Yonatan Dubi, Ph.D. Department of Chemistry Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva 84105 Israel Ph: +972.8.6461.3180 e-mail: [email protected] web: https://sites.google.com/site/dubij76
Education and research experience
Senior lecturer
Department of chemistry, Ben-Gurion University 2012
Research Physicist
Landa Laboratories, alternative energy division. 2011- 2012
Responsibilities include developing theoretical framework, conceiving experiments and determining future research directions in the field of novel energy-related nanoscale devices.
Post-Doctoral research Scholar
School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel-Aviv University 2010- 2011
Post-Doctoral research Scholar at the Theoretical division (T-4)
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 2009- 2010 Principal investigator: A. V. Balatsky Projects: Properties of Exciton condensates Disorder effects in superconductors and correlated systems Hidden Order in heavy Fermion materials
Post-Doctoral Fellow at the physics dept.
University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA 2007-2009 Main projects: Thermo-electric effects in nanoscale junctions. Other projects: Theory of open quantum systems Effects of environment on interacting qubits Hysteresis and interactions in VO2 nano-junctions Principle investigator: M. Di Ventra
Ph.D. in Physics
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel 3002-2007 Dissertation: “Transport and other properties of disordered superconductors and superconducting thin films” Advisors: Prof. Yigal Meir Prof. Yshai Avishai
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M.Sc. in Physics
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel 3002-2003 Thesis: “a percolation type approach to the quantum hall transition”
B.Sc. in Physics cum laude magna
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel 2991-2001
Awards
Tel-Aviv University Nano Center post-doctoral scholarship ($20K/year) 2010
VATAT (Israel council for higher education) post-doctoral fellowship 2010 Charles Kittel Award (first prize for best theoretical research by a post- doctoral fellow), given by the California section of the American Physical Society, Los-
Angeles, CA, USA. 2008 Charles Kittel Award (first prize for best theoretical research by a post- doctoral fellow), given by the California section of the American Physical Society, Berkeley,
CA, USA. 2007
Intel® Award for outstanding graduate student (Israel, nation-wide) 2006
Faculty of Natural Sciences Dean's prize for excellent graduate student 2005 Recipient of the Kreitman Foundation fellowship, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
(4 year stipend of ~$10000 per year) 2003
BGU Head of Department of Physics award for excellence 2002 B. Sc. graduation with honors. M. Sc. graduation with honors.
Teaching experience
I have been a teacher assistant starting from my 3rd undergraduate year. Undergraduate level courses: Mechanics, Electromagnetism, Optics, solid state physics, statistical mechanics and thermodynamics Graduate level courses: solid state, statistical mechanics, mesoscopic physics Co-lecturer – “Optics for laboratory medicine” (undergraduate level course).
Invited talks and presentations
Invited talk and tutorial lectures to be given at the ICTP “Advanced Workshop on Energy Transport in Low-Dimensional Systems”, to be held at ICTP Trieste,
Italy. Oct. 2012
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Colloquium, Energy transport and conversion at the Nano-scale, Dep. Of Physics ,
Northeastern University, Boston MA, USA. Mar. 2012 Colloquium, Energy transport and conversion at the Nano-scale, Dep. Of Physical
Chemistry, ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel. Mar. 2012 Invited seminars at Israeli universities (Tel-Aviv University, Hebrew University, Techion, Bar- Ilan Univeristy), Oct.-Nov. 2010, “Unraveling the ‘Fano Lattice’ and ‘Hidden order’ in the heavy fermion material URu2Si2”. Invited talk, “Nordic conference on correlated electron systems”, held on August 2011, Uppsala, Sweden (replaced). Series of four Invited lectures given in universities all around Taiwan (NTU, NCHU, ISU). Visit if fully funded by grant NSC09-9291-2-I00-215-9 of the Taiwan National
Science Council (NSC). Oct. 2010 Invited talk given at the workshop “Superconductor-Insulator transitions”, Argonne National
Lab, Argonne IL Nov. 2010 Invited seminar “Unraveling the ‘Fano Lattice’ and ‘Hidden order’ in the heavy fermion material URu2Si2”, given at the condensed matter seminar at UC San-Diego
Nov. 2010 Invited talk “Fluctuations in ultrathin disordered superconducting films” given at the CECAM workshop “Superconductivity in nanosized systems”, Laussane, Switzerland
Jul. 2010 Invited talk “An open quantum system approach to thermopower in nanoscale junctions”, at the workshop “Quantum Transport in Nanoscale Molecular Systems”, Telluride, CO.
Aug. 2009 Invited talk “The nature of the Superconductor-Insulator Transition in thin films”, at
the CalTech condensed matter theory seminar, Pasadena CA, USA Nov. 2007 “Thermo-spin effects in a quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic leads”, oral presentation at the
APS March Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA Mar. 2009 “Reconstructing Fourier’s law from disorder in quantum wires”, oral presentation at the APS
March Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA Mar. 2009
“Thermoelectricity at the Nanoscale”, UCSD condensed matter seminar. Feb. 2009 “Reconstructing Fourier’s law from disorder in quantum wires”, oral presentation at “Statistical
Mechanics Conference”, Rutgers University, NJ, USA Dec. 2008 “Reconstructing Fourier’s law from disorder in quantum wires”, short talk Presented at the California Branch APS meeting, Los Angeles CA, USA. Awarded
the Charles Kittel Award (first prize). Oct. 2008 “A new approach to thermo-electric effects in nano-structures”, Oral presentation at
the APS march meeting, New Orleans USA. Mar. 2008 “A new approach to thermo-electric effects in nano-structures”, poster presentation, at the
conference “New horizons in condensed matter physics”, Aspen CO,USA Feb. 2008 “The nature of the Superconductor-Insulator Transition in thin films”, short talk Presented at the California Branch APS meeting, LBNL, Berkeley CA, USA. Awarded
the Charles Kittel Award (first prize). Nov. 2007 Invited talk "Phase-Fluctuations, SC islands and the Super-Conductor-Insulator transition",
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given at the conference "Fluctuations and Phase transitions in uperconductors" in Nazareth
,Israel, Jul. 2007. Invited Colloquiam "A Leyman's introduction to disordered superconductors", given at
KMG (Israel nuclear research center), Feb. 2007 "On transport and other properties of disordered superconducting thin films",
Seminars given at Harvard, Stony-Brook and Rutgers Universities Jan. 2007 "Relation between local and global properties in the negative-U Hubbard model", poster presentation at "Nanoscale Superconductivity and Magnetizm", Leuven Belgium,
Jul. 2006 "A unified approach to 2D phase transitions, including the superconductor-insulator transition and related topics", Oral seminar in “Strongly correlated electrons day", Technion, Haifa, Israel
Feb. 2005. “Theory of magneto-resistance in thin superconducting films”, Oral presentation, IPS
annual meeting, Haifa ,Israel Dec. 2004 “A Unified approach to phase transitions in two dimensions”, Oral seminar, Les-
Houches summer school Aug. 2004 “A Unified approach to phase transitions in 2 dimensions”, A Poster presentation, in "XXXIXth Renconters de Moriond – Quantum information and decoherence in
Nanosystems", La-Tuile, Italy Jan. 2004 “A Percolation-Type model for the QH transition”, Oral presentation, IPS annual
meeting, Ramat-Gan, Israel Dec. 2003 “A Percolation-Type model for the QH transition”, Poster presentation, in “QHE-past,
present & future “, MPI-Stutgart, Germay, Jul. 2003
Special academic activities
Participant of the 5th Boulder school of condensed matter physics- Mesoscopic physics, Boulder
Colorado USA 2005 Participant in the Les-Houches summer school on "Nanoscopic Quantum Transport", Les-
Houches, France 2004 Participant in the SESAME Workshop on Synchrotron theory and operation, held at Al-
Balqa, Jordan 1999
Referee for Phys. Rev. Letters, Phys. Rev. B, Applied physics letters, Physica B , J. Phys. B & C, ACS Nano and Nano Letters.
Other
Volunteer lecturer from “Basha’ar” – Israeli organization to the promotion of Academia in the community. I gave numerous popular talks on condensed matter in high-schools at the Israeli periphery.
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Music – (almost) professional player of the flute and saxophones. Volunteer playing in elderly retirement homes.
Refereed Publications
1. J.-X. Zhu, J.-P. Julien, Y. Dubi and A. V. Balatsky, Local Electronic Structure and Fano Interference on Tunneling into a Kondo Hole System, Phys. Rev. Lett. in press. 2. C. Feng and Y, Dubi, Microwave-mediated thermoelectric effect in a quantum dot, J. Phys.:Condens. Matter 24,145301 (2012).
3. J. Haraldsen, Y. Dubi and A. V. Balatsky, Hidden order pseudogap in URu2Si2, Phys. Rev. B 84, 214410 (2011). 4. S. Hacohen-Gourgy, I. Diamant, B. Almog, Y. Dubi and G. Deutscher, Temperature dependence of the tunneling density of states in sub-micron planar metal/oxide/grapheme junctions, App. Phys. Letters 99, 172108 (2011). 5. M. H. Hamidian, A.R. Schmidt, I. Firmo, P. Bradley, J.D Garrett, T.J. Williams, G.M. Luke, Y. Dubi, A.V. Balatsky, and J.C. Davis, Atomic scale electronic structure of a Kondo-hole in a heavy Fermion metal, PNAS in press. 6. K. Velizhanin, C. -C. Chen, Y. Dubi and M. Zwolak, Driving Denaturation - thermal transport across as a probe for DNA denaturation, Phys. Rev. E. 83, 050906 (2011).
7. Y. Dubi and A. V. Balatsky, Hybridization wave as the ‘Hidden Order’ in URu2Si2 , Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 086401 (2011). 8. J. J. Su, Y. Dubi, P. Wolfle and A. V. Balatsky, Charge Density Wave at the
'Hidden Order' state of URu2Si2 , J. Phys. Condens. Matter 23, 094214 (2011). 9. P. Wolfle, Y. Dubi and A. V. Balatsky, Origin of the Fano lineshape in the tunneling spectra of heavy fermion systems , Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 246401 (2011). 10. Y. Dubi and M. Di Ventra, Colloquium: Heat flow and thermoelectricity in atomic and molecular junctions, Review of Modern Physics, 83, 131 (2011). 11. Y. Dubi and A. V. Balatsky, Impurity induced bound states and proximity effect in a bilayer exciton condensate, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 166802 (2010). 12. Y. Dubi and M. Di Ventra, maintaining the local critical temperature of thermally out-of-equilibrium superconducting wires below the critical value, Phys. Rev. B 80, 214510 (2009). This paper has been highlighted in “New Scientist” Magazine (issue 2736, http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427365.400-superconductors-can- come-in-from-the-cold.html). 13. Y. Dubi and M. Di Ventra, Fourier’s law-a simple derivation from local
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equilibrium, Phys. Rev. E 79, 042101 (2009). 14. G. Ramirez, A. Sharoni, Y. Dubi, M.Gomez and I. K. Schuller, First-order reversal curve measurements of the metal-insulator transition in VO2 : Signatures of persistent metallic domains, Phys. Rev. B 79, 235110 (2009). 15. Y. Dubi and M. Di Ventra, Reconstructing Fourier’s law from disorder in quantum wires, Phys. Rev. B 79, 115415 (2009). 16. Y. Dubi and M. Di Ventra, Thermo-spin effects in a quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic leads, Phys. Rev. B 79, 081302(R) (2009). 17. M. Di Ventra and Y. Dubi, Information compressibility, entropy production and approach to steady state, Europhysics Letters 84, 40004 (2009). 18. Y. Dubi and M. Di Ventra, Relaxation times in an open interacting two-qubit system , Phys. Rev. A 79, 012328 (2009). 19. Y. Dubi and M. Di Ventra, Theory of thermo-electric effects in nanoscale junctions, Nano Letters 9, 97 (2009). 20. Yu. V. Pershin, Y. Dubi and M. Di Ventra, Effective single-particle order-N scheme for the dynamics of open non-interacting many-body systems, Phys. Rev. B. 78, 054302 (2008). 21. Y. Dubi, Y. Meir and Y. Avishai, Island formation in disordered superconducting thin films at finite magnetic fields, Phys. Rev. B. 78, 042502 (2008). 22. Y. Dubi, Y. Meir and Y. Avishai, Nature of the superconductor-insulator transition in thin films, Nature 449, 876 (2007). 23. Y. Dubi, Y. Meir and Y. Avishai, Superconducting islands, phase fluctuations and the superconnductor-Insulator Transition , Physica C: Superconductivity, Volume 468, Issue 4, 15 February 2008, Pages 354 (Contribution to the proceedings of "Fluctuations and phase transitions in superconductors", Nazareth Ilit, Israel, 2007). 24. Y. Dubi , Pair Correlations and the survival of superconductivity in and around a super- conducting impurity, Phys. Rev. B 75, 094510 (2007), awarded the Intel® Prize of 2006. 25. Y. Dubi, Y. Meir and Y. Avishai, Local current distribution and "Hot Spots" in the integer quantum Hall regime, Phys. Rev. B 74, 205314 (2006). 26. S. Dubi, C. Dubi and Y. Dubi, A two phase harmonic model for left ventricular function, Medical Physics and Engineering, 29, 984–988 (2007). 27. Y. Dubi, Y. Meir and Y. Avishai, Theory of magneto-resistance in thin superconducting films, Phys. Rev. B 73, 054509 (2006) . 28. Y. Dubi, Y. Meir and Y. Avishai, A unifying model for several two-dimensional phase transitions, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 156406 (2005). 29. Y. Dubi, Y. Meir and Y. Avishai, Quantum Hall Criticality, Superconductor- Insulator Transition and Quantum Percolation ,Phys. Rev. B, 71, 125311 (2005). 30. S. Biderman, Y. S. Horowitz, L. Oster, Y. Einav and Y. Dubi, Glow Curve Analysis of Composite Peak 5 in LiF: Mg, Ti (TLD-100) Using Optical Bleaching, Thermal Annealing and Computerized Glow Curve Deconvolution, Radiat.Prot.Dosim.101 (1- 4), pp.69-72 (2002).
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Submitted manuscripts and papers in preparation
1. C. -C. Chen, K. Velizhanin, Y. Dubi and M. Zwolak, Engineering DNA for thermal switching, in preparation. 2. Y. Dubi, J.-X. Zhu and A. V. Balatsky, Gap modulation near a Kondo-hole in a hybridized heavy-fermion system, in preparation. 3. Y. Dubi, Origin of thermopower fluctuations in molecular junctions, in preparation.
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