
- What is special about being a theoretical physicist, valedictory lecture, Nijmegen, 31 October 2024
Video - Lecture at reception of Hamburg prize for theoretical physics (Hamburg, November 2016)
Slides - Spinoza Lecture (The Hague, September 2013)
Slides
Scientific interests and some results
Dirac physics in condensed matter, especially, graphene (Klein tunneling; Zitterbewegung and conductivity via evanescent waves; supercritical charge; gauge fields and strain engineering)
Fluctuating membranes (graphene as a prototype crystalline membrane; ripples; mechanics of 2D materials beyond conventional elasticity theory; quantum regime and low-temperature thermodynamics)
Correlation effects in electronic structure and properties of real materials (in particular, DFT+DMFT)
Exchange and Dzialoshinskii-Moriya interactions in crystals and molecules
Nonquasiparticle states in half-metallic ferromagnets and magnetic semiconductors
Dual fermions and dual bosons: development and applications (in particular, plasmons in strongly correlated systems)
Cluster DMFT and high-temperature superconductivity in cuprates
Magnetism of iron-group metals at finite temperatures
Orbital Kondo resonance at transition metal surfaces and its STM visualization
Van Hove singularities and Lifshitz transitions from ultracold gases to metallurgy. Hume-Rothery problem: electronic effects in structural properties of metals and alloys
Particle self-trapping (fluctuon) near classical and quantum critical points
Scaling theory for Kondo lattices
Low-dimensional and frustrated magnets: self-consistent spin-wave theory and beyond
Nonperturbative anharmonic effects in crystal lattice dynamics
Role of magnetism in metallurgy of iron ans steel
Ab initio dynamics for spin systems and for tunneling processes
Spin dynamics and decoherence phenomena in molecular magnets and in magnetic clusters
Stripe domains and pattern formation in magnetic systems
Ab initio theory of dynamical core-hole screening in X-ray spectra of solids
Ab initio anharmonic lattice dynamics
Formation of bolaamphiphilic vesicles
Decoherence waves after local quantum measurements
Foundations of quantum mechanics (logical inference approach, separation-of-conditions principle)
Applications of statistical physics to evolutionary biology