OSKAR VAFEK curriculum vitae Department of Physics and National High Magnetic Field Laboratory tel.(NHMFL A319) : (850) 644-0848 Florida State University tel.(KEEN 309) : (850) 508-7377 Tallahassee, Florida 32306 fax. : (850) 644-5038 USA e-mail: [email protected] Education and Degrees Sep 2003 - Sep 2006 Stanford University, Stanford, CA Postdoctoral Scholar Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics June 1998 - Aug 2003 Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University (physics) Thesis advisor: Prof. Zlatko Tesanovic Aug 1994 -May 1998 B.A. Goucher College (major: chemistry, minors: physics, mathematics) Positions held: 2012 - present Associate Professor (with tenure) National High Magnetic Field Laboratory Department of Physics, Florida State University 2006 - 2012 Assistant Professor National High Magnetic Field Laboratory Department of Physics, Florida State University 2003 - 2006 Postdoctoral Scholar Stanford University Institute for Theoretical Physics 1998 - 2003 Research Assistant Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University Research interests Theoretical condensed matter physics and statistical field theory, with an emphasis on the problems in superconductivity and strongly correlated systems Awards and honors 2012 Florida State University PAI Award for excellence in teaching and research 2010 NSF Career Award 2003 Stanford ITP Fellowship (Stanford University) 1998 Ellen E. Swomley Fellowship (Johns Hopkins University) 1998 Stimson-Duvall Scholarship (Goucher College) Luise Kelly Prize in Chemistry (Goucher College) Phi Beta Kappa Membership 1997 NSF Research Opportunity Award for summer research at Johns Hopkins U. 1997 Presidential Scholarship for the senior project (Goucher College) 1994 Merit Foreign Student Scholarship full 4-year scholarship to attend Goucher College Journal publications and preprints: 1. R.M. Fernandes and O. Vafek "Distinguishing spin-orbit coupling and nematic order in the electronic spectrum of iron-based superconductors" Phys. Rev. B 90, 214514 (2014). 2. Kelly Ann Pawlak, J.M. Murray, and O. Vafek, \Emergence of superconductivity in a doped single-valley quadratic band crossing system of spin-1/2 fermions", arXiv:1411.3633 (submit- ted to Physical Review B). 3. V. Cvetkovic and O. Vafek, \Berry phases and the intrinsic thermal Hall effect in high tem- perature cuprate superconductors", arXiv:1407.6002. 4. J.M. Murray and O. Vafek, \Renormalization group study of interaction-driven quantum anomalous Hall and quantum spin Hall phases in quadratic band crossing systems", Phys. Rev. B 89, 201110(R) (2014). 5. J.B. Kemper, O. Vafek, J.B. Betts, F.F. Balakirev, W.N. Hardy, Ruixing Liang, D.A. Bonn, G.S. Boebinger, \Thermodynamic signature of a magnetic-field-driven phase transition within the superconducting state of an underdoped high-temperature superconductor", arXiv:1403.3702. 6. J.M. Murray and O. Vafek, \Excitonic and superconducting orders from repulsive interaction on the doped honeycomb bilayer", Phys. Rev. B 89, 205119 (2014). 7. J. Ludwig, Yu. B. Vasilyev, N. N. Mikhailov, J. M. Poumirol, Z. Jiang, O. Vafek, and D. Smirnov, \Cyclotron resonance of single valley Dirac fermions in gapless HgTe quantum well", Phys. Rev. B 89, 241406(R) (2014). 8. Oskar Vafek, James M. Murray, and Vladimir Cvetkovic, \Superconductivity on the brink of spin-charge order in doped honeycomb bilayer", Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 147002 (2014). 9. Luyang Wang and Oskar Vafek, \Unconventional superconductivity in a two-dimensional re- pulsive gas of fermions with spin-orbit coupling", Physica C 497, 6 (2014); arXiv:1307.7953. 10. Oskar Vafek and Ashvin Vishwanath, \Dirac Fermions in Solids - from High Tc cuprates and Graphene to Topological Insulators and Weyl Semimetals", Annual Reviews of Condensed Matter Physics Vol. 5: 83-112 (2014). 11. Vladimir Cvetkovic and Oskar Vafek, \Space group symmetry, spin-orbit coupling, and the low-energy effective Hamiltonian for iron-based superconductors", Phys. Rev. B 88, 134510 (2013). 12. Luyang Wang and Oskar Vafek, \Quantum oscillations of the specific heat in d-wave super- conductors with loop current order", Phys. Rev. B 88, 024506 (2013). 13. Vladimir Cvetkovic and Oskar Vafek, \Topology and symmetry breaking in ABC trilayer graphene", arXiv:1210.4923. 14. Robert E. Throckmorton and Oskar Vafek, \Fermions on bilayer graphene: Symmetry breaking for B=0 and ν = 0", Phys. Rev. B 86, 115447 (2012). 15. Vladimir Cvetkovic, R.E. Throckmorton, and Oskar Vafek, \Electronic multi-criticality in bilayer graphene", Phys. Rev. B 86, 075467 (2012); Editor's suggestion. 16. Oskar Vafek, \Graphene: Carbon's superconducting footprint", Nature Physics 8, 111 (2012). 17. Z. Zhou, Oskar Vafek, and A. Seidel, \Geometric phases of d-wave vortices in a model of lattice fermions", Phys. Rev. B 86, 020505(R) (2012). 18. H.J. Gardner, A. Kumar, L. Yu, P. Xiong, M.P. Warusawithana, L. Wang, Oskar Vafek, and D.G. Schlom, \Enhancement of superconductivity by a parallel magnetic field in two- dimensional superconductors", Nature Physics 7, 895 (2011). 19. Scott C. Riggs, Oskar Vafek, J. B. Kemper, J. B. Betts, A. Migliori, F. F. Balakirev, W. N. Hardy, Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn and G. S. Boebinger, \Heat capacity through the magnetic- field-induced resistive transition in an underdoped high-temperature superconductor", Nature Physics 7, 332 (2011). 20. Vladimir Juricic, Oskar Vafek, and Igor F. Herbut, \Conductivity of interacting massless Dirac particles in graphene: Collisionless regime", Phys. Rev. B 82, 235402 (2010); Editor's suggestion. 21. Oskar Vafek, \Interacting fermions on the honeycomb bilayer: From weak to strong coupling", Phys. Rev. B 82, 205106 (2010). 22. Robert E. Throckmorton and Oskar Vafek, \Relaxation of nuclear magnetic moments and site-selective NMR in d-wave superconductors", Phys. Rev. B 81, 104515 (2010); Editor's suggestion. 23. Oskar Vafek and Kun Yang, \Many-body instability of Coulomb interacting bilayer graphene: Renormalization group approach", Phys. Rev. B 81, 041401(R) (2010); Editor's suggestion and featured in Physics 3, 1 (2010). 24. Igor F. Herbut, Vladimir Juricic, and Oskar Vafek, \Relativistic Mott criticality in graphene", Phys. Rev. B 80, 075432 (2009). 25. 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). 26. Igor F. Herbut, Vladimir Juricic, and Oskar Vafek, \Coulomb Interaction, Ripples, and the Minimal Conductivity of Graphene", Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 046403 (2008). 27. Ashot Melikyan and Oskar Vafek, \Quantum Oscillations in the mixed state of d-wave super- conductor", Phys. Rev. B 78, 020502(R) (2008). 28. Oskar Vafek, \Anomalous Scaling and Gapless Fermions of d-Wave Superconductors in a Magnetic Field ", Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 047002 (2007). 29. Oskar Vafek, \Anomalous Thermodynamics of Coulomb-Interacting Massless Dirac Fermions in Two Spatial Dimensions ", Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 216401 (2007). 30. Oskar Vafek, \Thermo-Plasma Polariton within Scaling Theory of Single-Layer Graphene", Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 266406 (2006). 31. Oskar Vafek and Ashot Melikyan, \Index Theoretic Characterization of d-Wave Superconduc- tors in the Vortex State", Phys. Rev. Lett., 96, 167005 (2006). 32. Oskar Vafek, M.R. Beasley and S.A. Kivelson \Disorder induced non-Fermi liquid near a metal-superconductor quantum phase transition", http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0505688. 33. Andrei Bernevig and Oskar Vafek, \Piezo-Magneto-Electric Effects in p-Doped Semiconduc- tors", Phys. Rev. B, 72, 033203 (2005). 34. 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). 35. Oskar Vafek and Zlatko Teˇsanovi´c, \Quantum criticality of d-wave quasiparticles and super- conducting phase fluctuations”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 237001 (2003). 36. Oskar Vafek, Zlatko Teˇsanovi´cand Marcel Franz, \Relativity Restored: Dirac Anisotropy in QED3", Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 157003 (2002). 37. Marcel Franz, Zlatko Teˇsanovi´cand 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). 38. Zlatko Teˇsanovi´c,Oskar Vafek and Marcel Franz, \Chiral symmetry breaking and phase fluc- tuations: A QED3 theory of the pseudogap state in cuprate superconductors", Phys. Rev. B 65, 180511 (2002). 39. O. Vafek, A. Melikyan, and Z. Teˇsanovi´c, \Quasiparticle Hall Transport of d-wave Supercon- ductors in Vortex State", Phys. Rev. B 64, 224508 (2001). 40. Marcel Franz and Oskar Vafek, \Universal thermal conductivity in the vortex state of cuprate superconductors", Phys. Rev. B 64, 220501 (2001). 41. O. Vafek, A. Melikyan, M. Franz and Z. Teˇsanovi´c, \Quasiparticles and Vortices in Uncon- ventional Superconductors", Phys. Rev. B 63, 134509 (2001). 42. Sasha Dukan and Oskar Vafek, \Anomalous Behavior of the Upper Critical Field in Extreme Type-II Superconductors at Low Temperatures", Physica C, 309(3-4), 295 (1998). Interdisciplinary Work (Rheology and Non-linear Molecular Spectroscopy) 43. Oskar Vafek and Mark O. Robbins, \Molecular dynamics study of the stress singularity at a corner", Phys. Rev. B 60, 12002 (1999). 44. P. Collings, E. Gibbs, T. Starr, O. Vafek, C. Yee, L. A. Pomerance, R. F. Pasternac,\Resonance light scattering and its application in determining the size, shape, and aggregation number for supramolecular assemblies of chromophores", J. Phys. Chem. B 103