Publications in VIVO

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Radzihovsky, Leo Professor

Positions

Professor, Physics

Research Areas

Research

research overview

I develop theories of broad range of condensed matter, that includes: quantum liquids, superconductors, magnets, polymers, liquid crystals, colloids, disordered systems, degenerate atomic gases, and critical phenomena, quantum molecular chemistry. The common theme that unifies these topics is the qualitatively important role played by thermal and quantum fluctuations and interactions.

keywords

Condensed matter physics theory, atomic gases, critical phenomena, disorder, superconductivity, magnetism, soft-matter, quantum liquids, topological states of matter, quantum molecular chemistry

Publications

selected publications

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- High-Dimensional Disorder-Driven Phenomena in Weyl Semimetals, Semiconductors, and Related Systems. Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics. 35-58. 2018
- Anistropic and Heterogeneous Polymerized Membranes 2004
journal article
- Crystal-to-fracton tensor gauge theory dualities. Physical Review B. 2019
- Two-dimensional melting via sine-Gordon duality. Physical Review B. 2019
- Localized surfaces of three-dimensional topological insulators. Physical Review B. 2019
- Symmetry-Enriched Fracton Phases from Supersolid Duality. Physical Review Letters. 2018
- Gapless insulating edges of dirty interacting topological insulators. Physical Review B. 2018
- Mott glass from localization and confinement. Physical Review B. 2018
- Quantum indistinguishability in chemical reactions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. E4551-E4558. 2018
- Fracton-Elasticity Duality. Physical Review Letters. 2018
- Anomalous elasticity, fluctuations and disorder in elastic membranes. Annals of Physics. 340-410. 2018
- Ferromagnetic transition in a one-dimensional spin-orbit-coupled metal and its mapping to a critical point in smectic liquid crystals. Physical Review B. 2017
- Multiply Quantized Vortices in Fermionic Superfluids: Angular Momentum, Unpaired Fermions, and Spectral Asymmetry. Physical Review Letters. 2017
- Single-particle excitations in disordered Weyl fluids. Physical Review B. 2017
- Single-particle excitations in disordered Weyl fluids. Physical Review B. 2017
- Topological order, symmetry, and Hall response of two-dimensional spin-singlet superconductors. Physical Review B. 2017
- Quench dynamics of the spin-imbalanced Fermi-Hubbard model in one dimension. Physical Review A. 2016
- Multifractality at non-Anderson disorder-driven transitions in Weyl semimetals and other systems. Annals of Physics. 694-706. 2016
- Critical exponents at the unconventional disorder-driven transition in a Weyl semimetal. Physical Review B. 2016
- Postquench dynamics and prethermalization in a resonant Bose gas. Physical Review A. 2016
- Chiral p +/- ip superfluid on a sphere. Physical Review B. 2016
- Anomalous Energetics and Dynamics of Moving Vortices. Physical Review Letters. 2015
- Disorder-driven transition in a chain with power-law hopping. Physical Review B. 2015
- Galilean invariance at quantum Hall edge. Physical Review B. 2015
- Critical Transport in Weakly Disordered Semiconductors and Semimetals. Physical Review Letters. 2015
- Unconventional localization transition in high dimensions. Physical Review B. 2015
- Quench dynamics of a strongly interacting resonant Bose gas. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. 2013
- Magnetic orders, excitations, and phase transitions in Fe1+yTe. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. 2013
- Smectic order, pinning, and phase transition in a smectic-liquid-crystal cell with a random substrate. Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 2013
- Freezing of an unconventional two-dimensional plasma. Physical Review B. 2013
- Reentrant BCS-BEC Crossover and a Superfluid-Insulator Transition in Optical Lattices. Physical Review Letters. 2012
- Quantum liquid-crystal order in resonant atomic gases. Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications. 189-206. 2012
- Frustrated Quantum Critical Theory of Putative Spin-Liquid Phenomenology in 6H-B-Ba3NiSb2O9. Physical Review Letters. 2012
- Smectic-glass transition in a liquid-crystal cell with a "dirty" substrate. Europhysics Letters: a letters journal exploring the frontiers of physics. 2012
- Competition between commensurate and incommensurate magnetic ordering in Fe1+yTe. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. 2012
- Finite-momentum superfluidity and phase transitions in a p-wave resonant Bose gas. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. 2011
- Fluctuations and phase transitions in Larkin-Ovchinnikov liquid-crystal states of a population-imbalanced resonant Fermi gas. Physical Review A. 2011
- Lattice-Induced Resonances in One-Dimensional Bosonic Systems. Physical Review Letters. 2011
- Nonlinear smectic elasticity of helical state in cholesteric liquid crystals and helimagnets. Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 2011
- Nonlinear smectic elasticity of helical state in cholesteric liquid crystals and helimagnets. Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 2011
- Imbalanced Feshbach-resonant Fermi gases. Reports on Progress in Physics. 2010
- Relation between ac Josephson effect and double-well Bose-Einstein-condensate oscillations. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. 2010
- Stability and distortions of liquid crystal order in a cell with a heterogeneous substrate. Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 2010
- Liquid Crystal Cells with "Dirty" Substrates. Physical Review Letters. 2009
- p-Wave Resonant Bose Gas: A Finite-Momentum Spinor Superfluid. Physical Review Letters. 2009
- Quantum Liquid Crystals in an Imbalanced Fermi Gas: Fluctuations and Fractional Vortices in Larkin-Ovchinnikov States. Physical Review Letters. 2009
- Conical soliton escape into a third dimension of a surface vortex. Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 2009
- Superfluidity and phase transitions in a resonant Bose gas. Annals of Physics. 2376-2451. 2008
- Radio-frequency spectroscopy of a strongly imbalanced Feshbach-resonant Fermi gas. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. 2008
- Nonlinear elasticity, fluctuations and heterogeneity of nematic elastomers. Annals of Physics. 105-203. 2008
- BEC-BCS crossover, phase transitions and phase separation in polarized resonantly-paired superfluids. Annals of Physics. 1790-1924. 2007
- Zero modes of two-dimensional chiral p-wave superconductors. Physical Review B. 2007
- Comment on "Superfluid stability in the BEC-BCS crossover". Physical Review B. 2007
- Large-N expansion for unitary superfluid Fermi gases. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. 2007
- Thermal fluctuations and rubber elasticity. Physical Review Letters. 2007
- Resonantly paired fermionic superfluids. Annals of Physics. 2-119. 2007
- Superfluid transition in a rotating fermi gas with resonant interactions. Physical Review Letters. 2006
- Thermal depinning and transverse-field tilting transitions in a planar vortex array pinned by a columnar defect. Physical Review B. 2006
- BEC-BCS crossover in "Magnetized" feshbach-resonantly paired superfluids. Physical Review Letters. 2006
- Quantum decoupling transition in a one-dimensional Feshbach-resonant superfluid. Physical Review Letters. 2005
- Quantum phase transitions across a p-wave Feshbach resonance. Physical Review Letters. 2005
- Elasticity, fluctuations, and vortex pinning in ferromagnetic superconductors: A columnar elastic glass. Physical Review B. 2005
- Transition to zero resistance in a two-dimensional electron gas driven with microwaves. Physical Review B. 2005
- Phases and transitions in phantom nematic elastomer membranes. Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 2005
- Vortices in spatially inhomogeneous superfluids. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. 2004
- Vortex lattice inhomogeneity in spatially inhomogeneous superfluids. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. 2004
- Nonequilibrium dynamics and thermodynamics of a degenerate Fermi gas across a Feshbach resonance. Physical Review Letters. 2004
- Superfluid transitions in bosonic atom-molecule mixtures near a feshbach resonance. Physical Review Letters. 2004
- Critical currents of ideal quantum Hall superfluids. Physical Review B. 2003
- Fluctuating nematic elastomer membranes. Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 2003
- Comment on "Freezing by heating in a driven mesoscopic system". Physical Review Letters. 2003
- Universal elasticity and fluctuations of nematic gels. Physical Review Letters. 2003
- Velocity-force characteristics of an interface driven through a periodic potential. Physical Review B. 2003
- Thermal fluctuations and anomalous elasticity of homogeneous nematic elastomers. Europhysics Letters: a letters journal exploring the frontiers of physics. 769-775. 2003
- Liquid-crystal-solid interface structure at the antiferroelectric-ferroelectric phase transition. Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 2002
- Theory of bent-core liquid-crystal phases and phase transitions. Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 2002
- Symmetries and elasticity of nematic gels. Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 2002
- Global phase diagram of bilayer quantum Hall ferromagnets. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. 2002
- Theory of quantum Hall nematics. Physical Review Letters. 2002
- Pseudospin canting transition and stripes in bilayer quantum Hall ferromagnets: A self-charging capacitor. Physical Review Letters. 2001
- Persistent currents and dissipation in narrow bilayer quantum Hall bars. Physical Review B. 2001
- Universality and scaling in the disordering of a smectic liquid crystal. Science. 1074-1079. 2001
- "Soft" anharmonic vortex glass in ferromagnetic superconductors. Physical Review Letters. 2001
- Fluctuation-driven 1st-order isotropic-to-tetrahedratic phase transition. Europhysics Letters: a letters journal exploring the frontiers of physics. 206-212. 2001
- Novel phases and reentrant melting of two-dimensional colloidal crystals. Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 2001
- Interlayer tunneling in double-layer quantum Hall pseudoferromagnets. Physical Review Letters. 1825-1828. 2001
- A discotic disguised as a smectic: A hybrid columnar Bragg glass. Physical Review Letters. 4309-4312. 2000
- Ring-pattern dynamics in smectic-C* and smectic-C-A* freely suspended liquid crystal films. Physical Review Letters. 5772-5775. 2000
- Topologically ordered phases of smectics confined in anisotropic random media: smectic Bragg glasses. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. A215-A220. 2000
- Light-induced melting of colloidal crystals in two dimensions. Physical Review Letters. 2977-2980. 1999
- Two new topologically ordered glass phases of smectics confined in anisotropic random media. Physical Review Letters. 1363-1366. 1999
- Smectic liquid crystals in random environments. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. 206-257. 1999
- Interstitials, vacancies, and dislocations in flux-line lattices: A theory of vortex crystals, supersolids, and liquids. Physical Review B. 12001-12020. 1999
- Transversely driven charge-density waves and striped phases of high-T-c superconductors: The current-effect transistor. Physical Review Letters. 3711-3714. 1998
- Nonequilibrium steady states of driven periodic media. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. 7705-7739. 1998
- Elasticity, shape fluctuations, and phase transitions in the new tubule phase of anisotropic tethered membranes. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 1832-1863. 1998
- Nematic-to-smectic-A transition in aerogel. Physical Review Letters. 4214-4217. 1997
- Dirt softens soap: Anomalous elasticity of disordered smectics. Physical Review Letters. 4414-4417. 1997
- Moving glass phase of driven lattices - Comment. Physical Review Letters. 751-751. 1997
- Self-consistent model of an annihilation-diffusion reaction with long-range interactions. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 395-402. 1997
- Entropically driven re-entrant SmC-SmA-SmC phase transition in composite polymer–liquid-crystal systems. Europhysics Letters: a letters journal exploring the frontiers of physics. 595-600. 1996
- Longitudinal current dissipation in Bose-glass superconductors. Physical Review B. R6845-R6848. 1996
- Theory of continuous H-c2 normal-to-superconducting transition - Reply. Physical Review Letters. 4451-4451. 1996
- Continuous 3D freezing transition in layered superconductors. Physical Review Letters. 3416-3419. 1996
- A new phase of tethered membranes: Tubules. Physical Review Letters. 4752-4755. 1995
- Local probe of vortex pinning energies in the Bose glass. Physical Review B (Condensed Matter). 13025-13028. 1995
- Magnetization Relaxation via Quantum and Classical Vortex Motion in a Bose Glass Superconductor. Physical Review Letters. 4919-4922. 1995
- Resurrection of the Melting Line in the Bose Glass Superconductor. Physical Review Letters. 4923-4926. 1995
- Theory of a ContinuousHc2Normal-to-Superconducting Transition. Physical Review Letters. 4722-4725. 1995
- Self-Consistent Theory of Normal-to-Superconducting Transition. Europhysics Letters: a letters journal exploring the frontiers of physics. 227-232. 1995
- Kinetic theory of flux-line hydrodynamics: Liquid phase with disorder. Physical Review B (Condensed Matter). 10357-10381. 1993
- Flat glassy phases and wrinkling of polymerized membranes with long-range disorder. Physical Review B (Condensed Matter). 3548-3551. 1993
- Grain-boundary instabilities and buckling in partially polymerized membranes. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. 7474-7479. 1992
- Self-consistent theory of polymerized membranes. Physical Review Letters. 1209-1212. 1992
- Crumpled glass phase of randomly polymerized membranes in the large d limit. Journal De Physique, I. 599-613. 1992
- Polymerized Membranes with Quenched Random Internal Disorder. Europhysics Letters: a letters journal exploring the frontiers of physics. 79-84. 1991
- Statistical mechanics of randomly polymerized membranes. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. 3525-3542. 1991
- Cameron–Martin–Wiener expansions and one‐electron quantum transport. American Journal of Physics. 252-257. 1990
- Compression of picosecond pulses from diode lasers using a modified grating-pair compressor. Optics Letters. 180-180. 1990

Teaching

courses taught

PHYS 3220 - Quantum Mechanics 1
Secondary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Spring 2019
Introduces quantum mechanics with wave, operator and matrix computational techniques. Investigates solutions for harmonic oscillator, potential well and systems with angular momentum. Develops a quantitative description of one-electron atoms in lowest order.
PHYS 7240 - Advanced Statistical Mechanics
Primary Instructor - Fall 2019
Introduces current research topics in statistical mechanics. Topics vary from year to year and may include phase transitions, critical phenomena, nonequilibrium phenomena, dense fluids, dynamical systems, plasma physics, or quantum statistical mechanics. Recommended prerequisite: PHYS 7230.

Background

education and training

Ph.D., Harvard University 1993
M.A., Harvard University 1989
M.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1988
B.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1988

awards and honors

Simons Investigators, conferred by Simons Foundation, 2014
Fellow, conferred by American Physical Society, 2003
Fellowships for Science and Engineering, conferred by David and Lucile Packard Foundation, 1998
Sloan Research Fellowship-Physics, conferred by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1997
Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program, conferred by National Science Foundation, 1996

International Activities

global connections related to teaching and scholarly work (in recent years)

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