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Peter Riseborough

Professor of Physics and Interim Chair

Ph.D., Imperial College London

SERC, Room 444
1925 N. 12th Street 
Philadelphia, PA 19122
215-204-5655
prisebor@temple.edu
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Research Interests

Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
Polaron Formation, Mixed Valent Materials, Heavy Fermions and Heavy Fermion
Superconductivity, Quantum Critical Points, Kondo Insulators, Hidden Ordered Compounds

Statistical Mechanics
Solitons in Low dimensional Materials, Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling Non-linear and Non-
equilibrium systems, Intrinsically Localized Modes

Key Publications

Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics

An Exact Limit of a Local Model of Mixed Valence. A.C. Hewson and P.S. Riseborough, Solid State Communications 22, 379 (1977).

Valence Fluctuation Phenomena, J.M. Lawrence, P.S. Riseborough and R.D. Parks, Reports on Progress in Physics, 44, 1-84 (1981).

Gap in the Magnetic Response of Ce3Bi4Pt3, A. Severing, J.D. Thompson, P.C. Canfield, Z. Fisk and P.S. Riseborough, Physical Review B 44, 6832-6837 (1991).

Theory of the Dynamic Magnetic Response of Ce3Bi4Pt3 : A Heavy Fermion Semiconductor, P.S. Riseborough, Physical Review B 45, 13984-13995 (1992). 

Heavy Fermion Semiconductors, P.S. Riseborough, Advances in Physics 49, 257-320 (2000).

Combined Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of the Premartensitic Transition in Ni2MnGa

 C.P. Opeil, B. Mihaila, R.K. Schulze, L. Manosa, A. Planes, W.L. Hults, R.A. Fisher, P.S. Riseborough, P.B. Littlewood, J.L. Smith and J.C. Lashley, Physical Review Letters 100, 165703 (2008)

Phase Transition in the Underscreened Anderson Lattice Model: A Candidate Concept for Explaining "Hidden Order" in URu2Si2, P.S. Riseborough, B. Coqblin and S.G. Magalhaes, Physical Review B, 85, 165116 (2012).

Imaging the three-dimensional Fermi-Surface of Superconducting UR2Si2 near the Hidden-Order Transition using Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy,.Jian-Qiao Meng, Peter M. Oppeneer, John A. Mydosh, Krzysztof Gofryk, John J. Joyce, Eric D. Bauer, Yinwan Li. P.S. Riseborough  and Tomasz Durakiewicz, Physical Review Letters, 111, 127002 (2013).

Statistical Mechanics

Solitons in the Linear Chain Antiferromagnet., K.M. Leung D.W. Hone, D.L. Mills, P.S. Riseborough and S.E. Trullinger  Physical Review B 21, 4017, (1980).

Exact Results for a Damped Harmonic Oscillator.,P.S. Riseborough, P. Hanggi and U. Weiss, Physical Review A 31, 471-478 (1985).

Incoherent Tunneling in a Double Well. U. Weiss, H. Grabert, P. Hanggi and P.S. Riseborough, Physical Review B 35, 9535-9551 (1987).

Quantum Tunneling in Dissipative Media: Intermediate Coupling Strength Results, P.S. Riseborough, P. Hanggi and E. Freidkin, Physical Review A 32, 489, (1985).

The Quantized Breather Excitations of Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Lattices, P.S. Riseborough, Physical Review E, 85, 011129 (2012).

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