Fabio PISTOLESI

Latest News

Master, PhD, and a Postdoctoral position are available, contact us for more information and see the Jobs section.

Strong anharmonicity close to the ground state of a mechanical oscillator observed. Have a look to the paper and the press communication.

The 4th edition of FNS will be held in Delft, visit the website https://www.fns2023.nl/

We investigate how in a suspended carbon-nanotube flexural phonons could induce pairing of electrons.

Have a look at the published paper on NanoLetters:

Phonon-Induced Pairing in Quantum Dot Quantum Simulator
Utso Bhattacharya, Tobias Grass, Adrian Bachtold, Maciej Lewenstein, and Fabio Pistolesi
NanoLetters 21, 9661 (2021).  (open access preprint on Hal)

see also the CNRS (in French) news.

We proposed a new kind of qubit based on a nanomechanical oscillator that profits of the exceptional isolation from the environment that mechanical oscillators can afford !

Read more about it in the publication:

Proposal for a nanomechanical qubit, F. Pistolesi, A.N. Cleland, and A. Bachtold, Phys. Rev. X 11, 031027 (2021).

See also the Physics Focus article,       

and the comments on Sciences et Avenir (in French), the CNRS website (in French),  Physics World (English), and  L’Usine Nouvelle (in French).

Our work on “Single-photon emission mediated by single-electron tunneling in plasmonic nanojunctions” .

Workshop on NanoElectronics and Nanomechanics at IBS, Korea.

Two preprints with our recent results quantum transport and optomechanics appeared in July.

• arXiv:1907.11269  [pdf, other]

  Single-photon emission mediated by single-electron tunneling in plasmonic nanojunctions

  Authors: Quentin Schaeverbeke, Rémi Avriller, Thomas Frederiksen, Fabio Pistolesi

• arXiv:1907.11191  [pdf, other]

  Single-molecule topological actuator for nano-mechanical modes

  Authors: C. Dutreix, R. Avriller, B. Lounis, F. Pistolesi

The second edition of Frontiers of NanoMechanical Systems (FNS2019) took place in  Palm Springs, California 10-15 February 2019. We are now planning a third edition in 2021, somewhere in Asia. http://fns2019.org/

Advanced School on Foundations and Applications of Nanomechanics, 18-22 Sep 2017, http://indico.ictp.it/event/7991/

Foundations and Applications of Nanomechanics, workshop, 25-29 Sept 2017,  http://indico.ictp.it/event/8169/

Past News

The “Frontiers of Nanomechanical Systems (FNS)”  conference is the first meeting of a new series of conferences  on nanomechanical resonators. The conferences will focus on all aspects  of nanomechanical resonators, including mechanical nonlinearities, out-of-equilibrium phenomena, dissipation, noise, sensing applications, and the coupling of mechanical vibrations to other degrees of freedom, such as electrons, nuclear spins, photons and phonons. The motivation to create a new conference series is to foster the community working on nano-mechanical resonators, and to have a forum where the nanomechanics community meets on a regular basis.

For more informations please visit the website of the conference  http://fns-conference.org/

The strong coupling between mechanical and electronic degrees of freedom can block the current and lead to a transition that resembles, for some aspects, to that observed in critical phenomena. Details can be found in the preprint (arXiv:1507.05017 [pdf, other]) and in the paper published on  Phys. Rev. Lett. 2015.

The study of the transition from 0 to Pi of a Josephson junction in presence of interaction and fluctuations induced by quasiparticles (see  R. Avriller and  F. Pistolesi, Phys Rev. Lett. 114, 037003 (2015) , PDF) has been the object of an outreach article of the Institut de Physique (INP) of the CNRS (click on the figure, article in French).

Workshop ‘NanoElectroMechanical Systems and Beyond‘ takes place in Bordeaux organized by F. Pistolesi and R. Avriller.

A Dutch group following a recent proposal of V. Puller, B. Lounis, and F. Pistolesi detects the motion of an mechanical oscillator. See the article in Physics and on Phys. Rev. Lett.

Focus: Single Molecule Microphone Philip Ball, Physics 7, 98 – Published September 26, 2014A single molecule can work as a vibration sensor that can detect displacements nearly as small as a proton.

Lectures

25-30 August 2014, Lectures at International Casimir, San Sebastien, Espagne.  Nanoelectromechanical systems.

Slides

Topics

Nanoelectromechanics and opto-mechanics

Quantum technologies

Quantum transport in normal and superconducting systems

Collaborations

Present and past collaborators

• Giancarlo Strinati

• Carlo Di Castro

• Claudio Castellani

• Philippe Nozières

• Nicola Manini

• Frank Hekking

• Manuel Houzet

• Rosario Fazio

• Yaroslav Blanter

• Andrew Armour

• Dmitry Bagrets

• Ivar Martin

• Valerii Vinokur

• Felix von Oppen

• Guillaume Weick

• Gianluca Rastelli

• Sebastian Bergeret

• Rémi Avriller

• Brahim Lounis

• Gianluca Micchi

• Thomas Frederiksen

• Adrian Bachtold

Publications

Google Scholar

Nanomechanical vibrational response from electrical mixing measurements
C. Samanta, D. A. Czaplewski, S. L. De Bonis, C. B. Møller, R. Tormo-Queralt, C. S. Miller, Y. Jin, F. Pistolesi, A. Bachtold
Appl. Phys. Lett. 123, 203502 (2023).

Nonlinear nanomechanical resonators approaching the quantum ground state
C. Samanta, S. L. De Bonis, C. B. Møller, R. Tormo-Queralt, W. Yang, C. Urgell, B. Stamenic, B. Thibeault, Y. Jin, D. A. Czaplewski, F. Pistolesi and A. Bachtold Nature Physics, 19, 1340 (2023).

Steady-state Peierls transition in nanotube quantum simulator
Lin Zhang, Utso Bhattacharya, Adrian Bachtold, Stefan Forstner, Maciej Lewenstein, Fabio Pistolesi & Tobias Grass
npj quantum information 9, 4 (2023)

Effective temperature and dissipation of a gas of active particles probed by the vibrations of a flexible membrane
Jean François Boudet, Julie Jagielka, Thomas Guerin, Thomas Barois, Fabio Pistolesi, Hamid Kellay
Phys. Rev. Res. 4, 4, L042006 (2022)

Photon-emission statistics induced by electron tunneling in plasmonic nanojunctions
R. Avriller, Q. Schaeverbeke, T. Frederiksen, and F. Pistolesi
Phys. Rev. B 104, L24143 (2021), PDF.

Phonon-Induced Pairing in Quantum Dot Quantum Simulator
Utso Bhattacharya, Tobias Grass, Adrian Bachtold, Maciej Lewenstein, and Fabio Pistolesi
NanoLetters 21, 9661 (2021). (preprint)

Proposal for a nanomechanical qubit
F. Pistolesi, A.N. Cleland, and A. Bachtold
Phys. Rev. X 11, 031027 (2021).

Two-level system as topological actuator for nanomechanical modes
C. Dutreix, R. Avriller, B. Lounis, F. Pistolesi
Phys. Rev. Res. 2, 023268 (2020).

Single-photon emission mediated by single-electron tunneling in plasmonic nanojunctions
Q. Schaeverbeke, R. Avriller, T. Frederiksen, F. Pistolesi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 246601 (2019).

Bistability of a slow mechanical oscillator coupled to a laser-driven two-level system
F. Pistolesi
Phys. Rev. A 97, 063833 (2018). PDF

Bistability and displacement fluctuations in a quantum nanomechanical oscillator
R. Avriller, B. Murr, and F. Pistolesi
Phys. Rev. B 97, 155414 (2018).PDF

Sensitivity of the mixing-current technique for the detection of mechanical motion in the coherent tunnelling regime
Y. Wang, G. Micchi, and F. Pistolesi
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 29 465304 (2017)., PDF.

Sensitivity of mixing-current technique to detect nanomechanical motion
Y. Wang and F. Pistolesi
Phys. Rev. B 95, 035410 (2017), PDF.

Electromechanical transition in quantum dots
G. Micchi, R. Avriller, and F. Pistolesi
Phys. Rev. B 94, 12417 (2016) , PDF.

Scaling laws for the bifurcation escape rate in a nanomechanical resonator
M. Defoort, V. Puller, O. Bourgeois, F. Pistolesi, and E. Collin
Phys. Rev. E 92, 050903(R) (2015) , PDF.

Mechanical Signatures of the Current Blockade Instability in Suspended Carbon Nanotubes
G. Micchi, R. Avriller, and F. Pistolesi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 206802 (2015), PDF.

Tunable spin-polaron state in a singly clamped semiconducting carbon nanotube
F. Pistolesi and R. Shekhter
Phys. Rev. B 92, 035423 (2015), PDF.

Andreev Bound-States Dynamics in Quantum-Dot Josephson Junctions: A Washing Out of the 0-pi Transition
R. Avriller and  F. Pistolesi
Phys Rev. Lett. 114, 037003 (2015) , PDF.

Single Molecule Detection of Nanomechanical Motion
V. Puller, B. Lounis, and F. Pistolesi
Phys Rev. Lett. 110, 125501 (2013) ,  PDF, Abstract.

Quantum current noise from a Born-Markov master equation
P. G. Kirton, A. D. Armour, M. Houzet, and F. Pistolesi
Phys Rev. B 86, 081305(R) (2012) ,  PDF .

Large current noise in nanoelectromechanical systems close to continuous mechanical instabilities
J. Brüggemann, G. Weick, F. Pistolesi, F. von Oppen
Phys Rev. B 85, 125441 (2012) ,  PDF .

Advances in nanoelectromechanical systems
edited by F. Pistolesi
Volume 13, Issue 5, Pages 391-518 (June 2012) .

Interplay of magneto-elastic and polaronic effects in electronic transport through suspended carbon-nanotube quantum dots
G. Rastelli, M. Houzetb, L. Glazman, and F. Pistolesi
C. R. Physique 13, 410 (2012) ,  PDF .

Charge fluctuations in single-electron tunneling oscillations
C. Negri and F. Pistolesi
Phys Rev. B 85, 115416 (2012) ,  PDF .

Detection of ultrafast oscillations in superconducting point contacts by means of supercurrent measurements
R. Avriller, F. S. Bergeret, and F. Pistolesi
Phys Rev. B 84, 195415 (2011) ,  PDF .

Audio mixing in a tri-port nano-electro-mechanical device
M. Defoort, K. Lulla, J.-S. Heron, O. Bourgeois, E. Collin, and F. Pistolesi
Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 233107 (2011) ,  PDF .

Crossover from adiabatic to antiadiabatic quantum pumping with dissipation
F. Pellegrini, C. Negri, F. Pistolesi, N. Manini, G.E. Santoro, and E. Tosatti
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 060401 (2011) ,  PDF .

Euler buckling instability and enhanced current blockade in suspended single-electron transistors G. Weick, F. von Oppen, and F. Pistolesi
Phys. Rev. B 83 035420 (2011), PDF.

Resonant magneto-conductance of a suspended carbon nanotube quantum dot
G. Rastelli, M. Houzet, F. Pistolesi
Europhys. Lett. 89 57003 (2010), PDF.

Cooling a Vibrational Mode Coupled to a Molecular Single-Electron Transistor
F. Pistolesi
J. Low Temp. Phys. 154, 199 (2009), PDF.

Superharmonic Josephson relation at 0/pi junction transition
M. Houzet, V. Vinokur, F. Pistolesi
Phys. Rev. B Rapid Comm. 72 220506 (2005), cond-mat, PDF

Charge shuttle as a nanomechanical rectifier
F. Pistolesi and R. Fazio
Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 036806 (2005) , PDF.

Full counting statistics of a charge shuttle
F. Pistolesi
Phys. Rev. B 69 245409 (2004), PDF.

Current-current correlations in hybrid superconducting and normal-metal multiterminal structures
G. Bignon, M. Houzet, F. Pistolesi, and F.W.J. Hekking
EuroPhys. Lett. 67, 110 (2004), PDF.

Subgap noise of a superconductor-normal-metal tunnel interface
F. Pistolesi, G. Bignon, and F.W.J. Hekking
Phys. Rev. B 69 214518 (2004), PDF.

Energy Dependence of Current Noise in Superconducting/Normal Metal Junctions
M. Houzet and F. Pistolesi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 107004 (2004), PDF.

Renormalization-group approach to the infrared behavior of a zero-temperature Bose system
F. Pistolesi, C. Castellani, C. Di Castro, and G.C. Strinati
Phys. Rev. B 69 024513 (2004), PDF.

Influence of thermal fluctuations on an underdamped Josephson tunnel junction
I.S. Beloborodov, F.W.J. Hekking, F. Pistolesi
in New Directions in Mesoscopic Physics, Kluwer (2003), cond-mat/0304102.

Superconductivity with hard-core repulsion : BCS-Bose crossover and s-/d-wave competition
F. Pistolesi and Ph. Nozieres
Phys. Rev. B 66 054501 (2002), PDF.

Observation of off-diagonal geometric phases in polarized-neutron-interferometer experiments
Y. Hasegawa, R. Loidl, G. Badurek, M. Baron, N. Manini, F. Pistolesi, and H. Rauch
Phys. Rev. A 65 052111 (2002), quant-ph/0201054, , PDF.

Steps and facets at the surface of a soft crystal,
P. Nozieres, F. Pistolesi, S. Balibar
Eur. Phys. J. B 24, 287 (2001), cond-mat, PDF see also.

Off Diagonal Geometric Phases,
N. Manini and F. Pistolesi,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3067 (2000), quant-ph/9911083PDF.

Geometric Phases and Multiple Degeneracies in Harmonic Resonators ,
F. Pistolesi and N. Manini,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1585 (2000), cond-mat/0007047, PDF.

From semiconductors to superconductors : a simple model for pseudogaps,
Ph. Nozieres and F. Pistolesi,
Eur. Phys. J. B 10, 649 (1999), cond-mat/9902273, PDF.

Theory and data analysis for the excitations in liquid ⁴He beyond the roton minimum,
F. Pistolesi,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 397 (1998), cond-mat/9812241
See Also ILL Annual Report 1997, PDF.

Evolution from BCS Superconductivity to Bose Condensation :
Analytic results for the crossover in three dimensions,
M. Marini, F. Pistolesi, and G.C. Strinati,
Eur. Phys. J. B 1, 151 (1998), cond-mat/9703160, PDF.

Infrared Behavior of Interacting Bosons at Zero Temperature,
C. Castellani, C. Di Castro, F. Pistolesi, and G.C. Strinati,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 1612 (1997), cond-mat/9604076, PDF.

Evolution from BCS Superconductivity to Bose Condensation :
Calculation of the Zero-Temperature Phase Coherence Length,
F. Pistolesi and G.C. Strinati,
Phys. Rev. B. 53, 15168 (1996)  , PDF.

Evolution from BCS superconductivity to Bose condensation : Role of the parameter k_Fxi
F. Pistolesi and G.C. Strinati.

Curriculum vitae

• Undergaduate at Scuola Normale Superiore and University of Pisa (1987-1992).
• PhD in Physics, Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa (1993-95).
• Postdoctoral associate University of Camerino in the theory group lead by G.C. Strinati (1996).
• Scientist at Institut Laue-Langevin in the theory group lead by Ph. Nozières (1997-2000).
• Scientist at European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in the theory group lead by P. Carra (2001).
• Permanent position as Chargé de Recherche 1ere Classe at CNRS (since 2002) at LPMMC in Grenoble.
• Habilitation à diriger des recherches from the University J. Fourier of Grenoble (2005).
• since 2008 Directeur de Recherche
• 2012-2016 President of the section 03 of Comité National
• 2017- Head of Laboratoire Ondes et Matière d’Aquitaine

We have 1 PhD position available in this moment. If you are interested in our activities conctact me directly (Fabio.pistolesi@u-bordeaux.fr).

Master internship available

We have an offer for a Master internship on “Phase synchronization and neuromorphic computing in arrays of nanoelectromechanical oscillators”.

More details on the master project are given here: Master project

Contact us if you are interested.

Postdoc postion

Postdoctoral position in theory of quantum electromechanical systems

Contact us for more information or follow the indications to apply.

Dead line for the first selection: 15 of March 2024, after this date applications will be considered till the position is filled.