KOTLIAR,B. Gabriel                                             Professor  Condensed Matter (Theory)

Born: February 26, 1957.

Citizenship:USA

 Address: Serin Physics Laboratory,
RutgersUniversity,
PiscatawayNJ08855-0849

Education:

Ph.D., Physics, PrincetonUniversity 1983
Title: Random models with long range interactions.
Supervisor: Professor P. W. Anderson
M.Sc., Physics ,HebrewUniversity 1980
B.Sc., Physics and Mathematics, HebrewUniversity 1979

 Positions:

Postdoctoral fellow, Institute for Theoretical Physics
University of California, Santa Barbara                                         1983-1985
Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology    1985-1988

Associate Professor, RutgersUniversity                                       1988-1992
Professor I, RutgersUniversity                                                       1992 -1996
Professor II, RutgersUniversity                                                      1996 - present

Honors, Awards:

Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow1986-1988
Presidential Young Investigator Award 1987-1992
Lady Davies Fellowship1994-1995
Fellow American Physical society  2001

Graduate School Teaching Award2002

Guggenheim Fellow : (2003).

Board of Governors Professor (2004)

Board of Governors Professor (2004)


 

Other Professional Activities

  • Associate Editor of Physical Review Letters 1996-1997
  • Member of the American Physical Society 1981- present
  • Advisory Committee: for the international workshop on Computational Approaches to Electronic Correlations in Solids. Dresden Germany May 25-29 (1998).
  • Consultant ATT Bell Labs (1988-1997)
  • Consultant Los Alamos National Laboratories (1991-1998)
  • Editor ( with D. D. Sarma and Y. Tokura) for "Monographs in Condensed Matter Science" a book series of Gordon and Breach Publishers.(1997)
  • Coordinator: X Trieste Workshop on Open Problems in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems July 1998, Trieste Italy .
  • Coordinator: XI Trieste Workshop on Open Problems in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems July 1999, Trieste Italy .
  • Member of the Organizing Committee XII Trieste Workshop on Open Problems in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems July 2000, Trieste Italy.
  • Conference Organizer: Prospects of a Realistic Description of Strong Electron Correlations in Solids'', October 2-6, 1999, Prague, Czech Republic
  • Director: Workshop on Correlation Effects in Electronic Structure Calculations (12 - 23 June 2000) ICPT Trieste Italy.
  • Director: XII Workshop on strongly correlated electron systems ICTP Miramare Trieste, (17 - 28 July 2000).
  • Member International Advisory Board for the Research Center of Crete FORTH-IESL. (Greece) 1996-2000.
  • Member International Advisory Board for EASTMAG (Euro-Asian Symposium on Trends in Magnetism, Ekaterinburg, Russia)  February 2001
  • Member of the International Advisory Board for the Max Planck Institute f$\ddot{u}$r Chemische Physik fester Stoffe in Dresden
  • Conference Organizer   CECAM Workshops on      Electronic Properties of Strongly Correlated  Systems: from the Local Density Approximation to the Dynamical Mean Field Theory   July 25-27
  • Workshop Organizer, the Physics of Plutonium Los Alamos National Lab , Los Alamos NM, July 14-17 (2001).
  • Organizer Lorentz  Institute  Workshop on Realistic Treatment of Correlation Effects in Solids Leiden (November 12-23, 2001).
  • Coordinator a summer school on Dynamical Mean Field Theory for electronic structure calculations  Trieste  17-21 June. (2002)
  • Organizer ITP Workshop on Realistic Treatment of Correlation Effects in Solids/. (July-December 2002)

 

INVITED TALKS IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

 

  1. Strongly Correlated Electrons: a Dynamical Mean Field Perspective. 90th STATISTICAL MECHANICS CONFERENCE RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, HILL CENTER, ROOM 114 SUNDAY, MONDAY AND TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14-16, 2003 .
  2.  Applications of DMFT to actinide materials  in  Highlights in the theory of actinides and f-electrons .Actinide User Laboratory Workshop 31 March - 1April 2003. Institute for Transuranic Elements. Karlsruhe Germany .
  3. RKKY vs Kondo what we do not understand. Contribution to a  session of ICAM. Workshop on Quantum Criticality. Columbia University. 20-23 March 2003.
  4. The Mott transition in f electron systems: Plutonium , a Dynamical Mean Field Perspective. ASR2002, Tokai Japan, November 12-14, 2002.
  5.  Dynamical Mean Field Theory  or Metallic Plutonium, IWOSMA, Berkeley , October 13-15 2002.
  6. Correlation Effects in Itinerant Magnets: Towards a Realistic Dynamical Mean Field Approach in Electronic Structure and Compuational Magnetism, Washington DC, July15-17 (2002).
  7. Electronic Structure of  Correlated Materials : a DMFT Perspective in Realistic Theories , Gordon Research Conference  on Correlated Electrons.


 June 29-July 3rd 2002

  1. Comments on realistic calculations using DMFT  in  Dynamical Mean Field Theory for electronic structure calculations  17-21 June Trieste 2002
  2. Dynamical Mean Field Approach to Strongly Correlated Electrons in Field Theory and Statistical Mechanics Rome 10-15 June (2002).
  3.  Electronic Structure of Strongly Correlated Materials: a DMFT perspective. In the festchrift in celebration of Peter Wolfle's  60'th birthday. Karlsruhe, April 28th (2002).
  1. Extending the scope of dynamical mean field methods in Workshop  on Correlation Effects in Electronic Structure Calculations. Leiden Nov 12th -Nov 23rd.(2001)
  2. Dynamical Mean Field Theory and Electronic Structure Calculations . Landelijk Seminarium voor Vaste Stof Fysica (Friday 16 Nov 2001 )University of Nijmegen
  3. Realistic Dynamical Mean Field Theory : From the Mott transition to itinerant ferromagnetism. Kanizawa Symposium , October 1st -4th, 2001.
  4. Dynamical Mean Field Theory of Delta Plutonium, in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems (SCES 2001) Ann Arbor Michigan Aug 6-10, 2001.
  5. Overview of the Dynamical Mean Field Method and its extensions, in Electronic Properties of Strongly Correlated  Systems: from the Local Density Approximation  to the Dynamical Mean Field Theory in Cecam, Lyon July 25-27, 2001.
  6. Plutonium as a correlated metal. Opening address in the workshop on the Physics of Plutonium, Los Alamos National Lab , Los Alamos NM, July 14-17 (2001).
  7. Dynamical Mean Field Theory of Correlated Systems: from model Hamiltonians Studies of the Mott Transtition  to first-principles calculations of real materials. Recent Progress in Many Body Theory-11UMIST, Manchester, UK 9 to 13 July, 2001.
  8. Spectral Denisty Functional: a first principles approach to the electronic structure of correlated solids. in JRCATS-CERC Workshop on Phase Control, Maui island, Hawaii, June 6- June 9 (2001) .
  9. Theoretical Treatments of Correlation effects in, Workshop on Chemical Physics of Emerging Materials (Ringberg 28.05.01-01.06.01) Germany.
  10. Dynamical Mean Field Theory of Materials Near a Mott transition, March Meeting of the American Physical Society, March 12 - 16,  Seattle 2001
  11. Theory of delta Plutonium in The Physics of f Electrons (Daresbury, UK, April 6-8 2001)
  12.  "Dynamical Mean Field Theory in Electronic Structure Calculations: Applications to solids with f and d electrons". X International Workshop on Computational Material Science and Total Energy and Force Method   11-13 January 2001, Trieste (Italy)
  13. Theory of the Electronic Structure of Correlated Materials in Workshop on Opportunities in Materials Theory 2000 Organized by the National Science Foundation , Washinton DC, October 4-6, 2000.Foundation , Washinton DC, October 4-6, 2000.
  14. Dynamical mean field theory and its applications to strongly correlated fermions, in GDR Systèmes Fortement Corrélés: Interactions and Mesoscopic Physics, Aussois France, September 25-28 2000
  1. Theory of Delta Plutonium., in Colloquium on f electrons Prague March (2000).
  1. Theory of Delta Plutonium, in Journees des Actinides, May 4 - 6, 2000 in Dresden Germany.
  2. From Model Hamiltonians to Electronic Structure Calculations, 8th General Conference of the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society, Montreux Switzerland
  3. Strongly correlated electrons : a dynamical mean field perspective, in CONFERENCE ANNIVERSAIRE DU LPT-ENS , Paris France, 29 - 31 May, 2000.
  4. Theory of $\delta $ Plutonium, in the 5th Prague Colloquium on f electron systems. Prague (March 9th to 11th , 2000).
  5.  Strongly Correlated Electronas: a Dynamical Mean Field Perspective  in Nato Advanced Workshops: Open Problems in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, 26-30 April 2000 Bled, Slovenia.
  6. Dynamical Mean Field Theory of the Mott transition in the NATO ASI/EC Summer School: New Theoretical Approaches to Strongly Correlated Systems at Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences 10 - 20 April (2000) Cambridge England.
  7. The Mott transition problem: Dynamical Mean Field Theory and Transition Metal Compounds in Aspen Winter Conference on Condensed Matter Physics: 50 years of Condensed Matter Physics  In honor of P.W. Anderson (January 9th to 15th , 2000)
  8. Landau Theory of the Mott Transition Application to V2O3 and NiSe2-x Sx The fourth Butsuko Symposium on Phase Control in Spin-Charge-Photon  Coupled Systems. November 24-25 (1999) Tokyo Japan.
  9. Heat and charge transport in strongly correlated electron systems: thermopower near the concentration driven Mott transitions and near ordinary quantum quantum critical points. in the Workshop on Spectroscopy of Spin Charge Photon Coupled Systems. Tokyo November 26 1999
  10. Dynamical Mean Field Theory of the Mott Transition. International Conference on Statistical Mechanics and Strongly Correlated Systems University of Rome "La Sapienza" Italy. 27-29 September 1999.
  11. Dynamical Mean Field Theory and Electronic Structure Calculations in US-Czek Republic Workshop on Prospects of a Realistic Description of Strong Electron Correlations in Solids. October 2-6 Prague 1999.
  12. Finite Temperature Extensions of the Brinkman Rice Theory in Physics and Chemistry of Novel Materials: Strongly Correlated Electron Systems Monte Verita Switzerland June 6th -11th (1999)
  13. Dynamical Mean Field Approach to Correlated Electron Systems Workshop on Theoretical Methods for Strongly Correlated Fermions. Centre de Recherches Mathematiques. Montreal Canda May 26-30 (1999)
  14. Non Fermi Liquid Behavior in Disordered Kondo Lattices Invited Talk at the Centenial Meeting of the American Physical Society. Atlanta Georgia March 20th March 26th (1999).
  15. Localization Transitions in V2O3 and NiSeS and other Systems Many Body Physics Workshop hosted by CMS Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos , New Mexico August 24 - 27 (1998).
  16. The Mott Transition in Oxides and Sulfides: Insights from Dynamical Mean Field Theory Workshop on Poorly Conducting Metallic Oxides, Argonne National Laboratory June 10-12 (1998)
  17. Workshop Summary Trieste98 Workshop. Trieste July 20-31 (1998) Trieste Italy.
  18. New Insights into the Mott Transition Problem in Three Dimensional Transition Metal Oxides Strongly Correlated Electron Systems conference, July 15-18 (1998) Paris France
  19. The Mott Transition in Ruthenates and Titanites: What can we understand using dynamical mean field theory in Physics of Manganites, Ruthenatesand Related Materials Workshop. National Magnetic Field Laboratory Tallahassee November 9-11, 1997.
  20. Applications of Dynamical Mean Field Theory to d and f Electrons Los Alamos Many Body Theory Workshop August 18-19 , 1997 Los Alamos New Mexico.
  21. Dynamical Mean Field Theory to the Metal to Insulator Transition Royal Society Meeting on the Metal -Non Metal Transition in Marcroscopic and Microscopic Systems. March 5-6 1997. London. England.
  22. The Mott Transition in Orbitally Degenerate Systems JCRCAT Workshop on Spin-Charge -Lattice Coupled Phenomena in Perovskites. May 28-31 (1996) Tsukuba Japan.
  23. The Mott Transition: Recent Theoretical and Experimental Developments 75th Statistical Mechanics Conference. May 9 and 10 Rutgers University. (1996).
  24. The Mott Transition: Recent Theoretical and Experimental Developments. Pacific Conference on Condensed Matter Theory: Complex Materials and Strongly Correlated Systems. December2-5 1995 Seoul KOREA
  25. Strongly Correlated Electrons: Views From Mean Field Theory, International Euroconference on Magnetic Correlations, Metal-Insulator Trnasitions and Superconductivity in Novel Materials. Groningen 8-13th October 1995.
  26. Mean Field Theories of Strongly Correlated Electrons Euroconference on Dynamic properties in novel Superconductors (May 8-12,1995) at ISI, Torino
  27. Correlated Electrons in Infinite Dimensions: Exact results and Some Surprises Florida Conference on Quantum Impurity Models Feb 14 -26 1995.
  28. Spectral Functions of Strongly Correlated Electrons in the Single Impurity Local Approximation standford Conference on Spectroscopies in Novel Superconductors. March 15-18 1995.
  29. The Mott Transition : Recent Theoretical and Experimental Developments 17th Taniguchi Symposium Japan October 23rd October 30th 1994.
  30. The Breakdown of Fermi Liquid Theory in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems Euroconference on Cross Over Phenomena in Solid State Physics From Weak to Strong Coupling in Electronic Systems. September 1994.
  31. Correlated Metals and Insulators in Infinite Dimensions Invited Talk at the Division of Condensed Matter Meeting of the American Physical Society. Pittsburg March 21-25 1994.
  32. The Mean Field Theory of Strongly Correlated Electrons and The Mott Transition Aspen Winter Conference on Strongly Correlated Electrons. Aspen Colorado January 9th -15th 1994.
  33. The Metal Insulator Transition "Strongly Correlated Electronic Materials: The Los Alamos Symposium 1993" December 15-18 1993.
  34. The Metal Insulator Transition in Clean and Disordered Systems: What does mean field theory predict? International Conference on Superconductivity and Storngly COrrelated Electron Systems. Amalfi Italy October 14-16, 1992.
  35. The Hubbard Model in Large Dimensions The Physics and the Mathematical Physics of The Hubbard Model. San Sebastian October 4-8 (1993)
  36. The Mott Transition in Transition Metal Oxides Workshop on Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems. Los Alamos National Laboratory. August 30th September 3rd.
  37. The Mott Transition in Disordered Systems Workhsop on Electronc Properties of Disordered Systems August 23-27 1993. Argonne National Laboratory
  38. "13th ""The Mott trnaisiton, recent theoretical and experimental developments" Physics of Magnetism 93 strongly correlatde electron systmes. June 21-24 Poznan Poland.
  39. "Anomalous Dimensions Quantum Chemistry and the Breakdown of Fermi Liquid Theory in Correlated Electrons 13th General Conference of the Condensed Matter division European Physical Society and the Duutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. Regernsburg March 229- April 2 (1993).
  40. "Local Moment Formation in Disordered Systems " Gordon Research Conference on Condensed Matter. Aug 17th -Aug 21st, Wolfboro New Hampshire.
  41. "Strongly Correlated Fermions in Infinite Dimensions" Conference on Quantum Phase Transitions. Santa Barbara June 28- July 3 1992.
  42. "Strongly Correlated Systems in Infinite Dimensions", 67th Statistical Mechanics Meeting May 13 -15 1992. Rutgers University N.J.
  43. ``Strongly Correlated Systems in Infinite Dimensions and Their Zero Dimensional Counterparts'', Adriatico Research Conference on Open Problems in Strongly Interacting Electron Systems, July 9-12, 1991.
  44. ``Strongly Correlated Copper Oxide Layers Applications of the Large N Techniques'', International Workshop on Electronic Properties and Mechanisms in high tc Superconductors, July 29-31, 1991, Tsukuba, Japan.
  45. ``Strong Correlation Transport and Coherence: Views From the Large N Expansion'',M2S-HTSCIII , Karazawa, JAPAN.
  46. ``Quantum Monte Carlo Infinite U Fermion Systems'', Electronic Structure 91, Ithaca, June 1-3, 1991.
  47. ``Charge Transfer Instability Phase Separation and superconductivity in the Three Band Model of the Copper Oxides'', International conference: High Temperature Superconductivity, Concept Models and Methods, Torino, November 27-30, 1990.
  48. ``Transport and Coherence in Strongly Correlated Systems'', Adriatico Research Conference on Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, July 18-21, 1990.
  49. ``Pedagogical Introduction to the Uses of the Large N Expansion in the Strong Correlation Problem'', series of lectures presented at the International Workshop on Strongly Correlated Systems, Trieste, June 1990.
  50. ``Fermi Liquid and Non Fermi Liquid Aspects of thet-J   Model at Large Doping'', Orsay Workshop on Strong Correlation in High Temperature  Superconductors, April 17-27, 1990, Paris.
  51. ``Effects of Weak Disorder in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems'', International Conference on the Anderson Transition and Mesoscopic Fluctuations, Braunschweig, F.R. Germany, January 9-10, 1990.
  52. ``The Two Impurity Kondo Problem: Large N Expansion and Exact Renormalization Group Results'', Interface between Field Theory and Condensed Matter Physics, Trieste, June 20 - June 25, 1989.
  53. ``The Strong Correlation Problem Within the Large N Expansion'', Institute for Theoretical Physics Conference on High Temperature Superconductivity, Santa Barbara, June 26-30, 1989.
  54. ``Introduction to the Metal Insulator Transition and the Strong Correlation Problem'', Mini Workshop on Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, Trieste, June 19 - July 21, 1989.
  55. ``Fermi Liquid and Non Fermi Liquid Phases of the Extended Hubbard Model'', in John Hopkins Workshop on Field Theory in Condensed Matter Physics, November 3-4, 1988, Baltimore.
  56. ``High Temperature Superconductors: Is Fermi Liquid Theory Appropriate?'', Second NEC Symposium on Fundamental Approaches to New Material Phases, October 24-27, 1988, Hakonen, Japan.
  57. ``Fermi Liquid and Non-Fermi Liquid Phases of the Extended Hubbard Model'', at US-USSR Workshop on Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, September 30 - October 4, 1988, Tbilisi, USSR.
  58. ``The Slave Boson Approach to the Extended Hubbard Models of High Temperature Superconductivity'', in Mechanisms for High Temperature Superconductivity, June 20 - July 21, 1988, Trieste.
  59. ``The Metal Insulator Transition in Disordered Systems'', Common Trends in Field Theory and Condensed Matter Physics, Cargese, 1988.
  60. ``Scaling Theory of the Metal Insulator Transition'', Los Alamos National Laboratory Disorder and Nonlinearity Workshop, May 4-6, 1988, New Mexico.
  61. ``Resonating Valence Bonds and D Wave Superconductivity'', 18th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics, August 20-26, 1987, Kyoto.
  62. ``Landau Fermi Liquid and the Scaling Theory of the Metal Insulator Transition'', University of Tokyo International Symposium on Anderson Localization, August 16-18, 1987, Tokyo.
  63. ``Slave Boson Approach to Strongly Correlated Systems'', Rutgers Statistical Mechanics Meeting, May 7-8, 1987, Piscataway.
  64. ``Fermi Liquid Theory of Disordered Systems and the Scaling Theory of the Metal Transition'', American Physical Society Meeting, March 15-20, 1987, New York.
  65. ``Quasiparticles in Disordered Systems and the Theory of the Metal Insulator Transition'', Chalmers-Nordita-Landau Institute Meeting on New Topics in Condensed Matter Physics, October 6-10, 1986, Goteborg.

Physics Schools

  1. The Large N Expansion and the Strong Correlation Problem, 5 lectures delivered at the Les Houches summer school, Les Houches, France, August 1-30, 1991.
  2. The Extended Hubbard Model: Insights From the Large N Limit, 4 lectures delivered at the 9th Jerusalem Winter School in Theoretical Phy sics, Jerusalem, Israel, December 30, 1991 - January 8, 1992.
  3. Correlated Itinerant Electron Problems 5 lectures delivered at th Spring College in Condensed Matter on Quantum Phases. May 34d to Ju ne 10th 1994 at the International center for Theoretical Physics Trieste Italy.
  4. Resonating Valence Bonds and D-Wave Superconductivity lectures elivered in the Summer School on Condensed Matter Physics: Symmetry of the Order Parameter in High Temperature Superconductors Bilkent International Center for Advanced Studies Ankara, 17-22 June (1996).
  5. Dynamical Mean Field Theory of the Mott Transition 5 Lectures delivered at the Third Training Course in the Physics of Correlated Electron Systems and High-Tc Superconductors International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies "E.R. Caianiello" Vietri sul Mare , Salerno, Italy September 20-25 (1998).
  6. Dynamical Mean Field Theory for Electronic Structure Calculations. Course given in Workshop on Correlation Effects in Electronic Structure Calculations (12 - 23 June 2000) ICPT Trieste Italy.
  7. Dynamical Mean Field Theory of the Mott transition. Course given in the  19TH WINTER SCHOOL FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS, Jerusalem, December 30, 2001 - January 8, 2002