Fabrizio DOLCINI Curriculum Vitæ - DISAT Department of Applied

Fabrizio DOLCINI
Curriculum Vitæ
This version is updated to January 23, 2015
(an updated version of this CV can be found at http://staff.polito.it/fabrizio.dolcini/)
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Personal Data
Surname: Dolcini
First Name: Fabrizio
Born: on 13th June, 1972 in Forlı̀ (Italy)
Nationality: Italian
Present Scientific Address: Dipartimento di Scienza Applicata e Tecnologia del Politecnico di Torino, corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino
(Italy)
Tel.: +39-011-0907338
Fax: +39-011-0907399
E-mail: [email protected]
Webpage: http://staff.polito.it/fabrizio.dolcini/
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Scientific interests
Topological Insulators
Electronic correlations in low-dimensional systems, Luttinger liquids
Transport properties of Mesoscopic Systems, electronic current and noise
Superconductivity, Josephson effect, hybrid systems
Integrable systems
Critical phenomena
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Education
Nov. 1997 - Oct. 2000: Ph.D. in Physics at the Department of Physics
of the Politecnico di Torino; title of the thesis: “Exact Results on Extended
Hubbard Models on One-Dimensional Chains”, defended in March 2001.
Mar. 1997: Laurea (Master Degree) in Physics; final mark: 110/110 cum
laude; title of the Thesis: “The correlation length and the scaling parameter
of the Renormalization Group”
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4.1
Employment
Present Position
since July 2009: Ricercatore Universitario Confermato (Assistant Professor) at Dipartimento di Scienza Applicata e Tecnologia del Politecnico di
Torino, Italy.
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Previous Positions at Academic and Research Institutes
Sep. 2013 - Nov 2013: Gastprofessor at University of Würzburg (Germany).
Nov. 2008 - Jun 2009: Temporary Professorship (Professore a contratto)
within the Italian Ministry Rientro dei Cervelli Program, at Scuola Normale
Superiore di Pisa (Italy).
Mar. 2008 - Oct 2008: Post-doctoral position at INFM-C.N.R. (Italy),
working for the European Project Nanofridge at NEST
Mar. 2006 - Feb 2008: Post-doctoral position at the Scuola Normale
Superiore di Pisa (Italy), working on the HYSWITCH (Hybrid Superconducting Nanoswitches) European Project
Jan. 2003 - Feb. 2006: Post-doctoral position at the Physikalisches Institut of the University of Freiburg (Germany), working on the DIENOW
(Dynamics of Interacting Electrons in Nanoscale Wires) European Project
Aug. - Nov. 2002: Visitor at International Center for Theoretical Physics
(Trieste), as a winner of the INFM-ICTP agreement Grants, working on
“Application of Bosonization technique to correlated electron models in onedimension”, under the supervision of Prof. M. Fabrizio and in collaboration
with Prof. A. Nersesyan
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Dec. 2001 - Dec. 2002: Post-doctoral Contract (assegno di ricerca) at
the Physics Department of Politecnico di Torino, on “Quantum Effects in
Low-Dimensional Solid State Systems”
Apr. - May 2001: Training period at the Physics Department of the University of Modena, on “Investigation of Electron Correlation Effects on a
Chain of Quantum Dots”.
Dec. 2000 - Nov. 2001: Post-doctoral Fellowship (borsa di studio) at
the Physics Department of Politecnico di Torino, on “Correlated Quantum
Systems in Low Dimension”
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Visiting Positions at Academic and Research Institutes
Sep. 2014 - Nov. 2014: Chercheur invité at the Centre de Physique
Théorique Grenoble-Alpes, at CEA, Grenoble (France).
Sep. 2013 - Nov. 2013: Gastprofessor at University of Würzburg (Germany).
Jul. 2013 - Aug. 2013: Visiting Scientist at University of Würzburg
(Germany).
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Scientific awards
2011: winner of a Young Researcher award at Politecnico di Torino.
2010: winner of a Young Researcher award at Politecnico di Torino.
2008: winner of the Rientro dei Cervelli Program (XII Edition) [one of the
15 contracts financed by the Italian Ministry of University and Research in
all academic subjects].
2002: winner of a mobility grant from the INFM-ICTP agreement to spend
a training period at International Center for Theoretical Physics.
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Role in Scientific Journals
Reviewer for various International peer-review Journals, among which:
-Physical Review Letters,
-Physical Review B,
-Solid State Communications,
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-Physica E,
-Superconductor Science and Technology
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Selected talks given at Conferences and International Research Institutes
Oct. 2014: Invited talk on Effects of disorder in tunnel junction of Quantum Spin Hall systems, at the Nanoscience Foundation, Grenoble (France).
Apr. 2014: Invited talk on Tunnel junction of helical edge states, at Institut
Néel, CNRS Grenoble (France).
Oct. 2013: Talk on Tunnel junction of helical edge states, at University of
Würzburg (Germany).
Mar. 2012: Interdisciplinary Workshop on Topological States of Matter,
Freiburg (Germany), invited talk on Signature of interaction in DC transport
of AC gated quantum spin-Hall edge states.
Apr. 2011: The Capri Spring School on Transport in Nanostructures, invited talk on Interferometry of edge states in Topological Insulators.
Jun. 2009: “XX International Conference on Noise and Fluctuations”, Pisa
(Italy), talk on Negative Excess Noise in Gated Quantum Wires.
Mar. 2008: Rencontres de Moriond on “Quantum Transport and Nanophysics”,
La Thuile (Italy), talk on Reversing the Josephson current with AharonovBohm interferometry.
Nov. 2007: “Nanoscopic Transport: Quantum noise, Josephson junctions,
and molecular electronics ”, Freiburg (Germany), invited talk on Switching
the sign of Josephson current with Aharonov-Bohm interferometry.
Jun. 2007: “14th istatistiksel Fizik Günleri”, Istanbul, invited talk on Out
of equilibrium properties of Luttinger Liquids.
Jun. 2006: “Spin and Charge Effects at the Nanoscale”, Pisa (Italy), invited talk on Current Noise in non-chiral Luttinger Liquids: appearance of
the fractional charge.
Apr. 2006: “The Capri Spring School on Transport in Nanostructures”,
Capri (Italy), lecture on Current Noise in non-chiral Luttinger Liquids: appearance of the fractional charge.
Mar. 2005: 69th Jahrestagung der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft,
Berlin (Germany), talk on Transport properties of single channel quantum
wires with an impurity : Influence of finite length and temperature on average current and noise”.
Sep. 2004: Conference on “Correlation Effects in Nanowires”, Venice
(Italy), talk on Electrical Noise in Single Channel Quantum Wires.
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Jan. 2004: Rencontres de Moriond on “Quantum Information and Decoherence in Nanosystems”, La Thuile (Italy), talk on Transport properties
of an interacting quantum wire with an impurity: effects of the finite length”.
Aug. 2003: Conference on “Electrical and Mechanical Properties of Nanowires”,
Venice (Italy), talk on Oscillatory Non-Linear Conductance of Interacting
Quantum Wires.
Mar. 2002: Italian National Congress of Theoretical Physics and Condensed Matter in Fai della Paganella (Italy), invited talk on Correlated electrons in low-dimension: the Hubbard model and its generalizations, in D=1”.
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Conferences Organization
Nov. 2014: Workshop on Topological Phases and Quantum Transport,
Grenoble (France), organized in collaboration with J.S. Meyer & M. Houzet
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Teaching Activities
Lectures at Universities
Presently:
i) Teaching Assistant for the course “Fisica I” (Classical Mechanics and Thermodynamics) at Politecnico di Torino.
ii) Lecturer of a module for the course “Quantum Solid State Physics” for
the Master Program ’Physics of Complex Systems’ at Politecnico di Torino.
iii) Lecturing “Physics of Mesoscopic Systems”, PhD Course at the Scuola
di Dottorato at Politecnico di Torino;
iv) Lecturing “Electronic Properties of Graphene”, PhD Course at the Scuola
di Dottorato at Politecnico di Torino;
Nov. 2008 - June 2009: Lecturing “ Superconductivity and Low Temperature Physics” course at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa.
Oct. 2005 - Jan 2006: Teaching Assistant for the Course in “Physik I”,
University of Freiburg.
Apr.-Jul. 2005: Teaching Assistant for the Course in “Quantenmechanik II”
(Quantum Mechanics II), University of Freiburg.
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2002: “A short Introduction to high-temperature Superconductors”: Complements of the Course in “Superconduttività” (Superconductivity), Politecnico di Torino.
2001: “Some applications of Quantum Statistical Mechanics to fermionic
systems”: Complements of the Course in “Meccanica Statistica” (Statistical
Mechanics), Politecnico di Torino.
Oct. 1999 - Jan. 2000: Teaching Assistant for the Course in “Fisica
Generale II” (Electromagnetism), Politecnico di Torino.
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Invited Lecturer at International Events
Mar. 2014: Invited lecturer of “ Superconductivity in Mesoscopic Systems”
at the Graduate Days of the Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging’ (CUI).
Oct. 2009: Invited lecturer of “ Superconductivity in Mesoscopic Systems”
at the Graduate Days of the Graduate School of Fundamental Physics, University of Heidelberg.
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Supervisions of Thesis
2012-2014: Supervisor for the Ph.D. Thesis Electronic Transport in Tunnel Junctions of Quantum Spin Hall Effect Topological Insulators by Pietro
Sternativo, Politecnico di Torino;
2010: Co-supervisor for the Master Thesis Crystallographic etching of graphene
using catalytic particles by Filippo Pizzocchero, Alta Scuola Politecnica;
2007-2009: Co-supervisor for Tesi di Perfezionamento (Ph.D. Thesis) Quantum Transport in Wires and Nanoelectromechanical Systems by Stefano Pugnetti,
Scuola Normale superiore di Pisa;
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Publications
Published papers (peer review journals)
1. R. Rosati, R.C. Iotti, F. Dolcini, and F. Rossi, Derivation of nonlinear single-particle equations via many-body Lindblad superoperators: A
density-matrix approach, Phys. Rev. B 90, 125140 (2014).
2. P. Sternativo and F. Dolcini, Effects of disorder on electron tunneling
through helical edge states, Phys. Rev. B 90, 125135 (2014).
3. F. Crépin, B. Trauzettel, and F. Dolcini, Signatures of Majorana bound
states in transport properties of hybrid structures based on helical liquids, Phys. Rev. B 89, 205115 (2014).
4. P. Sternativo and F. Dolcini, Tunnel junction of helical edge states:
Determining and controlling spin-preserving and spin-flipping processes
through transconductance, Phys. Rev. B 89, 035415 (2014).
5. F. Dolcini, R.C. Iotti, and F. Rossi, Interplay between energy dissipation and reservoir-induced thermalization in nonequilibrium quantum
nanodevices, Phys. Rev. B 88, 115421 (2013).
6. F. Dolcini and A. Montorsi, Quantum phases of 1D Hubbard models
with three- and four-body couplings, Phys. Rev. B 88, 115115 (2013).
7. R. Rosati, F. Dolcini, R.C. Iotti, and F. Rossi, Wigner-function formalism applied to semiconductor quantum devices: Failure of the conventional boundary condition scheme, Phys. Rev. B 88, 035401 (2013).
8. A. Fornieri, M. Amado, F. Carillo, F. Dolcini, G. Biasiol, L. Sorba, V.
Pellegrini, and F. Giazotto, A ballistic quantum ring Josephson interferometer, Nanotechnology 24, 245201 (2013).
9. F. Crépin, J.C. Budich, F. Dolcini, P. Recher, B. Trauzettel, Renormalization group approach for the scattering off a single Rashba impurity
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in a helical liquid, Phys. Rev. B 86 121106 (2012).
10. H. Soller, F. Dolcini, A. Komnik , Nanotransformation and current
fluctuations in exciton condensate junctions, Phys. Rev. Lett., 108,
156401 (2012).
11. J.C. Budich, F. Dolcini, P. Recher, and B. Trauzettel, Phonon-Induced
Backscattering in Helical Edge States, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 086602
(2012).
12. F. Dolcini, Signature of interaction in dc Transport of ac gated Quantum Spin Hall edge states, Phys. Rev. B 85, 033306 (2012).
13. S. Peotta, M. Gibertini, F. Dolcini, F. Taddei, M. Polini, L.B Ioffe, R.
Fazio, and A. H. MacDonald, Josephson current in a four terminal superconductor - exciton condensate - superconductor system, Phys. Rev.
B 84, 184528 (2011).
14. F. Dolcini, Full electrical control of charge and spin conductance through
interferometry of edge states in topological insulators, Phys. Rev. B
83, 165304 (2011).
15. F. Dolcini and H. Grabert, Tuning Excess Noise by Aharonov-Bohm
Interferometry, Chem. Phys. 375, 291 (2010).
16. F. Dolcini, D. Rainis, F. Taddei, M. Polini, R. Fazio, and A. H. MacDonald, Blockade and Counterflow Supercurrent in exciton-condensate
Josephson junctions, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 027004 (2010).
17. F. Dolcini, and F. Giazotto, Adiabatic Magnetization of Superconductors as a High-Performance Cooling Mechanism, Phys. Rev. B 80,
024503 (2009).
18. S. Pugnetti, Y. M. Blanter, F. Dolcini, and R. Fazio, Dynamics of a
SQUID ratchet coupled to a nanomechanical resonator, Phys. Rev. B
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79, 174516 (2009)
19. D. Rainis, F. Taddei, F. Dolcini, M. Polini, and R. Fazio, Andreev reflection in graphene nanoribbons, Phys. Rev. B 79, 115131 (2009)
20. S. Pugnetti, F. Dolcini, D. Bercioux, H. Grabert, Electron tunneling
into a quantum wire in the Fabry-Perot regime, Phys. Rev. B 79,
035121 (2009).
21. F. Dolcini, and F. Giazotto, The electro-magnetostatic Aharonov-Bohm
effect as a tool to tune the Josephson current, Physica E 40, 2091
(2008).
22. F. Dolcini, and L. Dell’Anna, Multiple Andreev reflections in a quantum dot coupled to superconducting leads: Effect of spin-orbit coupling,
Phys. Rev. B 78, 024518 (2008).
23. S. Pugnetti, F. Dolcini, and R. Fazio, dc Josephson Effect in Metallic
Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes, Solid State Comm. 144, 551 (2007).
24. F. Dolcini, and F. Giazotto, Switching the sign of Josephson current
through Aharonov-Bohm interferometry, Phys. Rev. B 75, 140511
(2007).
25. F. Dolcini, B. Trauzettel, I. Safi, and H. Grabert, Negativity of the excess noise in a quantum wire capacitively coupled to a gate, Phys. Rev.
B 75, 45332 (2007).
26. F. Dolcini, B. Trauzettel, I. Safi, and H. Grabert, Transport properties
of single channel quantum wires with an impurity : Influence of finite
length and temperature on average current and noise, Phys. Rev. B
71, 165309 (2005).
27. B. Trauzettel, I. Safi, F. Dolcini, and H. Grabert, Appearance of fractional charge in the noise of non-chiral Luttinger liquids, Phys. Rev.
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Lett. 92, 226405 (2004).
28. F. Dolcini, H. Grabert, I. Safi, and B. Trauzettel, Oscillatory nonlinear
conductance of an interacting quantum wire with an impurity, Phys.
Rev. Lett. 91, 266402 (2003).
29. F. Dolcini and A. Montorsi, Finite-temperature properties of the Hubbard chain with bond- charge interaction, Phys. Rev. B 66, 75112
(2002).
30. F. Dolcini, A. Montorsi, Exact thermodynamics of an Extended Hubbard Model of single and paired carriers, Phys. Rev. B 65, 155105
(2002).
31. F. Dolcini, A. Montorsi, Band and filling controlled transitions in exactly solved electronic models, Phys. Rev. B 63, 121103 (2001).
32. F. Dolcini, A. Montorsi, Results on the symmetries of integrable fermionic
models on chains, Nucl. Phys. B 592, 563 (2001).
33. F. Dolcini, A. Montorsi, Integrable extended Hubbard models from symmetric group solutions, Int. J. Mod. Phys. B 14, 1719 (2000).
34. F. Dolcini, A. Montorsi, Temperature and filling dependence of the superconducting π-phase in the Penson-Kolb-Hubbard model, Phys. Rev.
B 62, 2315 (2000).
35. F. Dolcini, A. Montorsi, Extended Hubbard Hamiltonians with (super)
symmetries : additive polynomial R-matrix for some integrable cases,
Int. J. Mod. Phys. B 13, 2953 (1999).
36. C. Degli Esposti Boschi, A. Rioli, L. Ferrari, F. Dolcini, Role of the equilibrium size of Kadanoff blocks in the loop-expansion technique, Phys.
Rev. E 58, 5461 (1998).
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37. F. Dolcini, L. Ferrari, A. Rioli, C. Degli Esposti Boschi, Correlation
length and the scaling parameter in the Renormalization Group, Phys.
Rev. E 57, 2594 (1998).
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Invited papers
• A. Anfossi, F. Dolcini and A. Montorsi, Recent results on integrable
electronic models, in Recent Research Developments in Physics 5, Part
I (2004), Transworld Research Network, Kerala, India
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Conference Proceedings
• F. Dolcini, B. Trauzettel, I. Safi, H. Grabert, Negative Excess Noise
in Gated Quantum wires, in ”Noise and Fluctuations”, AIP Conference Proceedings of XX Int. Conf. on Noise and Fluctuations (Pisa,
2009), Vol. 1129, p. 439 (AIP, Melville, New York, 2009), edited by
M. Macucci, and G. Basso.
• F. Dolcini, B. Trauzettel, I. Safi, H. Grabert, Current Noise in NonChiral Luttinger Liquids: Appearance of Fractional charge, in “Noise
and Fluctuations”, Proceedings of the XVIII International Conference
on Noise and Fluctuations, AIP Vol. 780, p. 421 (AIP, Melville, NY,
2005), edited by T. Gonzales, J. Mateos, and D. Pardo.
• B. Trauzettel, I. Safi, F. Dolcini, H. Grabert, Fractional charge in the
noise of Luttinger liquid systems, in “Fluctuations and Noise in Materials II”, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 5843, p.115 (SPIE, Bellingham,
WA, 2005), edited by P. Svedlindh, D. Popovic, and M.B.Weissmann.
• F. Dolcini, B. Trauzettel, I. Safi, H. Grabert, Transport properties of
an interacting quantum wire with an impurity : Effects of the finite
length, in “Quantum Information and Decoherence in Nanosystems”,
Proceedings of the XXXIX Rencontres de Moriond, p.115 (La Thuile,
2004), edited by D. C. Glattli, M. Sanquer, J. T. Thanh Vât.
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Knowledge of Languages
English: fluent writing/reading/speaking (Cambridge P.E.T. Pass with Merit)
French: fluent writing/reading/speaking (DALF Certificate)
German: basic writing/reading/speaking
Spanish: basic writing/reading/speaking
Turkish: basic writing/reading/speaking
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Computer Expertise
Operating systems: Good knowledge of Windows, basic knowledge of
Linux
Programming Languages: Good knowledge of Fortran.
Word processing software: LaTex, Word, PowerPoint
Torino (Italy), January 2015
Fabrizio Dolcini
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