Zlatko Papic

Personal data

• Family name, First name: Papic, Zlatko
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Contact information

School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT, UK

Room: 3.16C Bragg Building
Email: z.papic@leeds.ac.uk

Positions

• 10/2023-: Professor of Theoretical Physics, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, UK
• 10/2019-10/2023: Associate Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
• 03/2015-09/2019: Lecturer, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
• 2013 - 2015: Postdoctoral Fellow, Perimeter Institute and Institute for Quantum Computing, Waterloo, Canada
• 2010 - 2013: Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Princeton University, Princeton, USA
• 2009 - 2010: Research Associate, Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Serbia

Education

• 2007-2010: PhD in Theoretical Physics at Universite Paris Sud, France and University of Belgrade, Serbia (jointly awarded)

Thesis: Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in Multicomponent Systems
Supervisors: Dr. Mark Goerbig, Prof. Milica Milovanovic, and Dr. Nicolas Regnault

• 2000-2007: Undergraduate studies in Theoretical Physics (Bachelor and Masters Degree) at University of Belgrade, Serbia

Research interests

I am a condensed matter theorist working on topological phases, graphene, fractional quantum Hall effect, quantum information concepts such as entanglement and matrix-product states/tensor networks used to describe condensed matter systems, nonequilibrium quantum dynamics of interacting disordered systems, etc.

Talks

• Three incarnations and three mysteries of the PXP model, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, 2024
• Very high energy physics of fractional quantum Hall states, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, 2024
• Weak ergodicity breaking, many-body scars, and superdiffusive energy transport in the PXP model, Quantum Matter Seminar, 2022
• Non-equilibrium dynamics of fractional quantum Hall states, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2022
• Gravitational dynamics of quantum Hall states (in real materials and in quantum computers), Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, 2021
• Quantum many-body scars: a new form of weak ergodicity breaking in constrained quantum systems, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics online conference, 2020

Programming skills

• Developer of an open-source C++ DiagHam project, Python, Mathematica, Fortran

Funding

• My research has been supported by the EPSRC, the Royal Society, and the Leverhulme Trust.

Referee Service

Referee for Science, Nature Communications, Physical Review X, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Annals of Physics, New Journal of Physics, Foundations of Physics, Royal Society Proceedings A, Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, Entropy

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