Andrea Tomadin (Università di Pisa) is a tenure-track assistant professor (RTDb) of Condensed Matter Physics at Università di Pisa. He received his Ph.D. from Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, in 2010, and, prior to joining Università di Pisa, he has been a postdoc at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Innsbruck), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Pisa), Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Genova) and a Lecturer in Condensed Matter Physics at Lancaster University (UK). His research ranged from the dynamics of quantum many-body systems to the optoelectronic properties of two-dimensional crystals. His contributions include theoretical studies of the dynamics of ultracold atoms in optical lattices, driven by external light sources and in the presence of dissipation. He investigated the photoresponse of graphene samples where coupling to external sources generates self-mixing plasmonic excitations. More recently, he investigated current and optical conduction in two-dimensional systems patterned in a self-similar, fractal geometry, and quantum tunneling of plasmon excitations within layered heterostructures.
Relevant Publications
K.A. Guerrero-Becerra, A. Tomadin, and M. Polini, “Electrical plasmon injection in double-layer graphene heterostructures,” Phys. Rev. B 100, 125434 (2019).
E. van Veen, A. Tomadin, M. Polini, M.I. Katsnelson, and S. Yuan, “Optical conductivity of a quantum electron gas in a Sierpinski carpet,” Phys. Rev. B 96, 235438 (2017).
A. Tomadin, D. Rossini, and R. Fazio, “Strongly correlated polaritons in nonlinear cavity arrays” in “Quantum Simulations with Photons and Polaritons: Merging Quantum Optics with Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Science and Technology Series,” edited by D.G. Angelakis, Springer (2017).
E. van Veen, A. Tomadin, M. Polini, M.I. Katsnelson, and S. Yuan, “Optical conductivity of a quantum electron gas in a Sierpinski carpet,” Phys. Rev. B 96, 235438 (2017).
A. Tomadin, and M. Polini, “Theory of the plasma-wave photoresponse of a gated graphene sheet,” Phys. Rev. B 88, 205426 (2013).
A. Tomadin, S. Diehl, M.D. Lukin, P. Rabl, and P. Zoller, “Reservoir engineering and dynamical phase transitions in optomechanical arrays,” Phys. Rev. A 86, 033821 (2012).
A. Tomadin, and R. Fazio, “Many-body phenomena in QED-cavity arrays,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27, 130–136 (2010).
S. Diehl, A. Tomadin, A. Micheli, R. Fazio, and P. Zoller, “Dynamical phase transitions and instabilities in open atomic many-body systems,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 015702 (2010).
A. Tomadin, M. Polini, M.P. Tosi, and R. Fazio, “Nonequilibrium pairing instability in ultracold Fermi gases with population imbalance,” Phys. Rev. A 77, 033605 (2008).
A. Zenesini, C. Sias, H. Lignier, Y. Singh, D. Ciampini, O. Morsch, R. Mannella, E. Arimondo, A. Tomadin, and S. Wimberger, “Resonant tunneling of Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices,” New J. Phys. 10, 053038 (2008).
A. Tomadin, R. Mannella, and S. Wimberger, “Can quantum fractal fluctuations be observed in an atom-optics kicked rotor experiment?,” J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 39, 2477–2491 (2006).
Teaching activities related to quantum computing and technologies
2013 – University of Heidelberg – “Introduction to the Theory of Graphene”, XXXI Physics Graduate Days (15 hours).
2019 – University of Cambridge – “Science of Graphene, Related Layered Materials, and Hybrid Systems”, Cambridge Graphene Centre, Centre for Doctoral Training (10 hours).