CURRICULUM VITAE ET STUDIORUM Giancarlo Franzese

Curriculum Vitae – Giancarlo Franzese
turns out to be the paradigm of slow systems as consequence of the
abundance of metastable states.
Research on:
a: Efficient Cluster Monte Carlo dynamics.
b: Invasion Percolation (Self Organized Criticality) Monte Carlo dynamics.
Research articles in colaboration with: V. Cataudella (6), R.
Chirone (1), A. Coniglio (6), M. Nicodemi (4), P. Salatino (1), A. Scala
(4) (Università “Federico II”, Napoli).
Production: 4 Peer-Reviewed Research Articles (PRL, PRE) + 3
Conference Proceedings.
1996 - 2000: Frustrated Percolation and Glass Transition
Theoretical approach with Monte Carlo methods and Frustrated Percolation
to the dynamics and thermodynamics aspects of the Glass
Transition.
a: Geometrical characterization of the Frustrated Percolation.
b: Study of the precursor phenomena of the Glass Transition.
c: Analysis of the Potts Spin Glass and role of the Griffiths’ Temperature.
Research articles in colaboration with: A. Coniglio (5), A. de
Candia (2), A. Fierro (2) (Università “Federico II”, Napoli).
Production: 7 Peer-Reviewed Research Articles (PRE, JPA) (with 2
single-author papers).
1998 - 2005: Solid State Complex Materials
Weconsider: (1) SuperconductingJosephson’sJunctionsand thestudy
oftheproximityeffectundertheeffectofamagneticfieldatlowtemperature,
and analysis of the induced next-nearest-neighbors frustration.
We found a new reentrant Kosterliz - Thouless - Berezinskii phase transition.
(2) Kondo effect in metal nanoparticles, with a Quantum Monte
Carlo study of the parity effect due to the electrons’ discrete energy
levels in a metal nanoparticle. We studied how the Kondo effect, i.e.
the magnetic susceptibility saturation of an impurity, changes under
these conditions. (3) Elastomagnetic systems, with a theoretical and
experimental study of the concentration effects in the linear response
of new compounds of magnetic microparticles dispersed in silicon. Our
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