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Yusuke Nishida

[English | Japanese]

Oppenheimer Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Address: Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
Tel: +1-505-665-5694
E-mail: see CV

Research [CV]

Interests

QCD at finite temperature and density
BCS-BEC crossover in ultracold atomic gases
Efimov effect and universality
Application of quantum field theories to nonrelativistic systems
Topological phenomena in condensed matter systems

Academic Positions

Apr. 2004 - Mar. 2007: Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Apr. 2007 - Aug. 2008: Postdoctoral Research Associate at Institute for Nuclear Theory
Sep. 2008 - Aug. 2011: MIT Pappalardo Fellow in Physics
Sep. 2011 - (present): Oppenheimer Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory

Theses

Master's thesis: "Hot and dense lattice QCD in the strong coupling limit" (University of Tokyo, March 2004)
thesis.pdf, presentation.pdf
PhD thesis: "Unitary Fermi gas in the epsilon expansion" (University of Tokyo, March 2007) [cond-mat/0703465]
thesis.pdf, presentation.ppt

Publications [from arXiv1, arXiv2, SPIRES, INSPIRE, ADS]

"Thermodynamics of strong coupling 2-color QCD with chiral and diquark condensates"
Phys. Rept. 398, 281 (2004) [hep-ph/0306066]
"Phase structures of strong coupling lattice QCD with finite baryon and isospin density"
Phys. Rev. D 69, 094501 (2004) [hep-ph/0312371]
"BCS-BEC crossover in a relativistic superfluid and its significance to quark matter"
Phys. Rev. D 72, 096004 (2005) [hep-ph/0504083]
"Effective field theory of boson-fermion mixtures and bound fermion states on a vortex of boson superfluid"
Phys. Rev. A 74, 013615 (2006) [cond-mat/0512628]
"Epsilon expansion for a Fermi gas at infinite scattering length"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 050403 (2006) [cond-mat/0604500]
"Fermi gas near unitarity around four and two spatial dimensions"
Phys. Rev. A 75, 063617 (2007) [cond-mat/0607835]
"Unitary Fermi gas at finite temperature in the epsilon expansion"
Phys. Rev. A 75, 063618 (2007) [cond-mat/0608321]
"Nonrelativistic conformal field theories"
Phys. Rev. D 76, 086004 (2007) [arXiv:0706.3746 (hep-th)]
"Unitary Fermi gas in the epsilon expansion" (introductory review in Japanese)
Genshikaku Kenkyu 52, 22 (2007) [link, pdf]
"Renormalization group analysis of resonantly interacting anyons"
Phys. Rev. D 77, 061703(R) (2008) [arXiv:0708.4056 (hep-th)]
"Universal Fermi gas with two- and three-body resonances"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 090405 (2008) [arXiv:0711.1562 (cond-mat.other)]
"Universal Fermi gases in mixed dimensions"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 170401 (2008) [arXiv:0806.2668 (cond-mat.other)]
"Ground-state energy of the unitary Fermi gas from the epsilon expansion"
Phys. Rev. A 79, 013627 (2009) [arXiv:0808.3826 (cond-mat.other)]
"Induced p-wave superfluidity in two dimensions:
Brane world in cold atoms and nonrelativistic defect CFTs"
Ann. Phys. 324, 897 (2009) [arXiv:0810.1321 (cond-mat.other)]
"Casimir interaction among heavy fermions in the BCS-BEC crossover"
Phys. Rev. A 79, 013629 (2009) [arXiv:0811.1615 (cond-mat.other)]
"Confinement-induced Efimov resonances in Fermi-Fermi mixtures"
Phys. Rev. A 79, 060701(R) (2009) [arXiv:0903.3633 (cond-mat.other)]
"Phases of a bilayer Fermi gas"
Phys. Rev. A 82, 011605(R) (2010) [arXiv:0906.4584 (cond-mat.quant-gas)]
see also accompanying Viewpoint in Physics
"Universal four-component Fermi gas in one dimension"
Phys. Rev. A 82, 043606 (2010) [arXiv:0908.2159 (cond-mat.quant-gas)]
"Is a color superconductor topological?"
Phys. Rev. D 81, 074004 (2010) [arXiv:1001.2555 (hep-ph)]
"Quantizing Majorana fermions in a superconductor"
Phys. Rev. B 81, 224515 (2010) [arXiv:1001.2760 (cond-mat.str-el)]
"Scattering in mixed dimensions with ultracold gases"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 153202 (2010) [arXiv:1002.0114 (cond-mat.quant-gas)]
"Unitary Fermi gas, epsilon expansion, and nonrelativistic conformal field theories"
Lecture Notes in Physics "BCS-BEC crossover and the Unitary Fermi Gas" (edited by W. Zwerger)
[arXiv:1004.3597 (cond-mat.quant-gas)]
"Topological superconductors as nonrelativistic limits of Jackiw-Rossi and Jackiw-Rebbi models"
Phys. Rev. B 82, 144513 (2010) [arXiv:1007.2201 (cond-mat.supr-con)]
"Confinement-induced p-wave resonances from s-wave interactions"
Phys. Rev. A 82, 062713 (2010) [arXiv:1011.0033 (cond-mat.quant-gas)]
"Counting Majorana zero modes in superconductors"
Phys. Rev. B 83, 104522 (2011) [arXiv:1011.1007 (cond-mat.supr-con)]
"Liberating Efimov physics from three dimensions"
Few-Body Syst. 51, 191 (2011) [arXiv:1104.2387 (cond-mat.quant-gas)]
"Efimov effect" (short introduction in Japanese)
Genshikaku Kenkyu (2011) [link, pdf]
"Pairing instabilities in quasi-two-dimensional Fermi gases"
Phys. Rev. A 85, 023621 (2012) [arXiv:1110.0494 (cond-mat.quant-gas)]
"Hard probes of strongly-interacting atomic gases"
[arXiv:1110.5926 (cond-mat.quant-gas)]
"On the Efimov effect for p-wave interactions"
[arXiv:1111.6961 (cond-mat.quant-gas)]
"Universal molecules trapped with discrete scaling symmetries"
[arXiv:1202.3414 (cond-mat.quant-gas)]

Presentations

WORKSHOP on Chiral Dynamics of Hadrons and Hadrons in a Medium
Valencia (Spain), June 26-28, 2003 [pdf]
Finite Density QCD at Nara
July 10-12, 2003 [poster.pdf] Best Poster Award!

Proceedings: "Thermodynamics of strong coupling 2-color QCD"
Prog. Theor. Phys. Suppl. 153, 325 (2004) [hep-ph/03010160]
The Physical Society of Japan, Autumn Meeting
Miyazaki, September 9-12, 2003 [pdf]
KEK workshop on "Hadron Physics and Lattice QCD" (Domestic)
KEK, Jan 28-30, 2004 [pdf]
The Physical Society of Japan, 59th Annual Meeting
Fukuoka, March 27-30, 2004 [pdf]
Thermal Quantum Field Theory and Their Applications (Domestic)
Yukawa Institute, July 9-11, 2004 [pdf]

Proceedings: "Hot and dense lattice QCD in the strong coupling limit"
Soryusiron Kenkyu 110, E54 (2005) [link, pdf] (in Japanese)
RIKEN Workshop on "Physics at RHIC and Related Topics"
RIKEN, Dec 6-7, 2004 [pdf]
International Workshop on "Chiral Restoration in Nuclear Medium" (CHIRAL05)
RIKEN, Feb 15-17, 2005 [pdf]
Nuclear theory "DONSYU" workshop (Domestic)
KEK, Mar 21-23, 2005 [pdf]
The Physical Society of Japan, 60th Annual Meeting
Noda, Mar 24-27, 2005 [pdf]
21 COE Workshop on "Strongly correlated many-body systems from compact stars to cold atoms"
Tokyo, January 19, 2007 [ppt]
ECT* workshop on "The interface of quark-gluon-plasma physics and cold-atom physics"
Trento (Italy), March 19-23, 2007 [ppt]
The Physical Society of Japan, 61st Annual Meeting (Invited)
Sapporo, September 21-24, 2007 [ppt]
Fourth International Workshop on "Theory of Quantum Gases and Quantum Coherence" (Invited)
Grenoble (France), June 3-7, 2008 [ppt]
2009 Gordon Research Conference on Atomic Physics
Tilton (USA), June 28-July 3, 2009 [poster.pdf]
RIKEN BNL Workshop on "P- and CP-odd Effects in Hot and Dense Matter"
BNL (USA), April 26-30, 2010 [pdf]
9th Annual Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics Symposium
MIT (USA), May 14, 2010 [pdf]
"Universal physics with ultracold atoms"
Tutorial at APS March Meeting, February 26, 2012 [pdf]

Seminars

Institute of Physics, University of Tokyo at Komaba, May 12, 2004 [pdf]
Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, May 14, 2004 [pdf]
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, November 12, 2004 [pdf]
Department of Physics, Bielefeld University, November 17, 2004 [pdf]
ECT* (Trento, Italy), May 19, 2005 [pdf]
KEK, October 3, 2005 [pdf]
Institute for Nuclear theory (INT), University of Washington, May 15, 2006 [ppt]
Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, December 26, 2006 [ppt]
Institute of Physics, University of Tokyo at Komaba, January 10, 2007 [ppt]
Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, January 16, 2007 [ppt]
Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 8, 2007 [ppt]
Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, November 13, 2007 [ppt]
Department of Physics, Harvard University, November 15, 2007 [ppt]
Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, November 19, 2007 [ppt]
Department of Physics, University of Washington, January 22, 2008 [ppt]
TRIUMF (Vancouver, Canada), March 18, 2008 [ppt]
MIT-Harvard University Center for Ultracold Atoms, September 16, 2008 [ppt]
MIT Physics Faculty Lunch, March 12, 2009 [ppt]
LENS (Florence, Italy), October 16, 2009 [pdf]
"Universal few-body and many-body physics in mixed dimensions", December 2009 - February 2010 [pdf]
"Unitary Fermi gas and beyond", September 2010 [abstract, pdf]
"Universal physics with ultracold atoms: Efimov effect, BCS-BEC crossover, and beyond"
Cornell University, March 1, 2011 [abstract, pdf, key]
"Hard probes of strongly-interacting atomic gases"
University of Tokyo, December 21, 2011 [pdf, key]