Short CV
- 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.
Selected Publications
- Wen-Han Kao and Natalia B. Perkins, Disorder upon disorder: localization effects in the Kitaev spin liquid, Annals of Physics 168506 (2021)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003491621001123 - 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, Yuriy Sizyuk and Natalia B. Perkins, Quantum spin liquid in the semiclassical regime, Nature communications 9, 1575 (2018).
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03934-1 - Ioannis Rousochatzakis and Natalia B. Perkins, Classical spin liquid instability driven by off-diagonal exchange in strong spin-orbit magnets, Phys. Rev. Lett.118, 147204 (2017).
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.147204 - 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 - J. Knolle, Gia-Wei Chern, D. L. Kovrizhin, R. Moessner and Natalia B. Perkins, Raman Scattering Signatures of Kitaev Spin Liquids in A2IrO3 Iridates, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 187201 (2014).
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.187201 - Natalia B. Perkins, Yuriy Sizyuk and Peter Woelfle, Interplay of many-body and single-particle interactions in iridates and rhodates, Phys. Rev. B 89, 035143 (2014).
https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.89.035143 - Craig Price, Natalia B. Perkins, Critical properties of the Kitaev-Heisenberg model, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 187201 (2012).
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.187201
Publications as TUM-IAS-Fellow
