Ted Barnes
Victor Barzykin
Tom Callcott
Bob Compton
Pengcheng Dai
Adolfo Eguiluz
David Mandrus
Ward Plummer
John Quinn
Jim Thompson
Hanno Weitering
Zhenyu Zhang
Dr. Victor Barzykin
Assistant ProfessorOffice: 309 Nielsen Physics Building
Telephone: + (865) 974-5330
E-mail: vbarzyki@utk.edu
Research Interests
Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics - strongly correlated electron systems. Quantum magnetism in low dimensional systems (1D and 2D), magnetism in systems with frustrated interactions, quantum critical phenomena, quantum phase transitions. High-temperature superconductivity, metal-insulator transition, unconventional superconductors and magnets, heavy fermion superconductors
Research Highlights
NMR relaxation rates in a spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic chain, V. Barzykin, Phys. Rev. B 63, art. no. 140412 (2001).
Ferromagnetism and superstructure in Ca1-xLaxB6, V. Barzykin and L. P. Gor'kov, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, p.2207-2210 (2000).
The Kondo screening cloud: what can we learn from perturbation theory?, V. Barzykin and I. Affleck, Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, p.4959-4962 (1996).
Magnetic scaling in cuprate superconductors, V. Barzykin and D. Pines, Phys. Rev. B 54, p.13585-13600 (1995).
Singlet magnetism in heavy fermions, V. Barzykin and L. P. Gor'kov, Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, p.4301-4304 (1995).
On symmetry classification of spin nematics, V. Barzykin, L. P. Gor'kov, and A. V. Sokol, Europhys. Lett. 15, p.869-874 (1991).
Educational Background
M.Sc. (1991), Mathematical Physics, Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology and L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow, Russia
Ph. D. (1995), Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Professional Experience
| 2002- | Assistant Professor of Physics, The University of Tennessee |
| 2001-2002 | Visiting Scientist, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, FL |
| 1998-2001 | Post-Doctoral Fellow, NHMFL, Tallahassee, FL |
| 1995-1998 | Nato Fellow, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada |
| 1992-1995 | Teaching and Research Assistant at the University of Illinios at Urbana-Champaign |
| 1991-1992 | MacArthur Fellow, University of Illinios at Urbana-Champaign |