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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
João Pinheiro da Providência e Costa
Date of birth
1956/08/03
Gender
Male

Citation names

  • da Providencia, João P.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
6111-8C57-D59F
ORCID iD
0000-0001-9361-1457
Scopus Author Id
55941495500

Email addresses

  • joaoppc@ubi.pt (Professional)
  • joaodaprovidencia@daad-alumni.de (Professional)

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • (351) 917472418 (Personal)

Addresses

  • Departamento de Física, Universidade da Beira Interior, Rua Marquês D'Ávila e Bolama, 6201-001 Covilhã, 6201-001, Covilhã, Covilhã, Portugal (Professional)
  • Couraca de Lisboa, 22, 3000-434, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Personal)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Physical Sciences - Nuclear Physics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Upper intermediate (B2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
German Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
1979 - 1983
Concluded
 Promotion Physik (Doutoramento)
Universität Siegen Fachbereich 7 Physik, Germany
"Variational Approach to Nuclear Fluid Dynamics " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 magna cum laude
1973 - 1978/07
Concluded
 Licenciatura em Física (Licenciatura)
Major in Scientific Specialization Theoretical Physics
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
 Very Good with Distinction
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2002/04/10 - Current Full Professor (University Teacher) Universidade da Beira Interior Centro de Matemática e Aplicações, Portugal
Universidade da Beira Interior Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
1990 - 2002 Associate Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
1983 - 1990 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
1981 - 1983 Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
1978 - 1981 Trainee Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2007/07/01 - 2010/12/31 Teoria dos Contradomínios Numéricos e suas aplicações em Física e Computação Quântica
PTDC/MAT/69613/2006
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Matemática, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2005/07/01 - 2007/12/31 Consequências Cosmológicas de Teorias Quânticas da Gravitação
POCI/FIS/57547/2004
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Centro Multidisciplinar de Astrofísica, Portugal

Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Bebiano, Natália; da Providência, João; da Providência, J. P.. "Non-Hermitian Quantum Mechanics of Bosonic Operators". In Operator Theory, Operator Algebras, and Matrix Theory, 65-78. Springer International Publishing, 2018.
    10.1007/978-3-319-72449-2_3
Journal article
  1. N. Bebiano; J. da Providência; S. Nishiyama; J. P. da Providência. "A quantum system with a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian". Journal of Mathematical Physics (2020): https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0011098.
    10.1063/5.0011098
  2. Varandas, A.J.C.; da Providência, J.; da Providência, J.P.. "Binding of muonated hydrogen molecules and Born–Oppenheimer approximation revisited". Canadian Journal of Physics 98 4 (2020): 379-384. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjp-2019-0061.
    10.1139/cjp-2019-0061
  3. N. Bebiano; J. da Providência; S. Nishiyama; J. P. da Providência. "Fermionic Model with a Non-Hermitian Hamiltonian". Brazilian Journal of Physics 50 2 (2020): 143-152. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13538-019-00729-7.
    10.1007/s13538-019-00729-7
  4. N. Bebiano; J. da Providência; J. P. da Providência. "Toward non-Hermitian quantum statistical thermodynamics". Journal of Mathematical Physics 61 2 (2020): 022102-022102. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5122182.
    10.1063/1.5122182
  5. Bebiano, N; da Providência, J; Providência, J P da. "A quantum system with a non-self-adjoint 2D-harmonic oscillator". Physica Scripta 94 9 (2019): 095205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1402-4896/ab1bf0.
    10.1088/1402-4896/ab1bf0
  6. Bebiano, Natalia; Da Providencia, Joao; Da Providencia, J.P.. "R\'enyi's quantum thermodynamical inequalities". The Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra 33 (2018): 63-73. http://dx.doi.org/10.13001/1081-3810.3665.
    10.13001/1081-3810.3665
  7. Bebiano, Natália; Furtado, Susana; da Providência, João; Xu, Wei-Ru; da Providência, João P.. "Approximations for von Neumann and Renyi entropies of graphs using the Euler-Maclaurin formula". ETNA - Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis 48 (2018): 227-242. http://dx.doi.org/10.1553/etna_vol48s227.
    10.1553/etna_vol48s227
  8. Bebiano, N.; da Providência, J.; Nata, A.; da Providência, J.P.. "Generalized Rayleigh quotients and generating vectors". Linear and Multilinear Algebra 65 1 (2017): 1-23. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84961862998&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1080/03081087.2016.1164663
  9. Bebiano, N.; da Providência, J.; da Providência, J.P.. "Mathematical Aspects of Quantum Systems with a Pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonian". Brazilian Journal of Physics 46 2 (2016): 152-156. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84959201724&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s13538-015-0390-3
  10. Bebiano, N.; da Providência, J.; da Providência, J.P.. "Erratum to: Mathematical Aspects of Quantum Systems with a Pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonian (Braz J Phys, (2015), DOI 10.1007/s13538-015-0390-3)". Brazilian Journal of Physics 46 2 (2016): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84959205849&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s13538-016-0403-x
  11. Varandas, A.J.C.; Da Providência, J.; Brajczewska, M.; Da Providência, J.P.. "On dipositronium and molecular hydrogen: Similarities and differences". European Physical Journal D 69 4 (2015): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84939503371&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1140/epjd/e2015-50818-0
  12. Bebiano, Natalia; da Providência, J.; Nata, A.; da Providência, J.P.. "Computing the numerical range of Krein space operators". Open Mathematics 13 1 (2014): http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/math-2015-0014.
    10.1515/math-2015-0014
  13. Bebiano, N.; da Providência, J.; Nata, A.; da Providência, J.P.. "An inverse indefinite numerical range problem". Linear Algebra and Its Applications (2014): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84906073971&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.laa.2014.07.038
  14. Varandas, A.J.C.; Brajczewska, M.; Da Providência, J.; Da Providência, J.P.. "Orbitals of the dipositronium". Chemical Physics Letters 610-611 (2014): 167-172. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84905158932&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.cplett.2014.07.015
  15. Bebiano, N.; Da Providência, J.; Nata, A.; Da Providência, J.P.. "Revisiting the inverse field of values problem". Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis 42 (2014): 1-12. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84909646500&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  16. Bebiano, N.; da Providência, J.; da Providência, J.P.. "Tsallis entropies and matrix trace inequalities in quantum statistical mechanics". Journal of Mathematical Physics 53 10 (2012): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84868369256&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1063/1.4753981
  17. da Providência, J.; Bebiano, N.; da Providência, J.P.. "Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with Real Spectrum in Quantum Mechanics". Brazilian Journal of Physics 41 1 (2011): 78-85. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79955873926&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s13538-011-0010-9
  18. Bebiano, N.; da Providência, J.; da Providência, J.P.. "Classes of non-hermitian operators with real eigenvalues". Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra 21 (2010): 98-109. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-78449283489&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  19. da Providência, J.P.. "Three-branch normal mode dispersion relation for metals: The case of large momentum transfer". Solid State Communications 150 1-2 (2010): 54-57. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-70449089961&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.ssc.2009.10.007
  20. Da Providência, J.P.. "Collective modes in metals: Quantal and semiclassical approaches". Journal of Physics Condensed Matter 20 48 (2008): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-58149359199&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1088/0953-8984/20/48/485219
  21. Yamamura, M.; Providência, C.; Da Providência, J.; Tsue, Y.; Da Providência Jr., J.. "Coupling schemes for an n su(2) spin system". Progress of Theoretical Physics 112 6 (2004): 997-1012. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-14944374290&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1143/PTP.112.997
  22. Karpeshin, F.F.; Da Providência, J.; Providência, C.; Da Providência Jr., J.. "Electron-phonon coupling and anharmonic effects in metal clusters". Europhysics Letters 67 5 (2004): 760-765. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-4444372357&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1209/epl/i2004-10127-4
  23. Da Providência, J.; Yamamura, M.; Providência, C.; Brajczewska, M.; Da Providência Jr., J.. "The heisenberg antiferromagnet - An explicitly rotational invariant formulation -". Progress of Theoretical Physics 112 3 (2004): 383-397. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-10444225355&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1143/PTP.112.383
  24. Bebiano, N.; Da Providência Jr., J.; Lemos, R.. "Matrix inequalities in statistical mechanics". Linear Algebra and Its Applications 376 1-3 (2004): 265-273. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0142062450&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.laa.2003.07.004
  25. Karpeshin, F.F.; Da Providência, J.; Providência, C.; Da Providência Jr., J.. "Anharmonic effects in large-amplitude vibrations of metal clusters". European Physical Journal D 18 3 (2002): 319-326. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0036108345&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1140/epjd/e20020036
  26. Da Providencia, J.. "A variational calculation of collective modes in metal clusters including transverse components in the current". Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. Ser. Fizicheskaya 66 5 (2002): 625-630. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-57749107032&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  27. Da Providência Jr., J.; Torres, M.B.. "The effect of surface diffusibility on the collective modes of metal clusters". Journal of Physics Condensed Matter 11 43 (1999): 8459-8476. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0343887204&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1088/0953-8984/11/43/309
  28. Da Providência Jr., J.. "Fluid dynamical model for metal clusters". Czechoslovak Journal of Physics 48 6-7 (1998): 769-771. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0039988222&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  29. Karpeshin, F.F.; Vieira, A.; Fiolhais, C.; Da Providencia Jr., J.. "On the ternary fission of atomic clusters". Europhysics Letters 42 2 (1998): 149-153. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0032521999&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1209/epl/i1998-00221-7
  30. Da Providência Jr., J.. "Surface modes in metal clusters and cavities". Journal of Physics Condensed Matter 9 14 (1997): 2931-2946. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0039665379&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1088/0953-8984/9/14/008
  31. De Haro Jr., R.; Da Providência Jr., J.. "Excited states in metal voids". Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 54 11 (1996): 7823-7829. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0039158971&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  32. Barberán, N.; Da Providência Jr., J.. "Normal mode double-branch dispersion relation for metals within a variational calculation". Zeitschrift fur Physik B-Condensed Matter 101 1 (1996): 3-12. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-33748860245&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  33. da Providência Jr., J.. "Fluid-dynamical model of hot nuclei". Nuclear Physics, Section A 582 1-2 (1995): 23-60. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-4043170437&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/0375-9474(94)00476-4
  34. Da Providência Jr., J.; De Haro Jr., R.. "Fluid-dynamical approach to collective modes in metal clusters". Physical Review B 49 3 (1994): 2086-2098. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0007983954&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1103/PhysRevB.49.2086
  35. da Providência Jr., J.. "Variational approach to the dynamics of electrons in metals". Solid State Communications 86 9 (1993): 573-578. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0027610778&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/0038-1098(93)90142-A
  36. Da Providência Jr., J.. "Small-amplitude vibrations at a finite temperature in the liquid drop model". Nuclear Physics, Section A 523 2 (1991): 247-260. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-4043177553&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/0375-9474(91)90003-O
  37. Da Providência Jr., J.. "Thomas-Fermi description of nuclear rotations". Nuclear Physics, Section A 510 2 (1990): 322-338. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-20344377200&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/0375-9474(90)90242-E
  38. Providência Jr., J.d.. "Variational solutions of the Vlasov equation and Landau damping in nuclear matter". Nuclear Physics, Section A 495 1-2 (1989): 193-200. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-18244387724&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  39. da Providência, J.P.. "The validity of the polynomial approximation to the solutions of the Vlasov equation". Nuclear Physics, Section A 489 1 (1988): 111-124. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0009276407&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/0375-9474(88)90056-5
  40. Da Providencia, J.P.. "Variational derivation of nuclear fluid dynamics". Journal of Physics G: Nuclear Physics 13 4 (1987): 481-490. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-36149034825&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1088/0305-4616/13/4/010
  41. Da Providencia, J.P.. "Nuclear fluid dynamics of hot nuclei". Journal of Physics G: Nuclear Physics 13 6 (1987): 783-805. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-33748848144&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1088/0305-4616/13/6/010
  42. Da Providencia, J.P.. "Sum rules in nuclear fluid dynamics". Journal of Physics G: Nuclear Physics 12 1 (1986): 23-31. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-36149029576&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1088/0305-4616/12/1/010
  43. Da Providência, J.P.; Holzwarth, G.. "Low-lying nuclear collective states and giant resonances in nuclear fluid dynamics". Nuclear Physics, Section A 439 3 (1985): 477-488. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-3342994706&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/0375-9474(85)90422-1
  44. Da Providencia, J.P.; Holzwarth, G.. "Variational approach to nuclear fluid dynamics". Nuclear Physics, Section A 398 1 (1983): 59-83. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0007847507&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/0375-9474(83)90647-4
  45. Eckart, G.; Holzwarth, G.; da Providencia, J.P.. "First sound versus zero sound in finite Fermi systems". Nuclear Physics, Section A 364 1 (1981): 1-28. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0002731832&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/0375-9474(81)90430-9
  46. Fiolhais, C.; da Providência, J.P.; Urbano, J.N.. "Ferromagnetism by the generator coordinate Method". Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 99 1-2 (1979): 251-267. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-49249147790&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/0378-4371(79)90133-X
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
1995 - 1997/09/19 Teoria y aplicaciones de la respuesta lineal com polarización de spin en sistemas finitos de electrones
Co-supervisor
 Física (PhD)
Universidad de Valladolid, Spain

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2004 - 2006 In November 2004, he was re-elected President of the Scientific Committee of the Department of Physics for a biennium. During this period he was again President of the Council of the Department of Physics and member of the Technical Council from the Optics Center of the University of Beira Interior.
President / Vice-president
 Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2002 - 2004 In November 2002, he was elected President of the Scientific Committee of the Department of Physics of the University of Beira Interior for a two-year period. During this period he was President of the Council of the Department of Physics and member of the Technical Council of the Optics Center of the University of Beira Interior.
President / Vice-president
 Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
1999 - 2000 Translation from German to Portuguese of the textbook Statistiche Physik, volume 4, of the Theoretical Physics Course by Torsten Fliessbach. The translated work was published by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in May 2000. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2001 Honorable Mention
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal