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Nikolay Prokof'ev

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Nikolay Prokof'ev
Born
Alma materMoscow Engineering Physics Institute
AwardsFellow of the American Physical Society
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics, Condensed Matter Theory
InstitutionsUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
Academic advisorsYuri Kagan

Nikolay Prokof'ev is a Russian-American physicist known for his works on supersolidity and strongly correlated systems and pioneering numerical approaches. 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 [1]. He is recognised for his research on strongly correlated states in electronic and bosonic systems, critical phenomena, and quantum Monte Carlo methods [2]. He is an elected 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[3].

He is Oustanding Referee of the American Physical Society and Served as Divisional Associate Editor for the Physical Review Letters.

He coauthored the book on modern theory of Superfluidity[4]

References

  1. ^ "Nikolai Prokof'ev | Physics Department | UMass Amherst". Physics Department at UMass Amherst. Retrieved 2018-09-30.
  2. ^ "Nikolay Prokofiev - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
  3. ^ "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
  4. ^ "Superfluid States in Nature and the Laboratory", Superfluid States of Matter, CRC Press, 2015-04-15, pp. 523–544, doi:10.1201/b18346-21, ISBN 9781439802755