Jordi Baro

Avalanche dynamics, criticality, acoustic emission, mechanical failure, microseismicity, self-organization, quenched disorder, out-of-equilibrium statistical physics, metastability.

In general terms, my study is focused on  the physical origin and implications of triggering and patio-temporal correlations in mechanical avalanches. I combine the study of conceptual and numerical models with data from acoustic emission (AE) experiments and microseismicity catalogs:

• Characterization of the spatio-temporal correlations in AE and microseismicity and discussion on the role of heterogeneity.
• Effect of transient regimes associated to the physical sources of spatio-temporal correlations to the statistics of AE and microseismological data.
• Identification of mean field behavior and universality classes associated to frictional and  fracture avalanches  under  different driving conditions.
• Study of self-organized driving towards criticality in granular assemblies from discrete element simulations.

• Role of syntering conditions on the scale-free phenomena in AE and seismology.
• Emerging mechanisms self-organized driving towards criticality.
• Determination of control parameters to model the branching processes simulating microseismicity and AE.
• Role of boundary conditions in the separation of scales found in critical systems beyond finite size scaling.

Seismology, complex systems, pattern formation, socio- and econo-physics, complex networks.

2015-2018   

Postdoctoral Fellow at the 'Complexity Science Group' (CSG) in the Physics and Astronomy Department of the University of Calgary (AB,Canda)

2013   

Visiting Scholar at the 'Institute of Condensed Matter Theory' (ICMT) in the Universtiy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (Ill, USA)

2011-2015   

 PhD in Physics at 'Estructura i Constitnuents de la Matèria' (ECM) at the 'University of Barcelona' (UB) (Spain)

2010-2011   

Ms in Computational and Applied Physics by the 'Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya' (UPC) and Universitat de Barcelona (UB) (Spain)

2004-2010   

Bachellor in Physics, 'Universitat de Barcelona' (UB) (Spain)

1. The Suspense in Failure: A Simple Model of Breakage Goes Universal
   by K. Redmond
2. Viewpoint: Little Earthquakes in the Lab
   by I. G. Main

1. J. Baró, K. A. Dahmen, J. Davidsen, A. Planes, P. O. Castillo, G. F. Nataf, E. K. H. Salje, E. Vives
   'Experimental evidence of accelerated seismic release without critical failure in acoustic emissions of compressed nanoporous materials'
   (under consideration for Phys. Rev. Lett.)
   (2018)
2. J. Baró, J. Davidsen
   'Universal avalanche statistics and triggering close to failure in a mean field model of rheological fracture'
   Physical Review E 97, 033002 
   (2018)
3. J. Baró, J. Davidsen
   'Are triggering rates of labquakes universal? Inferring triggering rates from incomplete information'
   The European Physical Journal Special Topics 226 (15), 3211-3225
   (2017)
4. J Baró
   Thesis : 'Avalanches in Out of Equilibrium Systems: Statistical Analysis of Experiments and Simulations'  
   Universitat de Barcelona 
   (2015)
5. J Baró, JM Martín-Olalla, FJ Romero, MC Gallardo, EKH Salje, E Vives, A Planes 
   'Avalanche correlations in the martensitic transition of a Cu–Zn–Al shape memory alloy: analysis of acoustic emission and calorimetry'  
   Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 26 (12), 125401 
   (2014)
6. J Baró, Á Corral, X Illa, A Planes, EKH Salje, W Schranz, DE Soto-Parra, E Vives 
   'Statistical similarity between the compression of a porous material and earthquakes'  
   Physical Review Letters 110 (8), 088702
   (2013)
7. J Baró, S Dixon, RS Edwards, Y Fan, DS Keeble, L Mañosa, A Planes, E Vives 
   'Simultaneous detection of acoustic emission and Barkhausen noise during the martensitic transition of a Ni-Mn-Ga magnetic shape-memory alloy' 
   Physical Review B 88 (17), 174108 
   (2013)
8. J Baró, E Vives 
   'Analysis of power-law exponents by maximum-likelihood maps' 
   Physical Review E 85 (6), 066121 
   (2012)

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