No-nonsense Physicist: An overview of Gabriele Giuliani’s work and life PDF
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No-nonsense Physicist An overview of Gabriele Giuliani’s work and life edited by Marco Polini, Giovanni Vignale, Vittorio Pellegrini and Jainendra K. Jain EDIZIONI DELLA NORMALE 2 QUADERNI SELECTIONS R.Asgari Y.Lyanda-Geller L.P.Rokhinson SchoolofPhysics DepartmentofPhysics DepartmentofPhysics InstituteforResearch PurdueUniversity PurdueUniversity inFundamentalSciences WestLafayette WestLafayette (IPM) IN47907,USA IN47907,USA Tehran19395-5531,Iran D.C.Marinescu G.Santoro J.Capps DepartmentofPhysics SISSA DepartmentofPhysics andAstronomy ViaBonomea,265 CarnegieMellonUniversity ClemsonUniversity 34136Trieste,Italia Pittsburgh,PA15213 Clemson SouthCarolina29634USA G.Simion S.Chesi DepartmentofPhysics BeijingComputational P.Muzikar PurdueUniversity ScienceResearchCenter DepartmentofPhysics WestLafayette Beijing100084,China PurdueUniversity IN47907,USA WestLafayette M.Daniels IN47907,USA C.E.Sosolik DepartmentofPhysics DepartmentofPhysics CarnegieMellonUniversity F.Pellegrini andAstronomy Pittsburgh,PA15213 SISSA ClemsonUniversity ViaBonomea265 Clemson M.V.Fistul 34136Trieste,Italia SouthCarolina29634,USA TheoretischePhysikIII Ruhr-UniversityBochum V.Pellegrini E.Tosatti D-4081Bochum,Germany IstitutoItalianodiTecnologia, SISSA and GrapheneLabs, ViaBonomea,265 TheoreticalPhysics ViaMorego,30 34136Trieste,Italia andQuantumTechnologies I-16163,Genova,Italia Department G.Vignale NationalUniversity M.Polini DepartmentofPhysics ofScienceandTechnology IstitutoItalianodiTecnologia, andAstronomy MISIS GrapheneLabs, UniversityofMissouri Moscow,Russia ViaMorego,30 Columbia I-16163,Genova,Italia Missouri65211,USA J.K.Jain and DepartmentofPhysics NEST,ScuolaNormale S.Yarlagadda ThePennsylvaniaState Superiore, CMPDiv. University PiazzadeiCavalieri,7 SahaInstitute UniversityPark 56126,Pisa,Italia ofNuclearPhysics PA16802,USA Kolkata,India No-nonsensePhysicist AnoverviewofGabrieleGiuliani’sworkandlife No-nonsense Physicist An overview of Gabriele Giuliani’s work and life edited by Marco Polini, Giovanni Vignale, Vittorio Pellegrini and Jainendra K. Jain (cid:2)c 2016ScuolaNormaleSuperiorePisa ISBN978-88-7642-535-6 ISBN978-88-7642-536-3 (eBook) Figure 1. Gabriele (left) and Gio- vanniVignale(right)promotingthe salesoftheirnewlypublishedbook at the Cambridge University Press boot at the 2005 American Phys- Figure2. Gabrielewithabigsmile ical Society March Meeting in Los on his face at the Montreal “Grand Angeles(USA). PrixduCanada”in2010. Figure 3. Gabriele (left) and Giovanni Vignale (right) at the 1988 American PhysicalSocietyMarchMeetinginNewOrleans(USA). Figure4.GabrielewasapassionatesupportedofF.C.internazionale,oneofthe twosoccerteamsbasedinthecityofMilano(Italy). Thepicturewastakenin thesummerof2009. Figure5.Gabriele(right)withhis(in)famousredminivanandhisFormulaFord car,whichheusedtocall“hisblackgirlfriend”(circa2010). Contents Contents vii Preface ix Curriculumvitae xiii Personalrecollections 1 DanielaGiuliani 3 AdrianaGiuliani 5 GiuseppeGiuliani 7 PaulMuzikar MemoriesofGabriele 9 Scientificcontributions 11 RezaAsgari Introductiontoelectronicandopticalproperties oftwo-dimensionalmolybdenumdisulfidesystems 13 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 JeremyCapps,M.Daniels,C.E.SosolikandD.C.Marinescu Friedeloscillationsina lateralsuperlattice withspin-orbitinteraction 45 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 viii StefanoChesiandGabrieleF.Giuliani In-plane ferromagneticinstabilityin a two-dimensional electronliquidinthepresenceofRashbaspin-orbit coupling 61 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 MikhailV.Fistul JosephsonphasediffusioninsmallJosephsonjunctions: a stronglynonlinearregime 73 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 YuliLyanda-Geller,L.P.RokhinsonandStefanoChesi Spin-dependentmagneticfocusing 81 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 FrancoPellegrini,GiuseppeE.SantoroandErioTosatti Chargedensitywavesurfacephaseslips andnon-contactnanofriction 95 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 MarcoPoliniandGiovanniVignale Thequasiparticlelifetimeina dopedgraphenesheet 107 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 GeorgeE.SimionandGabrieleF.Giuliani Chirality, chargeandspin-densitywaveinstabilities ofa two-dimensionalelectrongasinthepresence ofRashbaspin-orbitcoupling 125 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 SudhakarYarlagadda A briefoverviewofGiuliani’scontribution tomany-bodyaspectsoftheelectrongas 147 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Gabriele’sscientifichighlights 151 Preface Gabriele Francesco Giuliani, Professor of Physics at Purdue University (WestLafayette,Indiana,USA),diedonNovember22,2012(Thanksgiv- ingDay)aftera12-year-longbattlewitharare,slow-growing,relentless formofcancer. Hispassionforlife,histasteforsimpleandearthypleas- ures, and his no-nonsense attitude in science as in all other aspects of life, remained with him until the last minute. This volume is as much an attempt to pay tribute to his scientific contributions as to record the many facets of his personality: scientist, educator, author, sportsman, coach, polemist, family man, and provocateur. The gallery of photo- graphs collected in the following pages will give an idea of the range of hisinterests. Thevolumeopenswithaseriesofpersonalrecollectionsof Gabriele by his immediate family and friends. This is followed by a set of scientific papers by former colleagues, collaborators and students of Gabriele. Thesepapers,especiallywrittenforthisvolume,reportoriginal research on topics to which Gabriele made important contributions, and oftenareinspiredpreciselybythosecontributions. Aselectionofreprints ofGabriele’smostimportantscientificpapersconcludesthevolume. BorninAscoliPiceno,Italy,onApril13,1953,Giulianiwaseducated at the University of Pisa where he graduated cum laude in 1976 under the guidance of Professor Mario Tosi. He continued his studies at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and was a researcher in Rome and in Trieste, where he worked with Professor Erio Tosatti. In 1979 he met ProfessorAlbertOverhauser,whowastobethedecisiveinfluenceinhis career. Fascinated by the physics of broken symmetry phases in simple metals,hejoinedOverhauseratPurdueUniversityinthestudyofcollect- ive modes of charge-density waves, the so-called “phasons” and “amp- litons”. HeeventuallybecameamemberofthephysicsfacultyatPurdue in1984–butnotbeforecompletinganextremelyfruitfulpostdoctoralex- perience at Brown University with Professor John Quinn. It was during thisperiodthatsomeofhisbestknowncontributionssprangtolife,such
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