Expertise

He has published more than 70 research articles in condensed matter physics, including phase transitions, magnetization reversal, spin waves, solitons and vortices in low-dimensional magnetism, and optical effects in dielectrics and metals.

Research Area

  • Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
    • Studies of Magnetic Models with Pinned Magnetic Vortices
    • Influence of Impurity-Pinned Magnetic Vortices on Dynamic Correlations
    • Dipolar Effects on Pinned Magnetic Vortices
    • Optical Cavities

Other General Topics

  • Monte Carlo simulations of phase transitions in XY-symmetry magnets with vacancies.
  • Theory for stability of singly-charged and doubly-charged vortices pinned on vacancies.
  • Development of projection quantum Monte Carlo schemes to calculate dynamic modes at fixed momentum for magnetic models.
Communities
Physics
Degrees
PhD, Cornell University, Theoretical Physics, 1985
MS, University of Toledo, Physics, 1980
BS, University of Toledo, Electrical Engineering, 1978
Keywords
natural and physical sciences, mathematics and technology materials sciences semiconductors magnetic materials physics
Languages
German, Portuguese, Spanish
Associations
American Physical Society