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Nikolay Prokof'ev

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Nikolay Prokof'ev is a Russian-American physicist. He received his MSc in physics in 1982 from Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia. In 1987, he received his PhD in theoretical physics from Kurchatov Institute (Moscow), where he worked from 1984 to 1999. In 1999, he became a professor at the Physics Department of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research deals with strongly correlated states in electronic and bosonic systems, critical phenomena, and quantum Monte Carlo methods [1]. He is a Fellow and Outstanding Referee of the American Physical Society. He is co-inventor of Worm Monte-Carlo algorithm, and Diagrammatic Monte-Carlo technique.

He is elected Fellow of the American Physical Society,  for pioneering contributions to theories of dissipative quantum dynamics and for innovative Monte Carlo approaches to quantum and classical studies of critical phenomena[2]

He coauthored the book on modern theory of Superfluidity[3]

References

  1. ^ "Nikolay Prokofiev - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
  2. ^ "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
  3. ^ "Superfluid States in Nature and the Laboratory", Superfluid States of Matter, CRC Press, pp. 523–544, 2015-04-15, ISBN 9781439802755, retrieved 2018-09-28