We are pleased to announce that an article by Mario Collura, Associate Professor in the Condensed Matter Theory group at SISSA, has received the prestigious 2025 Frontiers of Science Award. The paper, published in 2016 and titled "Transport in Out-of-Equilibrium XXZ Chains: Exact Profiles of Charges and Currents", was co-authored with Bruno Bertini (who was a researcher at SISSA at the time), Jacopo De Nardis, and Maurizio Fagotti.
The award was established in 2023 under the International Congress of Basic Sciences (ICBS) and is sponsored by the City of Beijing and the Yanqi Lake Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BIMSA). The Frontiers of Science Award (FSA) is given to a scientific paper from the past decade that has made a significant breakthrough in its field. Each year, researchers from around the world are invited to nominate candidates, and an expert jury selects a shortlist for each research area. A Global Committee, appointed by the ICBS, then chooses the winners from the finalists.
The awarded paper, published in 2016 in Physical Review Letters, revolutionised the description of out-of-equilibrium quantum systems by proposing an innovative approach to studying the dynamics of interacting 1D systems far from thermal equilibrium. Until then, describing the evolution of quantum particles in interacting, out-of-equilibrium systems was an open challenge, with few effective methods available to provide precise predictions. This study extended traditional theory and opened new directions in research, inspiring numerous developments in out-of-equilibrium physics and in the simulation of ultracold systems and other advanced quantum systems.
The award, worth 25,000 USD, will be presented during the ICBS ceremony, which will take place in Beijing in July 2025.