Director of Research
Teaching Affiliate (Graduate Studies Program, National Technical University of Athens)
Education: B.A. Columbia University (1979), M.A. Physics, Harvard University (1981), Ph.D. Harvard University (1986). Thesis: Q-Balls (advisor: S. R. Coleman).
Career: U. Washington (postdoctoral research associate, 1986-88), Niels Bohr Institute (research associate, 1990-94).
Prizes: 1987, 3rd Prize-Gravity Research Foundation (USA)
Awards: 1993, Carlsberg Foundation Fellowship (Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark)
Research Interests : Particle Physics and Cosmology, Information Theory , Chaotic Dynamics and Complex Systems
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
[1] M.Axenides, E.Floratos and S.Nicolis , Arnol’d Cat Map Lattices, Phys.Rev.E 107 (2023) 6, 064206
[2] M.Axenides, E.Floratos , D.Katsinis and G.Linardopoulos , Cascade of instabilities in the classical limit of the Berenstein-Maldacena-Nastase matrix model, Phys.Rev.D 104 (2021) 10, 106002
[3] M.Axenides, E.Floratos and S.Nicolis, The arithmetic geometry of AdS2 and its continuum limit , SIGMA 17 (2021) 004
[4] M.Axenides, E. Floratos, S. Nicolis, The quantum cat map on the modular discretization of extremal black hole horizons, Eur.Phys.J., C78 (2018) 412
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
[1]. M. Axenides, E. Floratos, S. Nicolis, Modular discretization of the AdS2/CFT1 holography, JHEP 02 (2014) 109 [arXiv:1306.5670].
[2]. M. Axenides, E. Floratos, Strange Attractors in Dissipative Nambu Mechanics: Classical and Quantum Aspects, JHEP 04 (2010) 036 [arXiv:0910.3881].
[3]. M. Axenides, K. Dimopoulos, Hybrid dark sector: Locked quintessence and dark matter, JCAP 07 (2004) 010 [hep-ph/0401238].
[4]. M. Axenides, S. Komineas, L. Perivolaropoulos, E. Floratos, Dynamics of nontopological solitons: Q balls, Phys.Rev., D61 (2000) 085006 [hep-ph/9910388].
[5]A.Safian , S.R.Coleman and M. Axenides , Some Nonabelian Q-Balls , Nucl.Phys.B 297 (1988) 498-514.
[6]. M. Axenides, R. H. Brandenberger, Primordial Fluctuations, Dark Matter, And Photon Oscillations, Phys.Lett., 134B (1984) 405.
[7]. M. Axenides, R. H. Brandenberger and M.S.Turner, Development of Axion Perturbations in an Axion Dominated Universe, Phys.Lett.B 126 (1983) 178-182.