Joaquín Drut

Joaquín Emiliano Drut (* 1978 in La Plata ) is an Argentine theoretical physicist who deals with quantum mechanical many-body theory in solid-state physics and nuclear physics.

Drut grew up in La Plata and studied physics from 2003 to 2008 at the University of Washington . As a post-doctoral student , he was in the theoretical nuclear physics group at Ohio State University and in the theory department of Los Alamos National Laboratory from 2010 to 2012 . In 2012 he became Assistant Professor and Melchor Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill .

He developed quantum Monte Carlo simulation methods on the lattice for many-particle systems in solid-state physics, including for graphene (where they advocate an insulator as the ground state) and a transition from BCS superconductors to Bose-Einstein condensate in a fermion gas low temperatures, which they classified as a superfluid of a new kind.

In 2009 he received the Hermann Kümmel Award in many-body theory for the determination of the thermodynamic and pairing properties of a dilute interacting spin 1/2 Fermi gas (three dimensions) in the unitary regime using quantum Monte Carlo and field theoretical methods .

Fonts

with Aurel Bulgac, Piotr Magierski: Spin 1/2 fermions in the unitary regime: A superfluid of a new type, Phys. Rev. Lett., Volume 96, 2006, 090404, Arxiv
with Aurel Bulgac, Pietro Magierski: Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of the BCS-BEC crossover at finite temperature, Phys. Rev. A. 78, 2008, p. 023625, Arxiv
with Aurel Bulgac, Pietro Magierski: Spin 1/2 Fermions in the Unitary Regime at Finite Temperature, Int. J. Mod. Phys., Volume 20, 2006, p. 5165, Arxiv
with P. Magierski, G. Glazlowski, A. Bulgac: Finite-temperature pairing gap of a unitary Fermi gas by quantum Monte Carlo calculations, Physical Review Letters, Volume 103, 2009, p. 210403
with A. Bulgac, P. Magierski: Thermodynamics of a trapped unitary fermi gas, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 99, 2007, p. 120401, Arxiv
with Timo A. Lähde: Lattice field theory simulations of graphene, Phys. Rev. B, Volume 79, 2009, p. 165425, Arxiv
with Timo A. Lähde: Is graphene in vacuum an insulator?, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 102, 2009, p. 026802, Arxiv
with Timo A. Lähde: Critical exponents of the semimetal-insulator transition in graphene: A Monte Carlo study, Physical Review B, Volume 79, 2009, p. 241405, Arxiv
with RJ Furnstahl, L. Platter: Toward ab initio density functional theory for nuclei, Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, Volume 64, 2010, pp. 120-168
with Amy Nicholson: Lattice methods for strongly interacting many-body systems, Journal of Physics G, Volume 40, 2013, 40 04310, Arxiv

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Individual evidence

↑ Laudation: For establishing the thermodynamic and pairing properties of a dilute spin-1/2 Fermi gas in the unitary regime using Quantum Monte Carlo and Field Theory methods , Ohio State University press release

personal data
SURNAME	Drut, Joaquín
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Drut, Joaquín Emiliano (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Argentine theoretical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	1978
PLACE OF BIRTH	La Plata

[1] Laudation: For establishing the thermodynamic and pairing properties of a dilute spin-1/2 Fermi gas in the unitary regime using Quantum Monte Carlo and Field Theory methods , Ohio State University press release