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The ILL Theory Group

The primary research themes in the group are many body and statistical physics of condensed matter, and soft matter.

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A. Cano

Andres Cano

 Phone Number

+33 4 76 20 72 35

 Room

144-Common Building

 Fax Number

+33 4 76 88 24 16

 E-mail

cano(at)ill.fr


Research Interests

  • Multiferroicity and magnetoelectric phenomena
  • Transport in disordered systems
  • Structural phase transitions:
    - Quantum phase transitions
    - Surface phase transitions
    - Incommensurate phases
  • Superconductivity
  • Quantum mechanics and dissipation
  • Analog gravity


Selected Papers

  • Electromagnon resonances in the optical response of spiral magnets
    A. Cano
    arXiv:0902.0495

  • Koshino-Taylor effect in graphene
    A. Cano
    Physical Review B 79, 153410 (2009); arXiv:0809.1996

  • Electromagnon excitations in modulated multiferroics
    A. Cano and E.I. Kats
    Physical Review B 78, 012104 (2008); arXiv:0712.2138

  • Adatom-adatom interaction mediated by an underlying surface phase transition
    I. Brihuega, A. Cano, M.M. Ugeda, J.J. Sáenz, A.P. Levanyuk and J.M. Gómez-Rodríguez
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 156102 (2007)

  • Stability analysis of sonic horizons in Bose-Einstein condensates
    C. Barceló, A. Cano, L.J. Garay and G. Jannes
    Phys. Rev. D 74, 024008 (2006); gr-qc/0603089

  • (√3X√3)R30°↔(3×3) phase transition in Pb/Ge(111) and Sn/Ge(111): A phenomenological
    study on the phase transition anomalies and the role of defects
    A. Cano, A.P. Levanyuk and E.G. Michel
    Nanotechnology 16, 325 (2005)

  • Strong effect of surfaces on resolution limit of negative-index "superlens"
    A.M. Bratkovsky, A. Cano and A.P. Levanyuk
    Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 103507 (2005); cond-mat/0412684

  • Explanation of the glass-like anomaly in the low-temperature specific heat of
    incommensurate phases
    A. Cano and A.P. Levanyuk
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 245902 (2004) cond-mat/0404437

  • Low-temperature specific heat of real crystals: Possibility of leading contribution
    of optical and short-wavelength acoustical vibrations
    A. Cano and A.P. Levanyuk
    Phys. Rev. B 70, 212301 (2004); cond-mat/0404063

  • Low-temperature structural phase transitions: Phonon-like and relaxation
    order-parameter dynamics
    A. Cano and A.P. Levanyuk
    Phys. Rev. B 70, 064104 (2004); cond-mat/0404140

  • Elasticity-driven interaction between vortices in type–II superconductors
    A. Cano, A.P. Levanyuk and S.A. Minyukov
    Phys. Rev. B 68, 44515 (2003); cond-mat/0303342

  • Universal mechanism of discontinuity of commensurate-incommensurate transitions
    in three-dimensional solids: Strain dependence of soliton self-energy
    A.P. Levanyuk, S.A. Minyukov and A. Cano
    Phys. Rev. B 66, 014111 (2002); cond-mat/0110469

  • Defects as a cause of continuity of normal-incommensurate phase transitions
    A. Cano and A.P. Levanyuk
    Phys. Rev. B 62, 12014 (2000); cond-mat/9912130



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