Alan Middleton
Associate Dean of Research and Scholarship
Professor
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Physics
Biophysical Science
208 Tolley Humanities Building
Research Interests
- Condensed matter and statistical physics.
- Disordered materials, such as random magnets and interfaces in a random environment.
- Computational physics.
- Links between ideas for algorithms and physical principles.
Research Spotlight
Visualization of clusters and multifractal walls found in computer simulations of a disordered material.
News Articles
(May 9, 2017)
Professor and chair of physics, Middleton will ensure continued development of sciences, mathematics, humanities
(Dec. 15, 2016)
A. Alan Middleton is a newly elected 2016 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Education
1990 Ph.D. in Physics
Princeton University 1985 Certificate of Advanced Study (Part III Maths)
Cambridge University 1984 B.S. in Physics and Mathematics with distinction
Harvey Mudd College
Awards & Professional Honors
- Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2010 - present
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, 1995-1999
Selected Publications
"Exact algorithm for sampling the two-dimensional Ising spin glass", Creighton K. Thomas, A. Alan Middleton. Physical Review E 80, 046708 (2009).
"Statistics of static avalanches in a random pinning landscape", Pierre Le Doussal, A. Alan Middleton, Kay Joerg Wiese, Physical Review E 79, 050101 (2009).
"Are Domain Walls in Spin Glasses Described by Stochastic Loewner Evolutions?", D. Bernard, P. Le Doussal, and A. Alan Middleton, Physical Review B 76, 020403(R)(2007).
"The three-dimensional random field Ising magnet: interfaces, scaling, and the nature of states", A. Alan Middleton and Daniel S. Fisher, Physical Review B 65, 134411 (2002).
"Collective Transport in Arrays of Small Metallic Dots",Physical Review Letters 71, 3198 (1993). A. Alan Middleton and Ned S. Wingreen.