Curriculum Vitae

Predrag Nikolić

George Mason University, Department of and Planetary Hall #209, MSN 3F3, Fairfax, VA 22030 USA Phone: 571­524­3022; E­Mail: [email protected]; www: http://physics.gmu.edu/~pnikolic/

Academic Positions George Mason University, Associate Professor 09/01/2015 – present University, Adjunct Associate Professor 09/01/2016 – present George Mason University, Assistant Professor 08/25/2009 – 08/31/2015 , Adjunct Assistant Professor 09/01/2009 – 08/31/2016 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 , Postdoctoral Fellow 09/01/2005 – 07/31/2007 , 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 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 DOE Energy Frontier Research Center: Institute for Quantum Matter (Co­PI) 2018 – present DOE Institute for Quantum Matter (Co­PI) 2017 – present NSF Award #1205571 (PI): “Collaborative Research: 2012 – 2015 Correlated Superfluids and Insulators of Ultracold Fermionic Atomic ” Publication Award, George Mason University, College of Science November 2011 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 , , and gases” 2010, 2016 Aspen Center for Physics, Workshop: “ ” 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 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) Journal referee: Phys. Rev. A, B, Lett., Science, Nature, J. of Low Temp. Phys., New J. of Phys. Grant proposal reviewer (ext., panel): National Science Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Physics colloquium co­organiser at George Mason University (Fall 2010, Spring 2011) GMU Center for Quantum Science seminar co­organiser and web­site maintainer (2009 – present) Thesis committee member (3 students at GMU, 6 students at Johns Hopkins, 1 student at Georgetown)

Teaching George Mason University Math Methods in Physics (PHYS 590) Lectures 2018 Statistical (Thermal) Physics (PHYS 307) Lectures 2016, 2017 University Physics I (PHYS 160) Lectures 2013, 2014 Quantum Field Theory (PHYS 780) Lectures 2011, 2015, Quantum Mechanics (PHYS 402/502) Lectures 2010 – 2013 Modern Physics (PHYS 302) Lectures 2010 – 2015 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

Mentoring George Mason University S. Keeling, S.Movafagh, R.Mays current graduate students Tanja Duric former postdoctoral associate 2010 – 2011 M.DePrenger former graduate student Curriculum Vitae 3 Predrag Nikolić

Johns Hopkins University Yi Luo, graduate student 2017­­present Wesley Fuhrman, graduate student of C. Broholm 2014 – 2018 Miguel Sulangi, former graduate student 2012 – 2013 Harvard University Eun­Gook Moon, graduate student of S. Sachdev 2006 – 2007

List of Publications [1020 citations by Google Scholar]

1. W. T. Fuhrman and P. Nikolić, Magnetic impurities in Kondo insulators and the puzzle of samarium hexaboride, submitted for publication (2018). arXiv 1807.00005

2. W. T. Fuhrman, J. R. Chamorro, P. A. Alekseev, J.­M. Mignot, T. Keller, J. A. Rodriguez­Rivera, Y. Qiu, P. Nikolić, T. M. McQueen, and C. L. Broholm, Screened moments and extrinsic in­gap states in samarium hexaboride, Nature Communications 9, 1539 (2018). arXiv:1707.03834

3. Predrag Nikolić, Vortex states in a non­Abelian , Physical Review B 94, 064523 (2016). arXiv:1606.02317

4. Rubem Mondaini, Predrag Nikolić and Marcos Rigol, Mott­ to Superconductor Transition in a Two­Dimensional Superlattice, Physical Review A 92, 013601 (2015). arXiv:1412.1829

5. W. T. Fuhrman and P. Nikolić, In­gap collective mode spectrum of the topological Kondo insulator SmB6, Physical Review B 90, 195144 (2014). arXiv:1409.3220

6. Predrag Nikolić, Two­dimensional heavy fermions on the strongly correlated boundaries of Kondo topological insulators, Physical Review B 90, 235107 (2014). arXiv:1407.4482

7. 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, Interaction Driven Subgap Spin in the Kondo Insulator SmB6, Physical Review Letters 114, 036401 (2015). arXiv:1407.2647

8. Predrag Nikolić, Vortices and vortex states in Rashba spin­orbit­coupled condensates, Physical Review A 90, 023623 (2014). arXiv:1406.1198

9. Predrag Nikolić and Zlatko Tešanović, Interaction proximity effect at the interface between a superconductor and a quantum well, Physical Review B 87, 134511 (2013). arXiv:1210.7821 Curriculum Vitae 4 Predrag Nikolić

10. Predrag Nikolić and Zlatko Tešanović, Pairing instabilities in topological insulator quantum wells, Physical Review B 87, 104514 (2013). arXiv:1208.0608

11. Predrag Nikolić, Effective theory of fractional topological insulators in two spatial dimensions, Physical Review B 87, 245120 (2013). arXiv:1206.1055

12. 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

13. Predrag Nikolić, Charge and spin fractionalization in strongly correlated topological insulators, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 25, 025602 (2013). arXiv:1108.5388

14. Rong Yu, Pallab Goswami, Qimiao Si, Predrag Nikolić and Jian­Xin Zhu, at the Border of Electron Localization and Itinerancy, Nature Communications 4, 2783 (2013). arXiv:1103.3259

15. Predrag Nikolić and Zlatko Tešanović, Cooper pair insulators and theory of correlated superconductors, Physical Review B 83, 064501 (2011). arXiv:1008.4369

16. Predrag Nikolić, Unitarity in periodic potentials: a renormalization group analysis, Physical Review B 83, 064523 (2011). arXiv:1006.2378

17. Valentin Stanev, Boian S. Alexandrov, Predrag Nikolić and Zlatko Tešanović, Robust accidental nodes and zeroes and critical scaling in iron­based multiband superconductors, Physical Reviev B 84, 014505 (2011). arXiv:1006.0447

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. Predrag Nikolić, Phase diagram of two­dimensional fast­rotating ultracold fermionic atoms near unitarity, Physical Review A 81, 023601 (2010). arXiv:0904.2391

22. 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

23. Predrag Nikolić, Pairing instability driven by macroscopically degenerate collective modes in two­ dimensional rotating fermion liquids near unitarity, unpublished (2008). arXiv:0810.4149

24. Eun Gook Moon, Predrag Nikolić and , Superfluid­insulator transitions of the Fermi with near­unitary interactions in a periodic potential, Physical Review Letters 99, 230403 (2007). arXiv:0707.2383 Curriculum Vitae 5 Predrag Nikolić

25. 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

26. 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

27. Predrag Nikolić and Subir Sachdev, Effective action for vortex dynamics in clean d­wave superconductors, Physical Review B 73, 134511 (2006). arXiv:cond­mat/0511298

28. Predrag Nikolić, Disordered, spin and valence­bond ordered phases of the Kagome lattice quantum Ising models with transverse field and XXZ dynamics, Physical Review B 72, 064423 (2005). arXiv:cond­ mat/0403332

29. 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

30. 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

31. Dejan M. Gvozdić, Predrag L. Nikolić and Jovan B. Radunović, Optimization of a resonant cavity enhanced metal­­metal photodetector, IOP Semiconductor Science Techn. 15, 630 (2000).

32. Konstantin Nikolić, Predrag Nikolić and Roman Šorđan, Conductance of quantum interference transistors in parallel and in series, Superlattices and Microstructures 26, 47 (1999).

Conference Proceedings

32. 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

33. Predrag Nikolić and Subir Sachdev, Low energy theory of a single vortex and electronic 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:cond­ mat/0607137

34. 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. Curriculum Vitae 6 Predrag Nikolić

Selected Presentations

Invited talks and seminars

1. SESAPS 2016 Conference, Charlottesville VA, November 2016 Vortex states in a non­Abelian magnetic field

2. Nordita workshop “Multi­Component and Strongly­Correlated Superconductors” (Stockholm, Sweden), July 2016; Strongly correlated topological insulators

3. University of Delaware, Seminar, May 2016 Kondo Topological Insulators

4. The 19th Symposium on Condensed Matter Physics, Belgrade, Serbia, September 2015 Kondo Topological Insulators

5. University of , College Park, seminar of the Condensed Matter Theory Center, February 2015 Topological Kondo Insulators

6. College of William and Mary, Physics Colloquium, September 2014 The rise of topological

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. University of Maryland, Condensed Matter Theory Center, February 2010 Strongly correlated Cooper pair insulators and superfluids Curriculum Vitae 7 Predrag Nikolić

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

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

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

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

19. 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 Vortex liquids in rotating fermion systems near unitarity

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

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

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

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

24. 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

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

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

Contributed talks and presentations

27. APS March Meeting, , March 2016 Strong correlations in Kondo topological insulators: Two­dimensional heavy fermions, and beyond Curriculum Vitae 8 Predrag Nikolić

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

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

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

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

32. SCES Conference, Santa Fe, June 2010 Poster presentation: Pair density wave instability and Cooper pair insulators in gapped fermion systems

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

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

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

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

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

38. 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

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

40. 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

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

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

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Other Information

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