Assistant Professor Rubem Mondaini

Simulation of Physical Systems

Education: 2012, Ph.D. Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
2008, M.Sc. Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
2006, B.Sc. Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Professional Employment: Rubem Mondaini received his PhD (2012) under supervision of Prof. Thereza Paiva (UFRJ-Brazil) and moved to Penn State as a Post-doc (2012-2015) under supervision of Prof. Marcos Rigol. He also held a post-doc with Prof. Richard Scalettar (UC-Davis) during 2013. In 2016, he joined CSRC (Beijing) as a Research Assistant Professor.

Research Interests

Equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium properties of strongly correlated many-body systems
Many-body localization
High-Temperature Superconductivity
Transport in low-dimensional superlattices
Interplay of magnetism and transport in interfaces

Awards/Honors: 2006-2012 - Scholarship at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
2003 - Distinction in Junior Scientific competition - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Representative Publications: 1. Jian Li, Chen Cheng*, Thereza Paiva, Hai-Qing Lin, Rubem Mondaini*, Giant magnetoresistance in Hubbard chains, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 020403 (2018); 2. Rubem Mondaini*, Zi Cai*, Many-body self-localization in a translation-invariant Hamiltonian, Physical Review B 96, 035153 (2017); 3. Rubem Mondaini, Marcos Rigol, Eigenstate thermalization in the two-dimensional transverse field Ising model: II. Off-diagonal matrix elements of observables, Physical Review E 96, 012157 (2017); 4. Rubem Mondaini, Keith Fratus, Mark Srednicki, Marcos Rigol, Eigenstate thermalization in the two-dimensional transverse field Ising model - Physical Review E 93, 032104 (2016); 5. Rubem Mondaini, Marcos Rigol, Many-body localization and thermalization in disordered Hubbard chains, Physical Review A 92, 041601(R) (2015) - Editor's suggestion; 6. Rubem Mondaini, Thereza Paiva, Richard T. Scalettar, Magnetic and metal-insulator transitions in coupled spin-fermion systems, Physical Review B 90, 144418 (2014); 7. Rubem Mondaini, Tao Ying, Thereza Paiva, Richard T. Scalettar, Determinant Quantum Monte Crlo Study of the Enchancement of d-wave Pairing by Charge Inhomogeneity, Physical Review B 86, 184506 (2012)