Publications

Recent work

From the last three years: quantum processors with global control, quantum batteries and cavity control of quantum materials.

• Building globally controlled quantum processors with ZZ interactionsR. Menta, F. Cioni, R. Aiudi, F. Caravelli, M. Polini, V. Giovannetti. Phys. Rev. A 113, 012614 (2026)
• Conveyor-belt superconducting quantum computerF. Cioni, R. Menta, R. Aiudi, M. Polini, V. Giovannetti. Phys. Rev. A 113, 012439 (2026)
• Overcoming disorder in superconducting globally driven quantum computingR. Aiudi, J. Despres, R. Menta, A. Abedi, G. Menichetti, V. Giovannetti, M. Polini, F. Caravelli. Phys. Rev. A 113, 012616 (2026)
• Genuine quantum advantage in anharmonic bosonic quantum batteriesG. M. Andolina, V. Stanzione, V. Giovannetti, M. Polini. Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 240403 (2025)
• Tuning Fermi liquids with polaritonic cavitiesR. Riolo, A. Tomadin, G. Mazza, R. Asgari, A. H. MacDonald, M. Polini. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 122, e2407995122 (2025)
• Quantum batteries: a materials science perspectiveA. Camposeo, T. Virgili, F. Lombardi, G. Cerullo, D. Pisignano, M. Polini. Adv. Mater. 37, 2415073 (2025)
• Globally driven superconducting quantum computing architectureR. Menta, F. Cioni, R. Aiudi, M. Polini, V. Giovannetti. Phys. Rev. Research 7, L012065 (2025)
• Chirality-induced spin polarization in twisted transition metal dichalcogenidesG. Menichetti, L. Cavicchi, L. Lucchesi, F. Taddei, G. Iannaccone, P. Jarillo-Herrero, F. H. L. Koppens, M. Polini. Newton 1, 100013 (2025)
• Colloquium: Quantum batteriesF. Campaioli, S. Gherardini, J. Q. Quach, M. Polini, G. M. Andolina. Rev. Mod. Phys. 96, 031001 (2024)
• Theory of intrinsic acoustic plasmons in twisted bilayer grapheneL. Cavicchi, I. Torre, P. Jarillo-Herrero, F. H. L. Koppens, M. Polini. Phys. Rev. B 110, 045431 (2024)

With experimental groups

Theory written together with the labs that tested it: Manchester, ICFO Barcelona, Cambridge and, now, Planckian and Naples.

• Experimental observation of dynamical blockade between transmon qubits via ZZ interaction engineeringM. Riccardi, A. G. Moshe, G. Menichetti et al. arXiv:2601.11714 (2026)
• Experimental signatures of the transition from acoustic plasmon to electronic sound in grapheneD. Barcons Ruiz, N. C. H. Hesp, H. H. Sheinfux et al. Sci. Adv. 9, eadi0415 (2023)
• Measuring Hall viscosity of graphene’s electron fluidA. I. Berdyugin, S. G. Xu, F. M. D. Pellegrino et al. Science 364, 162 (2019)
• Out-of-plane heat transfer in van der Waals stacks through electron–hyperbolic phonon couplingK.-J. Tielrooij, N. C. H. Hesp, A. Principi et al. Nature Nanotech. 13, 41 (2018)
• Tuning quantum nonlocal effects in graphene plasmonicsM. B. Lundeberg, Y. Gao, R. Asgari et al. Science 357, 187 (2017)
• Superballistic flow of viscous electron fluid through graphene constrictionsR. K. Kumar, D. A. Bandurin, F. M. D. Pellegrino et al. Nature Phys. 13, 1182 (2017)
• Electrical 2π phase control of infrared light in a 350-nm footprint using graphene plasmonsA. Woessner, Y. Gao, I. Torre et al. Nature Photon. 11, 421 (2017)
• Ultra-strong nonlinear optical processes and trigonal warping in MoS₂ layersA. Säynätjoki, L. Karvonen, H. Rostami et al. Nature Commun. 8, 893 (2017)
• Negative local resistance caused by viscous electron backflow in grapheneD. A. Bandurin, I. Torre, R. K. Kumar et al. Science 351, 1055 (2016)

Selected theory

• High-power collective charging of a solid-state quantum batteryD. Ferraro, M. Campisi, G. M. Andolina, V. Pellegrini, M. Polini. Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 117702 (2018)
• Super-Planckian electron cooling in a van der Waals stackA. Principi, M. B. Lundeberg, N. C. H. Hesp, K.-J. Tielrooij, F. H. L. Koppens, M. Polini. Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 126804 (2017)
• Modulated phases of graphene quantum Hall polariton fluidsF. M. D. Pellegrino, V. Giovannetti, A. H. MacDonald, M. Polini. Nature Commun. 7, 13355 (2016)
• Accessing phonon polaritons in hyperbolic crystals by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopyA. Tomadin, A. Principi, J. C. W. Song, L. S. Levitov, M. Polini. Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 087401 (2015)
• Nonlocal transport and the hydrodynamic shear viscosity in grapheneI. Torre, A. Tomadin, A. K. Geim, M. Polini. Phys. Rev. B 92, 165433 (2015)
• Corbino disk viscometer for 2D quantum electron liquidsA. Tomadin, G. Vignale, M. Polini. Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 235901 (2014)

Reviews

• Viscous electron fluidsM. Polini, A. K. Geim. Physics Today 73(6), 28 (2020)
• Photodetectors based on graphene, other two-dimensional materials and hybrid systemsF. H. L. Koppens, T. Mueller, Ph. Avouris, A. C. Ferrari, M. S. Vitiello, M. Polini. Nature Nanotech. 9, 780 (2014)
• Artificial honeycomb lattices for electrons, atoms and photonsM. Polini, F. Guinea, M. Lewenstein, H. C. Manoharan, V. Pellegrini. Nature Nanotech. 8, 625 (2013)
• Graphene plasmonicsA. N. Grigorenko, M. Polini, K. S. Novoselov. Nature Photon. 6, 749 (2012)

Book

M. Polini and M. P. Tosi, Many-body physics in condensed matter systems (Edizioni della Normale, Pisa, 2006). Lecture notes from a course on the theory of many-body systems at the Scuola Normale Superiore: electron liquids, magnetism, Green's functions and linear response, trapped Bose and Fermi gases. 318 pages, 414 references.