Curriculum Vitae

Predrag Nikolić

George Mason University, School of Physics, Astronomy and Computational Sciences Planetary Hall #209, MSN 3F3, Fairfax, VA 22030 USA Phone: 509­460­9066; E­Mail: [email protected]; www: http://physics.gmu.edu/~pnikolic/

Academic Positions George Mason University, Assistant Professor 08/25/2009 – present Johns Hopkins University, Adjunct Assistant Professor 09/01/2009 – present National Institute for Standards and Technology, Guest Researcher 09/01/2009 – 07/01/2011 Rice University, Keck Postdoctoral Fellow 08/01/2007 – 07/31/2009 Harvard University, Postdoctoral Fellow 09/01/2005 – 07/31/2007 Yale University, Postdoctoral Associate 09/01/2004 – 08/31/2005 Columbia University, Visiting Scientist 09/01/2004 – 08/31/2005

Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics 2004 thesis: Geometrically Frustrated Quantum Magnets (advisor: T. Senthil) 09/01/2001 – 09/15/2004 experimental physics research assistantship (advisor: R. Ashoori) 07/15/1998 – 08/31/2001 University of Belgrade, Serbia, B.S. in Applied Physics 1998 thesis: Quantum Interference Transistors (advisor: K.Nikolić) 09/01/1993 – 07/01/1998

Research Grants and Awards NSF Award #1205571 (PI): “Collaborative Research: 2012 – 2015 Correlated Superfluids and Insulators of Ultracold Fermionic Atomic Gases” GMU part: $150,000 for 3 years Publication Award, George Mason University, College of Science November 2011 Johns Hopkins University, IQM summer researcher 2010 – 2014 Rice University, Keck Fellowship 2007 – 2009 Madlena Janković Foundation, Serbia, Undergraduate Fellowship 1995 – 1998 Department of Education, Serbia, Undergraduate Fellowship 1995 – 1998 Curriculum Vitae 2 Predrag Nikolić

Travel Grants Nordita (Stockholm), Workshop: “Quantum solids, liquids, and gases” August 2010 Aspen Center for Physics, Workshop: “Supersolid State of Matter” June 2006 Boulder Summer School of Physics, “Frontiers of Magnetism” July 2003 American Physical Society, Centennial Meeting, Atlanta March 1999 Technical University of Bratislava, IAESTE Undergraduate Research Grant Summer 1997

Professional Service Journal referee: Phys. Rev. A, Phys. Rev. B, Phys. Rev. Lett., J. of Low Temp. Phys., New J. of Phys. Grant proposal reviewer (ext., panel): National Science Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Physics colloquium co­organizer at George Mason University (Fall 2010, Spring 2011) GMU Center for Quantum Science web­site maintainer and seminar co­organizer (2009 – present) Thesis committee member (3 students at GMU, 5 students at Johns Hopkins, 1 student at Georgetown) Co­organizer of the symposium “Frontiers of Quantum Matter”, George Mason University (June 2012) Co­organizer of the “Zlatko Tešanović Memorial Symposium”, Johns Hopkins University (March 2013)

Teaching Overall ratings (1.00­5.00) of the teaching for the class (C) and program (P) are shown whenever available.

George Mason University University Physics I (PHYS 160) Lectures Fall 2014 Modern Physics (PHYS 308) Lectures (43 students; C: 4.00, P: 4.29) Spring 2014 Quantum Mechanics (PHYS 402/502) Lectures (28 students; C: 4.35, P: 4.19) Fall 2013 University Physics I (PHYS 160) Lectures (197 students; C: 3.61, P: 4.23) Spring 2013 Quantum Mechanics (PHYS 402/502) Lectures (25 students; C: 4.93, P: 4.13) Fall 2012 Modern Physics (PHYS 308) Lectures (22 students; C: 4.75, P: 4.32) Spring 2012 Quantum Mechanics (PHYS 402/502) Lectures (20 students; C: 4.83, P: 3.91) Fall 2011 Quantum Field Theory (PHYS 780) Lectures (8 students; C: 4.71, P: 4.24) Spring 2011 Quantum Mechanics (PHYS 402/502) Lectures (17 students; C: 4.14, P: 3.95) Fall 2010 Modern Physics (PHYS 308) Lectures (21 students; C: 4.60, P: 4.08) Spring 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Freshman course on Electromagnetism Tutoring and grading Spring 2002 Graduate course on Statistical Mechanics Grading Fall 2001 Graduate course on Statistical Mechanics Recitation Instructor Fall 1999 Curriculum Vitae 3 Predrag Nikolić

Mentoring George Mason University Shahrzad Movafagh, Ph.D. graduate student 2013 – present Michael DePrenger, Ph.D. graduate student 2012 – present Steven Keeling, Ph.D. graduate student 2013 – present Tanja Duric, postdoctoral associate 2010 – 2011 Johns Hopkins University Miguel Sulangi, graduate student 2012 – 2013 Harvard University Eun­Gook Moon, graduate student of S. Sachdev 2006 – 2007

List of Publications

GS: Google Scholar citation count (total # of citations: 592, h­index: 9, i10­index: 9) AR: arXiv citation count (http://lanl.arxiv.org)

1. W. T. Fuhrman and P. Nikolić, In­gap collective mode spectrum of the topological Kondo insulator SmB6, unpublished (2014). arXiv:1409.3220 [14 pages]

2. Predrag Nikolić, Two­dimensional heavy fermions on the strongly correlated boundaries of Kondo topological insulators, submitted to Physical Review B (2014). arXiv:1407.4482 [19 pages]

3. W. T. Fuhrman, J. Leiner, P. Nikolić, G. E. Granroth, M. B. Stone, M. D. Lumsden, L. DeBeer­Schmitt, P. A. Alekseev, J.­M. Mignot, S. M. Koohpayeh, P. Cottingham, W. Adam Phelan, L. Schoop, T. M. McQueen,

C. Broholm, Spin­exciton and topology in SmB6, submitted to Physical Review Letters (2014). arXiv:1407.2647 [4+ pages]

4. Predrag Nikolić, Vortices and vortex states in Rashba spin­orbit­coupled condensates, Physical Review A 90, 023623 (2014). arXiv:1406.1198 [20 pages]

5. Predrag Nikolić and Zlatko Tešanović, Interaction proximity effect at the interface between a superconductor and a topological insulator quantum well, Physical Review B 87, 134511 (2013). arXiv:1210.7821 [25 pages]

6. Predrag Nikolić and Zlatko Tešanović, Pairing instabilities in topological insulator quantum wells, Physical Review B 87, 104514 (2013). arXiv:1208.0608 [13 pages, GS:2]

7. Predrag Nikolić, Effective theory of fractional topological insulators in two spatial dimensions, Physical Review B 87, 245120 (2013). arXiv:1206.1055 [32 pages, AR:2] Curriculum Vitae 4 Predrag Nikolić

8. Predrag Nikolić, Tanja Duric and Zlatko Tešanović, Fractional topological insulators of Cooper pairs induced by proximity effect, Physical Review Letters 110, 176804 (2013). arXiv:1109.0017 [4+6 pages, GS:2, AR:1]

9. Predrag Nikolić, Charge and spin fractionalization in strongly correlated topological insulators, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 25, 025602 (2013). arXiv:1108.5388 [8 pages, GS:4, AR:2]

10.Rong Yu, Pallab Goswami, Qimiao Si, Predrag Nikolić and Jian­Xin Zhu, Superconductivity at the Border of Electron Localization and Itinerancy, Nature Communications 4, 2783 (2013). arXiv:1103.3259 [7+14 pages, GS:5, AR:41]

11.Predrag Nikolić and Zlatko Tešanović, Cooper pair insulators and theory of correlated superconductors, Physical Review B 83, 064501 (2011). arXiv:1008.4369 [18 pages, editors' suggestion, GS:8, AR:1]

12.Predrag Nikolić, Unitarity in periodic potentials: a renormalization group analysis, Physical Review B 83, 064523 (2011). arXiv:1006.2378 [16 pages, GS:4, AR:1]

13.Valentin Stanev, Boian S. Alexandrov, Predrag Nikolić and Zlatko Tešanović, Robust accidental nodes and zeroes and critical quasiparticle scaling in iron­based multiband superconductors, Physical Reviev B 84, 014505 (2011). arXiv:1006.0447 [7 pages, GS:7, AR:11]

14.N. Goldman, I. Satija, P. Nikolić, A. Bermudez, M. A. Martin­Delgado, M. Lewenstein and I. B. Spielman, Realistic Time­Reversal Invariant Topological Insulators With Neutral Atoms, Physical Review Letters 105, 255302 (2010). arXiv:1002.0219 [4 pages, GS:151, AR:134]

15.Predrag Nikolić, A. A. Burkov and Arun Paramekanti, Finite momentum pairing instability of band insulators with multiple bands, Physical Review B 81, 012504 (2010). arXiv:0906.2202 [4 pages, GS:8, AR:4]

16. Pallab Goswami, Predrag Nikolić and Qimiao Si, Superconductivity in Multi­orbital t­J1­J2 Model and its Implications for Iron Pnictides, Europhysics Letters 91, 37006 (2010). arXiv:0905.2634 [5 pages, GS:29, AR:24]

17. Predrag Nikolić, Phase diagram of two­dimensional fast­rotating ultracold fermionic atoms near unitarity, Physical Review A 81, 023601 (2010). arXiv:0904.2391 [10 pages, GS:1, AR:1]

18. Predrag Nikolić, Two­dimensional fermionic superfluids, pairing instability, and vortex liquids in the absence of time reversal symmetry, Physical Review B 79, 144507 (2009). arXiv:0901.2576 [11 pages, GS:7, AR:1]

19. Eun Gook Moon, Predrag Nikolić and Subir Sachdev, Superfluid­insulator transitions of the Fermi gas with near­unitary interactions in a periodic potential, Physical Review Letters 99, 230403 (2007). arXiv:0707.2383 [4 pages, GS:34, AR:25]

20. Predrag Nikolić and Subir Sachdev, Renormalization group fixed points, universal phase diagram, and 1/N expansion for quantum liquids with interactions near the unitarity limit, Physical Review A 75, 033608 (2007). arXiv:cond­mat/0609106 [16 pages, GS:141, AR:111] Curriculum Vitae 5 Predrag Nikolić

21. Predrag Nikolić, Subir Sachdev and Lorenz Bartosch, Electronic states near a quantum fluctuating point vortex in a d­wave superconductor: Dirac fermion theory, Physical Review B 74, 144516 (2006). arXiv:cond­mat/0606001 [17 pages, GS:7, AR:6]

22. Predrag Nikolić and Subir Sachdev, Effective action for vortex dynamics in clean d­wave superconductors, Physical Review B 73, 134511 (2006). arXiv:cond­mat/0511298 [26 pages, GS:24, AR:12]

23. Predrag Nikolić, Disordered, spin liquid and valence­bond ordered phases of the Kagome lattice quantum Ising models with transverse field and XXZ dynamics, Physical Review B 72, 064423 (2005). arXiv:cond­mat/0403332 [24 pages, GS:11, AR:9]

24. Predrag Nikolić and T. Senthil, Theory of the Kagome lattice Ising antiferromagnet in weak transverse field, Physical Review B 71, 024401 (2005). arXiv:cond­mat/0402262 [11 pages, GS:15, AR:8]

25. Predrag Nikolić and T. Senthil, Physics of low energy singlet states of the Kagome lattice quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnet, Physical Review B 68, 214415 (2003). arXiv:cond­mat/0305189 [17 pages, GS:117, AR:93]

26. Dejan M. Gvozdić, Predrag L. Nikolić and Jovan B. Radunović, Optimization of a resonant cavity enhanced metal­semiconductor­metal photodetector, IOP Semiconductor Science Techn. 15, 630 (2000). [8 pages, GS:10]

27. Konstantin Nikolić, Predrag Nikolić and Roman Šorđan, Conductance of quantum interference transistors in parallel and in series, Superlattices and Microstructures 26, 47 (1999). [9 pages, GS:2]

Conference Proceedings

28. Predrag Nikolić, A. A. Burkov and Arun Paramekanti, Pair density wave instability and Cooper pair insulators in gapped fermion systems, International Conference on Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, Santa Fe, June 2010; Journal of Physics: Conference Series 273, 012012 (2011). arXiv:1007.2433 [4 pages]

29. Predrag Nikolić and Subir Sachdev, Low energy theory of a single vortex and electronic quasiparticles in a d­wave superconductor, 8th International Conference on Materials and Mechanics of Superconductivity and High Temperature Superconductors, Dresden, Germany, July 2006; Physica C 460, 256 (2007). arXiv:cond­mat/0607137 [5 pages, GS:1, AR:1]

30. Predrag L. Nikolić, Dejan M. Gvozdić and Jovan B. Radunović, Pulse response of a resonant cavity enhanced metal­semiconductor­metal photodetector, International Conference MIEL97, Niš, Serbia, 1997. [GS:2]

In preparation

31. P. Nikolić, Unconventional condensates of paired lattice fermions shaped by the Rashba spin­orbit coupling Curriculum Vitae 6 Predrag Nikolić

Selected Presentations

Invited talks and seminars

1. College of William and Mary, Physics Colloquium, September 2014 “The rise of topological quantum entanglement”

2. Rice University, Condensed Matter Physics Seminar, August 2014 “Two­dimensional heavy fermions in Kondo topological insulators”

3. “Energy, Materials, Nanotechnology Summer Meeting”, Cancun, Mexico, June 2014 Strongly correlated electrons with Rashba spin­orbit coupling: a journey to fractional topological insulators

4. Aspen Center for Physics, informal talk in the Workshop "Optical lattice emulators and beyond”, Aspen, CO, July 2013

5. Johns Hopkins University, Condensed Matter Physics Seminar, October 2011 Charge and spin fractionalization in strongly correlated topological insulators

6. George Mason University, Colloquium of the Computational Materials Science Center, February 2011 Theory of correlated superconductors: s­ vs. d­wave

7. Johns Hopkins University, Institute for Quantum Matter (Advisory Committee event), December 2010 Theory of correlated superconductors: s­ vs. d­wave

8. Nordita workshop “Quantum solids, liquids, and gases” (Stockholm, Sweden), August 2010 Unitarity in periodic potentials and Cooper pair insulators

9. University of Maryland, Condensed Matter Theory Center, February 2010 Strongly correlated Cooper pair insulators and superfluids

10.Johns Hopkins University, Institute for Quantum Matter Seminar, October 2009 Superconductivity in strongly coupled multi­band systems

11.Aspen Center for Physics, discussion leader in the Workshop "Quantum Vortices and Fluctuations in Superconductors and Superfluids”, Aspen, July 2009

12. George Mason University, Colloquium, March 2009 Strongly Correlated Physics With Ultra­Cold Atoms

13. National Institute for Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, March 2009 Two­dimensional fermionic superfluids, vortex lattices and vortex liquids

14. California Institute of Technology, Condensed Matter Seminar, August 2008 University of Waterloo, Condensed Matter Seminar, September 2008 University of Toronto, Condensed Matter Seminar, September 2008 Curriculum Vitae 7 Predrag Nikolić

Vortex liquids in rotating fermion systems near unitarity

15. Aspen Center for Physics, discussion leader in the Workshop "Novel Aspects of Superconductivity", Aspen, August 2007 The role of vortices in unconventional properties of d­wave superconductors

16. Rice University, Condensed Matter Seminar, February 2007 Universal phase diagram of interacting quantum liquids near the unitarity limit

17. University of Virginia, Colloquium, February 2007 University of New Hampshire, Colloquium, February 2007 Mutual influence of vortices and quasiparticles in d­wave superconductors

18. Johns Hopkins University, Condensed Matter Seminar, October 2006 Mutual influence of vortices and quasiparticles in d­wave superconductors

19. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Informal Condensed Matter Theory Seminar, March 2006 Harvard University, Informal Condensed Matter Theory Seminar, October 2005 Columbia University, Condensed Matter Seminar, May 2005 Microscopic theory of vortex dynamics in clean d­wave superconductors

20. Brookhaven National Laboratory conference “Frustrated Magnetism”, invited talk, Montauk 2004 Paramagnetic phases of Kagome lattice quantum Ising models

21. Yale University, Condensed Matter Seminar, February 2004 Kagome lattice quantum antiferromagnets: a quest for unconventional quantum phases

Contributed talks and presentations

22. APS March Meeting, Denver, March 2014 Vortices and vortex states of Rashba spin­orbit coupled condensates

23. APS March Meeting, Baltimore, March 2013 An effective theory of two­dimensional fractional topological insulators

24. APS March Meeting, Boston, March 2012 Charge and spin fractionalization in strongly correlated topological insulators

25. APS March Meeting, Dallas, March 2011 Unitarity in periodic potentials and correlated s­wave Cooper pair insulators

26. SCES Conference, Santa Fe, June 2010 Poster presentation: Pair density wave instability and Cooper pair insulators in gapped fermion systems Curriculum Vitae 8 Predrag Nikolić

27. Gordon conference on strongly correlated electrons, South Hadley, June 2010 Poster presentation: Pair density wave instability and Cooper pair insulators in gapped fermion systems

28. APS DAMOP Meeting, Charlottesville, May 2009 Two­dimensional FFLO vortex lattices and vortex liquids

29. APS March Meeting, Pittsburgh, March 2009 Pairing Instability in 2D Rotating Fermion Liquids Near Unitarity

30. APS March Meeting, New Orleans 2008 Superfluid­insulator transitions of the Fermi gas with near­unitary interactions in a periodic potential

31. The International Conference on Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, Houston, May 2007 Poster presentation: Mutual influence of vortices and quasiparticles in d­wave superconductors

32. Conference: "Correlated States in Degenerate Atomic Gases", Santa Barbara, April 2007 Poster presentation: Superfluid­insulator transition of the Fermi gas with near­unitary interactions in a periodic potential

33. APS March Meeting, Denver 2007 Universal phase diagram of fermionic quantum liquids near the unitarity limit

34. Gordon Research Conference on Correlated Electron Systems, South Hadley, June 2006 Poster presentation: Electronic density of states near a quantum vortex and vortex dynamics in d­wave superconductors

35. APS March Meeting, Baltimore 2006 Effective vortex action in clean d­wave superconductors

36. APS March Meeting, Montreal 2004 Kagome lattice quantum antiferromagnets with easy­axis anisotropy

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Graduated from “Josip Slavenski” School of Classical Music, Belgrade, Serbia 1985­1994 Playing the classical guitar, and composing for the piano