Babak Seradjeh

Assistant Professor
Condensed Matter Theory

B.Sc., Sharif University of Technology, 1998.
M.Sc., Sharif University of Technology, 2000.
Ph.D., Simon Fraser University, 2006.
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia, 2006–2008.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2008–2011.

Office: SW 228
Email: babaks indiana.edu

Curriculum Vitae
Personal Webpage

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Currently, I am mainly working on problems related to

1. Topological insulators and superconductors,
2. Majorana fermions in condensed matter systems,
3. Realization and manipulation of fractional particles.

I aim to understand the fundamental principles governing these systems and the potential application of their properties. I also seek new designs and schemes for novel devices. I use a variety of techniques, including field-theoretic methods, renormalization group studies, duality transformations, variational and perturbative methods or a combination thereof, complemented with numerical computations when suited. Other methods and techniques are also employed—and sometimes invented—as needed by the problem. Ongoing discussions with other groups, especially experimentalists, is enthusiastically encouraged in my group.

You can read a description of my recent research here.

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Selected Publications

• E. Grosfeld, B. Seradjeh, S. Vishveshwara, Physical Review B 83, 104513 (2011), Proposed Aharonov-Casher interference measurement of non-Abelian vortices in chiral p-wave superconductors. [arXiv:1004.2295]
• B. Seradjeh, J. Wu, P. Phillips, Physical Review Letters 103, 136803 (2009), Signatures of surface states in bismuth at high magnetic fields. [arXiv:0905.0689]
• B. Seradjeh, J. E. Moore, M. Franz, Physical Review Letters 103, 066402 (2009), Exciton condensation and charge fractionalization in a topological insulator film. [arXiv:0902.1147]
• C. Weeks, G. Rosenberg, B. Seradjeh, M. Franz, Nature Physics 3 796 (2007), Anyons in a weakly interacting system. [cond-mat/0703001]
• I. F. Herbut and B. H. Seradjeh, Physical Review Letters 91, 171601 (2003), Permanent confinement in the compact QED3 with fermionic matter. [cond-mat/0305296]