Oskar Vafek
Assistant Professor
 
National High Magnetic Field Lab and FSU
A-319
1800 E. Paul Dirac Dr.
Tallahassee, FL 32310-3706

Phone: (850) 644-0848

Email: vafek 'at' magnet.fsu.edu
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Research Interests:

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PHY5645 Quantum Mechanics:
PHY5645 Quantum Mechanics A (Fall 07)
PHY5646 Quantum Mechanics B (Spring 08)
PHY5645 Quantum Mechanics A (Fall 08)
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Ph.D. Thesis: Quasiparticles and vortices in the high temperature cuprate superconductors.
(Johns Hopkins 2003)
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Selected Publications:
 
  1. Oskar Vafek and Matthew J. Case
    "Renormalization group approach to two-dimensional Coulomb interacting Dirac fermions with random gauge potential",
    Phys. Rev. B 77, 033410 (2008). Download: .pdf

  2. Igor F. Herbut, Vladimir Juricic, and Oskar Vafek
    "Coulomb Interaction, Ripples, and the Minimal Conductivity of Graphene",
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 046403 (2008). Download: .pdf

  3. Oskar Vafek
    "Anomalous scaling and gapless fermions of d-wave superconductors in a magnetic field",
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 047002 (2007).

  4. Oskar Vafek
    "Anomalous thermodynamics of Coulomb interacting massless Dirac fermions in two spatial dimensions",
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 216401 (2007).

  5. Oskar Vafek and Ashot Melikyan
    "Index theorem and quantum order of d-wave superconductors in the vortex state",
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 167005 (2006).

  6. Han-Dong Chen, Oskar Vafek, Ali Yazdani, Shou-Cheng Zhang
    "Pair Density Wave in the Pseudogap State of High Temperature Superconductors",
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 187002 (2004)., cond-mat/0402323 (2004).

  7. Oskar Vafek and Zlatko Tesanovic
    "Quantum Criticality of d-Wave Quasiparticles and Superconducting Phase Fluctuations",
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 237001 (2003)

  8. Oskar Vafek, Zlatko Tesanovic and Marcel Franz
    Relativity Restored: Dirac Anisotropy in QED3,
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 157003 (2002)

  9. Marcel Franz, Zlatko Tesanovic and Oskar Vafek
    "QED3 theory of pairing pseudogap in cuprates: From d-wave superconductor to antiferromagnet via an algebraic Fermi liquid",
    Phys. Rev. B 66, 054535 (2002)

  10. Zlatko Tesanovic, Oskar Vafek and Marcel Franz
    "Chiral symmetry breaking and phase fluctuations: A QED3 theory of the pseudogap state in cuprate superconductors",
    Phys. Rev. B 65, 180511 (2002)

  11. Oskar Vafek, Ashot Melikyan, and Zlatko Tesanovic
    "Quasiparticle Hall transport of d-wave superconductors in the vortex state",
    Phys. Rev. B 64, 224508 (2001)

  12. Oskar Vafek, Ashot Melikyan, Marcel Franz, and Zlatko Tesanovic
    "Quasiparticles and vortices in unconventional superconductors",
    Phys. Rev. B 63, 134509 (2001)

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