Research Interests: Bose-Einstein condensation, superconductivity, neutron stars, dark matter, quasars, quantum chemistry

Education:

 

1988-1994, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, GPA=4.0

 

1994-1997, Graduate student, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, GPA=4.0

 

1991-1997, V.L. Ginzburg theory group, Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow

 

1997-2000, Graduate student, Stanford University, GPA=4.0

 

Degrees

 

1994, M.S. in Condensed Matter Physics, Summa Cum Laude, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

 

1997, Ph.D. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

 

2000, Ph.D. Stanford University

 

Theses

 

1. A.A. Svidzinsky, «Magnetic and transport properties of superconductors with anisotropic pairing», Ph.D. thesis, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia, 1997.

 

2. A.A. Svidzinsky, «Vortices in a trapped dilute Bose-Einstein condensate», Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, USA, 2000.

 

Appointments

 

Visiting Assistant Professor/Post-Doctoral Fellow, Texas A&M University, July 2003 - present

 

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Bartol Research Institute, February 2002 - June 2003

 

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Stanford University, January 2001 - January 2002

 

Research Assistant, Stanford University, 1997-2000

 

Teaching Assistant, Stanford University, 1998-1999

 

Teaching Assistant, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 1993-1994

 

 

Editorial Activities:

 

Referee, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review A, Physical Review B.

 

 

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

 

Astrophysics:

1. A.A. Svidzinsky, “Intrinsically faint quasars: evidence for meV axion dark matter in the Universe” in Proceedings of the Fifth International Heidelberg Conference on Dark Matter in Astro and Particle Physics, 3-9 October 2004, Eds. H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus and R. Arnowitt, (Springer); astro-ph/0411548.

 

2. A.A. Svidzinsky, “Quasars as bubbles of dark matter: evidence for axion and tachyon matter in the Universe”, astro-ph/0409064.

 

3. A.A. Svidzinsky, «Radiation of neutron stars produced by superfluid core», Astrophysical Journal, V. 590, 386 (2003).

 

 Bose-Einstein condensation:

 

4. A.A. Svidzinsky, S.T. Chui «Insulator-Superfluid transition of spin-1 bosons in an optical lattice in magnetic field», Physical Review A, V. 68, 043612 (2003).

 

5. A.A. Svidzinsky, S.T. Chui «Normal modes and stability of phase-separated trapped Bose-Einstein condensates», Physical Review A, V. 68, 013612 (2003).

 

6. A.A. Svidzinsky, S.T. Chui «Symmetric-Asymmetric transition in mixtures of Bose-Einstein condensates», Physical Review A, V. 67, 053608 (2003).

 

7. D.L. Feder, A.A. Svidzinsky, A.L. Fetter, and C.W. Clark, «Anomalous modes drive vortex dynamics in confined Bose-Einstein condensates», Physical Review Letters, V. 86, 564 (2001).

 

8. A.L. Fetter and A.A. Svidzinsky, «Vortices in a trapped dilute Bose-Einstein condensate», Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, V. 13, p. R135-R194 (2001).

 

9. A.L. Fetter and A.A. Svidzinsky, «Stability of a Vortex in a Rotating Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensate», in Lecture Notes in Physics, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, V. 571, 320 (2001).

 

10. A.A. Svidzinsky and A.L. Fetter, «Dynamics of a vortex in a trapped Bose-Einstein Condensate», Physical Review A, V. 62, 063617 (2000).

 

11. A.A. Svidzinsky and A.L. Fetter, «Stability of a vortex in a trapped Bose-Einstein Condensate», Physical Review Letters, V. 84, 5919 (2000).

 

12. A.A. Svidzinsky and A.L. Fetter, «Vortex state structure of a Bose condensate in an asymmetric trap», Physica B, V. 284-288, 21 (2000).

 

13. A.A. Svidzinsky and A.L. Fetter, «Normal modes of a vortex in a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate», Physical Review A, V. 58, 3168 (1998).

 

14. V.V. Kocharovsky, Vl.V. Kocharovsky, M. Holthaus, C.H.R. Ooi, A.A. Svidzinsky, W. Ketterle and M.O. Scully, “Fluctuations in Ideal and Interacting Bose-Einstein Condensates: From the laser phase transition analogy to squeezed states and Bogoliubov quasiparticles”, review paper, to appear in Advances in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, V. 53 (2006). 

 

 

 Superconductivity:

 

15. A.A. Svidzinsky, «Possible cooling effect in high temperature superconductors», Physical Review B, V. 61, 144504 (2002).

 

16. Yu.S. Barash and A.A. Svidzinsky, «Comment on «Electrical transport in junctions between unconventional superconductors: Application of the Green's-function formalism», Physical Review B, V. 61, 12516 (2000).

 

17. Yu.S. Barash and A.A. Svidzinsky, «Nonmonotonic magnetic-field dependence and scaling of the thermal conductivity for superconductors with nodes of the order parameter», Physical Review B, V. 58, 6476 (1998).

 

18. Yu.S. Barash, A.A. Svidzinsky and V.P. Mineev, «Effect of impurities on the low-temperature behavior of the specific heat of anisotropic superconductors in a mixed state», JETP Letters, V. 65, 638 (1997).

 

19. Yu.S. Barash, A.A. Svidzinsky and H. Burkhardt, «Quasiparticle bound states and low-temperature peaks of the conductance of NIS junctions in d-wave superconductors», Physical Review B, V. 55, 15282 (1997).

 

20. Yu.S. Barash and A.A. Svidzinsky, «Current-voltage characteristics of tunnel junctions between superconductors with anisotropic pairing», JETP, V. 84, 619 (1997).

 

21. Yu.S. Barash and A.A. Svidzinsky, «Josephson and quasiparticle tunneling between anisotropically paired superconductors», in  «Quasiclassical theory of superconductivity in strongly correlated systems», eds. D. Rainer and J. Sauls, Springer-Verlag, 1996, p. 27.

 

22. A.A. Svidzinsky, «Anisotropy of the upper critical field in a tetragonal unconventional superconductor», Phystech-Journal, V. 2, 60 (1996).

 

23. Yu.S. Barash and A.A. Svidzinsky, «Low-temperature heat capacity of the mixed state of superconductors with anisotropic pairing», JETP Letters, V. 63, 365 (1996).

 

24. Yu.S. Barash and A.A. Svidzinsky, «Low-temperature properties and specific anisotropy of pure anisotropically paired superconductors», Physical Review B, V. 53, 15254 (1996).

 

25. Yu.S. Barash and A.A. Svidzinsky, «Low-temperature behavior of the thermal conductivity in pure superconductors with anisotropic pairing», JETP Letters, V. 63, 296 (1996).

 

26. Yu.S. Barash and A.A. Svidzinsky, «Josephson and quasiparticle tunneling between anisotropically paired superconductors in the presence of externally applied voltage», Czechoslovak Journal of Physics, V. 46, 1013 (1996).

 

27. Yu.S. Barash, A.V. Galaktionov and A.A. Svidzinsky, «Upper critical field for an unconventional superconducting film: a kink due to the boundary conditions», Physical Review B, V. 52, 10344 (1995).

 

 Chemical Physics:

     

28. M.O. Scully, R.A. Allen, Y. Dou, K.T. Kapale, M. Kim, G. Chen and A.A. Svidzinsky, “Molecular calculations with two-center correlated orbitals”, Chemical Physics Letters, V. 389, 385 (2004).

     

29. G. Chen, S.A. Chin, Y. Dou, K.T. Kapale, M. Kim, A.A. Svidzinsky, K. Urtekin, H. Xiong, M.O. Scully, “The two-electron molecular bond revisited: from Bohr orbits to two-center orbitals”, review paper, Advances in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, V. 51 (2005). 

 

30. A.A. Svidzinsky, M.O. Scully and D.R. Herschbach, “Simple and surprisingly accurate approach to the chemical bond obtained from dimensional scaling”, Physical Review Letters, V. 95, 080401(2005).
 
31. A.A. Svidzinsky, M.O. Scully and D.R. Herschbach, “Bohr’s 1913 molecular model revisited”, PNAS, V. 102, 11985 (2005).
 
32. R.K. Murawski and A.A. Svidzinsky, “Quantum number dimensional scaling analysis for the excited sates of multielectron atoms”, submitted into Phys. Rev. A (2005).
 

33. A.A. Svidzinsky, S.A. Chin and M.O. Scully, “A model of molecular bonding based on the Bohr-Sommerfeld picture of atoms”, submitted into Phys.  Rev.  Lett. (2005).