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| Associate Professor Physics Department University of Michigan AnnArbor, MI 48109-1120 Phone: 734-764-3271 B.S. Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela 1982 |
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Franco Nori
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| Description of Research | |||
| Vortex dynamics, superconductivity, dynamical instabilities (avalanches), complex spatio-temporal nonlinear dynamics, transport phenomena (of electrons, phonons, vortices, grains) in systems that have disorder and/or reduced dimensionality, squeezed states in condensed matter (squeezed phonons and supressed quantum fluctuations in superconductors), Josephson junctions, acoustic interference, path-integral analytical studies of quantum interference effects due to electron motion in magnetic fields. | |||
| Recent Papers or Publications | |||
| PHASE LOCKING, DEVIL'S STAIRCASES, FAREY TREES, AND ARNOLD'S TONGUES IN DRIVEN VORTEX LATTICES WITH PERIODIC PINNING, C. Reichhardt and F. Nori, Phys. Rev. Lett., 82 , 414 (1999). TOPOLOGICAL INVARIANTS IN MICROSCOPIC TRANSPORT ON ROUGH LANDSCAPES: MORPHOLOGY, HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE, AND HORTON ANALYSIS OF RIVER--LIKE NETWORKS OF VORTICES, A. Mehta, C. Reichhardt, C.J. Olson, and F. Nori, Phys. Rev. Lett., 82 , 3641 (1999). SUPERCONDUCTING FLUXON PUMPS AND LENSES, J. Wambaugh, C. Reichhardt, C.J. Olson, F. Marchesoni, and F. Nori, Phys. Rev. Lett., 83 , in press (1999). |
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| Special Honors or Awards | |||
| Recent Awards (1997-present): 1997 LS&A Excellence in Education Award, and 1998 LS&A Excellence in Research Award (both from the Univ. of Michigan). Invited Talks, Colloquia, Seminars. Total of over 100: over 23 invited talks at international conferences; and over 56 seminars and 24 colloquia at Universities and Industrial/National Laboratories. Work Featured in: Science News (in 92, 93, 95, and 97), Physics World (93), Science (94), Science on-line (97), Scientific American (97), American Physical Society News (95 and 96), and ``Physics News" of the American Institute of Physics (96 and 97); as well as featured in the science/discovery sections of newspapers, magazines, radio, and TV programs (in the US and abroad). |
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