Alexey Galda’s research focus lies in the field of strongly correlated electronic and magnetic systems. In particular, he is most interested in transport, topological properties and phase transitions in out-of-equilibrium conditions.
Biography
Alexey Galda is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago, with a joint appointment at Argonne National Laboratory. His main research interests are:
- Non-Hermitian quantum mechanics and theory of open quantum systems
- Theory of non-equilibrium dynamics and phase transitions
- Spin-torque-driven classical and quantum spin systems
- Superconductivity, theory of fluctuations
- Machine learning of phase transitions.
Dr. Galda is actively working on the non-Hermitian formulation of non-equilibrium dynamics applied to a wide range of condensed matter systems. Most recently, I have been interested in applications of my research to quantum information science, e.g. studying quantum computing with molecular spin systems and theory of manipulating quantum information with spin-polarized currents. I am also interested in applications of state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to many-body physics.
Dr. Galda’s work is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and National Science Foundation.
Employment History
- University of Chicago, James Franck Institute, Chicago, IL USA
(joint with Argonne National Laboratory)
Research Asisstant Professor March 2017 – present - University of Chicago, James Franck Institute, Chicago, IL USA
(joint with Argonne National Laboratory)
Research Scientist September 2016 – March 2017 - Argonne National Laboratory, Materials Science Division, IL USA
Postdoctoral Scholar October 2012 – September 2016
Education
- University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics September 2012 - Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia
B.Sc. in Physics and Applied Mathematics June 2008
Honors and Awards
- Argonne Director’s Competitive R&D Grant, USA 2015
- Moreton Prize, University of Birmingham, UK 2012, 2011
- Postgraduate Teaching Assistantship, UK 2009
- Midlands Physics Alliance Graduate School Scholarship, UK 2008
- Overseas Research Student Scholarship, UK 2008
- HSP Huygens Scholarship, Netherlands 2008
Professional Memberships
American Physical Society, Materials Research Society
Selected Publications
- A.A. Varlamov, Alexey Galda, A. Glatz, “Fluctuation spectroscopy: from Rayleigh-Jeans waves to Abrikosov vortex clusters”, Reviews of Modern Physics (accepted) (2017).
- Alexey Galda, V.M. Vinokur, “Linear dynamics of classical spin as Möbius transformation”, Nature Scientific Reports 7, 1168 (2017) (online).
- L. Rademaker, V.M. Vinokur, Alexey Galda, “Universality and critical behavior of the dynamical Mott transition in a system with long-range interactions”, Nature Scientific Reports 7, 44044 (2017) (online).
- Alexey Galda, V.M. Vinokur. “Parity-time symmetry breaking in magnetic systems”. Physical Review B 94, 020408(R) (2016) (online)
- V. Tripathi, Alexey Galda, H. Barban, V.M. Vinokur. “Parity-time symmetry-breaking mechanism of dynamic Mott transition in dissipative systems”. Physical Review B 94, 041104(R) (2016) (online)
- A. Glatz, Alexey Galda, A.A. Varlamov. “Effect of fluctuations on the NMR relaxation beyond the Abrikosov vortex lattice”. Physical Review B 92, 054513 (2015) (online)
- Alexey Galda, A.S. Mel’nikov, V.M. Vinokur, “Resonant tunneling of fluctuation Cooper pairs”, Nature Scientific Reports, 5, 8315 (2015) (online) Argonne’s Feature Story
- I.V. Yurkevich, Alexey Galda, O.M.Yevtushenko, I.V. Lerner “Duality of Weak and Strong Scatterer in a Luttinger liquid Coupled to Massless Bosons”, Physical Review Letters 110, 136405 (2013) (online)
- Alexey Galda, I.V. Yurkevich, I.V. Lerner, “Effect of electron-phonon coupling on transmission through Luttinger Liquid hybridized with resonant level”, Europhysics Letters 93, 17009 (2011) (online)
- Alexey Galda, I.V. Yurkevich, I.V. Lerner, “Impurity Scattering in a Luttinger Liquid with Electron-Phonon Coupling”, Physical Review B 83, 041106(R) (2011) (online) Featured as Editor’s Suggestion