Postdoctoral research associate with the Whaley Group at The University of Califormia Berkeley and the center for Computational Physics at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich

Research Interests:

The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

Composite Fermions

Carbon Nanotubes

Quantum Dots

Quantum Computing

Optical Lattices





Selected Publications:



1. Thermal Canting of Spin-Bond Order,
   V.W. Scarola, K.B. Whaley, and M. Troyer, Phys. Rev. B. 79, 085113 (2009).
   [arXiv:0808.1748 ,pdf ]
2. Quantum Phases of the Extended Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian:
   The Possibility of a Supersolid State of Cold Atoms in Optical Lattices,
   V. W. Scarola and S. Das Sarma, Phys. Rev. Lett . 95, 033003 (2005).
   [cond-mat/0503378 ,pdf ]
3. Cooper Instability of Composite Fermions,
   V. W. Scarola, K. Park, and J.K. Jain, Nature. 406, 863 (2000).
   [cond-mat/0012030 ,pdf ]