Dr. Orion CIFTJA
	Title: Professor Phone: 1-(936)-261-3137 Fax: 1-(936)-261-3149 Email: ogciftja@pvamu.edu Office Hours: TR 2-5pm, Online-Zoom by Appointment Curriculum Vitae: Ciftja CV

Education:

• Ph.D, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA/ISAS), Trieste, Italy (1997)
• M.S,  International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA/ISAS), Trieste, Italy (1995)
• Diploma, International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy (1994)

Dr. Ciftja awarded NSF research grant:

This award supports theoretical research and education with an aim to understand new states of matter exhibited by electrons in high magnetic fields and confined to a plane. New electronic states of matter are interesting from the perspective of fundamental science, but are also potential building blocks of future technologies for electronic devices, sensors, computation, and more. Undergraduate students will be able to participate in valuable research experience.  To learn more please visit
http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0804568

Dr. Ciftja receives national award:

Read about Dr. Ciftja named a KITP SCHOLAR for the period 2007-2009. Here is the Roster of KITP SCHOLARS since 1998. Here is a description of KITP, University of California, Santa Barbara  (from Wikipedia).

Teaching Schedule:

Spring 2024

Course	Days	Room	Time
PHYS 1301-Z01-General Physics I	NA	Online	Asynchronous
PHYS 1301-Z02-General Physics I	NA	Online	Asynchronous
PHYS 3316-P01-Mathematical Physics I	MWF	330AH	1-1:50 pm
PHYS 2325-P01-University Physics I	TR	309	12:30-1:50 pm

Fall 2023

Course	Days	Room	Time
PHYS 1301-Z01-General Physics I	NA	Online	Asynchronous
PHYS 1301-P03-General Physics I	TR	NSCI 307	11 am-12:20 pm
PHSC 4302-P01-Quantum Mechanics I	MWF	TTVN/TPC	11-11:50 am

Research:

• Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems
• Fractional Quantum Hall Effect (FQHE)
• Semiconductor quantum dots
• Quantum liquids and solids
• Monte Carlo simulation methods
• Molecular Magnetism

These topics belong to the domain of  Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics and  are closely related to nanotechnology, semiconductors, nanodevices, etc.

This poster (.ppt) was presented at the 2-nd Annual TAMUS “Pathways Research Symposium”, held in Corpus Christi, TX on October 15-16, 2004.

This poster was presented at the Gordon Research Conference on “Correlated Electron Systems” held in Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA on June 20-25, 2004.

Some of my recent papers ( *.pdf ) that indicate my current interests:

• Generalized description of few-electron quantum dots at zero and nonzero magnetic fields
• Monte Carlo study of Bose Laughlin wave function for filling factors 1/2, 1/4 and 1/6
• Novel liquid crystalline phases in quantum Hall systems [Review Article]
• Two interacting electrons in a one-dimensional parabolic quantum dot: exact numerical diagonalization
• Two-dimensional quantum-dot helium in a magnetic field: Variational theory
• An anyon wavefunction for the fractional quantum Hall effect
• Ground state of two-dimensional quantum-dot helium in zero magnetic field: Perturbation, diagonalization, and variational theory
• Liquid crystalline states for two-dimensional electrons in strong magnetic fields
• Short-time-evolved wave functions for solving quantum many-body problems
• Trial state for a two-dimensional hexatic
• Monte Carlo simulation method for Laughlin-like states in a disk geometry
• Liquid crystalline states in quantum Hall systems
• Fermi hypernetted-chain study of half-filled Landau levels with broken rotational symmetry
• Coulomb energy of quasiparticle excitations in Chern-Simons composite fermion states
• Hypernetted-chain study of broken rotational symmetry states for the nu=1/3 fractional quantum Hall effect and other fractionally filled Landau levels

Some of my older papers ( *.pdf):

• Equation of state and spin-correlation functions of ultrasmall classical Heisenberg magnets
• Effective hypernetted-chain study of even-denominator-filling state of the fractional quantum Hall effect
• Exact results for a composite-fermion wave function
• Fermi-hypernetted-chain study of unprojected wave functions to describe the half-filled state of the fractional quantum Hall effect
• Application of Fermi-hypernetted-chain theory to composite-fermion quantum Hall states
• Hypernetted-chain treatment and extended shadow wave functions for fractional quantum Hall hierarchical states

Ethical behavior in science, read about Schoen‘s case

• Read about Ernst Ising and the Ising model
• Read an article about Ernst Ising from the Brazilian Journal of Physics

National Nanotechnology Initiative
This is a nice paper ( . pdf ) in Nanotechnology
Quantum dots from TUDELFT

Texas Physics Consortium (TPC)

The Texas Electronic Coalition for Physics (TECP)
If you think that Physics is not “cool” read Britney Spears Guide to Semiconductor Physics

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