Luciano Pietronero

Luciano Pietronero (born December 15, 1949 in Rome ) is an Italian theoretical physicist who deals with statistical physics . He is Professor of Solid State Physics at the University of Rome (La Sapienza). There he is director of the Institute for Complex Systems (ISC) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), of which he was co-founder in 2004.

Life

Pietronero studied at the University of Rome with the Laurea degree in 1971, was a post-doctoral student at the University of Rome (where he studied the thirring-lens effect of general relativity under Bruno Touschek ) and in Orsay and then attended in 1974/75 the research centers of Xerox in New York (Xerox Webster Research Center) and 1975 to 1984 that of Brown Boveri in Baden AG . In 1983 he went to the University of Groningen as Professor of Solid State Physics and in 1987 he returned to the University of Rome as Professor. From 1992 to 1995 he was head of the theory group, and from 1995 to 2001 he was director of the CNR-INFM research center (the largest research group in solid state physics in Italy with over 200 scientists).

In 1982 he was visiting scientist at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara and at the Lyman Laboratory of Physics at Harvard University .

He deals with statistical physics and fractals with applications in solid state physics, financial mathematics and cosmology (galaxy correlations). In solid-state physics, he deals with, among other things, one-dimensional electron systems and Peierls instability , electronic properties of molecular crystals, ion conductors , electron transport in synthetic metals and polymers, polymer statistics and random walks , melting on surfaces, and critical behavior of charge density waves . He applied the theory of the renormalization group to the dynamics of rough surfaces and self-organized criticality (SOC), among other things . In 1984 he introduced the dielectric breakdown model in the theory of fractals (with L. Niemeyer, HJ Wiesmann, W. Schneider). He also dealt with high-temperature superconductors and developed the theory of non-adiabatic superconductors (from 1992).

In 2008 he received the Premio Enrico Fermi . In 1990 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 2011 he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea .

Fonts

• with A. Gabrielli, FS Labini, Michael Joyce Statistical physics of cosmic structures , Springer Verlag 2004
• Complessita ed altre storie , Di Renzo Editore 2007

Web links

• Homepage
• Literature by and about Luciano Pietronero in the bibliographic database WorldCat