Publications

  1. Universal four-component Fermi gas in one dimension, arXiv:0908.2159. With Y. Nishida.

  2. Hydrodynamics with triangle anomalies, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 191602 (2009) [arXiv:0906.5044]. With P. Surówka.

  3. Conformalith lost, arXiv:0905.4752. With D. B. Kaplan, J.-W. Lee, and M. Stephanov.

  4. Hydrodynamics of chiral liquids and suspensions, arXiv:0905.2783. With A. V. Andreev and B. Spivak.

  5. Spectral sum rules for the quark-gluon plasma, Phys. Rev. D 80, 065021 (2009) [arXiv:0903.3946]. With P. Romatschke.

  6. Thermal noise and stochastic strings in AdS/CFT, J. High Energy Phys. 07 (2009) 021 [arXiv:0901.2338]. With D. Teaney.

  7. Conformal non-relativistic hydrodynamics from gravity, J. High Energy Phys. 01 (2009) 075 [arXiv:0811.2049]. With M. Rangamani, S. F. Ross, and E. G. Thompson.

  8. Holographic model of superfluidity, Phys. Rev. D 79, 066002 (2009) [arxiv:0809.4870]. With C. P. Herzog and P. K. Kovtun.

  9. Zero sound from holography, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 051602 (2009) [arXiv:0806.3796]. With A. Karch and A. O. Starinets.

  10. Magnetized baryonic matter in holographic QCD, Phys. Rev. D 78, 066007 (2008) [arXiv:0806.0367]. With E. G. Thompson.

  11. Toward an AdS/cold atoms correspondence: a geometric realization of the Schrödinger symmetry, Phys. Rev. D 78, 046003 (2008) [arXiv:0804.3972].

  12. Relativistic viscous hydrodynamics, conformal invariance, and holography, J. High Energy Phys. 04 (2008) 100 [arXiv:0712.2451]. With R. Baier, P. Romatschke, A. O. Starinets, and M. A. Stephanov.

  13. Universal Fermi gas with two- and three-body resonances, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 090405 (2008) [arXiv:0711.1562]. With Y. Nishida and S. Tan.

  14. Renormalization group flow of quartic perturbations in graphene: Strong coupling and large-N limits, Phys. Rev. B 77, 075115 (2008) [arXiv:0710.1315]. With J. E. Drut.

  15. Axial anomaly and magnetism of nuclear and quark matter, Phys. Rev. D 77, 014021 (2008) [arXiv:0710.1084]. With M. A. Stephanov.

  16. Comment on "Is there a "most perfect fluid" consistent with quantum field theory?", Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 029101 (2008) [arXiv:0709.4651].

  17. Three comments on the Fermi gas at unitarity in a harmonic trap, arXiv:0707.1851.

  18. Coulomb impurity in graphene, Phys. Rev. B 76, 205122 (2007) [arXiv:0706.3907]. With R. R. Biswas and S. Sachdev.

  19. Nonrelativistic conformal field theories, Phys. Rev. D 76, 086004 (2007) [arXiv:0706.3746]. With Y. Nishida.

  20. Viscosity, black holes, and quantum field theory, Annu. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 57, 95 (2007) [arXiv:0704.0240]. With A. O. Starinets.

  21. Quantum critical point in graphene approached in the limit of infinitely strong Coulomb interaction, Phys. Rev. B 75, 235423 (2007) [cond-mat/0701501].

  22. Quantum critical transport, duality, and M-theory, Phys. Rev. D 75, 085020 (2007) [hep-th/0701036]. With C. P. Herzog, P. Kovtun, and S. Sachdev.

  23. Next-to-next-to-leading order ε expansion for a Fermi gas at infinite scattering length, Phys. Rev. A 75, 043505 (2007) [cond-mat/0608477]. With P. Arnold and J.E. Drut.

  24. Fermi gas near unitarity around four and two spatial dimensions, Phys. Rev. A 75, 063617 (2007) [cond-mat/0607835]. With Y. Nishida.

  25. ε expansion for a Fermi gas at infinite scattering length, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 050403 (2006) [cond-mat/0604500]. With Y. Nishida.

  26. Linear confinement and AdS/QCD, Phys. Rev. D 74, 015005 (2006) [hep-ph/0602229]. With A. Karch, E. Katz and M.A. Stephanov.

  27. Hydrodynamics of R-charged black holes, J. High Energy Phys. 03 (2006) 052 [hep-th/0601157]. With A.O. Starinets.

  28. Effective field theory of boson-fermion mixtures and bound states on a vortex of boson superfluid, Phys. Rev. A 74, 013615 (2006) [cond-mat/0512628]. With Y. Nishida.

  29. Vanishing bulk viscosities and conformal invariance of the unitary Fermi gas, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 020604 (2007) [cond-mat/0511721].

  30. Response of strongly-interacting matter to magnetic field: some exact results, Phys. Rev. D 73, 045006 (2006) [hep-ph/0510049]. With G. M. Newman.

  31. General coordinate invariance and conformal invariance in nonrelativistic physics: Unitary Fermi gas, Ann. Phys. (N.Y.) 321, 197 (2006) [cond-mat/0509786]. With M. Wingate.

  32. Phase diagram of cold polarized Fermi gas, Phys. Rev. A 74, 013614 (2006) [cond-mat/0507586]. With M. A. Stephanov.

  33. Effective Lagrangian and topological interactions in supersolids, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 175301 (2005) [cond-mat/0501658].

  34. QCD and a holographic model of hadrons, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 261602 (2005) [hep-ph/0501128]. With J. Erlich, E. Katz, and M.A. Stephanov.

  35. Viscosity in strongly interacting quantum field theories from black hole physics, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 111601 (2005) [hep-th/0405231]. With P. Kovtun and A.O. Starinets.

  36. Quantum anomalies in dense matter, Phys. Rev. D 70, 074018 (2004) [hep-ph/0405216]. With A.R. Zhitnitsky.

  37. Universal properties of two-dimensional boson droplets, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 250408 (2004) [cond-mat/0405206]. With H.-W. Hammer.

  38. Dynamic universality class of the QCD critical point, Phys. Rev. D 70, 056001 (2004) [hep-ph/0401052]. With M.A. Stephanov.

  39. Holography and hydrodynamics: diffusion on stretched horizons, J. High Energy Phys. 10 (2003) 064 [hep-th/0309213]. With P. Kovtun and A.O. Starinets.

  40. QCD and dimensional deconstruction, Phys. Rev. D 69, 060520 (2004) [hep-ph/0304182]. With M.A. Stephanov.

  41. Critical temperature of the deconfining phase transition in (2+1)d Georgi-Glashow model, J. High Energy Phys. 01 (2003) 050 [hep-th/0212230]. With Yu.V. Kovchegov.

  42. On the equivalence between the Boltzmann equation and classical field theory at large occupation numbers, Phys. Lett. B 582, 279 (2004) [hep-ph/0212198]. With A.H. Mueller.

  43. Schwinger-Keldysh propagators from AdS/CFT correspondence, J. High Energy Phys. 03 (2003) 046 [hep-th/0212072]. With C.P. Herzog.

  44. From AdS/CFT correspondence to hydrodynamics. II. Sound waves, J. High Energy Phys. 12 (2002) 054 [hep-th/0210220]. With G. Policastro and A.O. Starinets.

  45. From AdS/CFT correspondence to hydrodynamics, J. High Energy Phys. 09 (2002) 043 [hep-th/0205052]. With G. Policastro and A.O. Starinets.

  46. Minkowski-space correlators in AdS/CFT correspondence: recipe and applications, J. High Energy Phys. 09 (2002) 042 [hep-th/0205051]. With A.O. Starinets.

  47. Pion propagation in finite-temperature QCD, Phys. Rev. D 66, 076011 (2002) [hep-ph/0204226]. With M.A. Stephanov.

  48. Does parton saturation at high density explain hadron multiplicities at RHIC?, Phys. Lett. B 539, 46 (2002) [hep-ph/0204211]. With R. Baier, A.H. Mueller, and D. Schiff.

  49. Low-energy quantum effective action for relativistic superfluids, hep-ph/0204199.

  50. Magnetic permeability of near-critical 3d Abelian Higgs model and duality, J. High Energy Phys. 02, 023 (2002) [hep-ph/0201135].

  51. Pion propagation near the QCD chiral phase transition, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 202302 (2002) [hep-ph/0111100]. With M.A. Stephanov.

  52. Light Goldstone boson and domain walls in the K0-condensed phase of high density quark matter, hep-ph/0108260.

  53. Kaon condensation and Goldstone's theorem, Phys. Lett. B 522, 67 (2001) [hep-ph/0108210]. With T. Schäfer, M.A. Stephanov, D. Toublan, and J.J.M. Verbaarschot.

  54. Shear viscosity of N= 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 081601 (2001) [hep-th/0104066]. With G. Policastro and A.O. Starinets.

  55. Domain walls in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates, Phys. Rev. A 65, 063621 (2002) [cond-mat/0103451]. With M.A. Stephanov.

  56. Instanton interactions in dense-matter QCD, Phys. Lett. B 510, 167 (2001) [hep-ph/0103099]. With M.A. Stephanov and A.R. Zhitnitsky.

  57. QCD-like theories at finite baryon and isospin density, Phys. Rev. D 64, 016003 (2001) [hep-ph/0012274]. With K. Splittorff and M.A. Stephanov.

  58. Domain walls of high-density QCD, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3955 (2001) [hep-ph/0012041]. With M.A. Stephanov and A.R. Zhitnitsky.

  59. Asymptotic deconfinement in high-density QCD, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 062001 (2001) [hep-ph/0011379]. With D.H. Rischke and M.A. Stephanov.

  60. QCD at finite isospin density: from pion to quark-antiquark condensation, Phys. Atom. Nucl. 64, 834 (2001) [Yad. Fiz. 64, 899 (2001), hep-ph/0011365]. With M.A. Stephanov.

  61. "Bottom-up" thermalization in heavy ion collisions, Phys. Lett. B 502, 51 (2001) [hep-ph/0009237]. With R. Baier, A.H. Mueller, and D. Schiff.

  62. QCD at finite isospin density, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 592 (2000) [hep-ph/0005225]. With M.A. Stephanov.

  63. Hydrodynamics of nuclear matter in the chiral limit, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 3771 (2000) [hep-ph/9912267].

  64. Inverse meson mass ordering in the color-flavor-locking phase of high density QCD, Phys. Rev. D 61, 074012 (2000) [hep-ph/9910491]. Erratum: Phys. Rev. D 62, 059902(E) (2000) [hep-ph/0004095]. With M.A. Stephanov.

  65. On finite-density QCD at large Nc, Nucl. Phys. B 573, 434 (2000) [hep-ph/9905448]. With E. Shuster.

  66. Longitudinal subtleties in diffusive Langevin equations for non-Abelian plasmas, Phys. Rev. D 60, 025007 (1999) [hep-ph/9901304]. With P. Arnold and L.G. Yaffe.

  67. Superconductivity by long-range color magnetic interaction in high-density quark matter, Phys. Rev. D 59, 094019 (1999) [hep-ph/9812287].

  68. Effective dynamics of hot, soft non-Abelian gauge fields: Color conductivity and log(1/α) effects, Phys. Rev. D 59, 105020 (1999) [Hot B violation, color conductivity, and log(1/α) effects, hep-ph/9810216]. With P. Arnold and L.G. Yaffe.

  69. Turbulent decay of a passive scalar in the Batchelor limit: Exact results from a quantum-mechanical approach, Phys. Rev. E 59, R3811 (1999) [physics/9806047].

  70. Magnetohydrodynamics of the early Universe and the evolution of primordial magnetic fields, Phys. Rev. D 59, 063008 (1999) [hep-ph/9803412].

  71. Effective non-perturbative real-time dynamics of soft modes in hot gauge theories, hep-ph/9707351.

  72. Long range physics in a hot non-Abelian plasma, Phys. Lett. B 393 (1997) 94 [hep-ph/9610259]. With P. Huet.

  73. The hot baryon violation rate is O(αW5T4), Phys. Rev. D 55, 6264 (1997) [hep-ph/9609481]. With P. Arnold and L.G. Yaffe.

  74. Reheating and thermalization in a simple scalar model, Phys. Rev. D 54, 3745 (1996) [hep-ph/9604340].

  75. Classical preheating and decoherence, hep-ph/9601377.

  76. Semiclassical approach for multiparticle production in scalar theories, Nucl. Phys. B 477, 378 (1996) [hep-ph/9505338].

  77. Exponentiation of multiparticle amplitudes in scalar theories. II. Universality of the exponent, Phys. Rev. D 52, 3679 (1995) [hep-ph/9503412]. With M.V. Libanov and S.V. Troitsky.

  78. Exponentiation of multiparticle amplitudes in scalar theories, Phys. Rev. D 50, 7553 (1994) [hep-ph/9407381]. With M.V. Libanov, V.A. Rubakov, and S.V. Troitsky.

  79. Instanton-like transitions at high-energies in (1+1)-dimensional scalar models. II. Classically allowed induced vacuum decay, Nucl. Phys. B 424, 55 (1994) [hep-ph/9401257]. With V.A. Rubakov.

  80. Instanton-like transitions at high-energies in (1+1)-dimensional scalar models, Nucl. Phys. B 422, 195 (1994) [hep-ph/9310240]. With V.A. Rubakov.

  81. Examples of semiclassical instanton-like scattering: massless φ4 and SU(2) gauge theories, Nucl. Phys. B 415, 101 (1994) [hep-ph/9309332]. With P.G. Tinyakov.

  82. An exapmle of semiclassical instanton-like scattering: (1+1)-dimensional sigma model, Nucl. Phys. B 404, 65 (1993) [hep-ph/9212309]. With V.A. Rubakov and P.G. Tinyakov.

  83. Classical boundary value problem for instanton transitions at high energies, Phys. Lett. B287, 342 (1992). With V.A. Rubakov and P.G. Tinyakov.

  84. Initial state independence of non-perturbative scattering through thin wall bubbles in (1+1)-dimensions, Phys. Lett. B 278, 279 (1992) [SPIRES]. With V.A. Rubakov and P.G. Tinyakov.

  85. Quantization of 3d particle with twisting: toward a relativistic theory of an anyon, JETP Lett. 51, 611 (1990) [Pisma Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 51, 541 (1990), SPIRES]. With S.Yu. Khlebnikov.

  86. Finding the critical point in quark-gluon plasma, Physics 2, 5 (2009).

  87. Liquid Universe hints at strings, Phys. World 18N6, 23 (2005) [SPIRES].

  88. Hydrodynamics and gauge/gravity duality [SPIRES].

  89. Gauge-gravity duality and heavy-ion collisions, AIP Conf. Proc. 957, 134 (2007).

  90. Linear confinement and AdS/QCD, [SPIRES].

  91. Viscosity of strongly coupled gauge theories [SPIRES].

  92. QCD at high baryon density and the large Nc limit [SPIRES].

  93. Confinement and domain walls in high density quark matter, hep-ph/0112068.

  94. Parton thermalization and energy loss, Nucl. Phys. A 698, 217 (2002).

  95. Hydrodynamics of relativisic systems with broken continuous symmetries, Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 16 Suppl. 1C, 1824 (2001) [hep-ph/0011246].

  96. Isospin matter (talk by Stephanov) [SPIRES].

  97. Effective nonperturbative dynamics of soft modes in hot gauge theories [SPIRES].

  98. Reheating in a scalar model [SPIRES].

  99. Singular classical solutions and tree multiparticle cross sections in scalar theories, hep-ph/9512342 (Proceedings of 10th Int. Workshop on High Energy Physics and Quantum Field Theory (NPI MSU 95), Zvenigorod, Russia, 19-26 Sep 1995, pp. 228-238)

  100. Renormalization group for multiparticle production in (2+1) dimensions around the threshold, hep-ph/9406362 (In: Proceedings of Int. Seminar Quarks-94, Vladimir, Russia, pp.233-240).

  101. Hot baryon number violation and color conductivity [SPIRES].

  102. Exponential form of multiparticle amplitudes in scalar theories [SPIRES].

  103. Semiclassical instanton-like transitions at high energies [SPIRES].

  104. Rates for non-perturbative processes in hot non-Abelian plasmas [SPIRES].

  105. Quarks '94 [SPIRES].

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