Massimo Rontani
Professor
Physics
Istituto Nanoscienze Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Pisa
Italy
Biography
Education 1997-1999 PhD in Physics, University of Modena, Italy. Appointments - March 2003 - present: CNR-NANO Research Center S3, Modena, Italy. Senior research staff member. - December 1999 - February 2003: Department of Physics, University of Modena, Italy. INFM Postdoctoral Researcher. - August 1998 - August 1999: Department of Physics, University of California Berkeley. Research activity, within the Italian PhD course, under the additional supervision of Prof. L. J. Sham (UCSD).
Research Interest
Theoretical investigation of few- and many-body effects in nanostructures and low-dimensional systems. The main research lines are: Correlated few-electron states in quantum dots and molecules Recent highlights: F. Rossella, A. Bertoni, D. Ercolani, M. Rontani, L. Sorba, F. Beltram, S. Roddaro, Nanoscale spin rectifiers controlled by the Stark effect, Nature Nanotech. 9, 997 (2014). S. Pecker, F. Kuemmeth, A. Secchi, M. Rontani, D. C. Ralph, P. L. McEuen, S. Ilani, Observation and spectroscopy of a two-electron Wigner molecule in an ultraclean carbon nanotube, Nature Phys. 9, 576 (2013).
Publications
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Toroz D, Rontani M, Corni S (2013) Proposed alteration of images of molecular orbitals obtained using a scanning tunneling microscope as a probe of electron correlation. Phys rev lett 110: 018305.
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Pecker S, Kuemmeth F, Secchi A, Rontani M, Ralph DC, et al. (2013) Observation and spectroscopy of a two-electron Wigner molecule in an ultraclean carbon nanotube. Nat Phys 9: 576.
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Rossella F, Bertoni A, Ercolani D, Rontani M, Sorba L, et al. (2014) Nanoscale spin rectifiers controlled by the Stark effect. Nat Nanotechnol 9: 997-1001.
