Research interests: computational physics, strongly correlated electron systems, magnetism and superconductivity, transport properties, magnetic adsorbates on surfaces and scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy, renormalization group techniques, computer algebra, Kondo effect and quantum impurity physics, cold atoms in optical lattices, quantum technologies.

Recent publications:

Kondo screening in a charge-insulating spinon metal M. Gomilšek, R. Žitko, M. Klanjšek, M. Pregelj, C. Baines, Y. Li, Q. M. Zhang, A. Zorko Nat. Phys. 99, 9999 (2019) (PDF, preprint)

Cesium bright matter-wave solitons and soliton trains Tadej Mežnaršič, Tina Arh, Jure Brence, Jaka Pišljar, Katja Gosar, Žiga Gosar, Rok Žitko, Erik Zupanič, and Peter Jeglič Phys. Rev. A 99, 033625 (2019) (PDF)

Mottness collapse without metallisation in the domain walls of triangular-lattice Mott insulator 1T-TaS2 J. Skolimowski, Ya. Gerasimenko, R. Žitko Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 036802 (2019) (PDF)

Supercurrent in a Double Quantum Dot J. C. Estrada Saldaña, A. Vekris, G. Steffensen, R. Žitko, P. Krogstrup, J. Paaske, K. Grove-Rasmussen, and J. Nygård Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 257701 (2018) (PDF) (suppl)

Video: Kako zapreči kvantne pojave in zmagati? (UL FMF/JSI Colloquium, Feb 2019, Slovenian langugue)

Workshop: Bound states in superconductors and interfaces
8—10 April 2019, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany
Registration deadline: 02/01/2019

School: Numerical renormalization group
22 Jan-1 Feb 2019, Physics Institute, Universidade Federal de Uberlandia (UFU), Brazil