Laurea in Physics, University of Pisa, 110/110 cum laude, 1976
Perfezionamento, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, 70/70 cum laude, 1983
Research Interests
Condensed Matter Theory
Many-body physics
- Electron gas theory in quasi-two-dimensional electronic systems
- Effects of spin fluctuations induced vertex corrections
- Many-body enhancement of the spin response
- Quantum Hall effects
Superconductivity
- Macroscopic transport in type-II layered superconductors
- Vortex dynamics
- Josephson effect
- Static and dynamic properties of phase-inhomogeneous Josephson junctions
Teaching Interests
Graduate Students
Current:
- George Simion
- Stefano Chesi
Former:
- Sudakhar Yarlagadda
- Giuseppe Santoro
- Kwangyl Bark
- Samir Ranjan
Professional Experience
Currently:
Professor of Physics, Purdue University
Other appointments:
- Assistant Professor Research, Brown University, 1983-1984
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, Brown University, 1982-1983
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, Purdue University, 1979-1981
- Research Fellow, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, 1976-1979
Selected Recent Talks
(updated as of December 2000)
- Hartree-Fock for the real world,General Colloquium delivered at
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (IL), January 2000.
- Hartree-Fock for the real world, General Colloquium delivered at Clemson University, Clemson (SC), March 2000.
- The return of Hartree-Fock, The University of Camerino, Camerino (Italy), March 2000.
- The return of Hartree-Fock, The University of Padova, Padova (Italy), March 2000.
- Transizioni a stati inomogenei nel gas di elettroni, invited talk delivered at the XIX Symposium on Theoretical Physics and Structure of Matter,
Fai della Paganella (Italy), March 2000.
- The return of Hartree-Fock, The University of Kentucky, Lexington (KY), April 2000.
- Quasiparticle inelastic lifetime and tunneling between quantum wells, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy),
June 2000.
- Spin polarized Hartree-Fock solutions in a layered electron gas, invited talk delivered at the International Conference on
Spin Effects in Mesoscopic Systems, Cortona (Italy), July 2000.
Selected Publications
- Quantum Theory of the Electron Liquid, Cambridge University Press,
in press (available in Spring 2005);
with G. Vignale.
- Analytical expressions for the spin-spin local-field factor and the
spin-antisymmetric exchange-correlation kernel of
a two-dimensional electron gas,
Phys. Rev. B 64, 233110 (2001);
with Davoudi, Polini and Tosi.
- Spin Instabilities in Semiconductor Superlattices,
Phys. Rev. B 61, 7245 (2000);
with D. C. Marinescu and J. J. Quinn.
- Effects of intrinsic inelastic scattering on the critical current
of a Josephson junction,
Europhys. Lett. 39, 317-321 (1997);
with Samir Ranjan and Mikhail V. Fistul.
- Effect of randomly distributed anisotropic vortices
on the critical current of a layered superconductor,
Physica C 289, 291-298 (1997);
with Mikhail V. Fistul.
- Current-voltage characteristic of a Josephson junction with randomly
distributed Abrikosov vortices,
Phys. Rev. B
56, 788-794 (1997);
with Mikhail V. Fistul.
- Two-Impurity Anderson Model:
Results of a Perturbative Expansion in U,
Phys. Rev. B 49, 6746-6762 (1994);
with Giuseppe E. Santoro.
- Quasiparticle Pseudo Hamiltonian for an Infinitesimally Polarized
Fermi Liquid,
Phys. Rev. B 49, 7887-7897 (1994);
with S. Yarlagadda.
- Many-body Local Fields and Fermi Liquid Parameters in a
Quasi-Two-Dimensional Electron Liquid,
Phys. Rev. B 49, 14188 (1994);
with S. Yarlagadda.
- Magnetic Field Dependence of the Critical Current
of a Layered Superconductor,
Physica C 230, 9-15 (1994);
with Mikhail V. Fistul.
- Impurity Spin Susceptibility of the Anderson Model: A Perturbative
Approach,
Physical Review B 44, pp. 2209-2219 (1991);
with G. E. Santoro.
- Spin Susceptibility in a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas,
Physical Review B 40, pp. 5432-5442 (1989);
with S. Yarlagadda.
- Spin-Polarization Instability in a Tilted Magnetic Field of a
Two-Dimensional Electron Gas with Filled Landau Levels,
Phys. Rev. B 31, pp. 6228-6232 (1985);
with J. J. Quinn.
- Quantization of the Hall Conductance in a Two-Dimensional
Electron Gas, Phys. Rev. B 28, pp. 2969-2978 (1983);
with J. J. Quinn and S. C. Ying.
- Charge Density Excitations at the Surface of a Semiconductor
Superlattice: a New Type of Surface Polariton,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, pp. 919-922 (1983);
with J. J. Quinn.
- Lifetime of a Quasiparticle in a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas,
Phys. Rev. B 26, pp. 4421-4428 (1982);
with J. J. Quinn.