Boris Svistunov

Boris Svistunov
Born Moscow , Russia
Alma mater Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
Awards Fellow of the American Physical Society
Scientific career
Fields Physics, Condensed Matter Theory
Institutions University of Massachusetts Amherst
Academic advisors Yuri Kagan

Boris Svistunov is Russian-Amercan physicist specialised in the Condensed Matter Physics. He received his MSc in physics in 1983 from Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia. In 1990, he received his PhD in theoretical physics from Kurchatov Institute (Moscow), where he worked from 1986 to 2003 (and is still affiliated with). In 2003, he joined the Physics Department of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he is currently full professor. He is currently also an affiliated faculty member of Wilczek Quantum Center in[1] Shanghai at SJTU and is a participant of Simons collaboration on many electron systems [2].

Boris Svistunov is recognised for his works on superfluidity, supersolidity, superfluid turbulence, strongly correlated systems and pioneering numerical approaches. With his collaborators and students he made important contributions to superfluid turbulence [3] (reviewed in [4]), theory of supersolids, in collaboration with Nikolay Prokof'ev including the theory of superfluidity of crystalline defects [5] (reviewed in [4]) and superglass phase [6].

He is a co-inventor, with Nikolay Prokof'ev and Igor Tupitsyn of the widely used Worm Monte-Carlo algorithm. With Nikolay Prokof'ev he invented Diagrammatic Monte-Carlo method [7] which is stochastic summation of Feynman diagrammatic series. Because the method is free from the Numerical sign problem[8] it allowed to solve previously untreatable fermionic problems [9] [10]. He is elected Fellow of the American Physical Society for his highly influential works in superfluidity and supersolidity[11].

His research was recognised by his election as Fellow of the American Physical Society. The citation assocaited with of his Fellow election[12] in the American Physical Society,[13] [14] for pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of Monte Carlo simulations for strongly correlated quantum and classical systems, the invention of the worm algorithm and diagrammatic Monte Carlo techniques, and fundamental theoretical results on superfluid phenomena in quantum gases, liquids, and solids.

He is Outstanding Referee for American Physical Society and Distinguished Referee for Europhysics letters .

He coauthored the book on modern theory of Superfluidity [15]

References

  1. ↑ "Home". wqc.physics.sjtu.edu.cn. Retrieved 2018-09-30.
  2. ↑ "Boris Svistunov | Simons Foundation". www.simonsfoundation.org. Retrieved 2018-09-30.
  3. ↑ Kozik, E. V.; Svistunov, B. V. (2009-07-28). "Theory of Decay of Superfluid Turbulence in the Low-Temperature Limit". Journal of Low Temperature Physics. 156 (3–6): 215–267. doi:10.1007/s10909-009-9914-y. ISSN 0022-2291.
  4. 1 2 "Superfluid States of Matter". CRC Press. 2015-04-15. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
  5. ↑ Prokof’ev, Nikolay; Svistunov, Boris (2005-04-20). "Supersolid State of Matter". Physical Review Letters. 94 (15): 155302. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.155302.
  6. ↑ Boninsegni, Massimo; Prokof’ev, Nikolay; Svistunov, Boris (2006-03-16). "Superglass Phase of $^{4}\mathrm{He}$". Physical Review Letters. 96 (10): 105301. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.105301.
  7. ↑ "slides" (PDF).
  8. ↑ Rossi, R.; Prokof'ev, N.; Svistunov, B.; Van Houcke, K.; Werner, F. (2017-04-01). "Polynomial complexity despite the fermionic sign". EPL (Europhysics Letters). 118 (1): 10004. doi:10.1209/0295-5075/118/10004. ISSN 0295-5075.
  9. ↑ "Physicists simulate strongly correlated fermions". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2018-10-07.
  10. ↑ Van Houcke, K.; Werner, F.; Kozik, E.; Prokof’ev, N.; Svistunov, B.; Ku, M. J. H.; Sommer, A. T.; Cheuk, L. W.; Schirotzek, A. (2012-03-18). "Feynman diagrams versus Fermi-gas Feynman emulator". Nature Physics. 8 (5): 366–370. doi:10.1038/nphys2273. ISSN 1745-2473.
  11. ↑ "Boris Svistunov - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2018-09-27.
  12. ↑ "APS Fellowship". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
  13. ↑ "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
  14. ↑ "APS Fellows 2008". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
  15. ↑ "Superfluid States of Matter". CRC Press. 2015-04-15. Retrieved 2018-09-27.


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