Franco Nori

Our research work is interdisciplinary and explores the interface between condensed matter, atomic physics, optics, quantum optics, nano-science, quantum information, and computing. We are also studying quantum nano-electronics, opto-mechanics, nano-mechanics, biophysics, light-to-electricity conversion, and photonics.

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


Also with the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Saitama, Japan.

*Updated* list of Publications grouped by topic

(also with the PDF files of our publications)

• Access to several of out E-prints (very incomplete list)
  
  
• Awards to students, postdocs, and researchers in our group (not updated since circa 2008)

For information on our more recent research (done during this century), please see our publications from 2000.

All the PDF files are available here: *Updated* list of Publications grouped by topic

The links below correspond to our research work done (mostly) during last century.

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Quantum Computing ( Not updated since 2002 or so )

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• 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

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Collective Transport in Disordered Systems ( Not updated since last century )

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• 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)

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Suppressing Quantum Noise in Solids: Squeezed Phonons ( Not updated since last century )

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• 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

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Feynman Path-Integral Analytical Studies of Quantum Interference:
Superconducting Networks, Josephson junction Arrays, and Electron Motion in Magnetic Fields

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• 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.

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Course (Physics 406): Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics

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

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