Educational Background:

• M.Sc, 1988, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in Physics and Engineering
• Ph.D., 1991, Institute for High Pressure Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow in Condensed Matter Theory

Research Interests:

Strongly correlated electrons; frustrated magnetism; low-dimensional systems; quantum wires and spin chains; field theory for condensed matter physics.

Selected Recent Publications

1. Dimerized Phase and Transitions in a Spatially Anisotropic Square Lattice Antiferromagnet (with Leon Balents), Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 127202 (2004).
2. Bond Order from Disorder in the Planar Pyrochlore Magnet (withO. Tehernyshyov, R. Moessner and A.G. Abanov), Phys. Rev. B 68, 144422 (2003)
3. Zeeman Splitting of Zero-bias Anomaly in Luttinger Liquids (with A.V> Shytov and L.I. Glazman, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 046801 (2003).
4. Spinons in a Crossed-chains Model of a 2D Spin Liquid (with Rajiv R.P. Singh and Gregory C. Levine), Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 167203 (2002).