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Curriculum Vitae

Harold U. Baranger

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Department of Physics
Box 90305
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708-0305
(919) 660-2598 (office)
(email)
Education

Ph.D.Cornell University1986
M.S.Cornell University1983
A.B.Harvard University1980
Areas of Research

Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, Nanoscience, Quantum Materials Physics, Quantum Computing

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University
Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, 10/99 - present
Bell Labs - AT&T / Lucent Technologies
Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories, 06/86 - 09/99
Visiting Positions
Chaire d'Excellence, Fondation Nanosciences de Grenoble, June, 2011 - May, 2014
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

Chaire d'Excellence, Fondation Nanosciences de Grenoble (France), June, 2011 - May, 2014
Fellow, American Physical Society, 2007
Recent Grant Support

  • Quantum Phases in Nanosystems: Dissipation, Interactions, and Non-Equilibrium Phenomena, Department of Energy, DE-SC0005237, 2010/09-2021/05.      
Selected Recent Invited Talks

Driven-Dissipative Phase Transition in a Kerr Oscillator, Prague, Czech Republic (virtual), 18 July 2021  
Quantum Hall Meets Superconductivity: Interference of Chiral Andreev Edge States, Case Univ. Physics Dept., 19 April 2021 [watch]  
Shining 1D Light on Qubits: Photon Correlations and Single Photon Capture, Strasbourg, France, 13 December 2019  
Shining 1D Light on Qubits: Photon Correlations and Single Photon Capture, Karlsruhe, Germany, December 12, 2019  
Driving a Quantum Many-Body State Far From Equilibrium in a Quantum Dot, C2N, Paris-Saclay University, Paris, France, December 10, 2019  
Driving a Quantum Many-Body State Far From Equilibrium in a Quantum Dotb, Paris, France, 10 December 2019  
Waveguide QED: Photon Correlations and Single Photon Capture, Paris, France, December 9, 2019  
Many-Body States through Quantum Noise: Non-Equilibrium Quantum Criticality and an Unpaired Majorana Zero Mode, Marseille, France, December 5, 2019  
Nonequilibrium Dissipative Quantum Dots, Prague, July 20, 2019  
Entanglement Generation and Single Photon Storage using Waveguide QED, Yale Quantum Institute, June 26, 2019  
Waveguide QED: Catching and Storing a Single Photon, Duke University, March 11, 2019  
Waveguide QED: Quantum Transport of Strongly-Correlated Photons, Condensed Matter Seminar, Univ. Texas at Austin, September 4, 2014  
Resonant Tunneling in a Dissipative Environment: Quantum Critical Behavior, Colloquium, Univ. Texas at Austin, September 3, 2014  
Quantum Critical Behavior in a Resonant Level Coupled to a Dissipative Environment, Condensed Matter Seminar, McGill Univ., Montreal Canada, April 3, 2014  
Quantum Critical Behavior in a Resonant Level Coupled to a Dissipative Environment, Colloquium, Univ. Sherbrooke, Canada, April 2, 2014  
Quantum Critical Behavior in a Resonant Level Coupled to a Dissipative Environment, Seminar, Cavendish Lab, Cambridge University, February 6, 2014  
Waveguide QED: Quantum Transport of Strongly-Correlated Photons, Seminar, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, February 4, 2014  
Quantum Critical Behavior in a Resonant Level Coupled to a Dissipative Environment, Seminar, Laboratoire de Photonique et Nanostructures, Marcoussis, France, February 3, 2014  
Waveguide QED: Quantum Transport of Strongly-Correlated Photons, Colloquium at the Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Lab, NM, September 16, 2013  
Quantum Mechanics and Dissipation: Connecting the Nano- and Macro- Worlds, 2nd French-American Workshop, Grenoble France, July 02, 2013  
Waveguide QED: Quantum Transport of Strongly-Correlated Photons, Linnaeus Colloquium at Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden, April 25, 2013  
Quantum Critical Behavior in a Resonant Level Coupled to a Dissipative Environment, Seminar at the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 23, 2013  
Waveguide QED: Quantum Transport of Strongly-Correlated Photons, Condensed Matter Seminar, University of Florida, Gainesville FL, February 11, 2013  
Waveguide QED: Quantum Transport of Strongly-Correlated Photons, Condensed Matter Seminar, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong, December 20, 2012  
Waveguide QED: Quantum Transport of Strongly-Correlated Photons, Condensed Matter Seminar, Academia Sinica, Taipei Taiwan, December 17, 2012  
Waveguide QED: Quantum Transport of Strongly-Correlated Photons, Workshop on Novel Quantum Phenomena in Mesoscopic Systems, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Hsinchu Taiwan, December 15, 2012  
Quantum Critical Behavior in a Resonant Level Coupled to a Dissipative Environment, Workshop on Novel Quantum Phenomena in Mesoscopic Systems, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Hsinchu Taiwan, December 14, 2012  
Majorana Quantum Critical Behavior in a Resonant Level Coupled to a Dissipative Environment, Physics Dept Colloquium, Univ. Arizona, Tucson AZ, November 16, 2012  
Waveguide QED: Quantum Transport of Strongly Correlated Photons, Workshop on New Frontiers in the Physics of Quantum Dots, Landau Inst for Theoretical Physics, Chernogolovka Russia, September 10, 2012  
Waveguide QED: Photon Blockade Induced by Many-Body Bound States, Condensed Matter Seminar, Univ. Paris Sud, Orsay France, June 28, 2012  
Waveguide QED: Photon Blockade Induced by Many-Body Bound States, Physics Dept Colloquium, Arizona State Univ., Tempe AZ, April 02, 2012  
Waveguide QED: Photon Blockade Induced by Many-Body Bound States, Condensed Matter Seminar, Univ. Arizona, Tucson AZ, March 30, 2012  
Waveguide QED: Photon Blockade Induced by Many-Body Bound States, Condensed Matter Seminar, U. Kentucky, Lexington KY, November 15, 2011  
Probing Electron-Electron Correlations in Quantum Dots Using Transport: Quantum Monte Carlo Studies, American Vacuum Society, Nashville TN, November 1, 2011  
Quantum Phase Transition and Emergent Symmetry in Quadruple Quantum Dot System, Condensed Matter Theory Seminar, Karlsruhe Germany, July 24, 2011  
Quantum Phase Transition and Emergent Symmetry in Quadruple Quantum Dot System, Quantum Nanoelectronics Seminar, Institut Neel, Grenoble France, June 21, 2011  
Tunable Electron-Electron Correlations in Quantum Dots and Wires, Condensed Matter Physics Seminar, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA, November 18, 2010  
Interaction-Induced Localization in Quantum Dots and Wires: Quantum Monte Carlo Studies, Conference on "New Frontiers in the Physics of Quantum Dots", Chernogolovka, Russia., September 22, 2010  
Tunable Electron-Electron Correlations in Quantum Wires and Dots, Condensed Matter Seminar at USPI Sao Carlos, Sao Carlos, Brazil, May 05, 2010  
Transport Through Single-Molecule Junctions: Interference, Thermopower, and the Role of Self-Interaction Effects, Colloquium at the UFABC, Sao Paolo, Brazil, May 04, 2010  
Interaction-Induced Localization in Quantum Dots and Wires: Quantum Monte Carlo Studies, Workshop "Spin related Phenomena in Mesoscopic Transport" at the International Institute for Physics in Natal, Brazil, April 28, 2010  
Electron-Electron Correlations in Quantum Dots, Condensed Matter Physics Seminar, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, March 25, 2010  
Transport Through Single-Molecule Junctions: Interference, Thermopower, and the Role of Self-Interaction Effects, APS March Meeting (invited talk), Portland, Oregon., March 16, 2010  
Does Quantum Error Correction Keep Your Quantum Information Safe?, Theoretical Physics Seminar, Grenoble, France, February 12, 2010  
Interaction-Induced Localization in Quantum Dots and Wires, Seminar at Harvard University, Cambridge MA, July 10, 2009  
Conduction Through Nanoscale Interacting Systems: Opportunities for TDDFT?, Gordon Conference on "Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory", New London NH, July 7, 2009  
Electron-Electron Correlations in Quantum Wires and Dots, Seminar at the University of Geneva, Geneva Switzerland, June 2, 2009  
Strong Correlations in Quantum Dots and Wires: Quantum Monte Carlo Studies, Workshop at the European Center for Atomic and Molecular Computation (CECAM), Lausanne Switzerland, June 2, 2009  
Conduction Through a Single Molecule: Quantum Interference Transistor and Thermoelectric Effect, Colloquium at the Institute of Physics and Chemistry of Materials of Strasbourg (IPCMS), Strasbourg France, May 29, 2009  
Toward Correlation Engineering in Electronic Nanostructures, Colloquium at NC State University, Raleigh NC, April 13, 2009  
Interaction-Induced Localization in an Inhomogeneous Quantum Wire, Seminar at Texas A&M University, College Station TX, January 28, 2009  
Interaction-Induced Localization in an Inhomogeneous Quantum Wire, Seminar at Rice University, Houston TX, January 26, 2009  
Interaction-Induced Localization in an Inhomogeneous Quantum Wire, workshop on "Quantum coherence and many-body correlations: from mesoscopic to macroscopic scales", Saclay France, October 23, 2008  
Kondo Physics in Quantum Dots (a series of 3 lectures), School on Mesoscopic Physics, Cargese France, October 13, 2008  
RMT and Kondo Physics in Quantum Dots, symposium on "Random matrix theory and applications: from number theory to mesoscopic physics" in honor of Oriol Bohigas, Orsay France, June 26, 2008  
Interactions and Interference in Electronic Nanostructures, Colloquium at University of Regensberg, Germany, May 26, 2008  
Kondo Physics in Novel Settings: Mesoscopic Kondo and Spectroscopy in a Box, workshop on "New Frontiers of Quantum Chaos in Mesoscopic Systems", Max Planck Institute, Dresden Germany, May 20, 2008  
Interactions and Interference in Electronic Nanostructures, Colloquium at University of Arizona, Tucson AZ, April 25, 2008  
Interactions in Quantum Dots: Does the RMT/Random-Wave Model Work?, Banff International Research Station workshop on "Quantum Chaos: Routes to RMT and Beyond", Banff Canada, February 25, 2008  
Resilient Quantum Computation in a Correlated Environment, NSF Workshop on Quantum Information Processing and Nanoscale Systems, September 10, 2007  
Nanoscale Transport, Gordon Research Conference on Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory, July 18, 2007  
Interactions and Interference in Electronic Nanostructures, Physics Dept. Colloquium, University of Florida Gainesville, April 19, 2007  
Ab initio Calculation of Transport Through Single Molecules: Organometallic Spintronics and the Dramatic Role of the Exchange-Correlation Potential, Nano and Giga Challenges Conference, Phoenix AZ, March 16, 2007  
Correlations in Quantum Dots: Kondo and Wigner Crystal, Condensed Matter Theory Seminar, Ohio State University, January 22, 2007  
Ab initio Calculation of Transport Through Single Molecules: Organometallic Spintronics and the Dramatic Role of the Exchange-Correlation Potential, Nanoscience Seminar, Columbia University, November 1, 2006  
Correlations in Quantum Dots: Kondo and Wigner Crystal, Condensed Matter Seminar, Yale University, September 21, 2006  
Interference and Interactions in Electronic Nanostructures, Nanoscience Colloquium, U. Texas at Austin, April 20, 2006  
Conduction Through a Single Organometallic Molecule, APS March Meeting, Baltimore MD, March 15, 2006  
Conductance Through Single Molecules, Workshop on Simulation of Electronic Nanostructures, Grenoble France, February 6, 2006  
Decoherence by Correlated Noise and Quantum Error Correction, Theory Seminar of the Plateau, Orsay-Saclay-Palaiseau France, January 24, 2006  
Interference and Interactions in Electronic Nanostructures, Colloquium of the Inst. of Physics and Chemistry of Materials, Strasbourg France, January 20, 2006  
Interference and Interactions in Electronic Nanostructures, Colloquium of the Lab. Physique des Solides, Orsay France, January 16, 2006  
Interference and Interactions in Electronic Nanostructures, Solid State Seminar, CEA, Saclay France, January 10, 2006  
Interference and Interactions in Electronic Nanostructures, Seminar of the Lab. Physique Th´eorique et Mod`eles Statistiques, Orsay France, January 5, 2006  
Interference and Interactions in Electronic Nanostructures, Physics Dept Colloquium, University of Central Florida, October 28, 2005  
Electrical Transport Through Single Molecules, Workshop on Quantum Mesoscopic Physics, Aussois France, October 6, 2005 [pleniere/FichiersOrateurs/Fichiers%20intervenants.htm]  
Coulomb Blockade as a Probe of Interactions in Nanosturcutres, School on Quantum Mesoscopic Physics (5 hours of lectures), Aussois France, October 1, 2005 [htm]  
Conductance Through Organometallic Single Molecules, BatSheva Seminar on Electron Transport in Molecular Junctions, Israel, September 21, 2005 [available here]  
Interference and Interactions in Electronic Nanostructures, Physics Dept Colloquium, Wake Forest University, September 8, 2005  
Conductance Through Organometallic Single Molecules: Resonant Transmission, Rectification, Spin Filtering, and Tunneling Magnetoresistance, 3rd Annual Molecular Conduction and Sensors Workshop, West Lafayette IN, July 29, 2005 [MCW05]  
Transport Through Single Molecules: Resonant Transmission, Rectification, Spin Filtering, and Tunneling Magnetoresistnce, Seventeenth Annual Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Methods (ES2005), Ithaca NY, June 25, 2005 [available here]  
Interference and Interactions in Electronic Nanostructures, ORNL Partners in Technology Forum, Oak Ridge TN, April 21, 2005 [htm]  
Interference and Interactions in Electronic Nanostructures, Physics Dept Colloquium, Carnegie-Mellon University, February 21, 2005  
Robustness of Quantum Computing in Quantum Dots, Quantum Computing Program Review, August 19, 2004  
Interference and Interactions in Electronic Nanostructures, Oak Ridge National Lab, April 19, 2004  
Interference and Interactions in Electronic Nanostructures, NYU Physics Colloquium, November 13, 2003  
DFT and QMC Studies of Planar Quantum Dots: Spin and Interaction Strength, Workshop on Computational Approaches Towards the Electronics Properties of Quantum Dots, 1 September 2003  
Robustness of Quantum Computing in Quantum Dots, Quantum Computing Program Review, 1 August 2003  
Mesoscale Interaction Effects in Quantum Dots and Carbon Nanotubes, Harvard Condensed Matter Seminar, 2 May 2003  
Coherence and Correlation in Electronic Nanostructures, NSF Nanoscience Grantees Conference, Washington, 1 December 2002  
Coulumb Blockade in Nanomagnets and Quantum Dots, Workshop on Electrons in Zero-Dimensional Structures, Dresden Germany, 1 November 2002  
Coulumb Blockade in Nanomagnets and Quantum Dots, Workshop on Chaos and Interactions in Complex Quantum Systems, Regensburg Germany, 1 September 2002  
The Robustness of Quantum Computing in Quantum Dots, ARO Quantum Computing Grantees Conference, Nashville, 1 August 2002  
Coherence and Correlation in Electronic Nanostructures, NSF Computational Materials Theory Grantees Conference, Urbana, 1 June 2002  
What Can We Learn From Coulumb Blockade Peak Spacings in Quantum Dots? The Interplay of Spin, Residual Interactions, and Temperature, Workshop on Spins in Nanostructures, Aspen, 1 August 2001  
What Can We Learn From Coulumb Blockade Peak Spacings in Quantum Dots? The Interplay of Spin, Residual Interactions, and Temperature, Workshop on Electronic Correlations, Les Arcs France, 1 January 2001  
Interactions and Interference in Quantum Dots: Kinks in Coulumb Blockade Peak Positions, Workshop on Interactions and Chaos in Mesoscopic Systems, Minneapolis, 1 May 2000  
Chaos and Interacting Electrons in Ballistic Quantum Dots, American Physical Society March Meeting, Minneapolis, 1 March 2000  
Interactions and Interference in Quantum Dots: Kinks in Coulumb Blockade Peak Positions, Intl. Conference on Dynamics of Complex Systems, Dresden Germany, 1 May 1999  
Transport in Chaotic Microstuctures, School on Qantum Chaos, Rio de Janerio Brazil, 1 July 1998  
Transport in Chaotic Microstuctures, School on Mesoscopic Electronics, University of Brasilia, 1 July 1998  
Doctoral Theses Directed

Huaixiu Zheng, Interacting Photons in Waveguide-QED and Applications in Quantum Information Processing, (June, 2009 - September, 2013)  
Abhijit Mehta, Zigzag Phase Transition in Quantum Wires and Localization in the Inhomogeneous One-Dimensional Electron Gas, (June, 2007 - May, 2013)  
Dong Liu, Probing Exotic Boundary Quantum Phases with Tunable Nanostructure, (June, 2007 - May, 2012)  
Anand Priyadarshee, (05/01 - 08/06)  
Rui Liu, (05/03 - 05/06)  
Ribhu Kaul, (05/02 - 05/06)  
Serguei Vorojtsov, (09/00 - 05/05)  
Hong Jiang, (02/01 - 07/03)  
Publications (listed separately)

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