Dmitri E. Feldman
        Assistant Professor of Physics

 

 

 

 

Theoretical Condensed Matter

 

 

 

 

Professor Feldman joined the Brown Physics Department in 2003. A graduate of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, he received his Ph. D. from the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics in 1998.  He has done his postdoctoral research at the Weizmann Institute of Science and Argonne National Laboratory. He was a recipient of the Koshland Scholar Award from the Weizmann Institute of Science and

CAREER Award from NSF.

 

 

 

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Theoretical condensed matter physics with emphasis on strongly correlated electrons in low-dimensional systems, and quenched disorder in hard and soft condensed matter.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

K. T. Law, D. E. Feldman, and Y. Gefen, “Electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer as a tool to probe fractional statistics”,
Phys. Rev. B 74, 045319 (2006).

D. E. Feldman, “Nonequilibrium Quantum Phase Transition in Itinerant Electron Systems”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 177201 (2005). 

D. E. Feldman, S. Scheidl, and V. M. Vinokur, “Rectification in Luttinger Liquids”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 186809 (2005). 

D. E. Feldman and Y. Gefen, “Backscattering off a point impurity: Current enhancement and conductance greater than e2/h per channel”, Phys. Rev. B 67, 115337 (2003).

D. E. Feldman and V. M. Vinokur, “Destruction of Bulk Ordering by Surface Randomness”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 227204 (2002)  (see also this link Surface disorder is more than skin deep).

D. E. Feldman, “Critical Exponents of the Random-Field O(N) Model”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 177202 (2002). 

D. E. Feldman, “Quasi-Long-Range Order in Nematics Confined in Random Porous Media”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4886-4889 (2000).