, Ferrara, Italy

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My interests range from non equilibrium dynamics in solids, spin dynamics and ultrafast spin dynamics in magnets. Warm dense matter and disordered systems, matter at extreme conditions and study of energy transfer and relaxation rates in hot solids. I am working on the development of methods to compute these properties in spin defects and molecular qubits. I am working on the development of beyond Born-Oppenheimer non adiabatic methods to describe the dynamics of spin and charge degrees of freedom.

I have worked on the development of quantum inspired methods for the calculation of ground state energies of solid state and molecular systems.

PUBPLICATIONS

Y.Zhiyenbayev,…, J.Simoni et al. Scalable manufacturing of quantum light emitters in silicon under rapid thermal annealing, Optics Express 31, 8352 (2023)
V.Ivanov, A.Ivanov, J.Simoni et al. Database of semiconductor point-defect properties for applications in quantum technologies, (submitted to npjqi, under review 2023)
J.Simoni, V.Ivanov, T.Schenkel, L.Z.Tan, Phonon Induced Spin Dephasing Time of Nitrogen Vacancy Centers in Diamond from First Principles, (submitted to npjqi, under review 2023)
J.Simoni and J.Daligault, Calculation of electron-ions temperature equilibration rates and friction coefficients in plasmas and liquid metals using quantum molecular dynamics, Phys. Rev. E 101, 013205 (2020)
Q.L.D. Nguyen, J. Simoni et al. Direct observation of enhanced electron-phonon coupling in copper nanoparticles in the warm-dense matter regime, Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 085101 (2023).
J.Simoni and J.Daligault, Nature of Non-Adiabatic Electron-Ion Forces in Liquid Metals, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 11, 8839 (2020)
J. Simoni and J.Daligault, First-Principles Determination of Electron-Ion Couplings in the Warm Dense Matter Regime Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 205001 (2019)
J.Daligault and J. Simoni, Theory of the electron-ion temperature equilibration rate spanning the hot and solid metals and plasma phases, Phys. Rev. E 100, 043201 (2019)