Troyer, Matthias, Prof. Dr.

ETH Zürich Prof. Dr. Matthias Troyer Institut f. Theoretische Physik HIT G 31.8 Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 27 8093 Zuerich Phone: +41 44 633 25 89 Fax: +41 44 633 11 15 E-Mail:

Curriculum Vitae

Summary

• 1991-1994 PhD student with Prof. T. M. Rice of Theoretical Physics and PD D. Würtz of the Swiss Center for Scientific Computing at ETH Zürich.
• 1994-1995 PostDoc at the Swiss Center for Scientific Computing and the Theoretical Physics
• 1995-1998 Research Fellow at the Institute for Solid State Physics of the University of Tokyo.
• 1998-2000 Senior assistant and lecturer of Computational Physics at ETH Zürich.
• 2000-2002 Assistant professor of Theoretical Physics at ETH Zürich.
• 2002-2005 Associate professor of Computational Physics at ETH Zürich.
• Since 2005 Full professor of Computational Physics at ETH Zürich.

The full CV

• Curriculum Vitae

Publications and Preprints

Research Interests and Experience

High performance scientific simulations on various architectures:

• Vector supercomputers
• Massively parallel computers
• Beowulf clusters

Generic programming and software design for scientific simulations

• Design and implemantation of generic libraries for numerical simulation
• Benchmarking of generic programming techniques for scientific simulations
• Open-source development of libraries and applications for classical and quantum lattice models

Algorithmic developments

• Global-update algorithms for quantum Monte Carlo simulations
• Optimized ensembles for classical and quantum Monte Carlo simulations
• Novel approaches to quantum simulations
• The ALPS project

Simulations of exotic phases and phase transitions in quantum lattice models:

• Phase transitions in quantum magnets
• Quantitative modeling of quantum magnets
• Phase transitions and super solids in bosonic systems
• Dissipative quantum phase transitions
• Novel phases in strongly correlated fermionic systems
• Exotic phases with topological order and their application to topological quantum computation
• Properties of ultra-cold atomic gases in optical lattices

Multi-scale simulations of relativistic and quantum systems

• Massively parallel simulation of electron guns for X-ray lasers
• Realistic simulation of quantum dots (in planning)