African University of Science & Technology

Prof. Dimo I. Uzunov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)


Education

  • Graduate from Sofia State University, Physics with a specialization in condensed matter physics, 1974.
  • PhD - Thesis: "Renormalization group investigation of the phase transition to superconducting state." Institute of Solid State Physics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; ISSP-BAS,1981.
  • Doctor of Physical Sciences (DSc) degree - "Fluctuations, renormalization group, and
    properties of phase transitions in complex models of condensed matter."
    , 1988.
  • Associate Professor, ISSP-BAS, 1990-1993.
  • Professor, ISSP-BAS, 1993.

Fields of expertise

Condensed matter theory, statistical physics and thermodynamics (superconductivity, superfluidity, magnetism, phase transitions, interrelationship between statistical physics and field theory).

Selected Publications

  • D. I. Uzunov, "Theory of Critical Phenomena" (World Scientific, Singapore-New Jersey-London, 1993).
  • D. V. Shopova and D. I. Uzunov, Phys. Rep. C 379 (2003) 1-67.
    "Some basic aspects of quantum phase transitions."
  • D. I. Uzunov, Phys. Rev. B74 (2006) 134514. "Critical behavior in unconventional ferromagnetic superconductors."
  • D. I. Uzunov, Europhys. Lett. 77 (2007) 20008.
    "New magnetic effects on the phase transitions in unconventional superconductors"
  • M. G. Cottam, D. V. Shopova, and D. I. Uzunov, Phys. Lett. A 373 (2008) 152-155. "On the phase diagrams of the ferromagnetic superconductors ZrZn2 and UGe2."
  • D. I. Uzunov, Phys. Rev. E 78 (2008) 041122."Derivation of effective field theories".
  • D. V. Shopova and D. I. Uzunov, Phys. Rev. B 79 (2009) 064501.
    "Thermodynamics of ferromagnetic superconductors with spin-triplet electron pairing"