John Harris Miller Jr. is an American physicist with important contributions to the fields of physics, biophysics, Impedance spectroscopy, and material science, mainly known for his role in Charge density wave (in explaining the collective quantum transport of electrons in charge density waves), research work on Cuprates and Impedance spectroscopy of living organisms.
[1][2][3][4] He is particularly known for an effect "Collective Quantum Tunneling of CDW Electrons" [5] and for a well-known paper on the topic written by him and his colleagues, as published in Physical Review Letters.
His group's work on the dielectric properties of living cells and organelles led to studying the electromagnetic properties of living cells and creating collaborations with TMC researchers (including Dale Hamilton, MD) to develop electromagnetic biosensors to detect metabolic activity in mitochondria, as related to various human conditions such as obesity and its complications (under various grants funded by the National Institutes of Health with Miller as their P.I.).
This has led to a (experimental as yet) computational DNA hole spectroscopy method, which they discuss in a publication,[15] in collaboration with the reputed UH evolutionary biologist Ricardo Azevedo.
Miller in association with his colleagues has recently proposed the idea of "Martian soil Biosensors" based on their developed techniques of dielectric spectroscopy.