Description

Matter in nature is composed of three fundamental particles: electrons, protons, and neutrons. Although all matter is made up solely of these particles, they can exhibit a wide range of properties and manifest in various forms, such as solids, liquids, conductors, insulators, superfluids, and magnets. According to the emergence principle in condensed matter physics, the diverse properties of matter arise from the different ways in which these particles are organized. These arrangements are referred to as the orders of matter (from the book by Xiao-Zhang Wen, MIT). Different orders in a system lead to the manifestation of various physical properties—magnetic, electrical, and mechanical—under different conditions.

I am particularly interested in investigating these physical properties within interacting condensed matter systems, including spin systems and topological materials. To explore different orders—both topological and non-topological—as well as the transitions between them, I sometimes employ fundamental concepts from quantum information theory. My research involves studying the magnetic and electrical properties of these systems, including their ground states, excitation behaviors, thermal properties, and electrical responses, using tools from many-particle physics.

To better illustrate the work I do with my students and colleagues, I have included recent publications from our group at the bottom of this page. Please click the link for more detailed information. If you have any questions, discussions, or suggestions regarding our works, please feel free to contact me via email.

Research Interests

*Strongly Correlated Systems & Low-Dimensional Magnetism: Focusing on spin chains, spin liquids, and quantum magnetism.

*Topological Materials: Topological insulators, surface states, and magnetoelectric effects.

*Dynamical Phases & Nonequilibrium Physics: Time crystals, time quasicrystals, and weak ergodicity breaking.

*Quantum Computing & Information: Spin qubits, and cooling mechanisms in quantum dots.

*Thermoelectric Materials: Transport in spin-orbit-coupled systems and antiferromagnetic topological insulators.

Educational Background

:Masters Field

Condensed Matter Physics

:Masters Thesis Title

Cumulant Expansion for ferrimagnetic (S1,s2)  chains

:PhD Field

Condensed Matter Physics (Quantum materials)

:PhD Thesis Title

Thermodynamics behavior of mixed spin chains

Courses

Magnetism in condensed matter physics

Statistical mechanics

Quantum Physics

Quantum mechanics

Electromagnetism

Condensed matter physics

Thermodynamics

Solid State Physics

Selected Publications

• F. Heydarinasab, M. Jazandari, Md M. H. Polash, J. Abouie, and D. Vashaee, "Paramagnon heat capacity and anomalous thermopower in anisotropic magnetic systems: Understanding interlayer spin correlations in a magnetically disordered phase", Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 109, 2024, doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.109.054418


• J. Abouie, and M. H. Zarei, "Partially topological phase in a quantum loop gas model with tension and pressure", Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 108, 2023, doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.108.165133


• M. Rezaei, J. Abouie, and F. Nazari, "MN4 embedded graphene layers: Tunable decay rate of the RKKY interaction", Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 106, NO. 64407, 2022, doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.106.064407


• S. Seyedi, F. Heydarinasab, and J. Abouie, "Frustrated mixed-spin chains: Three-site interactions and flat-band magnons", Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 106, 2022, doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.106.104412


• N. Ahmadi, J. Abouie, R. Haghshenas, and D. Baeriswyl, "Frustrated mixed-spin ladders: Evidence for a bond-order wave phase between rung-singlet and Haldane phases", Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 106, NO. 174419, 2022, doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.106.174419


• M. H. Zarei, and J. Abouie, "Topological line in frustrated toric code models", Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 104, 2021, doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.104.115141


• N. Ahmadi, J. Abouie, and D. Baeriswyl , "Topological and nontopological features of generalized Su-Schrieffer-Heeger models", Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 101, NO. 195117, 5, 2020, doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.101.195117


• A. N. Zarezad, and J. Abouie, "Transport in two-dimensional Rashba electron systems doped with interacting magnetic impurities", Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 101, NO. 115412, 3, 2020, doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.101.115412


• S. Abdizadeh, J. Abouie, and Kh. Zakeri, "Dynamical switching of confined skyrmions under circular magnetic field", Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 101, NO. 24409, 1, 2020, doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.101.024409


• A. N. Zarezad and J. Abouie, "Transport in magnetically doped topological insulators: Effects of magnetic clusters", Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 98, NO. 155413, 2018, doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.98.155413


• F. Heydarinasab and J. Abouie, "Inhomogeneous hard-core bosonic mixture with checkerboard supersolid phase: Quantum and thermal phase diagram", Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 96, NO. 104406, 2017, doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.96.104406