Carlo Andrea Trugenberger graduated in theoretical physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, where he also obtained his PhD. After postdoctoral positions at MIT, Los Alamos National Laboratory, CERN, and Max Planck Institute in Munich he became associate professor of physics at Geneva university. He then quit academia to focus on founding two companies in the domain of artificial intelligence, one of which he stills leads today. He continues his fundamental physics research on the topics of quantum materials and quantum gravity. In 1996, in collaboration with M. C. Diamantini and P. Sodano he first predicted the existence of superinsulators and Bose (or anomalous) metals, both of which have now been confirmed. [from here]
On -algebra symmetry in fractional quantum Hall systems:
Andrea Cappelli, Carlo A. Trugenberger, G. R. Zemba: Infinite Symmetry in the Quantum Hall Effect, Nucl. Phys. B 396 (1993) 465-490 [doi:10.1016/0550-3213(93)90660-H, arXiv:hep-th/9206027]
Andrea Cappelli, Gerald V. Dunne, Carlo A. Trugenberger, G. R. Zemba: Conformal Symmetry and Universal Properties of Quantum Hall States, Nucl. Phys. B 398 (1993) 531-567 [doi:10.1016/0550-3213(93)90603-M, arXiv:hep-th/9211071]
(including Floreanini-Jackiw edge mode theory)
Andrea Cappelli, Carlo A. Trugenberger, G. R. Zemba: Classification of Quantum Hall Universality Classes by symmetry, Phys. Rev. Lett. 72 (1994) 1902-1905 [doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.72.1902, arXiv:hep-th/9310181]
On coupling abelian Chern-Simons theory to 1+2D Maxwell theory (cf. Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory) for an effective description of superconductivity:
On higher derivative corrections to the worldsheet Nambu-Goto action for flux tube strings in Polyakov gauge-string duality for compact QED, with an eye towards the dual superconductor model of confinement:
M. Cristina Diamantini, Hagen Kleinert, Carlo A. Trugenberger: Strings with Negative Stiffness and Hyperfine Structure, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82 (1999) 267–270 [doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.267, arXiv:hep-th/9810171]
M. Cristina Diamantini, Hagen Kleinert, Carlo A. Trugenberger: Universality Class of Confining Strings, Phys. Lett. B 457 (1999) 87–93 [doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(99)00532-8, arXiv:hep-th/9903208]
M. Cristina Diamantini, Fernando Quevedo, Carlo A. Trugenberger, Luis Zapata: Universal Confining Strings: From Compact QED to the Hadron Spectrum [arXiv:2605.13791]
On an experimentally accessible analog of confinement, observed in superinsulators (the dual to superconductors), where the role of quark-pairs is played by Cooper pairs (cf. dual superconductor model of confinement):
M. Cristina Diamantini, Carlo A. Trugenberger, Valeri M. Vinokur: Confinement and Asymptotic Freedom with Cooper pairs, Nature Comm. Phys. 1 77 (2018) [arXiv:1807.01984, doi:10.1038/s42005-018-0073-9]
M. Cristina Diamantini, Carlo A. Trugenberger: Superinsulators: a toy realization of QCD in condensed matter, Ch. 23 in Roman Jackiw – 80th Birthday Festschrift, World Scientific (2020) 275-286 [arXiv:2008.12541]
Review:
Carlo A. Trugenberger: Superinsulators, Bose Metals and High- Superconductors: The Quantum Physics of Emergent Magnetic Monopoles, World Scientific (2022) [doi:10.1142/12688]
Carlo A. Trugenberger: Superinsulation: Magnetic Monopoles and Electric Confinement in Condensed Matter, talk at CQTS (Feb 2025) [slides:pdf]
On superinsulation:
On discretized gravity via Ollivier-Ricci curvature of graphs (piecewise flat spacetimes):
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