Center for Nonlinear
Studies
MS B258
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, NM 87545
e-mail: reichhardt@lanl.gov
Position:
2011 Fellow of the American Physical Society
Technical Staff Member Theoretical Division,
T-4 Physics of Condensed Matter and Complex Systems
T-4 Complex Systems Group
2000-2003 Richard P. Feynman Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow
Los Alamos National Laboratory Distinguished Postdoctoral Performance
Award 2003
Los Alamos National Laboratory Achievement Award 2004
Postdoctoral
Positions in the Complex Systems Group
Summer
Conference on Statistical Physics of Complex Systems
Education:
Ph. D., Physics, University of Michigan, 1998.
M. S., Physics,
University of Michigan, 1995.
B. S., Physics, minor Mathematics University of
California, Irvine, 1993.
Curriculum Vitae
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Research:
My research focuses on systems with
many degrees of freedom where collective and
competing interactions can give rise to highly complex and organized
structures and dynamics.
Some particular systems that we study
include vortex lattices in superconductors,
assemblies of granular particles, charge ordering in soft matter
materials such as colloids and polymers, charge ordering in
hard condensed matter systems such as stripe, bubble, and Wigner
crystal phases in quantum Hall systems and cuprate superconductors,
elastic interfaces, supercooled liquids and glasses, biological
systems and networks of interacting adaptive agents.
Despite the difference in these systems in terms of the
interactions and spatial scales there are a remarkable
number of similar behaviors that arise.
A significant portion of my research involves the
behaviors of these systems when driven out of equilibrium.
My collaborators and I have been
working on
ways to analyze and
characterize these systems, such as
identifying distinct types of nonequilibrium phases
and transitions between these phases. The understanding of
non equilibrium behavior will be paramount for understanding
many aspects of biological systems which are inherently
systems out of equilibrium with collective interactions.
In most of our work we try to explicitly relate the microscopic
dynamical behaviors to
experimentally measurable bulk quantities. We are currently
working with several experimental groups.
In addition, we have also been studying
various ways to simulate and develop new devices and
structured materials with these systems for technological
applications. Examples of this include using
simulations to show that specific types of
novel colloidal crystals can be stabilized in
patterned 2D and 3D substrates which can be useful for the
creation of materials with specific photonic band gaps. Also we have been
considering
new types of ratchet devices for separating or mixing
different species of particles such as colloids, biomolecules, and
polymers.
With the increasing push toward the nanoscale
new types of electronic and mechanical devices may be
soon realizable.
We have been exploring alternate electronic and
mechanical devices
on the nanoscale
such as logic circuits using
superconducting vortices in nano-dot arrays.
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Cynthia Olson
Reichhardt
reichhardt@lanl.gov
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