Riccardo Messina

Riccardo Messina

 

Position   CNRS Research Fellow   Contact   Tel : +33.1.64.53.32.94 Office R2.46

CV

 

• Since January 2018

CNRS Research Fellow (Section 03) at Laboratoire Charles Fabry UMR 8501 (CNRS, Institut d’Optique Graduate School), Palaiseau (France).

 

• October 2013 – December 2017

CNRS Research Fellow (Section 03) at Laboratoire Charles Coulomb UMR 5221 (CNRS, Université de Montpellier), Montpellier (France).

 

• January 2012 – June 2013

Postdoc at Laboratoire Charles Fabry (CNRS, Institut d’Optique Graduate School), Palaiseau (France).

 

• January 2010 – December 2011

Postdoc at SYRTE (Observatoire de Paris), Paris (France).

 

• January 2007 – December 2009

PhD in Physics, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel (ENS de Paris, CNRS, UPMC) and Università degli Studi di Palermo

 

• October 2004 – September 2006

Master in Physics, Università degli Studi di Palermo

 

• October 2001 – October 2004

Bachelor in Physics, Università degli Studi di Palermo

 

Publications

 

Peer-reviews international journals

 

[1] A. Ott, R. Messina, P. Ben-Abdallah, and S.-A. Biehs, Radiative thermal diode driven by nonreciprocal surface waves, Appl. Phys. Lett. 114, 163105 (2019).

[2] A. Ott, R. Messina, P. Ben-Abdallah, and S.-A. Biehs, Magnetothermoplasmonics: from theory to applications, J. Photon. Energy 9, 032711 (2019).

[3] C. Kathmann, R. Messina, P. Ben-Abdallah, and S.-A. Biehs, Limitations of kinetic theory to describe near-field heat exchanges in many-body systems, Phys. Rev. B 98, 115434 (2018).

[4] I. Latella, R. Messina, J. M. Rubi, and P. Ben-Abdallah, Radiative Heat Shuttling, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 023903 (2018).

[5] C. Khandekar, R. Messina, and A. W. Rodriguez, Near-field refrigeration and tunable heat exchange through four-wave mixing, AIP Advances 8, 055029 (2018).

[6] R. Messina, S.-A. Biehs, and P. Ben-Abdallah, Surface-mode-assisted amplification of radiative heat transfer between nanoparticles, Phys. Rev. B 97, 165437 (2018).

[7] I. Latella, S.-A. Biehs, R. Messina, A. W. Rodriguez, and P. Ben-Abdallah, Ballistic near-field heat transport in dense many-body systems, Phys. Rev. B 97, 035423 (2018).

[8] R. Messina, P. Ben-Abdallah, B. Guizal, and M. Antezza, Graphene-based amplification and tuning of near-field radiative heat transfer between dissimilar polar materials, Phys. Rev. B 96, 045402 (2017).

[9] W. Jin, R. Messina, and A. W. Rodriguez, Overcoming limits to near-field radiative heat transfer in uniform planar media through multilayer optimization, Opt. Express 25, 14746 (2017).

[10] I. Latella, P. Ben-Abdallah, S.-A. Biehs, M. Antezza, and R. Messina, Radiative heat transfer and nonequilibrium Casimir-Lifshitz force in many-body systems with planar geometry, Phys. Rev. B 95, 205404 (2017).

[11] W. Jin, R. Messina, and A. W. Rodriguez, General formulation of coupled radiative and conductive heat transfer between compact bodies, Phys. Rev. B 95, 161409(R) (2017).

[12] R. Messina, A. Noto, B. Guizal, and M. Antezza, Radiative heat transfer between metallic gratings using Fourier modal method with adaptive spatial resolution, Phys. Rev. B 95, 125404 (2017).

[13] W. Jin, R. Messina, and A. W. Rodriguez, Near-Field Radiative Heat Transfer under Temperature Gradients and Conductive Transfer, Z. Naturforsch. A 72, 141 (2017).

[14] P. Doyeux, R. Messina, B. Leggio, and M. Antezza, Excitation injector in an atomic chain: Long-range transport and efficiency amplification, Phys. Rev. A 95, 012138 (2017).

[15] R. Messina, W. Jin, and A. W. Rodriguez, Exact formulas for radiative heat transfer between planar bodies under arbitrary temperature profiles: Modified asymptotics and sign-flip transitions, Phys. Rev. B 94, 205438 (2016).

[16] R. Messina, W. Jin, and A. W. Rodriguez, Strongly coupled near-field radiative and conductive heat transfer between planar bodies, Phys. Rev. B 94, 121410(R) (2016).

[17] R. Messina, P. Ben-Abdallah, B. Guizal, M. Antezza, and S.-A. Biehs, Hyperbolic waveguide for long-distance transport of near-field heat flux, Phys. Rev. B 94, 104301 (2016).

[18] N. Bartolo, R. Messina, D. A. R. Dalvit, and F. Intravaia, Nonequilibrium Casimir-Polder plasmonic interactions, Phys. Rev. A 93, 042111 (2016).

[19] P. Doyeux, B. Leggio, R. Messina, and M. Antezza, Quantum thermal machine acting on a many-body quantum system: Role of correlations in thermodynamic tasks, Phys. Rev. E 93, 022134 (2016).

[20] R. Messina, P. A. Maia Neto, B. Guizal, and M. Antezza, Casimir interaction between a sphere and a grating, Phys. Rev. A 92, 062504 (2015).

[21] B. Leggio, P. Doyeux, R. Messina, and M. Antezza, Distributed thermal tasks on many-body systems through a single quantum machine, Europhys. Lett. 112, 40004 (2015).

[22] B. Leggio, R. Messina, and M. Antezza, Thermally activated nonlocal amplification in quantum energy transport, Europhys. Lett. 110, 40002 (2015).

[23] A. Noto, R. Messina, B. Guizal, and M. Antezza, Casimir-Lifshitz force out of thermal equilibrium between dielectric gratings, Phys. Rev. A 90, 022120 (2014).

[24] R. Messina and M. Antezza, Three-body radiative heat transfer and Casimir-Lifshitz force out of thermal equilibrium for arbitrary bodies, Phys. Rev. A 89, 052104 (2014).

[25] P. Ben-Abdallah, R. Messina, S.-A. Biehs, M. Tschikin, K. Joulain, and C. Henkel, Heat Superdiffusion in Plasmonic Nanostructure Networks, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 174301 (2013).

[26] R. Messina, M. Tschikin, S.-A. Biehs, and P. Ben-Abdallah, Fluctuational-electrodynamic theory and dynamics of heat transfer in multiple dipolar systems, Phys. Rev. B 88, 104307 (2013).

[27] M. Tschikin, S.-A. Biehs, R. Messina, and P. Ben-Abdallah, On the limits of the effective description of hyperbolic materials in presence of surface waves, J. Opt. 5, 105101 (2013).

[28] S. Pelisson, R. Messina, M.-C. Angonin, et P. Wolf, Lifetimes of atoms trapped in an optical lattice in proximity of a surface, Phys. Rev. A 88, 013411 (2013).

[29] S.-A. Biehs, M. Tschikin, R. Messina, and P. Ben-Abdallah, Super-Planckian Near-Field Thermal Emission with Phonon-Polaritonic Hyperbolic Metamaterials, Appl. Phys. Lett. 102, 131106 (2013).

[30] R. Messina and P. Ben-Abdallah, Graphene-based photovoltaic cells for near-field thermal energy conversion, Sci. Rep. 3, 1383 (2013).

[31] R. Messina, J.-P. Hugonin, J.-J. Greffet, F. Marquier, Y. De Wilde, A. Belarouci, L. Frechette, Y. Cordier, and P. Ben-Abdallah, Tuning the electromagnetic local density of states in graphene-covered systems via strong coupling with graphene plasmons, Phys. Rev. B 87, 085421 (2013).

[32] B. Bellomo, R. Messina, D. Felbacq, and M. Antezza, Quantum systems in a stationary environment out of thermal equilibrium, Phys. Rev. A 87, 012101 (2013).

[33] R. Messina, M. Antezza, and P. Ben-Abdallah, Three-body amplification of photon heat tunneling, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 244302 (2012).

[34] B. Bellomo, R. Messina, and M. Antezza, Dynamics of an elementary quantum system in environments out of thermal equilibrium, Europhys. Lett. 100, 20006 (2012).

[35] S. Pelisson, R. Messina, M.-C. Angonin, and P. Wolf, Dynamical aspects of atom interferometry in an optical lattice in proximity to a surface, Phys. Rev. A 86, 013614 (2012).

[36] R. Messina and M. Antezza, Scattering - matrix approach to Casimir - Lifshitz force and heat transfer out of thermal equilibrium between arbitrary bodies, Phys. Rev. A 84, 042102 (2011).

[37] R. Messina and M. Antezza, Casimir - Lifshitz force out of thermal equilibrium and heat transfer between arbitrary bodies, Europhys. Lett. 95, 61002 (2011).

[38] R. Messina, S. Pelisson, M.-C. Angonin, and P. Wolf, Atomic states in optical traps near a planar surface, Phys. Rev. A 83, 052111 (2011).

[39] R. Messina, R. Vasile, and R. Passante, Dynamical Casimir - Polder force on a partially dressed atom near a conducting wall, Phys. Rev. A 82, 062501 (2010).

[40] G. Moreno, R. Messina, D. A. R. Dalvit, A. Lambrecht, P. A. Maia Neto, and S. Reynaud, Disorder in Quantum Vacuum: Casimir - Induced Localization of Matter Waves, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 210401 (2010).

[41] S. Reynaud, A. Canaguier-Durand, R. Messina, A. Lambrecht, and P. A. Maia Neto, The scattering approach to the Casimir force, Int. J. Mod. Phys. 25, 2201 (2010).

[42] R. Messina, D. A. R. Dalvit, P. A. Maia Neto, A. Lambrecht, and S. Reynaud, Dispersive interactions between atoms and nonplanar surfaces, Phys. Rev. A 80, 022119 (2009).

[43] R. Vasile, R. Messina, and R. Passante, Time - dependent Maxwell field operators and field energy density for an atom near a conducting wall, Phys. Rev. A 79, 062106 (2009).

[44] R. Messina, R. Passante, L. Rizzuto, S. Spagnolo, and R. Vasile, Casimir - Polder forces, boundary conditions and fluctuations, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 41, 164031 (2008).

[45] R. Messina and R. Passante, Fluctuations of the Casimir - Polder force between an atom and a conducting wall, Phys. Rev. A 76, 032107 (2007).

[46] R. Messina, M. A. Jivulescu, A. Messina, and A. Napoli, Riccati equation - based generalization of Dawson’s integral function, Math. Meth. Appl. Sci. 30, 2055 (2007).

[47] R. Messina and R. Passante, Casimir - Polder force density between an atom and a conducting wall, Phys. Rev. A 75, 042113 (2007).

[48] R. Messina, A. Napoli, and A. Messina, Unitary Transfer of Entanglement in Multipartite Two – Level Systems, Acta Phys. Hung. B 23, 75 (2005).

 

Conference proceedings

 

[1] R. Messina, R. Passante, L. Rizzuto, S. Spagnolo, and R. Vasile, Dynamical Casimir-Polder potentials in non-adiabatic conditions, Phys. Scripta T160, 014032 (2014).

[2] S.-A. Biehs, M. Tschikin, R. Messina, and P. Ben-Abdallah, Super-Planckian near-field heat transfer, 7th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics (METAMATERIALS), 560 (2013).

[3] R. Messina, S. Pelisson, M.-C. Angonin, and P. Wolf, Modification of atomic states in a vertical optical trap near a surface, in Proceedings of the 46th Rencontres de Moriond and GPhyS Colloquium on Gravitational Waves and Experimental Gravity (The Gioi Publishers, Hanoi, 2011), p. 447

[4] S. Pelisson, R. Messina, M.-C. Angonin, and P. Wolf, Observability of short-range gravitation with the experiment FORCA-G, in Proceedings of the 46th Rencontres de Moriond and GPhyS Colloquium on Gravitational Waves and Experimental Gravity (The Gioi Publishers, Hanoi, 2011), p. 347

[5] B. Pelle, G. Tackmann, Q. Beaufils, X. Wang, A. Hilico, F. Pereira Dos Santos, S. Pelisson, R. Messina, M.-C. Angonin, and P. Wolf, Forca-G: A trapped atom interferometer for the measurement of short range forces, in Proceedings of the 46th Rencontres de Moriond and GPhyS Colloquium on Gravitational Waves and Experimental Gravity (The Gioi Publishers, Hanoi, 2011), p. 237

[6] M. N. A. Halif, R. Messina, and M. Fromhold, Calculation of the Casimir - Polder interaction between Bose - Einstein condensates and microengineered surfaces: a pairwise summation approach, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 286, 012405 (2011).

 

Popular science

 

[1] R. Messina, Sharing Heat in the Near Field, Physics 8, 109 (2015).

 

Books

 

[1] C. Trapani and R. Messina, Esercizi di Analisi uno (Aracne, 2004).