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Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry

 

College Lecturer

The research activity of the group led by Dr Taraskin covers a wide area of statistical physics and theoretical condensed matter science. The properties of disordered systems are of particular interest, including non-equilibrium phase-transitions in disordered complex networks and spectral properties of single-particle electronic and vibrational excitations in disordered materials.

Research Interests

Non-equilibrium phase transitions in disordered networks. Non-equilibrium phase transitions are characterisic of capillary condensation, magnetasation reversal in ferromagnets, population dynamics and epidemics. We study, in particular, the non-equilibrium phenomena in systems described by the randon-field Ising model, such as capillary condensation in porous media within the lattice-gas model.  

Synergistic effects for spreading processes. Spreading of infection, opinion and rumours through networks of hosts often occurs in regimes with strong non-linear (synergy) interactions between hosts. We study how the synergy effects influence the dynamics of the speading processes. 

 

Group webpage: http://www.complex-systems.ch.cam.ac.uk/

Publications

Pressure‐Induced Delocalization of Charge Carriers (“Insulator–Metal” Transition) and Magnetic Transformation in Glassy Semiconductors
MI Klinger, SN Taraskin
– Physica Status Solidi (B) Basic Research
(1999)
211,
501
Propagation of vibrational excitations in disordered atomic structures by a normal-mode analysis
SN Taraskin, G Cormier, SR Elliott
– Computer Physics Communications
(1999)
121,
540
Low-frequency vibrational excitations in vitreous silica: The Ioffe-Regel limit
SN Taraskin, SR Elliott
– Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
(1999)
11,
a219
The pressure-induced effects in the thermal equilibrium electron properties of semiconducting glasses
MI Klinger, SN Taraskin
– Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
(1999)
9,
4425
Low-frequency vibrational modes in disordered structures
SN Taraskin, G Cormier, SR Elliott
– Computer Physics Communications
(1999)
121,
743
Nature of the low-frequency vibrational excitations in vitreous silica
SN Taraskin, SR Elliott
– Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids
(1998)
232,
205
Dc conductivity of semiconducting glasses: The role of negative centers, and pressure-induced phenomena
MI Klinger, SN Taraskin
– Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
(1998)
57,
12898
Pressure-induced delocalization of negative-U centres in semiconducting glasses (Physics Letters A 229 (1997) 242)
MI Klinger, SN Taraskin
– Physics Letters A
(1997)
236,
607
Nature of vibrational excitations in vitreous silica
SN Taraskin, SR Elliott
– Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
(1997)
56,
8605
How to calculate the true vibrational density of states from inelastic neutron scattering
SN Taraskin, SR Elliott
– Physica B Condensed Matter
(1997)
234,
452
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Research Groups

Research Interest Group

Telephone number

01223 336532 (shared)
01223 763991 (shared)

Email address

snt1000@cam.ac.uk