Boris Svistunov

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Boris Svistunov
Born (1959-10-22) October 22, 1959 (age 64)
Moscow, Russia
Alma materMoscow Engineering Physics Institute
AwardsFellow of the American Physical Society
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics, Condensed Matter Theory
InstitutionsUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
Academic advisorsYuri Kagan

Boris Vladimirovich Svistunov (Russian: Борис Владимирович Свистунов; born October 22, 1959) is a Russian-American physicist specialised in the condensed matter physics. He received his MSc in physics in 1983 from Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow. In 1990, he received his PhD in theoretical physics from Kurchatov Institute (Moscow), where he worked from 1986 to 2003 (and is still affiliated with). In 2003, he joined the Physics Department of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he is currently full professor. He is currently also an affiliated faculty member of Wilczek Quantum Center in[1] Shanghai at SJTU and is a participant of Simons collaboration on many electron systems.[2]

Boris Svistunov is recognised for his works on superfluidity, supersolidity, superfluid turbulence, strongly correlated systems and pioneering numerical approaches. With his collaborators and students he made important contributions to superfluid turbulence[3] (reviewed in[4]), theory of supersolids, in collaboration with Nikolay Prokof'ev including the theory of superfluidity of crystalline defects[5] (reviewed in[4]) and superglass phase.[6]

He is a co-inventor, with Nikolay Prokof'ev and Igor Tupitsyn of the widely used Worm Monte-Carlo algorithm. With Nikolay Prokof'ev he invented Diagrammatic Monte-Carlo method[7] which is stochastic summation of Feynman diagrammatic series. Because the method is free from the Numerical sign problem[8] it allowed to solve previously untreatable fermionic problems.[9][10] He is elected Fellow of the American Physical Society for his highly influential works in superfluidity and supersolidity.[11]

His research was recognised by his election as Fellow of the American Physical Society. The citation associated with of his Fellow election[12] in the American Physical Society,[13][14] for "pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of Monte Carlo simulations for strongly correlated quantum and classical systems, the invention of the worm algorithm and diagrammatic Monte Carlo techniques, and fundamental theoretical results on superfluid phenomena in quantum gases, liquids, and solids."

He is Outstanding Referee for American Physical Society and Distinguished Referee for Europhysics letters.

He co-authored the book on modern theory of Superfluidity[15]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Home". wqc.physics.sjtu.edu.cn. Retrieved September 30, 2018.
  2. ^ "Boris Svistunov | Simons Foundation". simonsfoundation.org. February 19, 2014. Retrieved September 30, 2018.
  3. ^ Kozik, E. V.; Svistunov, B. V. (July 28, 2009). "Theory of Decay of Superfluid Turbulence in the Low-Temperature Limit". Journal of Low Temperature Physics. 156 (3–6): 215–267. arXiv:0904.1379. Bibcode:2009JLTP..156..215K. doi:10.1007/s10909-009-9914-y. ISSN 0022-2291. S2CID 16786112.
  4. ^ a b "Superfluid States of Matter". CRC Press. April 15, 2015. Retrieved October 2, 2018.
  5. ^ Prokof'ev, Nikolay; Svistunov, Boris (April 20, 2005). "Supersolid State of Matter". Physical Review Letters. 94 (15): 155302. arXiv:cond-mat/0409472. Bibcode:2005PhRvL..94o5302P. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.155302. PMID 15904155. S2CID 45498667.
  6. ^ Boninsegni, Massimo; Prokof'ev, Nikolay; Svistunov, Boris (March 16, 2006). "Superglass Phase of $^{4}\mathrm{He}$". Physical Review Letters. 96 (10): 105301. arXiv:cond-mat/0512103. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.105301. PMID 16605751.
  7. ^ "slides" (PDF).
  8. ^ Rossi, R.; Prokof'ev, N.; Svistunov, B.; Van Houcke, K.; Werner, F. (April 1, 2017). "Polynomial complexity despite the fermionic sign". EPL (Europhysics Letters). 118 (1): 10004. arXiv:1703.10141. Bibcode:2017EL....11810004R. doi:10.1209/0295-5075/118/10004. ISSN 0295-5075. S2CID 17929942.
  9. ^ "Physicists simulate strongly correlated fermions". ScienceDaily. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  10. ^ Van Houcke, K.; Werner, F.; Kozik, E.; Prokof'ev, N.; Svistunov, B.; Ku, M. J. H.; Sommer, A. T.; Cheuk, L. W.; Schirotzek, A. (March 18, 2012). "Feynman diagrams versus Fermi-gas Feynman emulator". Nature Physics. 8 (5): 366–370. arXiv:1110.3747. Bibcode:2012NatPh...8..366V. doi:10.1038/nphys2273. ISSN 1745-2473. S2CID 53412117.
  11. ^ "Boris Svistunov - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved September 27, 2018.
  12. ^ "APS Fellowship". aps.org. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
  13. ^ "APS Fellow Archive". aps.org. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
  14. ^ "APS Fellows 2008". aps.org. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
  15. ^ "Superfluid States of Matter". CRC Press. April 15, 2015. Retrieved September 27, 2018.
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