Rok Žitko, research councillor at the "Jožef Stefan" Institute
Office: Teslova 30, 1st floor, room 30
F1 - Department of Theoretical Physics
"Jožef Stefan" Institute
Jamova 39 SI-1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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rok.zitko@ijs.si

I study quantum many-body effects in superconducting devices and strongly correlated materials, with a focus on quantum impurities, subgap states, and electronic transport. My work combines analytical approaches with numerical renormalization group and dynamical mean-field theory, and includes the development of open-source research software.


NRG Ljubljana

Numerical renormalization group solver for interacting quantum impurity models, including quantum dots and magnetic impurities in normal and superconducting hosts. It computes thermodynamic quantities, spectral functions, and transport coefficients, and can be used as an impurity solver in dynamical mean-field theory.

Installation · Source code · Citation

SNEG

A Mathematica package for symbolic calculations with noncommuting operators in second quantization. It handles fermionic, bosonic, and spin algebras, including normal ordering, Wick contractions, symmetry-adapted bases, and operator matrix representations.

Installation · Source code · Citation

More software projects · Hardware projects


Selected publications

Variational solution of the superconducting Anderson impurity model and the band-edge singularity phenomena
Teodor Ilicin, Rok Zitko
SciPost Phys. 19, 006 (2025) (PDF)

Correlation between two distant quasiparticles in separate superconducting islands mediated by a single spin
Juan Carlos Estrada Saldaña, Alexandros Vekris, Luka Pavešič, Rok Žitko, Kasper Grove-Rasmussen, Jesper Nygård
Nat. Commun. 15:3465 (2024) (PDF)

Direct manipulation of a superconducting spin qubit strongly coupled to a transmon qubit
Marta Pita-Vidal, Arno Bargerbos, Rok Žitko, Lukas J. Splitthoff, Lukas Grünhaupt, Jaap J. Wesdorp, Yu Liu, Leo P. Kouwenhoven, Ramón Aguado, Bernard van Heck, Angela Kou, Christian Kraglund Andersen
Nat. Phys. 19, 1110 (2023) (PDF)


Students and collaborators

I welcome enquiries about student projects and collaborations in quantum many-body physics, superconducting devices, and strongly correlated systems. Please email rok.zitko@ijs.si with a brief description of your interests and background.