Franco Nori

Quantum Computing, Nanoscience, Condensed Matter Theory, and Complex Systems.

Permanent Address: Physics Department, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1040

Also with the Center for Theoretical Physics, Applied Physics Program,
and the Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan.

Also with the Digital Materials Laboratory, Frontier Research System, RIKEN, Saitama, Japan.

• Publications (<-- this link contains the PDF files of our publications)

• Publications grouped by topic (<-- also with the PDF files of our publications)

• Access to several of out E-prints (very incomplete list)
  

• Scientific Outreach (Our research results featured in the news. Until early 2004)
• Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae
• Awards to students, postdocs, and researchers in our group

• Scalable quantum computing with Josephson charge qubits
• PRL Nov. 2002 on "Scalable quantum computing with Josephson charge qubits"
• A few non-technical summaries are in Technology Review News, EE Times, UM Press release, and Supercomputing Online, among others.

• Brief Summary in Scientific American (April 2005). Mechanical qubits

• Vortex Dynamics and Collective Transport in Disordered Systems
  • Vortex Dynamics:
    • Brief Overview
    • non-technical summaries from the APS News and The University Record

  • Seminar on Vortex Dynamics. (including an introduction)
    This seminar is a slide presentation with simultaneous voice.
    
    • Microscopic Derivation of the Kim and Bean States in Superconductors
    • Vortex Plastic Flow in Superconductors
    • Plastic Motion in Twinned Superconductors
    • Periodic Arrays of Pinning Sites
    • Dynamic Phases in Superconductors with Periodic Pinning
    • Vortex Avalanches
    • Fractal Networks, Braiding Channels, and Voltage Noise in Vortex Rivers [Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2197, (1998)]
      and here for a brief nontechnical summary. Further information appears here
    • Nonequilibrium Dynamic Phase Diagram for Vortex Lattices
      Click here for a link to the article [Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3757 (1998)]
    • Phase Locking, Devil's Staircases, Farey Trees, and Arnold's Tongues in Driven Vortex Lattices [Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 414 (1999)].
    • Topological Invariants in Microscopic Transport on Rough Landscapes: Hierarchical Structure, Morphology, and Horton Analysis of River-like Networks of Vortices. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3641 (1999)].
    • Vortex Motion in Channels [PRB 2003]
      
    • Vortex Optics: fluxon convex/concave lenses, pumps, diodes, and stochastic rectification. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5106 (1999)].
      A very different approach to the same problem appears in Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 177002 (2001).
      

    • V I D E O S of Vortex Dynamics in Superconductors (JAVA format)

    • Additional VIDEO CLIPS of Vortex Dynamics (Quicktime format)
    • "Science" Perspective: Intermittently Flowing Rivers of Quantized Magnetic Flux
      • Videos in "Science"

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  • Avalanches in Granular Materials: Mean Field Theory and Experiments
  • Instabilities in Systems with Threshold Dynamics: Experiments and Theory
  • Water Droplet Avalanches

  • Instabilities and Chaos in Falling Objects: From Maxwell to Bar Tricks (Nature, 1997)

  • Sound-Producing Sand Avalanches (Scientific American, 1997)

• Link to the URL of Phys. Rev. Lett. Dec. 8, 1997
  Phonon Squeezed States Generated by Second-Order Raman Scattering.

• Squeezed Phonons: Manipulating Quantum Fluctuations of Atomic Displacements.
• Controlling Quantum Noise in Condensed Matter:
  Squeezed Phonon States and Squeezed States in Superconducting Junctions

• Acoustic Interference and Phonon Localization

• Analytical Studies of Quantum Interference Effects due to Electron Motion in Magnetic Fields

• Superconducting Micronetworks and Josephson-Junction Arrays: Feynman Path-Integral and Multiloop Aharonov-Bohm Approches.

Course: Rackham Interdisciplinary Seminar on Spatio-Temporal Complexity in Science and Engineering.

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