Fabrizio Carbone

Fabrizio Carbone received his master's degree in quantum electronics from the University of Pavia in 2001, defending a thesis titled 'Characterization of all optical wavelengths converters for telecommunications applications'. He was an industrial researcher at Pirelli Labs between 2000 and 2002, after which he returned to academia and obtained his PhD in condensed matter physics from the University of Geneva in 2007 defending a thesis titled 'Spectroscopic signatures of electronic correlations in superconductors and magnets' under the supervision of Dirk van der Marel.{{Cite web|last=Carbone|first=Fabrizio|date=|title=Spectroscopic signatures of electronic correlations in superconductors and magnets|url=http://dqmp.unige.ch/vandermarel/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/thesis_carbone.pdf|access-date=2 February 2021|website=}} Carbone carried out his postdoctoral appointment at the California Institute of Technology in the group of Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate Ahmed Zewail. In 2010, he established the Laboratory for Ultrafast Microscopy and Electron Scattering (LUMES) at EPFL, where he was named tenure track assistant professor in 2011 and promoted to associate professor in 2018.{{Cite journal|date=2011-04-03|title=Eight professors appointed at EPFL|url=https://actu.epfl.ch/news/eight-professors-appointed-at-epfl/|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Fabrizio Carbone promoted Associate Professor of Physics :: NCCR MUST|url=http://www.nccr-must.ch/nccr_must/news_4.html?4329|access-date=2021-02-02|website=www.nccr-must.ch}}

During his PhD in Dirk van der Marel's laboratory at the University of Geneva, Carbone analyzed the interplay between the electronic structure and the magnetism of manganese monosilicide by means of X-rays and neutron spectroscopy.{{Cite journal|last1=Carbone|first1=F.|last2=Zangrando|first2=M.|last3=Brinkman|first3=A.|last4=Nicolaou|first4=A.|last5=Bondino|first5=F.|last6=Magnano|first6=E.|last7=Nugroho|first7=A. A.|last8=Parmigiani|first8=F.|last9=Jarlborg|first9=Th.|last10=van der Marel|first10=D.|date=2006-02-21|title=Electronic structure of MnSi: The role of electron-electron interactions|url=https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.73.085114|journal=Physical Review B|volume=73|issue=8|pages=085114|doi=10.1103/PhysRevB.73.085114|bibcode=2006PhRvB..73h5114C}} He also studied the kinetic and potential energy changes associated to the superconducting phase transition in cuprates by measuring the material’s color changes across the critical temperature.{{Cite journal|last1=Carbone|first1=F.|last2=Kuzmenko|first2=A. B.|last3=Molegraaf|first3=H. J. A.|last4=van Heumen|first4=E.|last5=Giannini|first5=E.|last6=van der Marel|first6=D.|date=2006-07-06|title=In-plane optical spectral weight transfer in optimally doped ${\mathrm{Bi}}_{2}{\mathrm{Sr}}_{2}{\mathrm{Ca}}_{2}{\mathrm{Cu}}_{3}{\mathrm{O}}_{10}$|url=https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.74.024502|journal=Physical Review B|volume=74|issue=2|pages=024502|doi=10.1103/PhysRevB.74.024502|s2cid=55221224|arxiv=cond-mat/0603737}}

As a postdoctoral researcher in Ahmed Zewail's laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, he developed new methods based on the use of ultrafast electrons and laser pulses for the investigation of materials in out of equilibrium conditions. His most notable result was the demonstration of a new method to perform femtosecond-resolved electron spectroscopy in a Transmission Electron microscope.{{Cite journal|last1=Carbone|first1=Fabrizio|last2=Kwon|first2=Oh-Hoon|last3=Zewail|first3=Ahmed H.|date=2009-07-10|title=Dynamics of Chemical Bonding Mapped by Energy-Resolved 4D Electron Microscopy|url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1175005|journal=Science|language=en|volume=325|issue=5937|pages=181–184|doi=10.1126/science.1175005|issn=0036-8075|pmid=19589997|bibcode=2009Sci...325..181C|s2cid=206520587|url-access=subscription}} This technique opened a new field of research in the following years leading to several breakthroughs in the observation of materials, molecules and nanostructures under laser irradiation conditions.

Carbone currently heads the Laboratory for Ultrafast Microscopy and Electron Scattering (LUMES) at EPFL.{{Cite web|title=LUMES|url=https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lumes/|access-date=2021-02-02|website=www.epfl.ch|language=en-GB}} The LUMES is active in various research fields:{{Cite web|title=Research|url=https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lumes/research/|access-date=2021-02-02|website=www.epfl.ch|language=en-GB}}

• Physics of phase transitions in strongly correlated solids: in this area, the group of Prof. Carbone reported the first real-time observation of the coherent oscillations of a superconducting condensate triggered by the superconducting to normal-state phase transition-induced laser pulses.{{Cite journal|last1=Mansart|first1=Barbara|last2=Lorenzana|first2=José|last3=Mann|first3=Andreas|last4=Odeh|first4=Ahmad|last5=Scarongella|first5=Mariateresa|last6=Chergui|first6=Majed|last7=Carbone|first7=Fabrizio|date=2013-03-19|title=Coupling of a high-energy excitation to superconducting quasiparticles in a cuprate from coherent charge fluctuation spectroscopy|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|language=en|volume=110|issue=12|pages=4539–4544|doi=10.1073/pnas.1218742110|bibcode=2013PNAS..110.4539M|s2cid=118367698|issn=0027-8424|pmc=3606993|doi-access=free }}
• Imaging and controlling nano-confined electromagnetic fields: various new methods were developed to obtain real-space/real-time movies of light confined in nanostructures. These results are of particular importance both for fundamental aspects and applications in optoelectronic devices.{{Cite journal|last1=Piazza|first1=L.|last2=Lummen|first2=T. T. A.|last3=Quiñonez|first3=E.|last4=Murooka|first4=Y.|last5=Reed|first5=B. W.|last6=Barwick|first6=B.|last7=Carbone|first7=F.|date=2015-03-02|title=Simultaneous observation of the quantization and the interference pattern of a plasmonic near-field|journal=Nature Communications|language=en|volume=6|issue=1|pages=6407|doi=10.1038/ncomms7407|pmid=25728197|pmc=4366487|bibcode=2015NatCo...6.6407P|issn=2041-1723}}{{Cite journal|last1=Lummen|first1=Tom T. A.|last2=Lamb|first2=Raymond J.|last3=Berruto|first3=Gabriele|last4=LaGrange|first4=Thomas|last5=Dal Negro|first5=Luca|last6=García de Abajo|first6=F. Javier|last7=McGrouther|first7=Damien|last8=Barwick|first8=B.|last9=Carbone|first9=F.|date=2016-10-11|title=Imaging and controlling plasmonic interference fields at buried interfaces|journal=Nature Communications|language=en|volume=7|issue=1|pages=13156|doi=10.1038/ncomms13156|pmid=27725670|pmc=5062594|arxiv=1604.01232|bibcode=2016NatCo...713156L|issn=2041-1723}} In a 2019 report, the LUMES demonstrated a new quantum holography technique allowing to achieve attosecond/nanometer combined temporal and spatial resolution in mapping electromagnetic fields.{{Cite journal|last1=Madan|first1=I.|last2=Vanacore|first2=G. M.|last3=Pomarico|first3=E.|last4=Berruto|first4=G.|last5=Lamb|first5=R. J.|last6=McGrouther|first6=D.|last7=Lummen|first7=T. T. A.|last8=Latychevskaia|first8=T.|last9=Abajo|first9=F. J. García de|last10=Carbone|first10=F.|date=2019-05-01|title=Holographic imaging of electromagnetic fields via electron-light quantum interference|journal=Science Advances|language=en|volume=5|issue=5|pages=eaav8358|doi=10.1126/sciadv.aav8358|pmid=31058225|pmc=6499551|arxiv=1809.10576|bibcode=2019SciA....5.8358M|issn=2375-2548}}{{Cite journal|last=Ropers|first=Claus|date=July 2019|title=Holograms from electrons scattered by light|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=571|issue=7765|pages=331–332|doi=10.1038/d41586-019-02016-6|pmid=31308527|s2cid=196811394|doi-access=}}
• Using light to engineer the wave function of free electrons: the LUMES proposed techniques using light pulses to manipulate the wave function of individual electrons at the attosecond temporal scale.{{Cite journal|last1=Vanacore|first1=G. M.|last2=Berruto|first2=G.|last3=Madan|first3=I.|last4=Pomarico|first4=E.|last5=Biagioni|first5=P.|last6=Lamb|first6=R. J.|last7=McGrouther|first7=D.|last8=Reinhardt|first8=O.|last9=Kaminer|first9=I.|last10=Barwick|first10=B.|last11=Larocque|first11=H.|date=June 2019|title=Ultrafast generation and control of an electron vortex beam via chiral plasmonic near fields|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-019-0336-1|journal=Nature Materials|language=en|volume=18|issue=6|pages=573–579|doi=10.1038/s41563-019-0336-1|pmid=31061485|arxiv=1806.00366|bibcode=2019NatMa..18..573V|s2cid=119186105|issn=1476-4660|via=}}{{Cite journal|last=Yuan|first=Jun|date=June 2019|title=Vorticity induced by chiral plasmonic fields|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-019-0375-7|journal=Nature Materials|language=en|volume=18|issue=6|pages=533–535|doi=10.1038/s41563-019-0375-7|pmid=31061486|bibcode=2019NatMa..18..533Y|s2cid=146811227|issn=1476-4660|via=|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite journal|last1=Vanacore|first1=G. M.|last2=Madan|first2=I.|last3=Berruto|first3=G.|last4=Wang|first4=K.|last5=Pomarico|first5=E.|last6=Lamb|first6=R. J.|last7=McGrouther|first7=D.|last8=Kaminer|first8=I.|last9=Barwick|first9=B.|last10=García de Abajo|first10=F. Javier|last11=Carbone|first11=F.|date=2018-07-12|title=Attosecond coherent control of free-electron wave functions using semi-infinite light fields|journal=Nature Communications|language=en|volume=9|issue=1|pages=2694|doi=10.1038/s41467-018-05021-x|pmid=30002367|pmc=6043599|arxiv=1712.08441|bibcode=2018NatCo...9.2694V|issn=2041-1723}} These experiments have offered novel interesting perspectives for fundamental physics studies, but also for application in nuclear energy harvesting.{{Cite journal|last1=Madan|first1=I.|last2=Vanacore|first2=G. M.|last3=Gargiulo|first3=S.|last4=LaGrange|first4=T.|last5=Carbone|first5=F.|date=2020-06-08|title=The quantum future of microscopy: Wave function engineering of electrons, ions, and nuclei|journal=Applied Physics Letters|volume=116|issue=23|pages=230502|doi=10.1063/1.5143008|bibcode=2020ApPhL.116w0502M|s2cid=225715452 |issn=0003-6951|doi-access=free|hdl=10281/318951|hdl-access=free}}{{Cite web |last1=Carbone |first1=Fabrizio |last2=Papageorgiou |first2=Nik |date=2019-06-17 |title=Google funds EPFL research on nuclear phenomena |url=https://actu.epfl.ch/news/google-funds-epfl-research-on-nuclear-phenomena/ |access-date=2022-09-24 |website=EPFL}}
• Ultrafast manipulation of spins in magnetic materials: this project aims at using light pulses to manipulate the spin texture in exotic magnetic materials such as skyrmion-hosting solids. Carbone's laboratory recently demonstrated the possibility to write and erase skyrmions with light pulses as well as to map the dynamical evolution of the magnetic ordering across the phase transition.{{Cite journal|last1=Berruto|first1=G.|last2=Madan|first2=I.|last3=Murooka|first3=Y.|last4=Vanacore|first4=G. M.|last5=Pomarico|first5=E.|last6=Rajeswari|first6=J.|last7=Lamb|first7=R.|last8=Huang|first8=P.|last9=Kruchkov|first9=A. J.|last10=Togawa|first10=Y.|last11=LaGrange|first11=T.|date=2018-03-14|title=Laser-Induced Skyrmion Writing and Erasing in an Ultrafast Cryo-Lorentz Transmission Electron Microscope|url=https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.117201|journal=Physical Review Letters|volume=120|issue=11|pages=117201|doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.117201|pmid=29601740|arxiv=1709.00495|bibcode=2018PhRvL.120k7201B|s2cid=4623706}}{{Cite journal|last1=Huang|first1=Ping|last2=Schönenberger|first2=Thomas|last3=Cantoni|first3=Marco|last4=Heinen|first4=Lukas|last5=Magrez|first5=Arnaud|last6=Rosch|first6=Achim|last7=Carbone|first7=Fabrizio|last8=Rønnow|first8=Henrik M.|date=September 2020|title=Melting of a skyrmion lattice to a skyrmion liquid via a hexatic phase|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-020-0716-3|journal=Nature Nanotechnology|language=en|volume=15|issue=9|pages=761–767|doi=10.1038/s41565-020-0716-3|pmid=32541944|arxiv=1807.08352|bibcode=2020NatNa..15..761H|s2cid=219691341|issn=1748-3395|via=}}

Carbone was awarded the 2016 University Latsis Prize.{{Cite journal|last=Marti-Rochat|first=Patricia|date=2016-03-10|title=University Latsis Award EPFL 2016 – Fabrizio Carbone|url=https://actu.epfl.ch/news/university-latsis-award-epfl-2016-fabrizio-carbone/|language=en}} He received a Starting Grant (2010) and a Consolidator Grant (2017) from the European Research Council.{{Cite web|title=ERC FUNDED PROJECTS|url=https://erc.europa.eu/projects-figures/erc-funded-projects/results|access-date=2021-02-02|website=ERC: European Research Council|language=en|archive-date=2021-01-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210113223931/https://erc.europa.eu/projects-figures/erc-funded-projects/results|url-status=dead}} He was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2022 "for pioneering work using ultrafast electron scattering instrumentation to discover and control new states of matter at the nanometer and sub-femtosecond scales".{{cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=2022|title=Fellows nominated in 2022|work=APS Fellows archive|publisher=American Physical Society|access-date=2022-10-19}}

• {{cite journal |doi=10.1038/s41563-019-0336-1|title=Ultrafast generation and control of an electron vortex beam via chiral plasmonic near fields|year=2019|last1=Vanacore|first1=G. M.|last2=Berruto|first2=G.|last3=Madan|first3=I.|last4=Pomarico|first4=E.|last5=Biagioni|first5=P.|last6=Lamb|first6=R. J.|last7=McGrouther|first7=D.|last8=Reinhardt|first8=O.|last9=Kaminer|first9=I.|last10=Barwick|first10=B.|last11=Larocque|first11=H.|last12=Grillo|first12=V.|last13=Karimi|first13=E.|last14=García De Abajo|first14=F. J.|last15=Carbone|first15=F.|journal=Nature Materials|volume=18|issue=6|pages=573–579|pmid=31061485|arxiv=1806.00366|bibcode=2019NatMa..18..573V|s2cid=119186105}}
• {{cite journal |doi=10.1126/sciadv.aav8358|title=Holographic imaging of electromagnetic fields via electron-light quantum interference|year=2019|last1=Madan|first1=I.|last2=Vanacore|first2=G. M.|last3=Pomarico|first3=E.|last4=Berruto|first4=G.|last5=Lamb|first5=R. J.|last6=McGrouther|first6=D.|last7=Lummen|first7=T. T. A.|last8=Latychevskaia|first8=T.|last9=García De Abajo|first9=F. J.|last10=Carbone|first10=F.|journal=Science Advances|volume=5|issue=5|pages=eaav8358|pmid=31058225|pmc=6499551|arxiv=1809.10576|bibcode=2019SciA....5.8358M}}
• {{cite journal |doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.117201|title=Laser-Induced Skyrmion Writing and Erasing in an Ultrafast Cryo-Lorentz Transmission Electron Microscope|year=2018|last1=Berruto|first1=G.|last2=Madan|first2=I.|last3=Murooka|first3=Y.|last4=Vanacore|first4=G. M.|last5=Pomarico|first5=E.|last6=Rajeswari|first6=J.|last7=Lamb|first7=R.|last8=Huang|first8=P.|last9=Kruchkov|first9=A. J.|last10=Togawa|first10=Y.|last11=Lagrange|first11=T.|last12=McGrouther|first12=D.|last13=Rønnow|first13=H. M.|last14=Carbone|first14=F.|journal=Physical Review Letters|volume=120|issue=11|page=117201|pmid=29601740|arxiv=1709.00495|bibcode=2018PhRvL.120k7201B|s2cid=4623706|url=http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/160458/1/160458.pdf}}
• {{cite journal |doi=10.1038/ncomms7407|title=Simultaneous observation of the quantization and the interference pattern of a plasmonic near-field|year=2015|last1=Piazza|first1=L.|last2=Lummen|first2=T.T.A.|last3=Quiñonez|first3=E.|last4=Murooka|first4=Y.|last5=Reed|first5=B.W.|last6=Barwick|first6=B.|last7=Carbone|first7=F.|journal=Nature Communications|volume=6|page=6407|pmid=25728197|pmc=4366487|bibcode=2015NatCo...6.6407P}}
• {{cite journal |doi=10.1016/j.chemphys.2013.06.026|title=Design and implementation of a fs-resolved transmission electron microscope based on thermionic gun technology|year=2013|last1=Piazza|first1=L.|last2=Masiel|first2=D.J.|last3=Lagrange|first3=T.|last4=Reed|first4=B.W.|last5=Barwick|first5=B.|last6=Carbone|first6=Fabrizio|journal=Chemical Physics|volume=423|pages=79–84|bibcode=2013CP....423...79P}}
• {{cite journal |doi=10.1073/pnas.1218742110|title=Coupling of a high-energy excitation to superconducting quasiparticles in a cuprate from coherent charge fluctuation spectroscopy|year=2013|last1=Mansart|first1=B.|last2=Lorenzana|first2=J.|last3=Mann|first3=A.|last4=Odeh|first4=A.|last5=Scarongella|first5=M.|last6=Chergui|first6=M.|last7=Carbone|first7=F.|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|volume=110|issue=12|pages=4539–4544|bibcode=2013PNAS..110.4539M|s2cid=118367698|pmc=3606993|doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal |doi=10.1126/science.1175005|title=Dynamics of Chemical Bonding Mapped by Energy-Resolved 4D Electron Microscopy|year=2009|last1=Carbone|first1=F.|last2=Kwon|first2=O.-H.|last3=Zewail|first3=A. H.|journal=Science|volume=325|issue=5937|pages=181–184|pmid=19589997|bibcode=2009Sci...325..181C|s2cid=206520587}}
• {{cite journal |doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.035501|title=Structural Preablation Dynamics of Graphite Observed by Ultrafast Electron Crystallography|year=2008|last1=Carbone|first1=Fabrizio|last2=Baum|first2=Peter|last3=Rudolf|first3=Petra|last4=Zewail|first4=Ahmed H.|journal=Physical Review Letters|volume=100|issue=3|page=035501|pmid=18232996|bibcode=2008PhRvL.100c5501C|url=https://pure.rug.nl/ws/files/6713990/2008PhysRevLettCarbone.pdf|hdl=11370/a0227dd1-0eb2-4685-a144-31e978713e8d|s2cid=7084389 |hdl-access=free}}

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• [https://people.epfl.ch/fabrizio.carbone Fabrizio Carbone's page] at EPFL
• [https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lumes/ LUMES at EPFL]

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