2019-current: Full Professor at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
2014-2019: Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
2013-2043: Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
2007-2013: Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
2006-2007: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Technische Universitat Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
2004-2006: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany
2002-2004: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
1997-2008: Senior Researcher at the Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, JINR, Dubna, Russia
1997: Ph.D. in Theoretical Condensed matter Physics at the Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia). The dissertation was titled “Magnons, magnetic polaritons and magnetostatic waves”, under the supervision of Prof. Moisei Kaganov.
1994: Graduated with honors in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics from the Moscow State University, Russia
Selected Awards
2017, Emmy Noether Fellow, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada
2016, Fellow of American Physical Society
Research Interests
My research is in the field of theoretical condensed matter physics. My goal is to understand properties of materials from fundamental microscopic basis. I am particularly interested in all kinds of phenomena observed in magnetic materials. In my work, I focus on developing and analyzing microscopic models of electronic systems with strong interplay between charge, spin, and orbital degrees of freedom, and geometric frustration. In particular, I am interested in understanding various unconventional quantum phases in correlated materials, e.g., quantum spin liquids. This is an exciting area of condensed matter physics with rapidly evolving fundamental concepts, discoveries of materials with intriguingly novel behaviors and high promise for useful applications.
Wen-Han Kao, Johannes Knolle, Gábor B. Halász, Roderich Moessner, and Natalia B. Perkins, Vacancy-Induced Low-Energy Density of States in the Kitaev Spin Liquid, Phys. Rev. X 11, 011034 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.11.011034
Jianlong Fu, Johannes Knolle and Natalia B. Perkins, Majorana representations of spin and an alternative solution of the Kitaev honeycomb model, Phys. Rev. B 97, 115142 (2018). https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.97.115142
Ioannis Rousochatzakis, Johannes Reuther, Ronny Thomale, Stephan Rachel, and Natalia B. Perkins, Phase Diagram and Quantum Order by Disorder in the Kitaev K1-K2 Honeycomb Magnet, Phys. Rev. X 5, 041035 (2015). https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.5.041035
Yuriy Sizyuk, Craig Price, Peter Woelfle and Natalia B. Perkins, Importance of anisotropic exchange interactions in honeycomb iridates. Minimal model for zigzag antiferromagnetic order in Na2IrO3, Phys. Rev. B 90, 155126 (2014). https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.90.155126
Hauspurg, A.; Zherlitsyn, S.; Helm, T.; Felea, V.; Wosnitza, J.; Tsurkan, V.; Choi, K. -Y.; Do, S. -H.; Ye, Mengxing; Brenig, Wolfram; Perkins, Natalia B.: Fractionalized Excitations Probed by Ultrasound. , 2023 more…BibTeX
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Poliakov, Vladislav; Kao, Wen-Han; Perkins, Natalia B.: Topological transitions in the site-diluted Yao-Lee spin-orbital model. , 2023 more…BibTeX
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Rousochatzakis, Ioannis; Perkins, Natalia B.; Luo, Qiang; Kee, Hae-Young: Beyond Kitaev physics in strong spin-orbit coupled magnets. , 2023 more…BibTeX
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Singh, Susmita; Stavropoulos, P. Peter; Perkins, Natalia B.: Phonon dynamics in the generalized Kitaev spin liquid. Physical Review B 107 (21), 2023 more…BibTeX
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Stavropoulos, P. Peter; Yang, Yang; Rousochatzakis, Ioannis; Perkins, Natalia B.: Complex orders and chirality in the classical Kitaev-$Γ$ model. , 2023 more…BibTeX
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