Publications

2026

• “Nonequilibrium steady states in driven holographic Weyl semi-metals”, Matteo Baggioli, Sebastian Grieninger, James Stokes, arXiv:2603.09649,  J. High Energ. Phys. 2026, 150 (2026).
• “Three-stage melting of a macroscopic continuous spacetime crystal”, Guoqing Liu, Jimin Bai, Matteo Baggioli, Jie Zhang, arXiv:2603.09649, PNAS (in press)
• “A flat-band perspective on the boson peak in amorphous solids”, Shivam Mahajan, Long-Zhou Huang, Cunyuan Jiang, Yun-Jiang Wang, Massimo Pica Ciamarra, Jie Zhang, Matteo Baggioli, arXiv:2509.06340, PNAS (in press)
• “Glass-like anomalies and unconventional thermoelectric transport in chimney ladder crystals”, Srinivas V. Mandyam, Weicen Dong, Xiaoxian Yan, Binru Zhao, Yasong Wu, Chunhao Su, Elen Duverger-Nedellec, Junfa Lin, Tianlong Xia, Zhiying Zhao, X iChen, Jiong Yang, Jie Ma, Hui Xing, F. Malte Grosche, Matteo Baggioli, arXiv:2503.03155, Nature Communications (in press)
• “Spectral decomposition of liquid viscosity into instantaneous normal modes”, Long-Zhou Huang, Bingyu Cui, Min-Qiang Jiang, Matteo Baggioli, Yun-Jiang Wang, arXiv:2408.07937, Acta Materialia 122345, 314 (2026)
• “Non-Hermitian wave-packet dynamics and its realization within a non-Hermitian chiral cavity”, Weicen Dong, Qing-Dong Jiang, Matteo Baggioli, arXiv:2508.05964, Quantum Front 5, 4 (2026) (on the cover)
• “Holographic D-brane constructions with dynamical gauge fields”, Yongjun Ahn, Matteo Baggioli, Hyun-Sik Jeong, Masataka Matsumoto, arXiv:2508.05964, J. High Energ. Phys. 2026, 118 (2026)
• “Topological Magnetic Phases and Magnon-Phonon Hybridization in the Presence of Strong Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction”, Weicen Dong, Haoxin Wang, Matteo Baggioli, Yi Liu, arXiv:2508.05964, Phys. Rev. B 113, 064413 (2026)
• “Topological Defect Formation Beyond the Kibble-Zurek Mechanism in Crossover Transitions with Approximate Symmetries”, Peng Yang, Chuan-Yin Xia, Sebastian Grieninger, Hua-Bi Zeng, Matteo Baggioli, arXiv:2508.05964, Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 051602 (2026)
• “Topological signatures of collective dynamics and turbulent-like energy cascades in apolar active granular”, Zihan Zheng, Cunyuan Jiang, Yangrui Chen, Matteo Baggioli, Jie Zhang, arXiv:2504.02588, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 123 (6) e2510873123 (2026)
• “Tracking shear mode dynamics across the glass transition in a 2D colloidal system”, Jimin Bai, Peter Keim, Matteo Baggioli, arXiv:2505.16678, Phys. Rev. Research 8, 013005 (2026)
• “Designing atomic-scale resistive circuits in topological insulators through vacancy-induced localized modes”, Cunyuan Jiang, Weicen Dong, Matteo Baggioli, arXiv:2504.08416,  J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 38 015602 (2026)
• “Geometric indicators of local plasticity in glasses measured by scanning small beam diffraction”, Amelia Liu,  Huyen Pham,  Arabinda Bera,  Timothy Petersen,  Timothy Sirk,  Stephen Mudie,  Rico Tabor,  Juan Nunez-Iglesias,  Alessio Zaccone and  Matteo Baggioli, arXiv:2410.09391, Acta Cryst. A82 (on the cover)
• “Dissipation induced elastic-mode instability with topological excitation in holographic non-equilibrium steady cnoidal wave supersolid”, Peng Yang, Yu Tian, Matteo Baggioli, arXiv:2410:12437 , SCIENCE CHINA Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy, 2026, 69 (2)

2025

• “Lift force in chiral, compressible granular matter”, Jarosław Pawłowski, Marcin Dudziak, Matteo Baggioli, Jie Zhang, Piotr Surówka, arXiv:2504.08516, Phys. Rev. E 112, 055423 (2025)

• “Disordered materials at the atomic scale”, Jaeyun Moon and Matteo Baggioli, J. Appl. Phys. 138, 150401 (2025)

• “A conformal anomaly from the the Fermi velocity renormalization in graphene and Dirac semi-metals”, Matteo Baggioli, Maxim N. Chernodub, Karl Landsteiner, Alessandro Principi, María A. H. Vozmediano, arXiv:2505.13712 , Annals of Physics Volume 483, December 2025, 170267

• “Simple holographic dual of the Maxwell-Cattaneo model & the fate of KMS symmetry for non-hydrodynamic modes”, Yongjun Ahn, Matteo Baggioli, Yanyan Bu, Masataka Matsumoto, Xiyang Sun, arXiv:2506.00926 , Phys. Rev. D 112, 086013 (2025)

• “Geometrical and vibrational properties of the defects driving the boson peak”, Shivam Mahajan, Darryl Seow Yang Han, Cunyuan Jiang, Matteo Baggioli, Massimo Pica Ciamarra, arXiv:2409.131169, Phys. Rev. E 112, 035413 (2025)

• “Atomistic mechanisms of viscosity in 2D liquid-like fluids”, Dong Huang, Shaoyu Lu, Chen Liang, Matteo Baggioli, Yan Feng, arXiv:2502.12522, Nature Communications volume 16, Article number: 10171 (2025)

• “Spotting structural defects in crystals from the topology of vibrational modes”, Long-Zhou Huang, Yun-Jiang Wang, Matteo Baggioli arXiv:2410.04720, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Volume 204, November 2025, 106274

• “Hedgehog topological defects in 3D amorphous solids”, Arabinda Bera, Alessio Zaccone, Matteo Baggioli arXiv:2407.20631, Nature Communications volume 16, Article number: 5990 (2025)

• “Stress-stress correlations in two-dimensional amorphous and crystalline solids”, Jimin Bai, Long-Zhou Huang, Jin Shang, Yun-Jiang Wang, Jie Zhang, Matteo Baggioli arXiv:2503.04028, Phys. Rev. E 112, 015401 (2025)

• “Dissipative quantum phase transitions monitored by current fluctuations”, Masataka Matsumoto, Matteo Baggioli, Zi Cai, arXiv:2502.01136, Phys. Rev. A 112, 012226 Editors’ Suggestions

• “Atomistic mechanisms of dynamics in a two-dimensional dodecagonal quasicrystal”, Kun-Zhao, Matteo Baggioli, Wen-Sheng Xu, Jack F. Douglas, Yun-Jiang Wang, arXiv:2402.10295, J. Chem. Phys. 162, 234503 (2025)

• “Singular Value Decomposition and Its Blind Spot for Quantum Chaos in Non-Hermitian Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Models”, Matteo Baggioli, Kyoung-Bum Huh, Hyun-Sik Jeong, Xuhao Jiang, Keun-Young Kim, Juan F. Pedraza, arXiv:2503.11274, Phys. Rev. D 111, L101904 (2025)

• “Chiral Anomalous Magnetohydrodynamics in action: effective field theory and holography”, Matteo Baggioli, Yanyan Bu, Xiyang Sun, arXiv:2412.02361, J. High Energ. Phys. 2025, 126 (2025)

• “Dynamical and thermodynamic crossovers in the supercritical region of a holographic superfluid model”, Zi-Qiang Zhao, Zhang-Yu Nie, Jin-Fei Zhang, Xin Zhang, Matteo Baggioli, arXiv:2406.05345, Eur. Phys. J. C 85, 464 (2025)

• “Revisiting the phonon theory of liquid heat capacity: low-frequency shear modes and intramolecular vibrations”, Yu Liu, Matteo Baggioli, arXiv:2501.16187, Phys. Rev. B 111, 144201 (2025)

• “Revisiting the question of what instantaneous normal modes tell us about liquid dynamics”, Sha Jin, Xue Fan, Matteo Baggioli, arXiv:2409.09965, J. Chem. Phys. 162, 114503 (2025)

• “Experimental observation of gapped shear waves and liquid-like to gas-like dynamical crossover in active granular matter”, Cunyuan Jiang, Zihan Zheng, Matteo Baggioli, Jie Zhang, arXiv:2403.08285, Commun Phys 8, 82 (2025)

• “Krylov complexity as an order parameter for quantum chaotic-integrable transitions”, Matteo Baggioli, Kyoung-Bum Huh, Hyun-Sik Jeong, Keung-Young Kim, Juan Pedraza, arXiv:2407.17054, Phys. Rev. Research 7, 023028 (2025)

• “Experimental identification of topological defects in 2D colloidal glass”, Vinay Vaibhav, Arabinda Bera, Amelia Liu, Matteo Baggioli, Peter Keim, Alessio Zaccone, arXiv:2405.06494, Nature Communications volume 16, Article number: 55 (2025)

2024

• “Dispersionless Flat Mode and Vibrational Anomaly in Active Brownian Vibrators Induced by String-like Dynamical Defects”, Cunyuan Jiang, Zihan Zheng, Yangrui Chen, Matteo Baggioli, Jie Zhang, arXiv:2404.09583 , Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 188302 2024

• “Relaxed hydrodynamic theory of electrically driven non-equilibrium steady states”, Daniel Brattan, Masataka Matsumoto, Matteo Baggioli, Andrea Amoretti, arXiv:2404.05568 , Phys. Rev. Research 6, 043097 – Published 4 November 2024

• “Holographic Lifshitz flows”, Matteo Baggioli, Oriol Pujolas, Xin-Meng Wu, arXiv:2407.11552 ,  J. High Energ. Phys. 2024, 175 (2024)

• “Phonons in stringlet-land and the boson peak”, Cunyuan Jiang, Matteo Baggioli, arXiv:2403.18221 , J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 36 505101 (2024)

• “On the temperature dependence of the density of states of liquids at low energies”, Sha Jin, Xue Fan, Caleb Stamper, Richard A. Mole, Yuanxi Yu, Liang Hong, Dehong Yu, Matteo Baggioli, arXiv:2304.14609 , Sci Rep 14, 18805 (2024)

• “Clustering of negative topological charge precedes plastic failure in 3D glasses”, Arabinda Bera, Matteo Baggioli, Timothy C. Petersen, Amelia C. Y. Liu, Alessio Zaccone, https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.15359, PNAS Nexus, pgae315, 2024

• “Emergence of Debye scaling in the density of states of liquids under nanoconfinement”, Yu, Yuanxi; Jin, Sha; Fan, Xue; Sarter, Mona; Yu, Dehong; Hong, Liang;  Baggioli, Matteo, https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11429, ACS Nano (2024) (on the cover)

• “Correlation between optical phonon softening and superconducting Tc in YBa2Cu3Ox within d-wave Eliashberg theory“, https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05763, Cunyuan Jiang, Giovanni Ummarino, Matteo Baggioli, Efthymios Liarokapis, Alessio Zaccone, J. Phys. Mater. 7 045002 (2024)

• “Uncovering the phonon spectra and lattice dynamics of plastically deformable InSe van der Waals crystals”, Jie Ma, Jiangtao Wu, Yifei Liu, Yifei Lin, Gaoting Lin, Mingfang Shu, Fengfeng Zhu, Yan Wu, Russell Ewings, Helen Walker, Guochu Deng, Songxue Chi, Shengwei Jiang, Matteo Baggioli, Min Jin, Tianran Wei, Jiong Yang, Xun Shi, Yupeng Ma, Cuiping Zhang, Pengfei Jiao, Haozhe Wang, and Weiwei Xie, Nat Commun 15, 6248 (2024)

• “Stringlet Excitation Model of the Boson Peak“, https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04230, Cunyuan Jiang, Matteo Baggioli, and Jack Douglas, J.Chem. Phys. 160, 214505 (2024)

• “Mechanical stability of homogeneous holographic solids under finite shear strain“, https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.16423, Matteo Baggioli, Li Li, Wei-Jia Li, Hao-Tian Sun, JHEP05(2024)198

• “Engineering flat bands in twisted-bilayer graphene away from the magic angle with chiral optical cavities“, https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05149 , Cunyuan Jiang, Matteo Baggioli, Qing-Dong Jiang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 166901

• “Chiral magnetic waves in strongly coupled Weyl semimetals“, https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07772 , Yongjun Ahn, Matteo Baggioli, Yan Liu, Xin-Meng Wu,  J. High Energ. Phys. 2024, 124 (2024)

• “Dynamical evolution of spinodal decomposition in holographic superfluids“, https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08277 , Xin Zhao, Zi-Qiang Zhao, Zhang-Yu Nie, Hua-Bi Zeng, Yu Tian, Matteo Baggioli, J. High Energ. Phys. 2024, 184 (2024)

• “Anharmonic theory of superconductivity and its applications to emerging quantum materials“, https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12977 , Chandan Setty, Matteo Baggioli, Alessio Zaccone, Topical Review in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 36 173002

2023

• “Inability of linear axion holographic Gubser-Rocha model to capture all the transport anomalies of strange metals”, https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.04433, Yongjun Ahn, Matteo Baggioli, Hyun-Sik Jeong, Keun-Young Kim, Phys. Rev. B 108, 235104, 2023

• “Holographic dissipative space-time supersolids”, https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.02534, Peng Yang, Matteo Baggioli, Zi Cai, Yu Tian, Hongbao Zhang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 221601, 2023

• “A fresh look at the vibrational and thermodynamic properties of liquids within the soft potential model”, https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.02524, Haichen Xu, Matteo Baggioli, Tom Keyes, The Journal of Chemical Physics, J. Chem. Phys. 159, 154501 (2023)

• “U(1) quasi-hydrodynamics: Schwinger-Keldysh effective field theory and holography”, https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.141173, Matteo Baggioli, Yanyan Bu, Vaios Ziogas, JHEP09(2023)019

• “Glassy heat capacity from overdamped phasons and a hypothetical phason-induced superconductivity in incommensurate structures”, https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10305, Cunyuan Jiang, Alessio Zaccone, Chandan Setty, Matteo Baggioli, PhysRevB.108.054203, 2023

• “How to sit Maxwell and Higgs on the boundary of Anti-de Sitter“, https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10305, Matteo Baggioli, JHAP Volume 3, Issue 2, June 2023, Pages 1-16

• “Breaking rotations without violating the KSS viscosity bound”, https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01807, Matteo Baggioli, Sera Cremonini, Laura Early, Li Li, Haotian Sun, Journal of High Energy Physics volume 2023, Article number: 16 (2023) 

• “Topological defects reveal the plasticity of glasses”, https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15226, Matteo Baggioli, Nat Commun 14, 2956 (2023) Editor’s Highlights

• “Entanglement entropy as an order parameter for strongly coupled nodal line semimetals”, https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.11096, Matteo Baggioli, Yan Liu, Xin-Meng Wu, Journal of High Energy Physics volume 2023, Article number: 221 (2023)

• “Observation of fast sound in two-dimensional dusty plasma liquids”, https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.16718, Zhenyu Ge, Dong Huang, Shaoyu Liu, Chen Liang, Matteo Baggioli and Yan Feng, Phys. Rev. E 107, 055211

• “Collective dynamics and the Anderson-Higgs mechanism in a bona fide holographic superconductor”, https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02364 , Hyun-Sik Jeong, Matteo Baggioli, Keun-Young Kim, Ya-Wen Sun, Journal of High Energy Physics volume 2023, Article number: 206 (2023) 

• “Revealing the supercritical dynamics of dusty plasmas and their liquid-like to gas-like dynamical crossover”, https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.08449, Dong Huang, Matteo Baggioli, Shaoyu Liu, Zhuang Ma and Yan Feng, Phys. Rev. Research 5, 013149

• “Possible enhancement of the superconducting Tc due to sharp Kohn-like soft phonon anomalies”, https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.12015, Cunyuan Jiang, Enrico Beneduce, Matteo Baggioli, Chandan Setty and Alessio Zaccone, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter

• “Holography and magnetohydrodynamics with dynamical gauge fields”, https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.01760, Yongjun Ahn, Matteo Baggioli, Kyoung-Bum Huh, Hyun-Sik Jeong, Keun-Young Kim, Ya-Wen Sun, JHEP02(2023)012

• “Colloquium: Hydrodynamics and holography of charge density wave phases”, https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.03298, Matteo Baggioli and Blaise Gouteraux, Rev. Mod. Phys. 95, 011001

2022

• “Pion dynamics in a soft-wall AdS-QCD model”, https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.09088, Matteo Baggioli, Xuanmin Cao, Hui Liu, Danning Li, JHEP12(2022)113

• “Aspects of univalence in holographic axion models”, https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06076, Matteo Baggioli, Sebastian Grieninger, Saso Grozdanov and Zhenkang Lu, JHEP11(2022)032

• “The ω³ scaling of the vibrational density of states in quasi-2D nanoconfined solids“, https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.07521, Matteo Baggioli, Yuanxi Yu, Chenxing Yang,  Anthony E. Phillips, Alessio Zaccone, Lei Zhang, Ryoichi Kajimoto, Mitsutaka Nakamura, Dehong Yu, Liang Hong, Nature Communications volume 13, Article number: 3649 (2022)

• “Shear flows in far-from-equilibrium strongly coupled fluids“, https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.14855, Matteo Baggioli, Li Li, Haotian Sun, Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 011602 – Published 27 June 2022

• ” Non-linear elasticity, yielding and entropy in amorphous solids“, https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.13124, Deng Pan, Teng Ji, Matteo Baggioli, Li Li, Yuliang Jin, SCIENCE ADVANCES,1 Jun 2022, Vol 8, Issue 22

• ” Holographic supersolids“, https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.03745, Matteo Baggioli, Giorgio Frangi, Journal of High Energy Physics volume 2022, Article number: 152 (2022)

• ” Superconducting dome in ferroelectric-type materials from soft mode instability“, https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.08114 , Matteo Baggioli, Chandan Setty, Alessio Zaccone, PRB letter , Phys. Rev. B 105, L020506 , Featured in Physics

• “Deformations, relaxation and broken symmetries in liquids, solids and  glasses: A unified topological field theory“,  https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.05015  ,Matteo Baggioli, Michael Landry, and Alessio Zaccone, Phys. Rev. E 105, 024602

• “Scattering of small-amplitude phonons on discrete breathers in Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou chain“, Matteo Baggioli, S.V.Dmitriev, A.Y.Morkina, E.A.Korznikova, O.B.Naimark, N.V.Saveleva and A.S.Nikitiuk, Computational Continuum Mechanics 14(4):444-453,

• “Pseudo-spontaneous U(1) Symmetry Breaking in Hydrodynamics and Holography“, Matteo Baggioli, Daniel Arean, Martin Ammon, Sean Gray, Sebastian Grieninger, https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.10305 , Journal of High Energy Physics volume 2022, Article number: 15 (2022)

• “Theory of sound attenuation in amorphous solids from nonaffine motions“, Matteo Baggioli, Alessio Zaccone, https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.13446 , Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter

2021

• “Anomalous Diffusion and Noether’s second theorem“, Matteo Baggioli, Gabriele La Nave and Philip W. Phillips, https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10064 , Phys. Rev. E 103, 032115 – Published 12 March 2021

Highlights before joining SJTU

• “Electron-Phonon Interactions, Metal-Insulator Transitions, and Holographic Massive Gravity“, Matteo Baggioli & Oriol Pujolas, https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.251602 , Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 251602 – Published 23 June 2015, Editor’s Suggestion

• “Gapped momentum states“, Matteo Baggioli, Mikhail Vasin, Vadim Brazhkin & Kostya Trachenko, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0370157320301198 , Physics Reports, Volume 865, 15 June 2020, Pages 1-44

• “Nonlinear Oscillatory Shear Tests in Viscoelastic Holography“, Matteo Baggioli, Sebastian Grieninger, and Hesam Soltanpanahi, https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.081601, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 081601 – Published 26 February 2020

• “Holographic Phonons“, Lasma Alberte, Martin Ammon, Amadeo Jiménez-Alba, Matteo Baggioli, and Oriol Pujolàs, https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.171602, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 171602 – Published 27 April 2018

• “Universal Origin of Boson Peak Vibrational Anomalies in Ordered Crystals and in Amorphous Materials“, Matteo Baggioli & Alessio Zaccone, https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.145501, Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 145501 – Published 10 April 2019

• ” Solid Holography and Massive Gravity“, Lasma Alberte, Matteo Baggioli,  Andrei Khmelnitsky & Oriol Pujolas, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP02(2016)114, Journal of High Energy Physics volume 2016, Article number: 114 (2016) 

• “Viscosity bound violation in holographic solids and the viscoelastic response“, Lasma Alberte, Matteo Baggioli & Oriol Pujolas, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP07(2016)074, Journal of High Energy Physics volume 2016, Article number: 74 (2016)