Tamar Pereg-Barnea
Physics department, University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station C1600
Austin, Texas  78712-0264
Phone number: (512)796-3349
e-mail: tami@physics.utexas.edu
website: www.ph.utexas.edu/~tami
Date of birth: April 24, 1974, Israel 
Citizenships: Israeli, Canadian

Current Employment
Postdoctoral researcher, the University of Texas at Austin.


Education

2005          Ph.D., Physics, the University of British Columbia.

2001          M.Sc., Physics, the University of British Columbia.

1999          B.Sc., Physics and Computer Science, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Awards and Distinctions

2005

Postdoctoral Prize Fellowships in Theoretical Physics (declined)

California institute of Technology

2005-2007

NSERC PDF (National Science and Engineering Research council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship)

University of Texas at Austin

2004-2005

University Graduate Fellowship (UGF)

University of British Columbia

2004

KITP (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics) graduate fellowship

UC Santa Barbara

2002-2004

NSERC PSGB (National Science and Engineering Research council of Canada Post Graduate award)

University of British Columbia

2001-2002

University Graduate Fellowship (UGF)

University of British Columbia

2001-2002

Jack Davis affiliated award

University of British Columbia

2000

University fellowship

Hebrew University

2000- 2001

Excellence award for incoming graduate students

Hebrew University

1997

Dean of science list for undergraduate students

Hebrew University



Research Experience

2005-peresent

The University of Texas, postdoctoral researcher.

Research topics include coulomb interactions, impurities, quantum interference and edge states in graphene, orbital order in perovskite systems, orbitaly degenerate 2D systems in hetero-junctions, high Tc and unconventional superconductivity, effective lowe energy gauge theories of condensed matter systems.  

Adviser: Allan H. MacDonald

2001-2005

The University of British Columbia, Ph.D.
Research focused on high Tc superconductivity and gauge field theories.

Adviser:  Marcel Franz.

2000-2001

The University of British Columbia, M.Sc.
Research in high Tc superconductivity, analysis of ESR experiments.
Adviser:  Walter N. Hardy.

Teaching and other Work Experience

2000-2005

The University of British Columbia, graduate teaching assistantship.

- Grader for a graduate condensed matter course
- Grader for an advanced undergraduate thermodynamics course

- Tutorial lecturer for a first year physics course

- Lab instructor for a first year physics course

1999-2000

Physics department, Hebrew University, graduate teaching assistantship.

- Second year physics honours lab instructor.

1998-2000

Computer programmer, Intel Corporation, Israel, Network products design centre. Principal responsibilities include:

- Design and implementation of a virtual environment for a network control device at its development stage.

- Preparation and teaching of a course for engineers on the simulation environment usage.









Other Activities

October 2006

Served on the organizing committee of the “Emerging Themes in Physics” workshop. (http://www.ph.utexas.edu/ETP-2006)

2004- present

Referee for Physical Review Letters and Physical review B.

2003-2004

Organized a student-run theory seminar (UBC)

Summer 2003

CIAR Quantum materials summer school organizing committee member (UBC)

2000

Volunteer math teacher for small groups of students at “Denmark” high school in Jerusalem.

1994-1995

Army service, the Israeli Defense Force.

1992-1993

Volunteer youth leader in a disadvantaged community (“Reim” project)

 

Presentations

Orbital order and spin waves in the Kugel-Khomskii model

            American Physical Society March meeting, 2007

Strongly correlated electron systems meeting, Houston, May 2007
High Tc Superconductivity: From a phase fluctuating superconductor to normal modes of a Cooper pair Wigner crystal
           Condensed matter seminar, California Institute of Technology, October 2006.
            Condensed matter seminar, Texas A&M University, April 2006.
            Physics colloquium, McMaster University, March 2006.

            Condensed matter seminar, The Hebrew University, January 2006.

            Condensed matter seminar, University of Texas, December 2005.

Andreev Edge states on a Triangular Lattice:  Detecting the pairing symmetry of Na0.35CoO2.yH2O

            Condensed matter seminar, University of Colorado at Boulder, March 2005.
            Condensed matter seminar, Boston University, February 2005.

            Condensed matter seminar, Harvard University, February 2005.

            Condensed matter seminar, University of Toronto, Janurary 2005.

            Condensed matter seminar, University of Waterloo, Janurary 2005.

            Condensed matter seminar, The Israeli Institute of Technology (Technion),         December 2004.

Interference of quasiparticles and theories of the high Tc superconductors
            Condensed matter seminar, KITP Santa-Barbara, January 2004.

            Condensed matter seminar, Hebrew University, December 2003.

            Condensed matter seminar, University of British Columbia, December 2003.

High Tc superconductivity and the QED3 theory of the cuprates
            Boulder summer-school, July 2003.

Coexistence of Antiferromagnetism and superconductivity in QED3
            American Physical Society, March meeting, Austin, March 2003.

            SFU-UBC monthly meeting, October 2002.

AC conductivity in QED3

            American Physical Society March meeting, Indianapolis, March 2003.

            CIAR superconductivity summer school, McMaster, May 2002.

Zero Field ESR – A novel Technique for measuring the London penetration depth
            Strongly correlated electron systems winter school, Jerusalem, December 2001
            CIAR superconductivity summer school, Sherbrook, May 2001

 

 


Publications

 

 1. Coexistence of bulk antiferromagnetic order and superconductivity in the QED3 theory of copper oxides.

            T. Pereg-Barnea and M. Franz, Phys. Rev. B 67, 060503(R) (2003).

 

2. Gauge invariant response functions in Algebraic Fermi liquids.

            M. Franz, T. Pereg-Barnea, D.E. Sheehy and Z. Tesanovic, Physical Review B 68, 024508(2003).

 

3. Theory of the quasiparticle interference patterns in the pseudogap phase of the cuprate superconductors.

            T. Pereg-Barnea and M.Franz, Physical Review B 68, 180506(R) (2003).

 

4. Absolute values of the London penetration depth in YBa2Cu3O6+y measured by zero field ESR on Gd doped crystals.

            T. Pereg-Barnea P.J Turner, R. Harris, G. K. Mullins, J. S. Bobowski, M. Raudsepp, Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn and W. N. Hardy, Physical Review B 69, 18513 (2004).

 

5. Quasiparticle interference patterns as a test for the nature of the pseudogap phase in the cuprate superconductors.

            T. Pereg-Barnea and M.Franz, International Journal of Modern Physics B 19, 731 (2004).

 

6. Andreev Edge State on Semi-Infinite Triangular Lattice: Detecting the Pairing Symmetry in Na0.35CoO2.yH2O.

            T. Pereg-Barnea and Hsiu-Hau Lin, Euro Physics Letters 69, 791 (2005).

 

7.  Duality and the vibrational modes of a Cooper-pair Wigner crystal
            T. Pereg-Barnea and M.Franz, Physical Review B 74, 014518 (2006).

8. Chirality and Correlations in Graphene
            Yafis Barlas, T. Pereg-Barnea, Marco Polini, Reza Asgari and A.H. MacDonald, Physical Review Letters 98 23661 (2007).

 

9. Graphene: A Pseudochiral Fermi Liquid
            Marco Polini, Reza Asgari, Yafis Barlas, T. Pereg-Barnea and A.H. MacDonald , Solid State Communications 2007.04.035. 

 

10.  The Role of Electron-electron Interactions in Graphene ARPES Spectra

          Marco Polini, Reza Asgari, Giovanni Borghi, Yafis Barlas, T. Pereg-Barnea,
A.H. MacDonald , unpublished (cond-mat/0707.4230)