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The University of Texas at Austin
Mehdi Kargarian
Department of Physics
RLM 7.308
Austin, TX 78712
USA

E-Mail: kargarian@physics.utexas.edu

BSc in Physics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, July 2004.
MSc in Physics, Sharif University of Technology, May 2006. Supervision: Prof. A. Z. Moshfegh
ph.D in Physics, Sharif University of Technology, Sept. 2009. Supervision: Prof. A. Langari
Since January 2010, Post Doc in the Group of Gregory A. Fiete:
Theory of quantum matter and correlated electrons at the nanoscale
at the Department of Physics at UT Austin.

Research Interests

Strongly correlated systems
Exotic phases of matters and topological insulators
Physics of Transition Metal Oxides
Topological order and Topological quantum computations
Entanglement and quantum criticality

Theses

Doctoral thesis:
Entanglement, quantum phase transition and topological order (2009)
MSc thesis:
Thermal stability of NiSi nanolayers (2006)

All my publications can be accessed on the arXiv.
Preprints

Mehdi Kargarian, Gregory.A. Fiete
Topological Crystalline Insulators in Transition Metal Oxides
arXiv:1212.4162
Saeed S. Jahromi, Mehdi Kargarian, S Farhad Masoudi, Kai Phillip Schmidt
Robustness of a topological phase: Topological color code in parallel magnetic field
arXiv:1211.1687

Publications

Alexander B. Khanikaev, S. Hossein Mousavi, Wang-Kong Tse, Mehdi Kargarian, Allan H. MacDonald, Gennady Shvets
Photonic Topological Insulators
Nature Material advance online publication, (2012); See News in Sciencedaily
M. Kargarian, A. Langari, Gregory.A. Fiete
Unusual magnetic phases in the strong interaction limit of two-dimensional topological band insulators in transition metal oxides
Phys. Rev. B 86, 205124 (2012)
M. Kargarian
Implementation of single-qubit and CNOT gates by anyonic excitations of two-body topological color code
Phys. Lett. A 376, 3540 (2012)
Gregory A. Fiete, Victor Chua, M. Kargarian, Rex Lundgren, Andreas Ruegg, Jun Wen, Vladimir Zyuzin
Topological Insulators and Quantum Spin Liquids
Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures 44,845(2012)
M. Kargarian, Jun Wen and Gregory.A. Fiete
Competing Exotic Topological Insulator Phases in Transition Metal Oxides on the Pyrochlore Lattice with Distortion
Phys. Rev. B 83, 165112 (2011)
X. Hu, M. Kargarian and Gregory.A. Fiete
Topological insulators and fractional quantum Hall effect on the ruby lattice
Phys. Rev. B 84, 155116 (2011)
J. Wen, M. Kargarian, Abolhassan Vaezi and Gregory.A. Fiete
Doping the Kane-Mele-Hubbard model : A Slave-Boson Approach
Phys. Rev. B 84, 235149 (2011)
M. Kargarian, Gregory.A. Fiete
Topological phases and phase transitions on the square-octagon lattice
Phys. Rev. B82, 085106 (2010); arXiv:1005.3815
M. Kargarian, H. Bombin, M.A. Martin-Delgado
Topological Color Codes and Two-Body Quantum Lattice Hamiltonians
New J. Phys.12, 025018(2010); arXiv:0906.4127

H. Bombin,M. Kargarian,M.A. Martin-Delgado
Interacting Anyonic Fermions in a Two-Body Color Code Model
Phys. Rev. B 80, 075111 (2009); arXiv:0811.0911

M. Kargarian
Finite temperature topological order in 2D topological color codes
Phys. Rev. A 80, 012321 (2009); arXiv:0904.4492

H. Bombin,M. Kargarian,M.A. Martin-Delgado
Quantum 2-Body Hamiltonian for Topological Color Codes
Fortsch.Phys. 57, 1103 (2010); arXiv:0907.0948

M. Kargarian,R. Jafari, A. Langari
Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction and Anisotropy effects on the Entanglement of Heisenberg Model
Phys. Rev. A. 79, 042319 (2009); arXiv:0903.0630

M. Kargarian
Entanglement properties of topological color codes
Phys. Rev. A 78, 062312 (2009); arXiv:0809.4276

R. Jafari,M. Kargarian, A. Langari, M. Siahatgar
Phase Diagram and Entanglement of Ising Model With Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction
Phys. Rev. B. 78, 214414 (2008); arXiv:0804.4579

M. Kargarian, R. Jafari,A. Langari
The renormalization of entanglement in the anisotropic Heisenberg (XXZ) model
Phys. Rev. A. 77, 032346(2008); arXiv:0711.2358

M. Kargarian, R. Jafari,A. Langari
Renormalization of concurrence: the application of quantum renormalization group to the quantum information systems
Phys. Rev. A. 76, 060304(R)(2007); arXiv:0710.5843

M. Kargarian, O. Akhavan and A. Z. Moshfegh
The effect of Si addition and Ta diffusion barrier on growth and thermal stability of NiSi nanolayer
Microelectron. Eng. 85, 548(2008); arXiv:0710.5843

Last Update: 01/21/2013