Noah Bray-Ali, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Physics and Astronomy
College of Letters and Science
University of Kentucky
noah.brayali@uky.edu
Education
S.B. Physics, MIT (2001).
S.B. Mathematics MIT (2001).
Ph.D. Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, UC Berkeley (2006). Advisor: Joel E. Moore.
Employment
Postdoctoral research associate, University of Kentucky, 2009-Present. Advisor: Ganpathy Murthy.
Visiting research scientist, University of Southern California, 2008-2009. Host: Stephan Haas.
Postdoctoral research associate, University of Southern California, 2006-2008. Advisor: Stephan Haas.
Research Interests
Materials and devices with nanoscale inhomogeneity and strongly correlated electrons.
Selected Publications
- Topological order in paired states of fermions in two-dimensions with breaking of parity and time-reversal symmetries
N. Bray-Ali, L. Ding, and S. Haas, Phys. Rev. B 80, 180504(R) (2009).
- Conservation and persistence of spin currents and their relation to the Lieb-Schulz-Mattis twist operators
N. Bray-Ali and Z. Nussinov, Phys. Rev. B 80, 012401 (2009).
- The fidelity approach to the Hubbard model
L. Campos Venuti, M. Cozzini, P. Buonsante, F. Massel, N. Bray-Ali, and P. Zanardi, Phys. Rev. B 78, 115410 (2008).
- Subarea law of entanglement in nodal fermionic systems
L. Ding, N. Bray-Ali, R. Yu, and S. Haas, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100 ,215701 (2008).
- Scaling analysis and application: Phase diagram of magnetic nanorings and elliptical nanoparticles
W. Zhang, R. Singh, N. Bray-Ali, and S. Haas, Phys. Rev. B 77,144428 (2008).
- Ordering near percolation threshold in models of two-dimensional interacting bosons with quenched dilution
N. Bray-Ali, J.E. Moore, T. Senthil, and A. Vishwanath, Phys. Rev. B 73, 064417 (2006).
- Quantum destruction of stiffness in diluted antiferromagnets and superconductors
N. Bray-Ali and J.E. Moore, Phys. Rev. B 69,184505 (2004).
- Theoretical Analysis of Electron Standing Waves and Electric Field Intensity in the Vacuum Gap of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
K. Ando, N. Bray-Ali, Y. Gohda, and S. Watanabe, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
Part 1 55, 4642 (2003).
Manuscripts
- Front propagation in a biological system
N. Bray-Ali, Completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements of Math 275: Scaling, Self-similarity, and the Renormalization Group, taught by G.I. Barenblatt, Spring 2005.
Contact
Department of Physics and Astronomy
177 Chem.-Phys. Building
University of Kentucky
600 Rose Street
Lexington, KY 40506-0055
Tel: 859-257-6737
Fax: 859-323-2846