My research is in the area of theoretical condensed matter and statistical physics. My current research involves theoretical and computational studies of spin systems and applications of computational complexity theory to statistical physics.
Articles
Evidence of Non-Mean-Field-Like Low-Temperature Behavior in the Edwards-Anderson Spin-Glass Model (with B. Yucesoy and Helmut G. Katzgraber), Physical Review Letters (2012)
The three-dimensional Edwards-Anderson and mean-field Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Ising spin glasses are studied via large-scale Monte Carlo...
Computational Study of a Multistep Height Model (with Matthew Drake, Youjin Deng, Douglas Abraham, and Charles Newman), Physical Review E (2012)
An equilibrium random surface multistep height model proposed in [Abraham and Newman, EPL, 86, 16002...
Asymptotic Behavior of the Magnetization Near Critical and Tricritical Points via Ginzburg–Landau Polynomials (with R Ellis and P Otto), Journal of Statistical Physics (2008)
The purpose of this paper is to prove connections among the asymptotic behavior of the...
Critical Behavior of the Chayes–Machta–Swendsen–Wang Dynamics (with Y Deng, T Garoni, G Ossola, M Polin, and A Sokal), Physical Review Letters (2007)
We study the dynamic critical behavior of the Chayes-Machta dynamics for the Fortuin-Kasteleyn random-cluster model,...
High-precision measurement of the thermal exponent for the three-dimensional XY universality class (with E Burovski, Nikolai Prokof'ev, and Boris Svistunov), Physical Review B (2006)
Simulation results are reported for the critical point of the two-component ϕ4 field theory. The...