Research

Andrea Perali's research interests include theory of superconductivity and superfluidity: BCS-BEC crossover, pseudogap and fluctuating phenomena in ultracold fermions and multiband superconductors and superfluids, electron-hole superfluidity in van der Waals heterostructures. 

Since 1996 he works in collaboration with Prof. Antonio Bianconi (RICMASS, Rome, Italy) on Superstripes and nanostructured superconductors to find amplifications mechanisms of superconductivity and related novel quantum phenomena. Since 2014, together with Dr. N. Pinto in Camerino, he started a joint theoretical-experimental collaboration with Dr. N. De Leo, head of the nanofabrication laboratory in the INRiM (National Institute for Research on Metrology), Turin, to realize superconducting nanostructures in the form of nanofilms and nanostripes. He has more than 25 years of experience in diagrammatic and numerical methods for strongly interacting fermions. He collaborates with Prof.s G.C. Strinati, P. Pieri and D. Neilson in Camerino, together with several graduate students. He has collaborated with the experimental group of Prof. D. Jin at the University of Colorado at Boulder (USA), contributing to the first observation and characterization of the pseudogap in ultracold fermions. 

In 2010, he started a large international collaborative effort with Prof. A.A. Shanenko and Prof. A. Aguiar in Federal University of Pernambuco (Brasil), with Prof. M. M. Doria in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brasil), and with Prof. M.V. Milosevic and Prof. F. Peeters in University of Antwerp (Belgium) on multiband superconductivity and superfluidity and with A. R. Hamilton in University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia on a new superfluid graphene-based device to observe and exploit high-temperature electron-hole superfluidity (locally in collaboration with D. Neilson). 

Recently Unicam joined the FLEET network of the Australian Research Council: Andrea Perali is the coordinator of the Camerino unit. He is the founder, together with Milorad Milosevic and Arkady Shanenko, of the International Network “MultiSuper”, which runs the international conferences “MultiSuper”.

In 2020 he was included in the international collaboration to design the Lunar Gravitational Waves Antenna (LGWA), coordinated by Prof. Jan Harms of the Gran Sasso Institute (Italy), with responsability to select suitable superconducting materials operating around a temperature of 40 K, which is the temperature estimated for the area of the craters of the Moon in the permanent shadow, to be deploited in superconducting devices and quantum sensors for the different systems of the LGWA, without necessity of cryogenic cooling or with simplified cooling systems. He is co-author of 5 publications on the LGWA project.  

A. Perali's research activities incluse applications of machine learning techniques to several complex systems in the context of highly interdisciplinary projects in collaboration with research centers and private companies.