KOTLIAR,B. Gabriel ProfessorCondensed Matter (Theory)

Born:February 26, 1957.

Citizenship:USA

Address:

SerinPhysicsLaboratory
RutgersUniversity
Piscataway, NJ08854

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 Barbara1983 - 1985
Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology1985 - 1988

Associate Professor,RutgersUniversity1988 - 1992
Professor I,RutgersUniversity1992 - 1996
Professor II,RutgersUniversity1996 - 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 ATTBell Labs (1988-1997).
  • ConsultantLos 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: XTrieste Workshop on Open Problems in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, July 1998,TriesteItaly.
  • Coordinator: XI Trieste Workshop on Open Problems in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, July 1999,Trieste,Italy.
  • Member of the Organizing Committee XIITrieste 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 theResearchCenter 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 fuerChemischePhysik festerStoffe inDresden.
  • Conference Organizer:CECAM Workshops on Electronic Properties of Strongly CorrelatedSystems: from the Local Density Approximation to the Dynamical Mean Field Theory,July 25-27.
  • Workshop Organizer: the Physics of Plutonium,Los Alamos NationalLab,Los AlamosNM, July 14-17 (2001).
  • Organizer:Lorentz InstituteWorkshop 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)
  • Consultant Los Alamos National Laboratories (2003-present).
  • International Advisory Committee (IAC) of International Conference on Magnetism (ICM) to be held on August 20-25, 2006 (Kyoto).
  • International Advisory Committee of the Psi-k 2005 Conference to be held in September, 17-21, 2005, Schwaebisch Gmuend, Germany.
  • Panelist: NSF MPS Theory Workshop, October 27-28, National Science Foundation,Arlington,Virginia (2004).

INVITED TALKS IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

  1. Realistic DMFT calculations of f-electron systems using Dynamical Mean Field Theory. Workshop “Electronic Structure of Correlated Materials”, f-electron network (8-10 December in Paris).
  2. Superconductivity andNormalStateNear the Mott Transition, a Cellular Dynamical Mean Field (CDMFT) Perspective.Third Asian-Pacific Workshop on Strongly Correlated Electron systems.
  3. Dynamical Mean Field Theory and Electronic Structure Calculations. In YKIS2004 “Physics of Strongly Correlated Electron Systems”,Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Nov.17 – 20, 2004.
  4. Mott transition across theactinide series: DMFT studies of Plutonium and Americium,Advanced Light SourceUser Meeting –Actinide Workshop,Berkeley,California, October 18-19 (2004).
  5. CMMP04. Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 4-7 April (2004) University of Warwick.
  6. Low Energy Electrodynamics of Solids,July 18-23 (2004) LEES 2004.
  7. StronglyCorrelated Electron Systems a Dynamical Mean Field Perspective Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter meeting: Frontiers in Correlated Matter, Snowmass,September, 2004.
  8. Strongly Correlated Electron Systems a Dynamical Mean Field Perspective 5th International Conference on Inelastic X-Ray Scattering.Argonne National Labs,Chicago,September 20,2004.
  9. Towards an Electronic StructureMethod for Correlated Electron Systems: based on Dynamical Mean Field Theory, Second International Workshop, 2004, Ordering Phenomena in Transition Metal Oxides, September 26 - 29, 2004, Wildbad Kreuth.
  10. Dynamical Mean Field Theory (DMFT) Approach to StronglyCorrelated Materials, SCES04,July 26-31 (2004) Karlsruhe,Germany.
  11. Optical Properties of Strongly Correlated Electrons: A Dynamical Mean Field Approach Low Energy Electrodynamics of Solids. Kolster Banz, 18-23 July (2004).
  12. Introduction to Session on: Quantum Criticality and Fractionalized Phases. Gordon Research Conference on Correlated Electrons, 2004.
  13. Condensed Matter and Materials Physics CMMP04, 4-7 April, 2004,University of Warwick.
  14. Dynamical Mean Field Theory and Electronic Structure Calculations Annual Meeting of the German Physical Society, Regensburg, 29March -April 1st, 2004.
  15. The Mott transition in transition metal oxides and in organic materials: a dynamical mean field perspective.2004 The 8th (Asia Pacific center for Theoretical Physics)APCTP Winter workshop on Strongly Correlated Electron Systems. PhoenixPark, February 16-20,Korea.
  16. Annual APS March Meeting2004,March 22-26 (2004) Montreal,Quebec,Canada.
  17. 90thstatistical mechanics conference.Rutgers University, Hill center, room 114,December 14-16, 2003.
  18. Electronic Structure of Elemental Plutonium: A Dynamical Mean Field Perspective (DMFT), in Materials Research Society Meeting,Boston, December (2003).
  19. TowardsFirst-Principles Electronic Structure Calculations of Correlated Materials Using Dynamical Mean Field Theory (DMFT). CMSN-Workshop on Predictive Capabilities for Strongly Correlated Systems, UT,November 7-9,2003.
  20. Applications of DMFT to actinide materials inHighlights in the theory of actinides and f-electrons.Actinide User Laboratory Workshop, 31 March - 1April, 2003. Institute for Transuranic Elements, Karlsruhe,Germany.
  21. RKKY vs Kondo what we do not understand. Contribution to asession of ICAM. Workshop on Quantum Criticality,ColumbiaUniversity, 20-23 March, 2003.
  22. The Mott transition in f-electron systems: Plutonium, a Dynamical Mean Field Perspective.ASR2002 Tokaimura, Japan,November 12-14, 2002.
  23. IWOSMA2,Dynamical Mean Field Theoryof Metallic Plutonium.Berkeley, October 13-15, 2002.
  24. Correlation Effects in Itinerant Magnets: Towards a Realistic Dynamical Mean Field Approach in Electronic Structure and Computational Magnetism.WashingtonDC, July15-17 (2002).
  25. Electronic Structure ofCorrelatedMaterials: a DMFT Perspective in Realistic Theories.Gordon Research Conferenceon Correlated Electrons,June 29-July 3rd, 2002.
  26. Comments on realistic calculations using DMFT in Dynamical Mean Field Theory for electronic structure calculations,17-21 June,Trieste, 2002.
  27. Dynamical Mean Field Approach to Strongly Correlated Electrons in Field Theory and Statistical Mechanics,Rome, 10-15 June.
  28. Electronic Structure of Strongly Correlated Materials: a DMFT Perspective, Festschrift in celebration of Peter Wolfle’s birthday, KarlsruheApril282002in “Strong Correlation and Disorder: Modern Aspects of Condensed Matter Theory” (April25-26, 2002Karlsruhe).
  29. Extending the scope of dynamical mean field methods in Workshopon Correlation Effects in Electronic Structure Calculations,Leiden, November 12th-Nov 23rd(2001).
  30. Dynamical Mean Field Theory andElectronic Structure Calculations.LandelijkSeminariumvoorVasteStofFysica(Friday16, November 2001)University ofNijmegen.
  31. Realistic Dynamical Mean FieldTheory: From the Mott transition to itinerant ferromagnetism.KanizawaSymposium, October 1st-4th, 2001.
  32. Dynamical Mean Field Theory of Delta Plutonium, in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems (SCES 2001)Ann ArborMichigan,August 6-10, 2001.
  33. Overview of the Dynamical Mean Field Method and its extensions, in Electronic Properties of Strongly CorrelatedSystems: from the Local Density Approximationtothe Dynamical Mean Field Theory.CECAM, Lyon,July 25-27, 2001.
  34. Plutonium as a correlated metal. Opening address in the workshop on the Physics of Plutonium.Los Alamos NationalLab,Los Alamos,NM, July 14-17 (2001).
  35. Dynamical Mean Field Theory of Correlated Systems: from model Hamiltonians Studies of the MottTransitionto first-principles calculations of real materials. Recent Progress in Many Body Theory-11UMIST,Manchester,UK, 9 to13 July, 2001.
  36. SpectralDensity Functional: a first principles approach to the electronic structure of correlated solids. JRCATS-CERC Workshop on Phase Control,Maui island,Hawaii, June 6- June 9 (2001).
  37. Theoretical Treatments of Correlation Effects Workshop on Chemical Physics of Emerging Materials.Schloss Rinberg,May 29th, 2001(Ringberg, 28.05.01-01.06.01).
  38. Dynamical Mean Field Theory of Materials near a Mott transition, March Meeting of the American Physical Society, March 12 - 16,Seattle, 2001.
  39. Theory of delta Plutonium in The Physics of f-Electrons.(Daresbury,UK,April 6-8, 2001).
  40. 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.
  41. Theory of the Electronic Structure of Correlated Materials in Workshop on Opportunities in Materials Theory 2000 Organized by the National Science Foundation,WashingtonDC, October 4-6, 2000.
  42. Dynamical mean field theory and its applications to strongly correlated fermions.GDRSystèmesFortementCorrélés: Interactions andMesoscopic Physics,Aussois,France,September 25-28, 2000.
  43. Theory of Delta Plutonium. Colloquium on f-electrons Prague March (2000).
  44. Theory of Delta Plutonium.Journees des Actinides,May 4 - 6, 2000 inDresdenGermany.
  45. From Model Hamiltonians to Electronic Structure Calculations.8thGeneral Conference of the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society,Montreux,Switzerland.
  46. Strongly correlatedelectrons: a dynamical mean field perspective.Conference anniversaire du LPT-ENS,Paris,France, 29 - 31 May, 2000.
  47. Theory of-Plutonium, in the 5thPrague Colloquium on f electron systems.Prague (March 9-11, 2000).
  48. Strongly CorrelatedElectrons: a Dynamical Mean Field Perspective.NATO Advanced Workshops: Open Problems in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, 26-30 April, 2000, Bled,Slovenia.
  49. 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.
  50. 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 9-15, 2000)
  51. Landau Theory of the Mott Transition Application to V2O3 and NiSe2-xSx.The fourthButsuko Symposium on Phase Control in Spin-Charge-PhotonCoupled Systems. November 24-25 (1999)Tokyo,Japan.
  52. Heat and charge transport in strongly correlated electron systems:thermopower near the concentration driven Mott transitions and near ordinary quantumquantum critical points. Workshop on Spectroscopy of Spin Charge Photon Coupled Systems, Tokyo,November 26, 1999.
  53. Dynamical Mean Field Theory of the Mott Transition. International Conference on Statistical Mechanics and Strongly CorrelatedSystems,University ofRome “LaSapienza”,Italy, 27-29 September, 1999.
  54. Dynamical Mean Field Theory and Electronic Structure Calculations inUS-CzechRepublic.Workshop on Prospects of a Realistic Description of Strong Electron Correlations in Solids, October 2-6,Prague, 1999.
  55. Finite Temperature Extensions of the Brinkman Rice Theory in Physics and Chemistry of Novel Materials: Strongly Correlated Electron Systems.MonteVerita,Switzerland, June 6th-11th, (1999).
  56. Dynamical Mean Field Approach to Correlated Electron Systems Workshop on Theoretical Methods for Strongly Correlated Fermions. Centre de Recherches Mathematiques, Montreal,Canada, May 26-30 (1999)
  57. Non Fermi Liquid Behavior in Disordered Kondo Lattices Invited Talk at theCentennial Meeting of the American Physical Society.AtlantaGeorgia, March 20th- March 26th (1999).
  58. Localization Transitions in V2O3 andNiSeS and other Systems.Many Body Physics Workshop hosted by CMS Los Alamos National Laboratory,LosAlamo,New Mexico, August 24 - 27 (1998).
  59. 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).
  60. Workshop Summary Trieste98 Workshop.Trieste, July 20-31 (1998)Trieste,Italy.
  61. New Insights into the Mott Transition Problem in Three Dimensional Transition Metal Oxides Strongly Correlated Electron Systems conference, July 15-18 (1998)Paris,France.
  62. The Mott Transition inRuthenates andTitanites: What can we understand using dynamical mean field theory in Physics ofManganites,Ruthenatesand Related MaterialsWorkshop. National Magnetic Field LaboratoryTallahassee,November 9-11, 1997.
  63. 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.
  64. Dynamical Mean Field Theory to the Metal to Insulator Transition.Royal Society Meeting on the Metal -Non Metal Transition inMacroscopic and Microscopic Systems,March 5-6 1997,London,England.
  65. The Mott Transition inOrbitally Degenerate Systems.JCRCAT Workshop on Spin-Charge -Lattice Coupled Phenomena inPerovskites, May 28-31 (1996) Tsukuba,Japan.
  66. The Mott Transition: Recent Theoretical and Experimental Developments.75thStatistical Mechanics Conference, May 9 and 10,RutgersUniversity (1996).
  67. 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.
  68. Strongly Correlated Electrons: ViewsFrom Mean Field Theory.InternationalEuroconference on Magnetic Correlations, Metal-InsulatorTransitions and Superconductivity in Novel Materials.Groningen8-13th October 1995.
  69. Mean Field Theories of Strongly Correlated Electrons.Euroconference on Dynamic properties in novel Superconductors (May 8-12, 1995) at ISI,Torino.
  70. Correlated Electrons in Infinite Dimensions: Exact results and Some Surprises Florida. Conference on Quantum Impurity Models, February 14 -26, 1995.
  71. Spectral Functions of Strongly Correlated Electrons in the Single Impurity Local Approximation.Stanford Conference onSpectroscopes in Novel Superconductors,March 15-18, 1995.
  72. The MottTransition: Recent Theoretical and Experimental Developments.17thTaniguchi Symposium,Japan, October 23rd -October 30th, 1994.
  73. The Breakdown of Fermi Liquid Theory in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems.Euroconference on Cross Over Phenomena in SolidState Physics: From Weak to Strong Coupling in Electronic Systems, September, 1994.
  74. 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.
  75. The Mean Field Theory of Strongly Correlated Electrons andthe Mott Transition.Aspen Winter Conference on Strongly Correlated Electrons.AspenColorado, January 9th-15th, 1994.
  76. The Metal Insulator Transition.“Strongly Correlated Electronic Materials: TheLos Alamos Symposium 1993”,December 15-18, 1993.
  77. The Metal Insulator Transition in Clean and Disordered Systems: What does mean field theory predict?International Conference on Superconductivity andStronglyCorrelated Electron Systems.Amalfi, Italy, October 14-16, 1992.
  78. The Hubbard Model in Large Dimensions.The Physics and the Mathematical Physics of The Hubbard Model, San Sebastian, October 4-8 (1993).
  79. The Mott Transition in Transition Metal OxidesWorkshop on Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems.Los Alamos National Laboratory, August 30th- September 3rd.
  80. The Mott Transition in Disordered SystemsWorkshop onElectronic Properties of Disordered Systems, August 23-27, 1993,Argonne National Laboratory.
  81. 13thThe Motttransition, recent theoretical and experimental developments.Physics of Magnetism 93 stronglycorrelated electronsystems, June 21-24, Poznan, Poland.
  82. Anomalous Dimensions Quantum Chemistry and the Breakdown of Fermi Liquid Theory in Correlated Electrons,13thGeneral Conference of the Condensed Matter division European Physical Society and theDeutschePhysikalischeGesellschaft, Regernsburg, March 29 - April 2 (1993).
  83. Local Moment Formation in DisorderedSystems.Gordon Research Conference on Condensed Matter, August17th-Aug 21st,Wolfeboro,New Hampshire.
  84. Strongly Correlated Fermions in Infinite Dimensions. Conference on Quantum Phase Transitions.Santa Barbara, June 28-July 3, 1992.
  85. Strongly Correlated Systems in Infinite Dimensions, 67thStatistical Mechanics Meeting, May 13-15 1992, Rutgers University, N.J.
  86. 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.
  87. 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.
  88. Strong Correlation Transport and Coherence: Views from the Large N Expansion. M2S-HTSCIII, Karazawa,Japan.
  89. QuantumMonte Carlo Infinite UFermion Systems. Electronic Structure 91,Ithaca,June 1-3, 1991.
  90. 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.
  91. Transport and Coherence in Strongly Correlated Systems. Adriatico Research Conference on Strongly Correlated Electron Systems,July 18-21, 1990.
  92. 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.
  93. Fermi Liquid and Non Fermi Liquid Aspects ofthe t-J Model at Large Doping. Orsay, Workshop on Strong Correlation in High TemperatureSuperconductors, April 17-27, 1990, Paris.
  94. Effects of Weak Disorder in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems. International Conference on theAnderson Transition andMesoscopic Fluctuations,Braunschweig, F.R. Germany,January 9-10, 1990.
  95. 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.
  96. The Strong Correlation Problemwithin the Large N Expansion. Institute for Theoretical Physics Conference on High Temperature Superconductivity,Santa Barbara,June 26-30, 1989.
  97. Introduction to the Metal Insulator Transition and the Strong Correlation Problem.Mini Workshop on Strongly Correlated Electron Systems,Trieste, June 19 -July 21, 1989.
  98. 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.
  99. High Temperature Superconductors: Is Fermi Liquid Theory Appropriate? Second NEC Symposium on Fundamental Approaches to New Material Phases,October 24-27, 1988,Hakonen, Japan.
  100. 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.
  101. 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.
  102. The Metal Insulator Transition in Disordered Systems. Common Trends in Field Theory and Condensed Matter Physics,Cargese, 1988.
  103. Scaling Theory of the Metal Insulator Transition,Los Alamos National Laboratory Disorder and Nonlinearity Workshop,May 4-6, 1988,New Mexico.
  104. ResonatingValence Bonds and D Wave Superconductivity.18thInternational Conference on Low Temperature Physics,August 20-26, 1987,Kyoto.
  105. Landau Fermi Liquid and the Scaling Theory of the Metal Insulator Transition,University ofTokyo International Symposium onAnderson Localization,August 16-18, 1987,Tokyo.
  106. Slave Boson Approach to Strongly Correlated Systems.Rutgers Statistical Mechanics Meeting,May 7-8, 1987,Piscataway.
  107. Fermi Liquid Theory of Disordered Systems and the Scaling Theory of the Metal Transition, American Physical Society Meeting,March 15-20, 1987,New York.
  108. 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 LesHouches summer school, LesHouches, France, August 1-30, 1991.
  2. The Extended Hubbard Model: InsightsFrom the Large N Limit, 4 lectures delivered at the 9thJerusalemWinterSchool in TheoreticalPhysics,Jerusalem,Israel,December 30, 1991 -January 8, 1992.
  3. Correlated Itinerant Electron Problems 5 lectures delivered at theSpringCollege in Condensed Matter on Quantum Phases.