Welcome to the Homepage of Gennady Chitov

Field: Theoretical Physics

Education:

• Ph.D.,1998, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
• Candidate of Sciences (Physics & Mathematics), 1993, University of Rostov-on-Don, Russia
• M.Sc., 1985, University of Rostov-on-Don, Russia

Research Interests:

• Strongly Correlated Fermions, Fermi Liquids
• Low-Dimensional Classical and Quantum Magnetism
• Classical and Quantum Phase Transitions
• Non-Equilibrium Transitions, Percolation
• Cosmology: Dark Energy, Dark Matter; Physics of Neutrinos

Selected Publications (also available via ArXiv):

• G.Y. Chitov, Local and nonlocal order parameters in the Kitaev chain, arXiv:1710.04716.
• P.N. Timonin and G.Y. Chitov, Infinite cascades of phase transitions in the classical Ising chain, arXiv:1707.06365.
• G.Y. Chitov and T. Pandey, Landau Framework for Topological Order: Quantum Chains and Ladders, J. Stat. Mech. (2017) 043101.
• P.N. Timonin and G.Y. Chitov, Exploring Percolative Landscapes: Infinite Cascades of Geometric Phase Transitions, Phys. Rev. E 93, 012102 (2016).
• A. Kalz and G.Y. Chitov, Topological Floating Phase in a Spatially Anisotropic Frustrated Ising Model, Phys. Rev. B 88, 014415 (2013).
• G.Y. Chitov, Quintessence, Neutrino Masses and Unification of the Dark Sector, arXiv:1112.4798; PoS(QFTHEP2011)074 (2012).
• G.Y. Chitov, T. August, A. Natarajan, and T. Kahniashvili, Mass Varying Neutrinos, Quintessence, and the Accelerating Expansion of the Universe, Phys. Rev. D 83, 045033 (2011).
• G.Y. Chitov and C. Gros, Ordering in Two-Dimensional Ising Models with Competing Interactions, Low Temperature Physics 31, 952 (2005).
• G.Y. Chitov and A.J. Millis, Leading temperature corrections to Fermi-liquid theory in two dimensions, Phys. Rev. B 64, 054414 (2001).
• G.Y. Chitov and D. Sénéchal, Fermi liquid as a Renormalization Group fixed point: the role of interference in the Landau channel, Phys. Rev. B 57, 1444 (1998).
• G.Y. Chitov and D. Sénéchal, Renormalization group study of interacting electrons, Phys. Rev. B 52, 13487 (1995).

Selected (more/less Recent) Talks:

• How to make the Landau framework for topological order: Introduction to the recipe book, McGill University, October 2017
(pdf)
• Multiple Percolative Orders: Infinite Cascades of Geometric Phase Transitions, Perimeter Institute, November 2015
(video, pdf, MP3)
• Quintessence and Majorana Neutrinos: Proposal for Unification of the Dark Sector of the Universe, given at KIT and U. of Heidelberg, summer 2012
(pdf)
• Hidden Orders and Quantum Phase Transitions in Low-Dimensional Magnets, given at KIT, U. of Frankfurt, EPF de Lausanne, summer 2012
(pdf)
• On the Unifying Properties of the Spin-SAF and Other Peierls-type Phase Transitions. U. of Goettingen, May 2012
(pdf)
• Simultaneous Charge Ordering and Spin Dimerization: Theory of the spin-SAF Transition, McGill University, August 2009
(pdf)

Recent and Current Collaborators:

• Dr. Ansgar Kalz, U. of Goettingen, Germany;
• Prof. Tina Kahniashvili, Carnegie Mellon University, USA;
• Dr. Pavel Timonin, Southern Federal University, Russia.

Former and Current Students (some):

• Khalada Shahin, M.Sc. student, 2004-07;
• Jesse Leeson, undergraduate research student, 4th year thesis, 2006-07;
• Tyler August, undergraduate research student, 4th year thesis, 2008-10;
• Sandra Gibson, M.Sc. student, 2008-10;
• Toplal Pandey, M.Sc., 2011-13; Ph.D. student, 2014-
• Deepak Regmy, M.Sc. student, 2012-14

Positions Available:

• Only funded applicants (MSc, PhD, PDF) will be considered at this time. Graduate Programs available: M.Sc. in Physics & Ph.D. in Material Sciences

Research Supported by:

NSERC (Natural Science and Engineering Council of Canada)
LURF (Laurentian University Research Fund)
SHARCNET
OBW (Ontario/Baden-Wurttemberg) Fund

Last updated: October 2017