CURRENT STATUS:

Leader of Young Investigators Group: Quantum Dynamics and Complex Quantum Systems
Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Heidelberg
 

COMMUNICATION:

Address :     Institute for Theoretical Physics
                    Philosophenweg 19
                    69120 Heidelberg,  Germany

Telephone:  +49 (6221) 54 9428
Fax:            +49 (6221) 54 9331
E.mail:       B.Fine(at)thphys.uni-heidelberg.de
Webpage:   http://www.thphys.uni-heidelberg.de/~fine

EDUCATION:

1994, M.S., Department of General and Applied Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology .

2000, Ph.D., Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
                       Ph.D. thesis title: ``Theory of high-temperature spin dynamics.''
                       Advisor: A. J. Leggett
 

EMPLOYMENT:

1992-1994, Moscow,
I organized and was the director of PhysTech-College, the center for extra-curricular studies of
mathematics, physics and English for high school students. In the Spring of 1994, more than
hundred students attended PhysTech-College . The courses were taught by two professors and ten
teaching assistants.  Phystech-College has expanded since then. In 2011, PhysTech-College possessed the
largest network of educational centers in Russia (source PhysTech-College website) with several thousand
students attending its courses.

1995-2000, Urbana,  USA,
Alternatingly teaching or research assistant in the Physics Department, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.

2000-2002, Utrecht,  Netherlands,
Postdoctoral research associate at   Spinoza Institute, Utrecht University.

2003-2004, Dresden,  Germany
Postdoctoral research associate at  Max Plank Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems.

Dec. 2004 - Jan. 2008,
Postdoctoral research associate Physics Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville / Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Jan. 2008 - present
Leader of Young Investigators Group: Quantum Dynamics and Complex Quantum Systems
Institute for Theoretical Physics and Graduate School of Fundamental Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Heidelberg

HONORS:

1994, M.S. with highest honors (Summa Cum Laude), Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

1997, Prize for the best student poster presentation, 25th Midwest Solid State Theory Symposium, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

1998, Jordan Asketh Fellowship, Physics Department, University of Illinois. (The fellowship is annually awarded ``to an outstanding European [graduate] student who displays excellence and originality in a scientific field...'')

1998-99, Harry Drickamer Research Fellowship, University of Illinois. (awarded "for excellence in physics research")
 

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

General: 
Dynamics-to-statistics and quantum-to-classical transition in nonequilibrium many-body systems;
chaos, decoherence, foundations of quantum mechanics;
spin dynamics;
1/f noise;
high-temperature superconductivity.

Specific:
Spin-spin relaxation in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR);
Decoherence in large spin molecular magnets;
1/f noise in amorphous silicon;
stripes/inhomogeneities in high-Tc cuprates.

PUBLICATIONS:
 

1) B. V. Fine, NMR Spin-Spin Relaxation as Kinetics in Spin Phase Space , Phys.Rev.Lett. 79, 4673 (1997) (e-print cond-mat/9707249).
 

2) B. V. Fine, Theory of high-temperature spin dynamics, Ph. D. thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (2000), 
http://www.thphys.uni-heidelberg.de/~fine/thesis.ps   .
 

3) J. P. R. Bakker,  P. J. S. van Capel, B. V. Fine, and J. I. Dijkhuis, Generaration-Recombination noise in a-Si:H Studied by Device Simulations, MRS Proceedings 715, A2.6, (2002), http://www.thphys.uni-heidelberg.de/~fine/mrs2002.doc
 

4) B. V. Fine, Universal Long-Time Relaxation on the Lattice of Classical Spins: Markovian Behavior on non-Markovian Timescales, J. Stat. Phys.  112, 319 (2003) (e-print cond-mat/9911229).
 

5) B. V. Fine,  J. P. R. Bakker and J. I. Dijkhuis,  Long-range potential fluctuations and 1/f noise in hydrogenated  amorphous silicon, Phys. Rev.  B 68, 125207 (2003) (e-print cond-mat/0210680 ).
 

6) J. P. R. Bakker,  P. J. S. van Capel, B. V. Fine, and J. I. Dijkhuis, New experimental evidence for the role of long-range potential fluctuations in the mechanism of 1/f noise in a-Si:H,  J. Non-Cryst. Solids 338-340, 310 (2004),  (e-print cond-mat/0310468 )
 

7) B. V. Fine, Hypothesis of two-dimensional stripe arrangement and its implications for the superconductivity in high-Tc cuprates,  Phys. Rev. B 70, 224508 (2004),  (e-print cond-mat/0308428 ).
 

8) B. V. Fine, Long-Time Relaxation on Spin Lattice as a Manifestation of Chaotic Dynamics ,
Int. J. Mod. Phys. B 18, 1119 (2004), (e-print cond-mat/9911230).
 

9) B. V. Fine,  J. P. R. Bakker and J. I. Dijkhuis,  Long-range  fluctuations of random potential landscape as a mechanism of 1/f noise in hydrogenated  amorphous silicon , Fluctuations and Noise Letters 5,  L443-L456 (2005), preprint  http://www.thphys.uni-heidelberg.de/~fine/fnl.pdf
 

10) B. V. Fine,  Superconductivity in the background of two-dimensional stripe superstructure,   in "New Challenges in Superconductivity: Experimental Advances and Emerging Theories", edited by J. Ashkenazi, M.V. Eremin, J. L. Cohn, I. Eremin, D. Manske, D. Pavuna, and F. Zuo (Kluwer Academic Publishers), pp. 159-164 (2004), (e-print  cond-mat/0404488).

11) B. V. Fine, F. Mintert and A. Buchleitner, Equilibrium entanglement vanishes at finite temperature,
Phys. Rev. B 71, 153105 (2005),  (e-print cond-mat/0505739 ). 

12) B. V. Fine, Temperature dependence of the superconducting gap in high-Tc cuprates,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 157005 (2005) (e-print cond-mat/0408211).

13) B.V. Fine, Long-time behavior of spin echo, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 247601 (2005) (e-print cond-mat/0411345).
 
14) B. V. Fine,  Interpretation of low-temperature nuclear quadrupole resonance spectra in La(1.875)Ba(0.125)CuO(4) in terms of two-dimensional spin superstructure, Phys. Rev. B 75, 014205 (2007), (e-print  cond-mat/0606300)

15) B. V. Fine, Magnetic vortices instead of stripes: another interpretation of magnetic neutron scattering in lanthanum cuprates, Phys. Rev. B 75, 060504 (2007) (eprint cond-mat/0610748)

16) B. V. Fine and T. Egami, Phase separation in the vicinity of quantum-critical doping concentration: Implications for high-temperature superconductors, Phys. Rev. B 77, 014519 (2008) (eprint arXive:0707.3994 )

17) B. Fine and T. Egami, Intermediate spin-charge order in the cuprates, Journal of Physics Conference Series 108, 012005 (2008)

18) S. W. Morgan, B. V. Fine, and B. Saam,  Universal Long-Time Behavior of Nuclear Spin Decays in a Solid,  Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 067601 (2008),  (eprint arXiv:0805.1751)

21) T. Egami, B.V. Fine, D. Parshall, A. Subedi and D. J. Singh, Spin-Phonon Coupling and Superconductivity in Fe Pnictides, Adv. Cond. Mat. Phys. 2010, 164916 (2010) (eprint  arXiv:0907.2734).

22)  B. V.  Fine,  Implications of magnetic vortex lattice scenario for 1/8-doped lanthanum cuprates, J. Supercond. Nov. Magn. 24, 1207 (2011) (eprint arXiv:0810.1889).

23)  E. G. Sorte,  B. V. Fine and B. Saam, Long-time behavior of nuclear spin decays in various lattices, Phys. Rev. B 83, 064302 (2011) (eprint arXiv:1010.6044)

24) F. Hantschel and B. V. Fine, Monte Carlo sampling of energy-constrained quantum superpositions in high-dimensional Hilbert spaces, Eur. Phys. J. D 63, 73 (2011) (eprint arXiv:1102.0531 )

25) K. Ji and B. V. Fine, Non-thermal statistics in isolated quantum spin clusters after a series of perturbations, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 050401 (2011)  (eprint arXiv:1102.3651 )

26) W. Hahn and B. V. Fine, Non-Entangling Channels for Multiple Collisions of Quantum Wave Packets, Phys. Rev. A 85, 032713  (2012)    (eprint arXiv:1104.5421  )

27) E. G. Sorte, B. V. Fine and B. Saam, Phase relationship between the long-time beats of free induction decays and spin echoes in solids, accepted to PRB (2012)  eprint arXiv:1102.0527 

28) B. V. Fine and F. Hantschel, An alternative to the conventional micro-canonical ensemble, (2010) eprint arXiv:1010.4673

29) T. Elsayed, B. Hess and B. V. Fine, Detecting Microscopic Chaos in a Time Series of a Macroscopic Observable, (2011) eprint arXiv:1105.4575 

30) C. M. Kropf and B. V. Fine, Recoupling the non-secular part of nuclear spin-spin interaction in solids, (2011) eprint arXiv:1108.3997
 
31) B. V. Fine, T. A. Elsayed,  E. G. Sorte and B. Saam, Asymptotic and intermediate long-time behavior of nuclear free induction decays in polycrystalline solids and powders, eprint arXiv:1201.1793
 

TEACHING: 

Electricity and Magnetism + Modern Physics course for pre-med students, University of Tennessee, Summer 2006;

ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES:

2008-present:  Co-organizer of a semi-annual graduate school at the University of Heidelberg called Graduate Days.

HOBBIES:

raising three children,  chess,  table tennis