No-nonsense Physicist

An overview of Gabriele Giuliani’s work and life

  • Marco Polini
  • Giovanni Vignale
  • Vittorio Pellegrini
  • Jainendra K. Jain
Book

Part of the Publications of the Scuola Normale Superiore book series (PSNS, volume 2)

Also part of the Quaderni book sub series (SELSNS, volume 2)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Personal recollections

    1. Personal recollections
      Adriana Giuliani, Giuseppe Giuliani
      Pages 1-7

  3. Memories of Gabriele

    1. Memories of Gabriele
      Paul Muzikar
      Pages 9-10

  4. Scientific Contributions

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 11-11
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    2. Introduction to electronic and optical properties of two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide systems
      Reza Asgari
      Pages 13-43
    3. Friedel oscillations in a lateral superlattice with spin-orbit interaction
      Jeremy Capps, M. Daniels, C. E. Sosolik, D. C. Marinescu
      Pages 45-60
    4. In-plane ferromagnetic instability in a two-dimensional electron liquid in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling
      Stefano Chesi, Gabriele F. Giuliani
      Pages 61-71
    5. Josephson phase diffusion in small Josephson junctions: a strongly nonlinear regime
      Mikhail V. Fistul
      Pages 73-80
    6. Spin-dependent magnetic focusing
      Yuli Lyanda-Geller, L. P. Rokhinson, Stefano Chesi
      Pages 81-93
    7. Charge density wave surface phase slips and non-contact nanofriction
      Franco Pellegrini, Giuseppe E. Santoro, Erio Tosatti
      Pages 95-106
    8. The quasiparticle lifetime in a doped graphene sheet
      Marco Polini, Giovanni Vignale
      Pages 107-124
    9. Chirality, charge and spin-density wave instabilities of a two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling
      George E. Simion, Gabriele F. Giuliani
      Pages 125-146
    10. A brief overview of Giuliani’s contribution to many-body aspects of the electron gas
      Sudhakar Yarlagadda
      Pages 147-150
  5. Back Matter
    Pages 151-221
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About this book

Introduction

​This book presents a compact personal biography and a collection of works by Gabriele F. Giuliani - a distinguished condensed matter theorist who made important contributions to our understanding of collective effects in electronic materials. In 2012 he passed away after a long battle with cancer. In addition, the book features scientific contributions from some of Prof. Giuliani's former students and collaborators and a number of personal recollections by friends and colleagues which shed light on the complex, multifaceted personality of a physicist who was also a passionate soccer player and formula Ford pilot.

Keywords

collective effects in electronic materials condensed matter theory two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide systems Friedel oscillations Josephson junctions spin-dependent phenomena

Editors and affiliations

  • Marco Polini
    • 1
    • 2
  • Giovanni Vignale
    • 3
  • Vittorio Pellegrini
    • 2
  • Jainendra K. Jain
    • 4
  1. 1.Graphene LabsIstituto Italiano di TecnologiaGenovaItalia
  2. 2.NESTScuola Normale SuperiorePisaItalia
  3. 3.Department of Physics and AstronomyUniversity of MissouriColumbiaUSA
  4. 4.Department of PhysicsThe Pennsylvania State UniversityUniversity ParkUSA

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-7642-536-3
  • Copyright Information Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa 2016
  • Publisher Name Edizioni della Normale, Pisa
  • eBook Packages Mathematics and Statistics
  • Print ISBN 978-88-7642-535-6
  • Online ISBN 978-88-7642-536-3
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