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Antonio M. García-García
Tenured Associate Professor 
Shanghai Center For Complex Physics
Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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I am a theoretical physicist with a broad spectrum of research interests that include far from equilibrium and mesoscopic physics in strongly correlated systems with a special emphasis on novel interfaces, two dimensional superconducting materials, and holographic dualities. Two main aims of my current research are to nano-engineer high Tc > 100K novel superconductors and to identify universal features, such as bounds or conditions for thermalization, in the dynamics of strongly correlated systems.
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY BY DESIGN
 NOVEL FORMS OF  QUANTUM MATTER
Recent technological advances in both growth and measurement of nano/hetero structures  have put the basis to study quantitatively nanoscale superconductivity. One particular area of interest is the identification of materialsphysical mechanisms and geometrical arrangements which lead to an enhancement of superconductivity in the nanoscale. Examples of interest include copper oxides heterostructures, LAO/STO and FeSe/STO interfaces and granular conventional superconductors. Together with James Mayoh and Aurelio Bermudez, I have proposed a novel method  to engineer more robust superconductivity by controlled nano-granularity and also investigated the role of the substrate in the enhancement of superconductivity in thin films. Together with Lara Benfatto et al. we have recently verifed that coherence effects related to nano-granularity help explain the enhancement of Tc observed in granular Al. Currently we are investigating whether similar mechanism could enhance superconductivity in novel engineered two dimensional superconductors such as FeSe/STO.
The ground state of all forms of superconductivity is a superposition of dimers, either spin-singlet or spin-triplet, which for sufficiently low temperature condensate. However the Efimov effect, that predicts the existence of bound states of three distinguishable particles even in the limit of no bound states for two particles, suggests the possibility of a richer phenomenology. Together with Pascal Naidon in Riken and Shimpei Endo in Paris,  we have found that Efimov physics can induce novel forms of stable  quantum matter, more specifically a trimer Fermi liquid. Topologically non trivial quantum matter also offers a promising arena to discover non-conventional superconductors.  We have recently studied the distinctive features of a supercurrent in a dissipative topological Josephson junction. Currently we are working on condensed matter realisations of Efimov physics and its potential to realise novel forms of superconductivity.


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It is now possible to control and measure the size and shape of a superconducting nanograin.  This paves the way for a quantitative understanding of nanoscale superconductivity. Figure from Nature Materials, 9, 550 (2010). It is possible to substantially enhance the critical temperature of bulk superconductors  by granular nanoengineering.  Figure from Phys. Rev. B 90, 134513 (2014) for grain size ~5nm and, from top to bottom,  FCC, BCC and cubic packings.


HOLOGRAPHY & CONDENSED MATTER
 OUT OF EQUILIBRIUM DYNAMIC & THERMALIZATION
The AdS/CFT correspondence, also referred to as the holographic principle, is arguably he most important theoretical development in high energy physics of the last decade. It conjectures that certain strongly coupled field theories are dual of weakly coupled gravity theories in a different dimension. The application of the holographic duality in condensed matter systems is rapidly emerging as a forefront research field. Problems of special interest are those in which some sort of universality is expected. Together with Hong Liu and P. Chesler, I have reported novel aspects of the physics of out of equilibrium defect generation by holography techniques and scaling ideas. Currenly I am working with Jac Verbaarschot and other collaborators on the physics of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev which has attracted a lot of recent attention as a toy model of holography.

The conditions leading to thermalization in a closed system after a quatum quench is being intensively investigated in recent years. I am interested on the role of spatial inhomogeneities and topological fluctuations (vortices and phase slips) in this process.  In two dimension this is closely related to the physics of the Kosterlitz Thouless transition out of equilibrium. I have recently investigated this problem by studying  the out of equilibirum dynamics resulting from a quench in the spatial dimensionality of a strongly correlated system. Currently I am also interested in the study of transport properties of strongly correlated systems, especially universal aspects such as the existence of dynamical bounds, in collaboration with David Berenstein, or  generic features, in collaboration with Lea Santos, of the out of equilibrium motion which could provide helpful insight on the conditions for thermalisation. 

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Time evolution of the order parameter of a two dimensional holographic superlfuid, from PRX 5 021015 (2015)  , as it is cooled from the disordered to the ordered phase.  According to the Kibble-Zurek mechnanism the number vortices, generated at tfreeze, scale with the quench speed. We have found that only at a later time teq vortices are formed and that the scaling with the quench speed breaks down for sufficiently fast quenches.





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COLLABORATORS

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Klaus Kern
Stuttgart
Sangita Bose
Bombay
Miguel Cazalilla
Tsinghua Taipei
Wang Jiao
Xiamen
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Emilio Cuevas
Murcia
Masaki Tezuka
Kyoto
Marcos Rigol
Pennsylvania
Diego Rodriguez
Oviedo

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Emil Yuzbashyan
Rutgers
Boris Altshuler
Columbia
Pedro Sacramento
Lisbon
Ehsan Khatami
Georgetown

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Klaus Richter
Regensburg
Juan Urbina
Regensburg
Pascal Naidon
Riken, Saitama
Armando Relaño        Madrid

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Jac Verbaarschot
Stony Brook
James Osborn
Argonne
Shinsuke Nishigaki Shimane, Matsue

Jorge Hirsch
UAM, Mexico DF

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Sebastian Franco
Durham
Ivan Brihuega
UAM, Madrid
Jorge Santos
Stanford
Benson Way
Cambridge




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Paul Chesler
Harvard

Hong Liu
MIT

David Berenstein
UC Santa Barbara
Shimpei Endo
Paris


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Nimrod Bachar
Geneve University

Guy Deutscher
Tel-Aviv

Uwe S. Pracht
Stuttgart U.

Martin Dressel
Stuttgart U.

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Aurelio Bermudez
Leiden University

 Lara Benfatto 
laSapienza, Rome

      Lea Santos
Yeshiva U.  NYC

Claudio Castellani
laSapienza, Rome

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Pedro Ribeiro
Lisboa University

Hai-Qing Zhang
Utrecht University
James Mayoh
Southampton U
Hua Bi Zeng
Bohai University

                                                  PAST GROUP MEMBERS

Hai-Qing Zhang, Postdoc, After: Postdoc at Utrecht University
Pedro Ribeiro, Postdoc, After: Ciencia 2013 Fellow (5 years) at Lisboa University
Paul Matthews, Master Student: After PhD student at Imperial College, London
Hua Bi Zeng, Postdoc, After: Prof. Bohai University, China
Jiasheng Chen, Master Student, After: PhD student, Cavendish Laboratory
Chris Parmee, Master Student, After: PhD student, Cavendish Laboratory
James Mayoh, PhD Student, After: Postdoc, Southhampton University
Aurelio Bermudez, PhD Student, After: Postdoc, Leiden University.
Bruno Murta, PhD Student, After: PhD Student, Imperial College.
Corentin Bertrand, Master Student, After: PhD Student, Grenoble University.






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