- PI: A. Trombettoni, G. Mussardo

Recent work in SISSA has recently been devoted to the study of universality classes of O(N) models in presence of long-range interactions, the occurrence of the spontaneous symmetry breaking in low dimensions and the investigation of a variety of statistical mechanics models including the Potts model. Work in progress regards the investigation of critical properties of low-dimensional models and the study of parafermions & universality classes in two dimensions and their connection with Conformal Field Theory.