Massimiliano ESPOSITO

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Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Campus Plaine CP 231, Brussels B-1050, Belgium.
E-mail: mesposit@ulb.ac.be
Phone: +32 2 650 5781

General information

1996: European Baccalaureate, Luxembourg.
2000: Graduation in Chemistry, Free University of Brussels, Belgium.
2002: DEA (research master) in Sciences, Free University of Brussels, Belgium.
2004: Ph.D. in Sciences ("Kinetic theory for quantum nanosystems"), Free University of Brussels, Belgium.
2004-2005: Postdoc, Free University of Brussels, Belgium.
2005-2007: Postdoc, University of California Irvine, USA.
2007-2009: Postdoc, University of California San Diego, USA.
2009-2010: Contract researcher, Free University of Brussels, Belgium.

Research activities

Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics

Theory of open quantum systems (Quantum transport, Quantum measurement, ...)
Far from equilibrium fluctuations (Fluctuation theorems, Electron counting statistics, ...)
Stochastic thermodynamics (Finite-time efficiencies, Information theory, ...)

Publications

M. Esposito and P. Gaspard, "Quantum master equation for a system influencing its environment", Phys. Rev. E 68, 066112 (2003) [cond-mat/0306433].
M. Esposito and P. Gaspard, "Spin relaxation in a complex environment", Phys. Rev. E 68, 066113 (2003) [cond-mat/0308140].
M. Esposito and P. Gaspard, "Dissipative quantum dynamics in terms of a reduced density matrix distributed over the environment energy", Europhys. Lett. 65, 742 (2004).
M. Esposito and P. Gaspard, "Emergence of diffusion in finite quantum systems", Phys. Rev. B 71, 214302 (2005).
M. Esposito and P. Gaspard, "Decoherence and kinetic processes in nanosystems", Physics Letters A 341, 435 (2005).
M. Esposito and P. Gaspard, "Exactly solvable model of quantum diffusion", J. Stat. Phys. 121, 463 (2005) [cond-mat/0505217].
M. Esposito and F. Haake, "Overdamping by weakly coupled environments", Phys. Rev. A 72, 063808 (2005) [quant-ph/0510164].
M. Esposito and S. Mukamel, "Fluctuation theorems for quantum master equations", Phys. Rev. E 73, 046129 (2006) [cond-mat/0602679].
U. Harbola, M. Esposito and S. Mukamel, "Quantum master equation for electron transport through quantum dots and single molecules", Phys. Rev. B 74, 235309 (2006) [cond-mat/0610004].
M. Esposito, U. Harbola and S. Mukamel, "Fluctuation theorems for counting-statistics in electron transport through quantum junctions", Phys. Rev. B 75, 155316 (2007) [cond-mat/0702376].
U. Harbola, M. Esposito and S. Mukamel, "Statistics and fluctuation theorem for boson and fermion through mesoscopic junctions", Phys. Rev. B 76, 085408 (2007).
M. Esposito, U. Harbola and S. Mukamel, "Entropy fluctuation theorems for driven open systems: application to electron counting statistics", Phys. Rev. E 76, 031132 (2007) [cond-mat/0707.0962].
M. Esposito and P. Gaspard, "Quantum master equation for the microcanonical ensemble", Phys. Rev. E 76, 041134 (2007) [cond-mat/0612251].
S. Welack, J. B. Maddox, M. Esposito, U. Harbola and S. Mukamel, "Single-electron counting spectroscopy: simulation study of porphyrin in a molecular junction", Nano Letters 4, 1137 (2008) [0804.1881].
S. Welack, M. Esposito, U. Harbola and S. Mukamel, "Interference and Coulomb interaction effects in counting statistics of electron transport through quantum dots", Phys. Rev. B 77, 195315 (2008) [0709.3551].
M. Esposito and K. Lindenberg, "Continuous time random walk for open systems: Fluctuation theorems and counting statistics", Phys. Rev. E 77, 051119 (2008) [0802.0699].
M. Esposito, U. Harbola and S. Mukamel, "Nonequilibrium fluctuations, fluctuation theorems and counting statistics in quantum systems", Rev. Mod. Phys. 81, 1665 (2009) [0811.3717].
M. Esposito, K. Lindenberg and C. Van den Broeck, "Thermoelectric efficiency at maximum power in a quantum dot", EPL 85, 60010 (2009) [0808.0216].
M. Esposito, K. Lindenberg and C. Van den Broeck, "Universality of efficiency at maximum power", Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 130602 (2009) [0901.2600].
M. Esposito and M. Galperin, "Transport in molecular language: Generalized quantum master equation approach", Phys. Rev. B 79, 205303 (2009) [0811.4014].
U. Harbola, A. Rosas, M. Esposito and K. Lindenberg, "Pulse propagation in tapered granular chains: An analytic study", Phys. Rev. E 80, 031303 (2009) [0905.4512].
U. Harbola, A. Rosas, A. H. Romero, M. Esposito and K. Lindenberg, "Pulse propagation in decorated granular chains: An analytical approach", Phys. Rev. E 80, 051302 (2009) [0909.2627].
B. Rutten, M. Esposito, B. Cleuren, "Reaching optimal efficiencies using nano-sized photo-electric devices", Phys. Rev. B 80, 235122 (2009) [0907.4189].
M. Esposito, K. Lindenberg and C. Van den Broeck, "Extracting chemical energy by growing disorder: Efficiency at maximum power", J. Stat. Mech. (2010) P01008 [0907.2502].
M. Esposito, K. Lindenberg and C. Van den Broeck, "Entropy production as correlation between system and reservoir", New J. Phys. 12, 013013 (2010) [0908.1125].
M. Esposito, R. Kawai, K. Lindenberg and C. Van den Broeck, "Finite time thermodynamics for a single level quantum dot", EPL 89, 20003 (2010) [0909.3618].
M. Esposito, K. Lindenberg and I. Sokolov, "On the equivalence between events and time based current statistics", EPL 89, 10008 (2010) [0909.4120].
M. Esposito and C. Van den Broeck, "Three fundamental detailed fluctuation theorems", accepted in Phys. Rev. Lett. [0911.2666].
M. Esposito, R. Kawai, K. Lindenberg and C. Van den Broeck, "Quantum-dot Carnot engine at maximum power", submitted [1001.2192].

Organized conferences

Optimization at a small scale (UCSD, July 20-21, 2009)
Understanding and exploiting complexity at the nanoscale (ULB, January 20-22, 2010)

Last update: February 1, 2010.