Giulio Casati

Giulio Casati (born December 9, 1942 ) is an Italian theoretical physicist who deals with quantum chaos . He is Professor at the Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems at the University of Insubria in Como .

Casati studied physics at the University of Milan with a degree in 1968 and was a post-doctoral student at the Euratom Research Center in Ispra and in 1971/72 at the Georgia Institute of Technology . In 1973 he became an assistant professor at the University of Milan and in 1987 he was given a full professorship in theoretical physics. From 1993 to 1998 he was Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Milan. From 1993 to 1998 he was director of the Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems in Como and in 1998 he moved to the University of Insubria as a professor of theoretical physics. Since 2005 he has also been a professor at the National University of Singapore .

He examined quantum chaos, among other things, in the simple kicked rotator model he introduced with Chirikov, Ford and Izrailev in 1979 (Lecture Notes in Physics 93) and in the hydrogen atom in external fields.

Since 1980 he has also been the scientific coordinator of the Alessandro Volta Center in Como.

In 2008 he received the Premio Enrico Fermi . Since 1989 he has been a member of the Academia Europaea .

Fonts

• with Giuliano Benenti, Giuliano Strini Principles of Quantum Information and Computations , World Scientific, 2 volumes, 2004, 2007
• Editor with Joseph Ford Stochastic Behavior in Classical and Quantum Hamiltonian Systems , Lectures Notes in Physics 93, Springer Verlag 1979 (Volta Memorial Conference, Como 1977)
• Editor Chaotic Behavior in Quantum Dynamics: theory and applications , Plenum Press, NATO Advanced Study Series B, Volume 120, 1985 (Workshop Como 1983)
• Editor Quantum Chaos and Physics of Structure and Complexity , Physica Scripta, Volume RS 9, 1987
• Editor: Stochastic Processes, Physics and Geometry , World Scientific 1990
• Editor Chaos, Order and Patterns: aspects of nonlinearity , Plenum Press 1991
• Edited by Quantum Chaos , World Scientific 1991
• Editor Quantum Chaos , Proceedings of the International School of Physics Enrico Fermi, North Holland 1991
• Editor with Boris Chirikov Quantum Chaos: between order and disorder: a selection of papers , Cambridge University Press 1995
  • It also includes: Casati, Chirikov, FM Izrailev, J. Ford Stochastic behavior of a quantum pendulum under a periodic perturbation , Lecture Notes in Physics 93, 1979 (see above) and Bayfield, Casati, Guarneri, Sokol Localization of classical chaotic diffusion for hydrogen atoms in microwave fields , Physical Review Letters, Volume 63, 1989, pp. 364-367
• Editor New Directions in Quantum Chaos , Proceedings of the International School of Physics Enrico Fermi, North Holland 2000
• Editor: Quantum Computers, Algorithms and Chaos , Proceedings of the International School of Physics Enrico Fermi, Italian Physical Society 2006

He also wrote physics textbooks for Italian high schools.

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