International collaborations for NIRT: DMR-0210717

Canada

Tom Devereaux (University of Waterloo)

Prof. Devereaux collaborates on our inelastic light scattering work. He has over 12 years of experience with Raman scattering. Our collaboration is joint with the Ukraine team. We meet at least once annually.

Croatia

Veljko Zlatic (Institute of Physics, Zagreb)

Dr. Zlatic collaborates on the thermal transport and nonequilibrium projects. We have been working together for about 8 years. He visits Georgetown University one month each year, and a member of the US team visits Croatia once a year as well. He collaborated on a Reviews of Modern Physics article on the Falicov-Kimball model.

England

Alex Hewson (Imperial College, London)

Prof. Hewson is a collaborator on transport properties for the periodic Anderson model, particularly in situations where the strongly correlated material is made into a multilayer nanostructure. Hewson was visited in the spring of 2005.

Germany

Thomas Pruschke (University of Goettingen)

Prof. Pruschke is working on the thermoelectric properties of nanostructures made of heavy fermions and Mott insulators. He provides numerical renormalization group codes for solving the periodic Anderson model. Freericks visited with him in the fall of 2004 and the summer of 2005.

Frank Steglich (Max Planck Institute for the chemical physics of solids

A collaboration is planned with Prof. Steglich on low-temperature thermoelectric coolers. The plan is to examine heterostructures of heavy Fermions and Kondo insulators for low temperature cooling applications. Freericks visited the MPI in Dresden in the summer of 2004. Experimental results are not expected until 2006 at the earliest.

Ukraine

Serhii Shafraniuk (currently at Northwestern University)

Dr. Shafraniuk is committed to collaborating on nonequilibrium problems, comparing quasiclassical approaches to many-body physics solutions. Dr. Shafraniuk visited Georgetown University for one month in the summer of 2003.

Andrij Shvaika (Institute of Condensed Matter Physics, Lviv)

Dr. Shvaika collaborates on the inelastic light scattering project and visited Georgetown for three months in 2003 and four months in 2004 (on support from the CRDF). Freericks visited the laboratory in Lviv for one week in the summer of 2004. Future visits and collaborations are planned.
Last modified August 4, 2005.

Jim Freericks, Professor of Physics