CURRICULUM VITAE ET STUDIORUM
Maria Teresa Mercaldo
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Maria Teresa Mercaldo |
| Name: | Maria Teresa Mercaldo |
| Birthdate: | January 11, 1974 |
| Birthplace: | Naples, Italy |
| Citizenship: | Italian |
| Working Address: | Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello" |
| Università di Salerno, Via Ponte don Melillo - 84084 Fisciano (SA) - Italy | |
| tel.: +39 089 96 9436; fax: +39 089 96 9658 | |
| E-mail: | mtm "at" physics.unisa.it |
| Actual Position: | Researcher at University of Salerno since October 1, 2007 |
| Education: | * June 26, 1997 - Master in Physics (110/110 cum laude) - University of Salerno - "Spin-glass effects on critical phenomena in quantum systems with quenched disorder". Supervisor: prof. L. De Cesare. |
| * March 19, 2001 – Ph.D. in Physics - University of Salerno - "Quantum phase transitions and quenched disorder effects" - Advisors: Prof. L. De Cesare and Prof. T. R. Kirkpatrick. | |
| Languages: | Italian, English, French. |
| Post Graduate Studies | * November 1997 - October 2000 - Ph.D in Physics at the University of Salerno, Italy. Advisor: Prof. L. De Cesare. |
| * April - August 1999 - Visiting-research period at University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland (USA). Local advisor: Prof. T. R. Kirkpatrick. | |
| * May 24-30, 1999 - Visiting-research period at University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon (USA). | |
| * October 26 - December 2, 1999 - Visiting-research period at University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland (USA). | |
| * November 20, 2000 - March 19, 2001 - INFM contract of scientific collaboration on the project "Quantum phase transitions in magnetic systems and quenched disorder effects" | |
| * March 23, 2000 - June 22, 2001 - INFM contract of scientific collaboration on the project "Quantum critical behavior in systems with defects and/or impurities" | |
| * July 1, 2001 - June 30, 2005 - Post Doc at University of Salerno on the research project "Quantum phase transitions and quenched disorder effects" | |
| * October 15, 2002 - September 30, 2003 - Visitor-Post Doc at CRTBT-CNRS, Grenoble (France) | |
| * December 2003 - Visiting-research period at CRTBT-CNRS, Grenoble (France) | |
| * May 24 - June 25, 2004 - Visiting-research period at CRTBT-CNRS, Grenoble (France) | |
| * March 14 - 31, 2005 - Visiting-research period at CRTBT-CNRS, Grenoble (France) | |
| * August 1, 2005 - September 30, 2007- Post Doc at University of Salerno on the research project "Quantum phase transitions in disordered systems" |
| Research Activities | Critical phenomena in classical systems with extended disorder and replica symmetry breaking effects. | ||||||
| Functional approach and renormalization group for interacting fermions with and without quenched disorder. | |||||||
| Quantum critical behavior of itinerant disordered ferromagnets. | |||||||
| Numerical analysis (using Combinatorial Optimization and Monte Carlo methods) of disordered classical systems | |||||||
| Teaching Experience | Mathematics and Physics in High School in Pagani (SA), Italy. | ||||||
| Training course of "Dynamic of systems of particles and of rigid bodies" for physics students at University of Salerno, Italy. (2002) | |||||||
| Training course of "Dynamic of particles and of rigid bodies" and "Linaear Algebra " and for physics students at University of Salerno, Italy.(2004) | |||||||
| Training course of "FC1 (Mechanics and Thermodynamics) " for physics students at University of Salerno, Italy (years 2007/08; 2008/09; 2009/10) | |||||||
| Course of "Thermodynamics" for "ambient science" students at University of Salerno, Italy (year 2008/09) | |||||||
| Training course of General Physics 1 for physics students at University of Salerno, Italy (years 2010/11; 2011/12) | |||||||
| Course of Modern Physics for math students at University of Salerno, Italy (year 2011/12) | |||||||
| Professional services | Referee of Physical Review B since April 2001 and of Physical Review Letters since December 2001. | ||||||
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| Conferences and Schools attended | Contributions to conferences | Seminars |
| Publications | * Spin-glass effects on critical behavior in
systems with extended disorder L. De Cesare and M.T. Mercaldo, Physical Review B 59, 855 (1999) |
| * Replicon modes and fixed point marginal
stability in systems with extended impurities L. De Cesare and M.T. Mercaldo, Physical Review B 60, 2976 (1999) |
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| * Critical phenomena in systems with anisotropic
quenched disorder L. De Cesare and M.T. Mercaldo, Physics Letters A 264, 214 (1999) |
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| * Local field theory for disordered itinerant
quantum ferromagnet D. Belitz, T.R. Kirkpatrick, M.T. Mercaldo, and S.L. Sessions, Physical Review B 63, 174427 (2001) |
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| * Quantum critical behavior in disordered
itinerant ferromagnets: Logarithmic corrections to scaling D. Belitz, T.R. Kirkpatrick, M.T. Mercaldo, and S.L. Sessions, Physical Review B 63, 174428 (2001) |
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| * Exotic quantum phase transition in systems
with quenched disorder L. De Cesare and M.T. Mercaldo, Physical Review B 65,024202 (2002) |
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| * Transport anomalies and marginal Fermi-liquid
effects at a quantum critical point D. Belitz, S.L. Sessions, T.R. Kirkpatrick, M.T. Mercaldo, R. Narayanan, and T. Vojta, in "Recent progress in Many Body Theories", edt. by R.F. Bishop et al, (World Scientific, 2002) |
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| * Weak Localization Effects at the Quantum
Ferromagnetic Transition S.L. Sessions, D. Belitz, T. R. Kirkpatrick, and M.T. Mercaldo, Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 72A, 171 (2003) |
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| * Quantum critical properties of a spin-1/2 Heisenberg ferromagnet with easy-plane anisotropy in a tranverse field A. Caramico D'Auria, L. De Cesare, M.T. Mercaldo, and I. Rabuffo, Physics Letters A 318, 156 (2003) |
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| * Transport anomalies and marginal Fermi-liquid
effects at a quantum critical point D. Belitz, S.L. Sessions, T.R. Kirkpatrick, M.T. Mercaldo, R. Narayanan, and T. Vojta, International Journal of Modern Physics B 17, 5041 (2003) |
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| * Disorder-induced rounding of the phase transition in the large q-state Potts model M.T. Mercaldo, J-Ch. Anglès d'Auriac, and F. Iglói, Physical Review E 69, 056112 (2004) |
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| * Quantum criticality of a planar Heisenberg ferromagnet in a transverse magnetic field A. Caramico D'Auria, L. De Cesare, M.T. Mercaldo, and I. Rabuffo, Physica A 351, 294 (2005). |
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| * Disorder driven phase transitions of the large q-state Potts model in three dimensions M.T. Mercaldo, J-Ch. Anglès d'Auriac, and F. Iglói, Europhysics Letters 70, 733 (2005). |
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| * Quantum critical scenario from an effective classical renormalization
group treatment close to and below four dimensions M.T. Mercaldo, I. Rabuffo, A. Caramico D'Auria, and L. De Cesare, Physics Letters A 344, 395 (2005). |
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| * Critical and tricritical singularities of the
three-dimensional random-bond Potts model for large q M.T. Mercaldo, J-Ch. Anglès d'Auriac, and F. Iglói, Physical Review E 73, 026126 (2006). |
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| * Field-Induced Quantum Criticality of Systems with Ferromagnetically Coupled Structural Spin Units I. Rabuffo, M.T. Mercaldo, L. De Cesare, and A. Caramico D'Auria, Physics Letters A 356, 174 (2006). |
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| * A non-conventional approach to study the quenched impurity effects on quantum criticality A. Caramico D'Auria, L. De Cesare, M.T. Mercaldo, and I. Rabuffo, Physics Letters A 356, 178 (2006). |
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| * Unified static renormalization-group treatment of finite-temperature crossovers close to a quantum critical point M.T. Mercaldo, L. De Cesare, I. Rabuffo, and A. Caramico D'Auria, Physical Review B 75, 014105 (2007). |
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| * Low-temperature critical properties and crossovers of a spin-(1/2) planar ferromagnet in 4-epsilon dimensions M.T. Mercaldo, A. Caramico D'Auria, L. De Cesare, I. Rabuffo, Physical Review B 77, 184424 (2008). |
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| * Two-time Green's function treatment of field-induced quantum criticality of a d-dimensional easy-plane ferromagnet with longitudinal uniform interactions L.S. Campana, L. De Cesare, U. Esposito and M.T. Mercaldo, Physica A 388,1446-1462 (2009). |
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| * Self-consistent approach to quenched impurity effects
on quantum phase transitions L. De Cesare, M.T. Mercaldo, I. Rabuffo, J. Phys. Conf. Series 150, 042022 (2009). |
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| * Field-induced quantum criticality of a spin-1/2 planar ferromagnet M.T. Mercaldo, I. Rabuffo, A. Caramico D`Auria, L. De Cesare J. Phys. Conf. Series 150, 042023 (2009). |
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| * Disorder-induced quantum-Griffiths-like features from
a non conventional renormalization group analysis near four dimensions
I. Rabuffo, M.T. Mercaldo, A. Caramico D`Auria, L. De Cesare Physica A 388, 4523-4534 (2009). |
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| * Scaling functions for classical to quantum crossover in the
transverse Ising model via an effective Wilsonian renormalization
group approach in 4-ε dimensions L. De Cesare, A. Caramico D`Auria, I. Rabuffo, M.T. Mercaldo Eur. Phys. J. B 73, 327-339 (2010). |
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| * Field-induced quantum critical point in planar Heisenberg ferromagnets
with long-range interactions: Two-time Green’s function framework L.S. Campana, L. De Cesare, U. Esposito, M.T. Mercaldo, and I. Rabuffo Phys. Rev. B 82, 024409 (2010). |
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| * Quantum-like criticality for a classical
transverse Ising model in 4-ε dimensions A. Caramico D`Auria, L. De Cesare, M.T. Mercaldo, I. Rabuffo, Eur. Phys. J. B 77, 419-427 (2010). |
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| * Quantum tricriticality in transverse Ising-like systems M.T. Mercaldo, I. Rabuffo, A. Naddeo, A. Caramico D`Auria,and L. De Cesare , Eur. Phys. J. B 84, 371-379 (2011). |
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| * Quantum criticality of d-dimensional n-vector transverse
Ising-like models: New renormalization group features
for d <= 3 A. Caramico D`Auria, L. De Cesare M.T. Mercaldo, A. Naddeo, I. Rabuffo Physica A 392, 3997-4008 (2013). |
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| * Magnetic-field-induced quantum criticality in a spin-S
planar ferromagnet with single-ion anisotropy M.T. Mercaldo, I. Rabuffo, L. De Cesare, A. Caramico D`Auria Eur. Phys. J. B 86, 340 (2013). |
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| * Magnetic-field-induced quantum criticality in a planar ferromagnet with single-ion anisotropy
M.T. Mercaldo, I. Rabuffo, A. Caramico D`Auria, L. De Cesare J. Phys. Conf. Series 529, 012019 (2014). |
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| * Reentrant phenomena in a three-dimensional spin-1 planar ferromagnet with easy-axis single-ion anisotropy M.T. Mercaldo, I. Rabuffo, L. De Cesare, A. Caramico D`Auria J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 364, 85-94 (2014). |
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| * Quantum critical scenario in a three-dimensional XY model with an easy-plane single-ion anisotropy via a renormalization group analysis
I. Rabuffo, L. De Cesare, A. Caramico D`Auria, M.T. Mercaldo, J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 382, 237-246 (2015). |
