Andrea Cavalleri (born 1969) is an Italian physicist who specializes in optical science and in condensed matter physics. He is the founding director of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg, Germany[1] and a professor of Physics at the University of Oxford.[2] He was awarded the 2018 Frank Isakson Prize for his pioneering work on ultrafast optical spectroscopy applied to condensed matter systems.[3]

Scientific achievements

Cavalleri is known for his application of light to create new states of matter, and especially for the use of terahertz and mid-infrared optical pulses to sculpt new crystal structures. The field of research pioneered by Cavalleri is sometimes referred to as non-linear phononics.[4][5]

He has shown that phononic control can be used to create new crystal structures with light, to induce hidden metallic states in oxides,[6] induce ferroelectricity in dielectrics,[7] manipulate magnetism [8][9] and create non-equilibrium superconductivity at very high temperatures.[10][11] Cavalleri has also been amongst the people who applied the first femtosecond X-ray pulses to condensed matter systems, for example in his studies of photo-induced phase transitions.[12]

Scientific career

He received his laurea degree and PhD at the University of Pavia, as a student of Almo Collegio Borromeo, in 1994 and 1998 respectively. Cavalleri has held research positions at the University of Essen, the University of California, San Diego and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.[13] In 2005, he joined the faculty of the University of Oxford, where he was promoted to Professor of Physics in 2006.[2] He joined the Max Planck Society in 2008.[14]

Selected honors and awards

He is a recipient of the 2004 European Science Foundation Young Investigator Award,[15] of the 2015 Max Born Medal from the Institute of Physics (UK)[16] and the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft and of the 2015 Dannie Heineman Prize from the Göttingen Academy of Sciences.[17] The American Physical Society awarded Cavalleri the 2018 Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids "for pioneering contributions to the development and application of ultra-fast optical spectroscopy to condensed matter systems, and providing insight into lattice dynamics, structural phase transitions, and the non-equilibrium control of solids".[3] He is an elected fellow of the American Physical Society,[18] the American Association for the Advancement of Science[19] and the Institute of Physics (UK).[14] He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 2017[20] and a fellow of the European Academy of Sciences in 2018.[21]

References

  1. ↑ "Startseite". www.mpsd.mpg.de.
  2. 1 2 "Andrea Cavalleri | University of Oxford Department of Physics". www2.physics.ox.ac.uk.
  3. 1 2 "2018 Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids Recipient". American Physical Society. Archived from the original on 2021-02-14. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  4. ↑ M. Först, C. Manzoni, S. Kaiser, Y. Tomioka, Y. Tokura, R. Merlin, and A. Cavalleri: Nonlinear phononics as an ultrafast route to lattice control. In: Nature Physics 7, 854-856 (2011), DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nphys2055
  5. ↑ R. Mankowsky, A. Subedi, M. Först, S. O. Mariager, M. Chollet, H. T. Lemke, J. S. Robinson, J. M. Glownia, M. P. Minitti, A. Frano, M. Fechner, N. A. Spaldin, T. Loew, B. Keimer, A. Georges, and A. Cavalleri: Nonlinear lattice dynamics as a basis for enhanced superconductivity in YBa2Cu3O6.5. In: Nature 516, 71-73 (2014), DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature13875
  6. ↑ M. Rini, R. Tobey, N. Dean, J. Itatani, Y. Tomioka, Y. Tokura, R. W. Schoenlein, and A. Cavalleri: Control of the electronic phase of a manganite by mode-selective vibrational excitation. In: Nature 449, 72-74 (2007), DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature06119
  7. ↑ T. F. Nova, A. S. Disa, M. Fechner, and A. Cavalleri: Metastable ferroelectricity in optically strained SrTiO3. In: Science 364 (6445), 1075-1079 (2019, DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aaw4911
  8. ↑ T. F. Nova, A. Cartella, A. Cantaluppi, M. Först, D. Bossini, R. V. Mikhaylovskiy, A. V. Kimel, R. Merlin, and A. Cavalleri: An effective magnetic field from optically driven phonons. In: Nature Physics 13, 132-136 (2017), DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nphys3925
  9. ↑ A. S. Disa, M. Fechner, T. F. Nova, B. Liu, M. Först, D. Prabhakaran, P. G. Radaelli, A. Cavalleri: Polarizing an antiferromagnet by optical engineering of the crystal field. In: Nature Physics 16, 937-941 (2020), DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41567-020-0936-3
  10. ↑ D. Fausti, R. I. Tobey, N. Dean, S. Kaiser, A. Dienst, M. C. Hoffmann, S. Pyon, T. Takayama, H. Takagi, and A. Cavalleri: Light-Induced Superconductivity in a Stripe-Ordered Cuprate In: Science 331 (6014), 189-191 (2011), DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1197294
  11. ↑ M. Mitrano, A. Cantaluppi, D. Nicoletti, S. Kaiser, A. Perucchi, S. Lupi, P. Di Pietro, D. Pontiroli, M. Riccò, S. R. Clark, D. Jaksch, and A. Cavalleri: Possible light-induced superconductivity in K3C60 at high temperature. In: Nature 530, 461-464 (2016), DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature16522
  12. ↑ A. Cavalleri, Cs. Tóth, C. W. Siders, J. A. Squier, F. Ráksi, P. Forget, and J. C. Kieffer. Femtosecond Structural Dynamics in VO2 during an Ultrafast Solid-Solid Phase Transition In: Physical Review Letters 87 (23), 237401 (2001), DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.237401
  13. ↑ http://qcmd.mpsd.mpg.de/index.php/selected-publications-andrea-cavalleri.html Cavalleri's selected publications
  14. 1 2 "Cavalleri, Andrea". www.mpg.de.
  15. ↑ "2004 : European Science Foundation". archives.esf.org.
  16. ↑ "Born Medal and Prize for 2015 goes to Prof. Andrea Cavalleri". www.iop.org.
  17. ↑ "Göttinger Akademiepreise für Forscher des Hamburger Max-Planck-Instituts für Struktur und Dynamik der Materie". www.mpsd.mpg.de.
  18. ↑ Mentioned from the APS in: https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?last_nm=Cavalleri&first_nm=Andrea&year=2018
  19. ↑ 2016 AAAS Fellows approved by the AAAS Council DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.354.6315.981
  20. ↑ "Academy of Europe: Cavalleri Andrea". www.ae-info.org.
  21. ↑ "European Academy of Sciences - Andrea Cavalleri". www.eurasc.org.
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