Nonlinear and Statistical Physics
California Institute of Technology
My research interests are in the area of collective, nolinear, and stochastic dynamics of nonequilibrium systems. Current projects include
- Basic theory of the synchronization of oscillators with disparate frequencies, and the application to arrays of nanomechanical devices (funded by NSF)
- Theory of phase noise in oscillators, and how to exploit nonlinearity to reduce phase noise (funded by DARPA)
- Dynamics of nonlinear, disordered, composite materials, with applications to energy harvesting
- Noise driven rare events in driven, nonequilibrium systems
- General theory of systems far from equilibrium
Please consult my recent papers for more information.
In the not-too-distant past I have also worked on
- Nonlinear dynamics of nanomechanical systems
- Nanoscale cantilevers as biomolecular probes
- General theory of systems far from equilibrium
- Pattern Formation
- Spatiotemporal chaos in models of experimental systems
- Coarsening in systems far from equilibrium
- Numerical simulations of experimentally realistic fluid dynamics systems showing pattern formation.
- Coupled map lattices
- Chemical instabilities
- Statistical mechanics of ideal two dimensional fluids
- Quantum limit of thermal transport, including the universal phonon conductance at low temperatures, and the effect of scattering by geometry and roughness
- Magnetic resonance force microscopy
- Spin transport
Recent Publications.
Last modified 12/12/12