Research interests: superconducting devices, quantum impurities, renormalization group techniques, cold atoms, scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy, quantum technologies, computational physics and computer algebra, electronics, field programmable gate arrays, random number generators.
Recent publications:
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Spin-orbital Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states in single Kondo molecular magnet
Hui-Nan Xia, Emi Minamitani, Rok Žitko, Zhen-Yu Liu, Xin Liao, Min Cai, Zi-Heng Ling, Wen-Hao Zhang, Svetlana Klyatskaya, Mario Ruben, Ying-Shuang Fu Nat. Commun. 13, 6388 (2022) ![]() |
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Singlet-Doublet Transitions of a Quantum Dot Josephson Junction
Detected in a Transmon Circuit
Arno Bargerbos, Marta Pita-Vidal, Rok Žitko, Jesús Ávila, Lukas J. Splitthoff, Lukas Grünhaupt, Jaap J. Wesdorp, Christian K. Andersen, Yu Liu, Leo P. Kouwenhoven, Ramón Aguado, Angela Kou, and Bernard van Heck PRX Quantum 3, 030311 (2022) ![]() |
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Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states, BCS-BEC crossover, and exact solution in the
flat-band limit
Rok Žitko and Luka Pavešić Phys. Rev. B 106, 024513 (2022) ![]() |
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Excitations in a superconducting Coulombic energy gap
Juan Carlos Estrada Saldaña, Alexandros Vekris, Luka Pavešić, Peter Krogstrup, Rok Žitko, Kasper Grove-Rasmussen & Jesper Nygård Nat. Commun. 13, 2243 (2022) ![]() |
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Universal Magnetic Oscillations of dc Conductivity in the
Incoherent Regime of Correlated Systems
Jakša Vučičević, Rok Žitko Phys. Rev. Lett 127, 196601 (2021) ![]() |
JSIplus: Center for Light, Matter, and Quanta (JSIplus) will enable Slovenia to leverage its outstanding scientific excellence in the high technology fields of physics, chemistry, and materials to become a world leader in the application of quantum phenomena to the fields of medicine, electronics, energy, and sustainability.
Radio:
Frekvenca X: Prvi koraki do kvantne premoči (VAL 202, Jan 2021, three-part
podcast, Slovenian language)
Part 2:
Teleportacija? Tudi to je mogoče!
Part 3: Varne
komunikacije in nevaren nadzor
Video: Kako zapreči kvantne pojave in zmagati? (UL FMF/JSI Colloquium, Feb 2019, Slovenian language)
Workshop: Bound states in superconductors and interfaces
8—10 April 2019, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany
Training:
Quantum impurity solvers (for systems with superconducting baths)
Oct 2021, NBI, University of Copenhagen, Denmark