Editorial: Alexander Leighton

Chris Leighton

Electronic and magnetic materials are the central focus of our group's research. We study a wide variety of types of materials such as nanostructures, thin films, multilayered heterostructures, and bulk polycrystals and single crystals. We have interests in several areas including the interplay between electronic transport and magnetism in novel materials, and the study of interfaces between di...

Amending Leighton and Micali's Key Distribution Protocol

A key distribution protocol is a set of rules by which two users can establish a shared common key between them and then use the key in future secure communications. We analyze a key distribution protocol presented by Leighton and Micali at the CRYPTO'93 conference, which is based on tamper-proof hardware, and show that the protocol fails in that a common key shared between two users can always...

Ca 2 + waves in the heart Leighton

Tom Leighton and Eric Lehman Problem Set 3 Solutions

Turbulent magnetic pumping in a Babcock-Leighton solar dynamo model

Context. The turbulent pumping effect corresponds to the transport of magnetic flux due to the presence of density and turbulence gradients in convectively unstable layers. In the induction equation it appears as an advective term and for this reason it is expected to be important in the solar and stellar dynamo processes. Aims. In this work, we have explored the effects of the turbulent pumpin...