• 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

• Dimerized Phase and Transitions in a Spatially Anisotropic Square Lattice Antiferromagnet (with Leon Balents), Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 127202 (2004).
• Bond Order from Disorder in the Planar Pyrochlore Magnet (withO. Tehernyshyov, R. Moessner and A.G. Abanov), Phys. Rev. B 68, 144422 (2003)
• Zeeman Splitting of Zero-bias Anomaly in Luttinger Liquids (with A.V> Shytov and L.I. Glazman, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 046801 (2003).
• 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).
• Comment on "Critical Spin Dynamics of the 2D Quantum Heisenberg Antiferromagnets: Sr2CuO2Cl2 and Sr2Cu3O4Cl2 (with Subir Schdev)
• Dynamical Localization in Wave-chaotic Dielectric Resonators (with P. Jacquod, E.E. Narimanov and A.D. Stone), Phys. Rev. E 62, 2078 (2000)
• Gapped Phases of Quantum Wires--Book Chapters in "Low-Dimensional Systems: Interactions and Transport Properties (with D.L. Maslow, W. Häusler and L.I. Glazman), T. Brandes, editor, Lecture Notes in Physics No. 544 (Springer, 2000).
• Thermally Fluctuating Superconductors in Two Dimensions (withSubir Sachdev), Nature 405, 322 (2000)