CURRICULUM VITAE

 

ALBERTO G. ROJO

Associate Professor of Physics

Oakland University

Rochester, Michigan. 48309

Phone: (248)-370-3422

E-mail: rojo@oakland.edu

 

Education:

Ph.D.     1990   Instituto Balseiro, Bariloche, Argentina

B.S.       1985   Instituto Balseiro, Bariloche, Argentina

 

Professional Experience:

 

         2002-           Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Oakland University

1994-2002     Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Michigan.

            1992-1993        Post-doctoral research associate, University of Chicago.

1990-1992           Post-doctoral research associate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and                          University of Tennessee.

1986-1990      Fellow of the  Consejo Nacional  de  Investigaciones Científcas y Técnicas   (CONICET), Argentina.

 

Previous Grants:

 

Publications:

 

1.     A dimerized Kronig-Penney model, A.Goñi, A.G.Rojo and E.N.Martínez, Am. J. Phys  54,  1018 (1986).

 

2.     Transport  in  a  random  conducting-insulating  system:  a  simplified approach, A.G.Rojo, Phys. Rev. A  34,  651 (1986).

 

3.     Correlation effects in the  electronic  structure  of  high Tc superconductors, E.Gagliano, A.G.Rojo, C.Balseiro and B.Alascio, Solid State Comm.  64,  901 (1987).

 

4.     A green function approximate solution of the Kondo problem,  A.S.R.Simoes, J.R.Iglesias, A.G.Rojo and B.Alascio, J. Phys. C  21, 1941 (1988).

 

5.     Quantum origin of  half--flux  periodicity  in  the magnetoresistance of metallic cylinders, H.Pastawski, A.G.Rojo and C.A.Balseiro, Phys. Rev. B  37, 6246 (1988).

 

6.     Pairing mechanism in high Tc superconductors, C.Balseiro, A.G.Rojo, E.Gagliano, and B.Alascio, Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Comm.) 38, 9315 (1988).

 

7.     A mechanism for attractive interaction between holes in high Tc superconductors, C.Balseiro, A.G.Rojo, E.Gagliano and B.Alascio, Physica C 153--155, 1223 (1988).

 

8.     Superconductivity and charge transfer excitations  in  high  Tc superconductors, C.Balseiro, B.Alascio, E.Gagliano and A.G.Rojo, Ann. Phys. Fr. 13, 415 (1988).

 

9.     Effective-medium approach for  the  conductivity  of  dispersed ionic conductors,  A.G.Rojo and H.E.Roman, Phys. Rev. B 38, 3696 (1988).

 

10.  Ordering of oxygen vacancies in Y-Ba-Cu-O,A.A.Aligia, A.G.Rojo and B.Alascio, Phys. Rev. B 38, 6604 (1988).

 

11.  Ordering of oxygen atoms in Y-Ba-Cu-O, A.A.Aligia, A.G.Rojo and B.Alascio, Proc. of the First Latin Am. Conf. on High Tc. Supercond.,(1 LACHTS), World  Scientific, p.406 .

 

12.  Surface impurity in the  Hubbard  model:  a renormalization group study, A.G.Rojo, R.Allub and M.C.Passeggi, Phys. Rev. B  39, 2685 (1989).

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14.  Electronic properties of high superconductors, C.Balseiro, M.Avignon, A.G.Rojo and B.Alascio, Phys. Rev. Lett. 62, 2624 (1989).

 

15.  Oscillatory magnetoconductance of quantum double well channels, A.G.Rojo, N.Kumar and C.Balseiro, Solid State Comm. 70, 485 (1989).

 

16.  Electronic properties of highly correlated copper oxides, A.G.Rojo, C.Balseiro, M.Avignon and B.Alascio, Current Trends in Condensed Matter Physics,  World  Scientific, p.101 (1990).

 

17.  Single  particle  excitations  in strong  coupling superconductors: a new realization of the t--J model,   A.G.Rojo, J.O.Sofo and C.A.Balseiro, Phys. Rev. B. 42, 10241 (1990).

 

18.  Flux phases in polarized spin liquids, K.Hallberg, A.G.Rojo and C.A.Balseiro, Phys. Rev. B. (Rapid Comm.) 42, 4827 (1990).

 

19.  On the electronic  structure  of  high  Tc  materials  and  related compounds,   A.G.Rojo, C.A.Balseiro, B.Alascio and M.Avignon, "Properties  of  High  Tc  superconductors" edited by B.Chakraverty,  France, 1990.

 

20.  One hole in the polarized t-J model: dynamical properties, K.Hallberg, A.G.Rojo, and C.Balseiro, Physica B 82 (1991).

 

21.  Dynamics of one hole in the polarized t-J model,   K.Hallberg, A.G.Rojo, and C.Balseiro,Phys. Rev. B 43, 8005 (1991).

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23.  Ordering of chirality for many planes of anyons, A.G.Rojo and G.S.Canright, Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 949 (1991).

 

24.  Antiferromagnetic ordering of symmetry breaking in multiple planes, A.G.Rojo and G.S.Canright, Int. J. Mod. Phys. B  5, 1565 (1991).

 

25.  Two phases of the Anyon gas and broken T symmetry: some exact results. G.S.Canright and A.G.Rojo, Int. J. Mod. Phys. B  5, 1553 (1991).

 

26.  On the sign of the coupling between T--violating systems in second order perturbation theory, A.G.Rojo and A.J.Leggett, Phys. Rev. Lett.  67, 3614 (1991).

 

27.  Some consequences of PT symmetry for optical rotation Experiments, G.S. Canright and A.G.Rojo, Phys. Rev. Lett. 68, 1601 (1992).

 

28.  Current dependence of the van der Waals interaction, A.G.Rojo and G.D.Mahan, Phys. Rev. Lett. 68, 2074 (1992).

 

29.  Ellipsometry and broken T symmetry in the high-temperature superconductors, G.S. Canright and A.G.Rojo, Phys. Rev. B 46, 14078 (1992).

 

30.  On some consequences of PT symmetry for optical rotation experiments, G.S. Canright and A.G.Rojo, Phys. Rev. Lett., (C) 69, 3133 (1993).

 

31.  Sign of equilibrium Hall conductivity in strongly correlated systems, A.G.Rojo, Gabriel Kotliar  and G.S. Canright, Phys. Rev. B  (RC)  47, 9140 (1993).

 

32.  Nonlinear polarizability of correlated one dimensional systems, A.G.Rojo and G.D.Mahan, Phys. Rev. B 47, 1794  (1993).

 

33.  Model for c-axis transport in high Tc oxides, A.G.Rojo and K. Levin, Phys. Rev. B (RC) 48 16861 (1993).

 

34.  Hyperpolarization of conjugated polymers, G. D. Mahan and A.G.Rojo, Phys. Rev. B 50, 2462, (1994).

 

35.  Field theory of the Heisenberg model using a Generalized Wigner-Jordan Transformation, Ana Lopez, A.G.Rojo and Eduardo Fradkin, Phys. Rev. B  49, 15139 (1994).

 

36.  Tunneling edges at strong disorder, Jonathan Miller and A. G. Rojo, Phys. Rev. B, (RC) 52 11634 (1995).

 

37.  Faraday rotation and the Hall constant in strongly correlated Fermi systems, Adriana Moreo and A.G.Rojo, Phys. Rev. Lett  74, 3085 (1995).

 

38.  Two magnon scattering and the spin-phonon interaction beyond the adiabatic approximation, Mathew Reilly and A. G. Rojo, Phys. Rev. B,  53 6249 (1996).

 

39.  Absence of  gap for infinite  half--integer spin ladders with an odd number of legs, A. G. Rojo, Phys. Rev. B,  53, 9172 (1996).

 

40.  Persistent moment of rotating mesoscopic rings and cylinders, A. G. Rojo and R. Merlin, Phys. Rev. B  54, 1877 (1996).

 

41.  Anomalous dimension and spatial correlations in a point--island model, Ji Li, A. G. Rojo and Leonard Sander, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78 1747 (1997).

 

42.  Magnetothermal conductivity of LaCa Mn O3, B. Chen, A. G. Rojo, C. Uher, H. L. Ju and R. L. Greene, Phys. Rev. B 55, 14471 (1997).

 

43.  Vacuum squeezing of solids: macroscopic quantum states driven by light pulses, G. A. Garret, A. G. Rojo, A. K. Sood, J. F. Whittaker, and R. Merlin, Science,  275, 1638 (1997).

 

44.  Localized d-wave superconductors. A. G. Rojo and C. A. Balseiro, J. Phys. C 10, 7587 (1998).

 

45.  “Compresión Óptica, más allá del límite cuántico”, Investigación y Ciencia (Spanish version of Scientific American), page 36, august 1998.

 

46.  Universalities in vortex transport at the melting transition, A. G. Rojo, A. J. Sood and C. A. Balseiro, Solid State Comm. 107, 401 (1998).

 

47.  Universalities in vortex transport at the melting transition, A. G. Rojo, A. K. Sood and C. A. Balseiro, Rev. Mex. Phys.  3, 49 (1998).

 

48.  Electron drag effects in coupled electron systems, A. G. Rojo, Review article,  J. Phys. Condens. Matter  11 R31 (1999).

 

49.  Slave fermion theory of confinement in strongly anisotropic systems, A. G. Rojo and C. A. Balseiro, Phys. Rev. B 60, 84 (1999).

 

50.  Effect of disorder on the non--dissipative drag, J. Baker, G. Vignale and A. G. Rojo, Phys. Rev. B 60, 8804 (1999).

 

51.  Talbot oscillations in a one--dimensional condensate, A. G. Rojo, J. Cohen and  P.  Berman, Phys. Rev. A 60,1482 (1999).

 

52.  Enhanced vortex damping by eddy currents in superconductor—semiconductor hybrids. M. Danckwerts, A. R. Goñi, C. Thomsen, K. Eberl and A. G. Rojo. Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 3702 (2000).

 

 

53.Volume oscillations of an anharmonic squeezed solid, J. Marsano and A. G. Rojo, submitted to Phys. Rev. B., in review.

 

54.  Ground State and Quasiparticle Spectrum of a Two Component Bose-Einstein Condensate, C. P. Search, A. G. Rojo and P. R. Berman, Phys. Rev. A 64, 013615 (2001).

 

55.Coulomb Drag between One-Dimensional Wigner Crystal Rings, J. Baker and A. G. Rojo,  J. Phys. C 13, 5313 (2001).

 

56.  Control of Squeezed States, A. Bloch and A. G. Rojo, Proceeding of the 2000 American Control Conference, (preprint cond-mat/0002345)

 

57.  Instabilities in a two component condensate, A. G. Rojo, Phys. Rev. A  64, 033608-1 (2001)

 

58.  Gyroscopically Stabilized Classical and Quantum Oscillators and Heat Baths, A. M. Bloch, P. Hagerty, A. G. Rojo and M. I. Weinstein, submitted to J. Stat. Phys.

 

59.  Experiments on vortex damping in novel superconductor-2D-electron-gas hybrid structure. A. R. Goni, M. Danckwerts, C. Thomsen, K. Eberl and A. G. Rojo. Phys. Stat. Solidi B 220, 91 (2000).

 

60.  Vortex viscosity due to Eddy currents in superconductor-semiconductor hybrids, J. Baker and A. G. Rojo, Phys. Rev. B 64, 014513-1 (2001).

 

61.  The origin of columnar quasi-hexagonal patterns: from cornstarch to the Giant’s Causeway. E. Jagla and A. G. Rojo, Phys. Rev. E 65, 026203 (2002).

 

62.  Optimally Squeezed Spin States, A. G. Rojo, Phys. Rev. A 68, 013807 (2003) .

 

63.  Spin squeezing via atom - cavity field coupling Claudiu Genes, P. R. Berman and A.G.Rojo, submitted to Phys. Rev. A.

 

 

 

 

 

Invited talks at conferences:

 

“Electronic structure of High Tc oxides”, International Conference on High Tc Superconductivity, Brasilia (Brasil), January 1990.

 

“Ordering of chirality for many planes of anyons”, Workshop on the Mathematics and Physics of Anyons, Houston, February 1991.

 

 “Non--dissipative current drag”, March Meeting of The American Physical Society, Kansas, 1997.

 

“Phonon Squeezing”, Fifth International Conference on Squeezed States, Balatonfured, Hungary, May 1997.

 

 “Non-dissipative current drag”, Latin American Solid State Symposium, Oaxaca, Mexico, January 1998.

 

“Effect of Disorder on the non-dissipative current drag”, International Worshop on Low dimensional systems Scuola Normale, Pisa, Italy, June 1998.

 

“Squeezed states in condenses Matter”, Sixth International Conference on Squeezed States, Naples, May 1999.

 

“Cohererence vs. Incohererence on interlayer drag”, The First Stig Lundkvist Research Conference on The Advancing Frontiers in Condensed Matter Physics”, Trieste, Italy, July 1999.

 

“Quantum noise in condensed matter”,  Annual Meeting of The Argentinean Physical Society, Tucumán, Argentina, September 1999.

 

“Eddy current coupling in hybrid systems”, 15th Latin american Symposium on Solid Sate Physics, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, November 1999.

 

“Electron Drag”, Pan American Advance Studies Institute Conference on Physics and Technology at the Nanometer Scale, San José, Costa Rica, June 2001.

 

"Control of Squeezed States", SIAM Control Conference, San Diego, July 2001.

 

“Optimally Squeezed Spin States”, Frontiers in Condensed Matter, Pennsylvania State University, June 2003

 

“Optimally Squeezed Spin States”, Frontiers in Condensed Magnetism,  Bariloche, July 2003

 

Seminars and colloquia

 

“Origin of half flux periodicity on disordered cylinders”, Grenoble, France, 1988.

 

“Ordering of Oxygen vacancies in high Temperature superconductors”, Trieste, 1988.

 

“Ordering of chirality for many planes of anyons”, University of Tennessee, 1991.

 

“Ordering of chirality for many planes of anyons”, University of Illinois at Urbana--Champaign April 1991.

 

“Electrostatic antiferromagnetism and implications for ordering time reversal breaking in high Tc superconductors''. AT & T Bell Laboratories, January 1992.

 

“Electrostatic antiferromagnetism and implications for ordering time reversal breaking in high Tc superconductors”. Harvard University, January 1992.

 

“Ordering time reversal breaking in high Tc superconductors”. The University of Chicago, January 1992.

 

“Ordering time reversal breaking in high Tc superconductors”. Indiana University, January  1992.

 

“Electrostatic antiferromagnetism and implications for ordering time reversal breaking in high Tc superconductors'”. MacMaster University, Ontario, Canada, April 1992.

 

“Model for c-axis conduction in high Tc superconductors”, The University of Chicago, October 1993.

 

“Sign of the Hall effect in strongly correlated systems”, University of Michigan, March 1993.

 

“Random flux and localization”, Bariloche, Argentina, June 1994.

 

“Superconductor insulator transition in d-wave superconductors”, University of Michigan,September 1994.

 

“Edge states at strong disorder”, Michigan State University, November 1994.

 

“Superconductor insulator transition in d-wave superconductors", Ohio State University, February 1995.

 

 “Superconductor insulator transition in d-wave superconductors”, Purdue University, August 1995.

 

“Non--dissipative current drag”, Colloquium at the University of Missouri, March 1996.

 

“Non--dissipative current drag", University of Notre Dame, August 1997.

 

 “Non-dissipative current drag”, Michigan State University, November 1997.

 

“Phonon squeezing” Bariloche, Argentina, November 1997.

 

“Universalities in vortex transport at the melting transition”, University of Michigan, April 1998

 

“Universalities in vortex transport at the melting transition”, Argonne National Lab., April 1998.

 

“Universalities in vortex transport at the melting transition”, University of Illinois at Urbana, April 1998.

 

“Eddy current coupling in superconductor-normal systems”, Technische Universität, Berlin, June 1999.

 

“Sequential fragmentation and the origin of quasi-hexagonal patterns”, Michigan State University, March 2000.

 

"Control of Squeezed States",  Wayne State University, February 2002.

 

"Squeezing and Quantum Noise", Oakland University, February 2002.

 

"Spin Squeezing", Entanglement and Non-extensivity Conference, Río de Janeiro, December 2002.

 

“Borges and Quantum Mechanics”, University of Bahía Blanca, July 2003

 

 

 

Professional Memberships:

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Theme editor on the topic “Quantum Systems” for the Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, edited by the UNESCO.