Department of Physics M.I.T. 13-2149 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139
Personal Statement
To advance the frontiers of science, by conducting experimental research into today's most challenging condensed matter physics problems. To educate new generations of physicists, and other scientists, in neutron and x-ray spectroscopy. To bring the wonders of science to general public, through outreach programs and initiative.
Research Interests
Condensed matter physics. Experimental study of many-body systems which presently lack adequate theoretical model, particularly in the fields of magnetism and superconductivity. Experimental study of frustrated systems, in particular geometrically frustrated magnets. Strongly correlated systems and quantum critical phase transitions.
Neutron and x-ray spectroscopy. Using thermal and cold neutron scattering, and x-ray scattering, to study structure and dynamics of condensed matter systems. I mostly conduct neutron scattering experiments at NIST Center for Neutron Scattering, National Institute for Standards and Technology, in Gaithersburg, Md; and High Flux Isotope Reactor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in Oak Rigge, Tn; and x-ray scattering experiments at National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory, in Upton, NY.
Education
Ph.D. (2004). Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. Advisor: Prof. Collin Broholm. Dissertation: "Physics of Frustrated Systems: A Neutron Scattering Study".
M.A. (2002). Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
B.S. (1997). Faculty of Sciences, University of Zagreb, and Institute for Physics, Zagreb, Croatia. Advisor: Dr. Branko Gumhalter, and Prof. Vladimir Sips (co-adviser). Thesis: "Effect of the long-range component of the potential on the Debye-Waller factor, for surface scattering of atoms."
Biographical Sketch
[From Vita (Dissertation).] Goran Gasparovic was born in 1974, in Zadar, Croatia. Ever since the elementary school, he was fortunate to have had extraordinary mentors, wise, supportive, farsighted, who introduced and guided him through the world of science, and physics in particular. In 1991, he came to the United States in a student exchange program. After graduating from the high school in Hays, Kansas, in 1992, he returned to Croatia — at that time under a military aggression — and enrolled at the University of Zagreb. Having received B.Sc. in physics in the summer of 1997, he crossed the ocean yet again to pursue graduate study of physics at the Johns Hopkins University. Joining the research group of Prof. Collin Broholm in the summer of 1998, he conducted a series of experiments, most of which at the NIST Center for Neutron Scattering, the result of which is this dissertation. Since graduation, he is conducting experimental research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as a postdoctoral fellow.
Publications
"Emergent Excitations in a Geometrically Frustrated Magnet," S.-H. Lee, C. Broholm, W. Ratcliff, G. Gasparovic, Q. Huang, and S.-W. Cheong, Nature 418, 856 (2002).
"Specific heat at the Magnetic Order Transitions in RbFe(MoO4)2," G. A. Jorge, C. Capan, F. Ronning, M. Jaime, M. Kenzelmann, G. Gasparovic, C. Broholm, A. Y. Shapiro, L. A. Demianets, Physica B 354, 297 (2004).
"Neutron Scattering Study of Novel Magnetic Order in Na0.5CoO2," G. Gasparovic, R. A. Ott, J.-H. Cho, F. C. Chou, Y. Chu, J. W. Lynn, and Y. S. Lee, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046403 (2006).
