Antonio is a theoretical physicist with a broad research portfolio in modern theoretical condensed matter physics. He received his bachelor in Theoretical Physics by the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and his PhD by the State University of New York at Stony Brook under the supervision of Prof. Jac Verbaarschot.
He has held research appointments in the Université Paris-Sud and Princeton University (2004-2009) where he was also lecturer for three years. He was assistant professor in the University of Lisbon and then staff member of the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University for six years until he joined Shanghai Jiao Tong University as a tenured associate professor.
He has over seventy publications, including papers in Nature Materials, Physical Review X and several Physical Review Letters, and over forty invitations to international conferences. In the last few years he has supervised several postdocs, PhD students and master students. Some of them are now researchers in Imperial College, Cambridge, Leiden University or found permanent positions in their home countries. He has been the recipient of awards and grants from public research agencies and private foundations in UK, European Union, Portugal, Japan and Spain including Marie Curie, MECD-Fullbright and EPSRC Career Acceleration fellowships. He is a referee for leading research journals such Nature Physics and also funding agencies in Netherlands, Germany, Argentina and UK. He has active collaborations, and recent papers, with senior researchers in MIT, UC Santa Barbara, RIKEN and Kyoto University.
Highlights of his research includes a theory of finite size effects in nano-superconductors and its experimental demonstration, the development of a novel theory of defect formation in dynamical phase transitions, a semiclassical analytical description of the Anderson metal-insulator transition and his recent proposals of a novel form of quantum matter based on Efimov physics.
Two of the main themes of his current research is the study of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model, a simple model of strongly interacting fermions on a quantum dot which has a gravity dual and low dimensional superconductivity with an emphasis on quantum coherence effects that can be employed in the design of quantum superconducting materials with high tunable properties.
Symmetry classification and universality in non-Hermitian many-body quantum chaos by the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model
A. M. García-García, Lucas Sá, Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot, Phys. Rev. X 12, 021040 (2022)
Replica Symmetry Breaking and Phase Transitions in a PT Symmetric Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model
Antonio M. García-García, Yiyang Jia, Dario Rosa, Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot, Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 081601 (2022)
The Wishart-Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model: Exact spectral density, Q-Laguerre polynomials, and quantum chaos
Lucas Sá, Antonio M. García-García, Phys. Rev. D 105, 026005 (2022)
Real-space visualization of multifractal superconductivity in single-layer NbSe2
Carmen Rubio-Verdú, Antonio M. García-García*, Hyejin Ryu, Deung-Jang Choi, Javier Zaldívar, Shujie
Tang, Zhi-Xun Shen, Sung-Kwan Mo, José Ignacio Pascual, Miguel M. Ugeda, Nano Lett. 2020, 20, 7, 5111.
Euclidean wormhole in the SYK model
Antonio M. García-García, Victor Godet, Phys. Rev. D 103, 046014 (2021).
Half-wormholes in nearly AdS holography
Antonio M. García-García, Victor Godet, SciPost Phys. 12, 135 (2022).
Euclidean-to-Lorentzian wormhole transition and gravitational symmetry breaking in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model
Antonio M. García-García, Victor Godet, Can Yin and Jie Ping Zheng, Phys. Rev. D 106, 046008, (2022).
Replica Symmetry Breaking in Random Non-Hermitian Systems
Antonio M. García-García, Yiyang Jia, Dario Rosa, Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot, Phys. Rev. D 105,126027, (2022).
Characterization of collective excitations in weakly-coupled disordered superconductors
Bo Fan, Abhisek Samantha, Antonio M. García-García*, Phys. Rev. B 105, 094515, (2022).
Enhanced, phase coherent, multifractal-like, two-dimensional superconductivity
Bo Fan and A. M. García-García*, Phys. Rev. B 101, 104509 (2020)
Sparse Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model, quantum chaos and gravity duals
Antonio M. García-García*, Yiyang Jia, Dario Rosa, Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot, Phys. Rev. D 103, 106002 (2021)
Defect formation beyond Kibble-Zurek mechanism and holography
P. Chesler, H. Liu, A.M.García-García, Phys. Rev. X 5, 021015 (2015)
Spectral and thermodynamic properties of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model
A. M. García-García, Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot, Phys. Rev. D 94, 126010 (2016)
Quantum Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity, Selberg trace formula, and random matrix theory
A. M. García-García, S. Zacarías, Phys. Rev. Res. 2 (2020) 4, 043310.
Quantum chaos transition in a two-site SYK model dual to an eternal traversable wormhole
A. M. García-García, T. Nosaka, D. Rosa, J. J. M. Verbaarschot, Phys. Rev. D 100, 026002 (2019)
Many-Body Localization in a finite-range Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model
A. M. García-García #*, Masaki Tezuka, Phys. Rev. B 99, 054202 (2019).
Exact moments of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model up to order 1/N2
A. M. García-García #*, Yiyang Jia, Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot, JHEP 2018 (4) 1466
Universality and Thouless energy in the supersymmetric Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model
A. M. García-García #*, Yiyang Jia, Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot, Phys. Rev. D 97, 106003 (2018).
Generic dynamical features of quenched interacting quantum systems: survival probability, density imbalance and out-of-time-ordered correlator
E. J. Torres-Herrera, A. M. García-García *, L. F. Santos, Phys. Rev. B 97, 0603032 (2018) (Rapid).
Chaotic-Integrable transition in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model
A. M. García-García*, B. Loureiro, A. Romero-Bermúdez, M. Tezuka, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 241603 (2018).
Coherence effects in disordered geometries with a field-theory dual
T. Andrade, A. M. García-García *, B. Loureiro, JHEP 2018 (3) 187.
Analytical Spectral Density of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model at finite N
A. M. García-García #*, Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot, Phys. Rev. D 96, 066012 (2017).
Optical signatures of the superconducting Goldstone mode in granular aluminum: experiments and theory
U. S. Pracht, T. Cea, N. Bachar, G. Deutscher, E. Farber, M. Dressel, M. Scheffler, C. Castellani, A. M.
Garcia-Garcia *, L. Benfatto, Phys. Rev. B 96, 094514 (2017) Editors’ suggestion.
Highlights of earlier papers before I moved to SJTU:
A semiclassical theory of the Anderson transition
A. M. García-García, Phys. Rev. Lett., 100, 076404 (2008).
Dissipation in a simple model of a topological Josephson junction
P. Matthews, P. Ribeiro, A. M. García-García, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112 247001 (2014).
A general class of holographic superconductors
S.Franco,A.M.García-García,D.Rodriguez,JHEP4(2010)092,arXiv:0906.1214.
Experimental observation of thermal fluctuations in single superconducting Pb nanoparticles through tunneling measurements
I.Brihuega, A.M.García-García, P.Ribeiro, M.M.Ugeda, C.H.Michaelis, S.Bose, K. Kern,Phys. Rev. B 84, 104525 (2011).(EditorSuggestions)
Strong enhancement of bulk superconductivity by engineering granular materials
J. Mayoh, A. M. García-García, Phys. Rev. B 90, 134513 (2014).
BCS theory for finite size superconductors
A.M.García-García,J.D.Urbina,E.Yuzbashyan,K.RichterandB.Altshuler, Phys.Rev.Lett.,100,187001(2008).
Holographic approach to phase transitions
S. Franco, A.M. García-García, D. Rodriguez, Phys.Rev.D 81, 041901 (2010)
Chiral phase transition in QCD asametal insulator transition
A.M.García-García,J.Osborn,Phys.Rev.D75,034503(2007).
Finite size corrections to the blackbody radiation laws
A.M.García-García,Phys.Rev.A,78,023806(2008).
Critical statistics in quantum chaos and Calogero Sutherland model at finite temperature
A.M.García-García,J.J.M.Verbaarschot,Phys.Rev.E67,046104(2003).
Observation of shell effects in superconducting nanoparticles of Sn
S.Bose, A.M.García-García, M.M.Ugeda, J.D.Urbina,C.H.Michaelis,I.Brihuega and K.Kern, Nature Materials 9,550(2010).14.
12. Universal clusters as building blocks of stable quantum matter
S. Endo, P. Naidon, A. M. García-García, Phys. Rev. A 93, 053611 (2016).
