BORN: 1955, Viareggio (Italy)
EDUCATION:
1978, Degree 'Dottore in Fisica', Pisa (Italy)
SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS:
- Vibrational properties of extended systems
- Electronic, structural, and dynamical properties
of metal surfaces
- Thermal properties of extended systems,
studied within the
quasi-harmonic approximation
- Pressure-induced lattice instabilities
of materials
- Quantum simulations of interacting fermions
and bosons
- Algorithms for large-scale electronic-structure
calculations
SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION:
About 140 scientific papers published in international journals
and
refereed conference proceedings. These papers have been cited in
more
than 1,400 other scientific articles in the international literature
(roughly 2,100 hits) over the past 10 years (source: ISI, February
2001).
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
- B.B. Karki, R.M. Wentzcovitch, S. de Gironcoli,
and S. Baroni, High pressure lattice dynamics
and thermoelasticity of MgO, submitted to Phys. Rev. B.
- R. Gebauer and S. Baroni, Magnons
in real materials from density-functional theory, Phys.
Rev. B (RC), in press.
- N. Vast and S. Baroni, Effects
of isotopic disorder on the Raman spectra of crystals: theory
and ab-initio calculations for diamond and germanium, Phys.
Rev. B, in press.
- R. Gebauer, S. Serra, G. Chiarotti, S.
Scandolo, S. Baroni, and E. Tosatti, Non-collinear
spin polarization from frustrated anti-ferromagnetism: a possible
scenario for molecular oxygen at high pressure, Phys. Rev.
B, 61, 6145 (2000).
- B.B. Karki, R.M. Wentzcovitch, S. de Gironcoli,
and S. Baroni, Elastic anisotropy and wave
velocity of MgO at lower mantle conditions, Science,
(1999).
- A.M. Saitta, S. de Gironcoli, and S. Baroni,
Effects of disorder on the optical properties
of the (Zn,Mg)(S,Se) quaternary alloy, Appl. Phys. Lett.,
75, 2746 (1999).
- R. Lazzari, N. Vast, J.M. Besson, S. Baroni
, and A. Dal Corso, Atomic structure and
vibrational properties of icosahedral B4C boron carbide,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3230 (1999).
- Janjun Xie, S.P. Chen, J.S. Tse, Stefano
de Gironcoli, and Stefano Baroni, High-pressure
thermal expansion, bulk modulus, and phonon structure of diamond,
Phys. Rev. B 60, 9444 (1999).
- Jianjun Xie, S.P. Chen, Stefano de Gironcoli,
and Stefano Baroni, Thermodynamic properties
and lattice dynamics of silver at high pressure: a first-principles
study, Phil. Mag. B 79, 911 (1999).
- D. Alfè, S. de Gironcoli, and S.
Baroni, The reconstruction of Ni and Rh
(001) surfaces upon Carbon, Nitrogen, or Oxygen adsorption,
Surf. Sci., 437, 18 (1999).
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