Department of Physics and Astronomy |
University of Delaware |
Newark, DE 19716-2570, USA |
Phone: +(302) 831-2943, Fax: +(302) 831-1637 |
bnikolic@physics.udel.edu
http://www.physics.udel.edu/~bnikolic |
Education:
2000 Ph.D. in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, SUNY at Stony Brook Thesis Advisor: Professor Philip B. Allen Thesis Title: Quantum transport in finite disordered electron systems 1995 B.Sc. in Theoretical Physics (Summa Cum Laude, GPA 10.0/10.0), Faculty of Physics , University of Belgrade , Serbia Advisor: Professor Sava Milosevic Diploma Thesis Title: Numerical study of BTW model of Self-Organized Criticality 1988 High School: Member of the National Team for the XIX International Physics Olympiad
Research: past->present->future
2002-present Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware
PI of the Quantum Transport Theory Group
QTT Group has interest in: Quantum transport of spin and charge in mesoscopic, spintronic, and strongly correlated systems, Quantum information theory and computing, Quantum Chaos, Glasses and glassy dynamics, Strongly correlated systems out of equilibrium, Inhomogeneous superconducting nanostructures
2000-2002 Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Physics, Georgetown University, Washington DC
Condensed Matter Theory Group of Professor J. K. Freericks
1997-2000 Research Assistant, Department of Physics and Astronomy, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook NY
Condensed Matter Theory Group of Professor P. B. Allen
1994-1995 Research Assistant, Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade, Serbia Statistical Mechanics Group
Teaching:
Spring
University of Delaware
Computational Methods of Physics (PHYS 306 undegraduate level course)
Computational Methods of Physics (PHYS 638 graduate level course)
Fall
University of Delaware Methods of Mathematical Physics (PHYS 607 graduate level course)
Introduction to Solid State Physics (PHYS 624 graduate level course)
1995-1997 SUNY at Stony Brook Teaching assistant for the introductory physics courses PHY 125, PHY 126, PHY 132
Synergistic activities:
- Co-organizer of Spintronics 2001, Georgetown University, Washington DC, 2001
- High Performance Scientific Computing Laboratory at UD
- Summer Schools: Spintronics: Fundamentals and Applications (Jyvaskyla 2004, Finland)
Profesional Affiliations:
- Societies: American Physical Society, American Association of Physics Teachers.
- Referee for: Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, European Journal of Physics B, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Journal of Physics A, New Journal of Physics, Physics Letters B, Foundations of Physics Letters, Foundations of Science.
- Reviewer for research proposals: NSF, ISF.
Publications:
33. | Thouless Energy as a
Unifying Concept for Josephson Junctions Tuned Through the Mott
Metal-Insulator Transition |
Phys. Rev. B 73, 184515 (2006) |
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Full text: PDF |
32. | Shot Noise of
Spin-Decohering Transport in Spin-Orbit Coupled Nanostructures |
cond-mat/0604187 |
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R. L. Dragomirova
and B. K. Nikolic |
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Full text: PDF |
31. | Extrinsic Entwined with
Intrinsic Spin Hall Effect in Disordered Mesoscopic Bars |
cond-mat/0603595 |
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B. K. Nikolic and L. P.
Zarbo |
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Full text: PDF |
30. | Imaging mesoscopic spin Hall flow: Spatial distribution of local spin currents and spin densities in and out of multiterminal spin-orbit coupled semiconductor nanostructures |
Phys. Rev. B 73, 075303
(2006) |
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B. K. Nikolic, L. P. Zarbo, and S. Souma | |
Full text: PDF |
29. | Use of Generalized Thouless Energy in Describing Transport Properties of Josephson Junctions |
IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 15, 896 (2005) | |
J. K. Freericks, A. N.
Tahvildar-Zadeh, and B. K.
Nikolic |
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Full text: PDF |
28. | Transverse Spin-Orbit
Force of the spin Hall effect in Ballistic Semiconductor Wires |
Phys. Rev. B 72, 075335 (2005) | |
B. K. Nikolic, L. P.
Zarbo,
and S. Welack |
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Full text: PDF |
27. | Nonequilibrium Spin
Hall Accumulation in Ballistic Semiconductor Nanostructures |
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 046601 (2005) |
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B. K. Nikolic, S. Souma.
L. P. Zarbo, and J. Sinova |
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Full text: PDF |
26. | Spin Hall Current Driven
by Quantum Interferences in Mesoscopic Rashba Rings |
Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 106602 (2005) |
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S. Souma and B. K. Nikolic |
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Full text: PDF |
25. | Mesoscopic Spin Hall
Effect in Multiprobe Ballistic Spin-Orbit Coupled Semiconductor Bridges |
Phys. Rev. B 72, 075361 (2005) |
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B. K. Nikolic, L. P.
Zarbo,
and S. Souma |
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Full text: PDF |
24. | Modulating Unpolarized
Current in Quantum Spintronics: Visibility of
Spin-Interference Effects in Multichannel Aharonov-Casher Mesoscopic
Rings |
Phys. Rev. B 70, 195346 (2004) |
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S. Souma and B. K. Nikolic |
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Full text: PDF |
23. | Controlling Decoherence
of Transported Quantum Spin Information in Semiconductor Spintronics |
in Realizing controllable quantum states, edited by H. Takayanagi and J. Nitta (World Scientific, Singapore, 2005). | |
B. K. Nikolic and S. Souma |
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Full text: PDF |
22. | Quantum Transparency of
Anderson Insulator Junctions: Statistics of Transmission Eigenvalues, Shot Noise, and Proximity Conductance |
Phys. Rev. B 71, 045308 (2005) |
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B. K. Nikolic and R. L.
Dragomirova |
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Full text: PDF |
21. | Decoherence of transported spin in multichannel spin-orbit coupled spintronic devices: Scattering approach to spin density matrix from the ballistic to the localized regime |
Phys. Rev. B 71, 195328 (2005) |
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B. K. Nikolic and S. Souma |
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Full text: PDF |
20. | Superconductor-Correlated Metal-Superconductor Josephson Junctions: An optimized class for high speed digital electronics |
IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 13, 1089 (2003) | |
J. K. Freericks, B. K. Nikolic, and P. Miller | |
Full text: PDF |
19. | Entanglement of Electron Spin and Orbital States in Spintronic Quantum Transport |
cond-mat/0301614 | |
B. K. Nikolic | |
Full text: PDF |
18. | Temperature dependence of superconductor-correlated metal-superconductor Josephson junctions |
Appl. Phys. Lett. 82, 970 (2003) | |
J. K. Freericks, B. K. Nikolic, and P. Miller | |
Full text: PDF |
17. | Mesoscopic Spintronics: Fluctuation and localization effects in spin-polarized quantum transport |
in Toward the controllable quantum states, edited by H. Takayanagi and J. Nitta (World Scientific, 2003). | |
B. K. Nikolic and J. K. Freericks | |
Full text: PDF |
16. | Mesoscopics in Spintronics: Quantum interference effects in spin-polarized electron transport |
cond-mat/0111144 | |
B. K. Nikolic and J. K. Freericks | |
Full text: PDF |
15. | Structure of quantum disordered wave functions: weak localization, far tails, and mesoscopic transport |
Eur. Phys. J. B 30 , 227 (2002) | |
B. K. Nikolic and V. Z. Cerovski | |
Full text: PDF |
14. | Optimizing the speed of a Josephson junction with dynamical mean-field theory |
Int. J. Mod. Phys. B16, 531 (2002) | |
J. K. Freericks, B. K. Nikolic, and P. Miller | |
Full text: PDF |
13. | Intrinsic reduction of Josephson critical current in short ballistic SNS weak links |
Phys. Rev. B 64, 212507 (2001) | |
B. K. Nikolic, J. K. Freericks, and P. Miller | |
Full text: PDF |
12. | Suppression of the "quasiclassical" proximity gap in correlated-metal--superconductor structures |
Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 077002 (2002) | |
B. K. Nikolic, J. K. Freericks, and P. Miller | |
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11. | Typical medium theory of Anderson localization: A local order parameter approach to strong disorder effects |
Europhys. Lett. 62, 76 (2003) | |
V. Dobrosavljevic, A. A. Pastor, B. K. Nikolic | |
Full text: PDF |
10. | Equilibrium Properties of Double-Screened-Dipole-Barrier SINIS Josephson Junctions |
Phys. Rev. B 65, 064529 (2002) | |
B. K. Nikolic, J. K. Freericks, and P. Miller | |
Full text: PDF |
9. | Deconstructing Kubo formula usage: Exact conductance of a mesoscopic system from weak to strong disorder limit |
Phys. Rev. B 64, 165303 (2001) | |
B. K. Nikolic | |
Full text: PDF |
8. | Tuning a Josephson Junction through a quantum critical point |
Phys. Rev. B 64, 054511 (2001) | |
J. K. Freericks, B. K. Nikolic, and P. Miller | |
Full text: PDF |
7. | Quantum transport through mesoscopic disordered interfaces, junctions, and multilayers |
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 14, 7871 (2002) | |
B. K. Nikolic | |
Full text: PDF |
6. | Quest for rare events in mesoscopic disordered metals |
Phys. Rev. B 65, 012201 (2002) | |
B. K. Nikolic | |
Full text: PDF |
5. | Resistivity of a metal between the Boltzmann transport regime and the Anderson transition |
Phys. Rev. B 63, 020201(R) (2000) | |
B. K. Nikolic and P. B. Allen | |
Full text: PDF |
4. | Statistical properties of eigenstates in three-dimensional mesoscopic systems with off-diagonal or diagonal disorder |
Phys. Rev. B 64, 014203 (2001) | |
B. K. Nikolic | |
Full text: PDF |
3. | Quantum transport in ballistic conductors: evolution from conductance quantization to resonant tunneling |
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 12, 9629 (2000) | |
B. K. Nikolic and P. B. Allen | |
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2. | Infrared studies of the onset of conductivity in ultrathin Pb films |
Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4880 (1999) | |
P. F. Henning, C. C. Homes, S. Maslov, G. L. Carr, D. N. Basov, B. K. Nikolic, and M. Strongin | |
Full text: PDF |
1. | Electron transport through a circular constriction |
Phys. Rev. B. 60, 3963 (1999) | |
B. K. Nikolic and P. B. Allen | |
Full Text: PDF |
0. | Ph.D. Thesis: Quantum transport in finite disordered electron systems (PDF) |
Selected Talks:
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Is there a mean-field theory of Anderson localization? |
2002 |
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Slides: PDF |
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Proximity Effect in Strongly Correlated Nanostructures |
2003 |
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Slides: PDF |
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Controlling
Decoherence of Transported Quantum Spin Information in Semiconductor
Spintronics |
2004 |
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Slides: PDF |
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Mesoscopic Spin Hall Effect |
2005 |
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Slides: PDF |