Anatoli Polkovnikov

Curriculum Vitae

Employment:

09/01/05 – onwards    Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Boston University

07/01/03 – 08/31/05    Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, Harvard University

Education:

  • 1999-2003 Graduate student at Yale University.
    • 2003 Ph.D. thesis: Manifestation of Quantum Fluctuations in Strongly Correlated Systems. Scientific advisor Subir Sachdev.

·         1998-1999 Post graduate student at A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia

·         1992-1998 Undergraduate and graduate student at St. Petersburg State Technical University:

    • 1996 Bachelor degree in physics.
    • 1998 Master of Physics (Thesis on Auger recombination in semiconductor quantum wells).
  • 1990-1992 Physical Technical School #566 (St. Petersburg, Russia). Graduated with honors.

Teaching experience:

·        2000-2003 - Math and science tutor at Yale College.

Courses taught at BU:

·        PY896, “Many-body physics in cold atom systems”

·        PY741, “Solid state physics I”

·        PY742, “Solid state physics II”

·        PY452, “Quantum Physics II”

·        PY541, “Statistical Mechanics 1”

 

Member of the American Physical Society since 2000.

 

Selected Publications:

1.   R. Barankov, A. Polkovnikov, Microscopic diagonal entropy and its connection to basic thermodynamic relations, arXiv:0806.2862.

2.   A. Polkovnikov, Microscopic expression for the heat in the adiabatic basis, arXiv:0806.0620, accepted to Phys. Rev. Lett.

3.   C. De Grandi, R. Barankov, A. Polkovnikov, Adiabatic nonlinear probes of one-dimensional Bose gases, arXiv:0804.4003, accepted to Phys. Rev. Lett.

4.   S. Trotzky, P. Cheinet, S. Fölling, M. Feld, U. Schnorrberger, A. M. Rey, A. Polkovnikov, E. A. Demler, M. D. Lukin, I. Bloch, Time-resolved Observation and Control of Superexchange Interactions with Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices, Science 319, 295 (2008).

5.      Anatoli Polkovnikov and Vladimir Gritsev, Breakdown of the adiabatic limit in low dimensional gapless systems, arXiv:0706.0212, Nature Physics 4, 477 (2008)

6.      Anatoli Polkovnikov, Shot noise of interference between independent atomic systems, Europhys. Lett. 78, 10006 (2007).

7.      V. Gritsev, E. Altman, E. Demler, and A. Polkovnikov, Full quantum distribution of contrast in interference experiments between interacting one-dimensional Bose liquids, Nature Physics 2, 705 (2006).

8.      A. Polkovnikov, E. Altman, and E. Demler, Interference between independent fluctuating condensates, Proc. Natl. Acad of Sci. USA 103, 6125 (2006).

9.      A. Polkovnikov, E. Altman, E. Demler, B. Halperin, and M. Lukin, Decay of a superfluid currents in a moving system of strongly interacting bosons, Phys. Rev. A 71, 063613 (2005).

10.  A. Polkovnikov, Universal adiabatic dynamics across a quantum critical point, Phys. Rev. B. 72, 161201(R) (2005).

11.  A. Polkovnikov, Quantum corrections to the dynamics of interacting bosons: Beyond the truncated Wigner approximation, Phys. Rev. A 68, 053604 (2003).

 

Invited Talks and Colloquia:

  1. From cold atom dynamics to general questions in thermodynamics, Colloquium, Georgetown University, 09/2008.
  2. Microscopic diagonal entropy, heat, and laws of thermodynamics, Colloquium, University of Massachusetts Boston,  09/2008.
  3. Quantum dynamics in low dimensional  systems, Invited Talk, Superconductivity and Superfluidity in Finite Systems, University of Wisconsin, Madison  May 2008.
  4.  Quantum dynamics in low dimensional isolated systems, Condensed Matter Colloquium, University of Maryland,  April 2008.
  5. Probing phases and phase transitions in cold atoms using interference experiments, Invited talk, APS March Meeting, New Orleans, March 2008.
  6. Quantum dynamics in low dimensional  isolated systems, Colloquium, Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 2008.
  7. Interference between independent cold atom systems, Invited Talk, Workshop on Quantum Noise in Correlated Systems, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel, January 2008.
  8. Cold Atoms and Out of Equilibrium Quantum Dynamics, Colloquium, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, November 2007.
  9. Cold Atoms and Out of Equilibrium Quantum Dynamics, Colloquium, University of Massachusetts, Boston, November 2007.
  10. Using dynamics for optical lattice simulations., Invited Talk, gBECi and OLE/MURI joint kickoff meeting, Newport, RI, October, 2007.
  11. Slow dynamics in gapless low-dimensional systems, Invited Talk, Control of quantum correlations in tailored matter: Common perspectives of mesoscopic systems and quantum gases, Schloss Reisensburg, Germany, October, 2007.
  12. Breakdown of the adiabatic approximation in low-dimensional gapless systems, Quantum Lunch Seminar, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, August, 2007.
  13. (Some) concepts of condensed matter physics, Three-lecture invited course, School on Atomic Quantum Fluids, International center of condensed matter physics, Brasilia, Brazil, August 2007.
  14. Superfluid-Insulator Transition in a Moving System of Interacting Bosons, Invited Talk, APS March Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 2006.
  15. Interference Between Fluctuating Condensates, Talk, Aspen Winter Conference: Strong Correlations in Ultra-Cold Fermi Systems, Aspen, Colorado, January 2006.
  16. Superfluid-Insulator Transition in a Moving Condensate, Invited Talk, Few and many-body physics in quantum liquids and gases, University of Washington, Seattle, August 2005.
  17. Superfluid-Insulator Transition in a Moving System of Interacting Bosons, Colloquium, University of Colorado at Boulder, February 2005.
  18. Superfluid-Insulator Transition in a Moving System of Interacting Bosons, Colloquium, Rice University, January 2005.
  19. Superfluid-Insulator Transition in a Moving System of Interacting Bosons,, Colloquium, Georgia Institute of Technology, January 2005.

 

Organization of conferences:

 

Non-equilibrium Phenomena in Strongly Correlated Quantum Systems, Organizing Committee, ITAMP, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Feb. 10-12 2006.

Dynamics and strong correlations: from nanostructures to cold atoms, Organizing Committee, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, Summer 2010 (tentative).

 

Funding

 

AFOSR – young investigator program award: “Dynamics and thermodynamics of many-particle cold atom systems”, 12/06-12/09

ISAT linkages fund grant (joint grant with the team from the University of Otago, New Zealand), 12/06-06/09