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Rembert Duine
Institute for Theoretical Physics
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Faculteit Betawetenschappen
Utrecht University
Leuvenlaan 4
3584 CE Utrecht
The Netherlands
E-mail address: lastname AT phys DOT uu DOT nl

Office: MG 310
Phone: ++31(0)30-2532289
Fax: ++31(0)30-2535937

I am a "Universitair Docent" (~ Assist. Prof.) at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Utrecht University. My current research is focused mostly on spintronics: the research discipline concerned with exploiting the spin degree of freedom of the electron in applications. Spintronics combines efforts of materials nanoscience, nano-electronics, and condensed-matter physics. My expertise is in theoretical condensed-matter physics.

My CV
Ph. D. positions
-Vidi Grant, 2007 (press release) -starting independent researcher grant Grant, 2008 (more info here)

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• Our paper on spin drag in Bose gases is published online and selected for a Viewpoint Commentary by Marco Polini and Giovanni Vignale in the online journal "Physics". It is also labelled as editor's suggestion. See also this press announcement on the FOM website, and this article on the "ScienceGuide" website (both in Dutch). See also this article on the "Blik Op Nieuws" website (in Dutch). (19 October 2009)
  
  
• From January 6-9, 2010 we're organizing a short conference called "NewSpin, Utrecht 2010 - Spin Manipulation in Cold Atoms and Condensed Matter". More info here.

• Lecture notes on current-driven magnetization dynamics
  [Continuously-updated lecture notes and exercises that grew out of the course "spintronics" taught at Utrecht university in Spring 2007. Topics discussed are: path integrals for spins, ferromagnetism, spin valves, spin transfer torques, and current and field-driven domain wall motion. Feel free to use these notes but please refer appropriately.]
  
• Statistical Field Theory (Fall 2009)
  [see blackboard for more info.]
• Spintronics (Spring 2009)
  [see blackboard for more info.]
• Thermal Physics 2 (Fall 2008)
  [see blackboard for more info.]
• Quantum Fields in Condensed Matter (Spring 2008)
  [Follow this link to the course website (no longer updated).]
• Student Seminar Theoretical Physics "Ultracold Quantum Gases" (Fall 2007)
  [Follow this link to the course website (no longer updated).]
• Spintronics (Spring 2007)
  [Follow this link to the course website (no longer updated).]

Publications/Preprints

Spintronics

• Current-induced torques in continuous antiferromagnetic textures
  [A.C. Swaving and R.A. Duine, submitted (2009)]
  
  
• Spin motive forces and current fluctuations due to Brownian motion of domain walls
  [M.E. Lucassen and R.A. Duine, Solid State Commun. (2009)]
  To appear in "Special issue: Caloritronics".
  
  
• Fluctuations of current-driven domain walls in the non-adiabatic regime
  [M.E. Lucassen and R.A. Duine, Phys. Rev. B 80, 144421 (2009)]
  
  
• Current-driven and field-driven domain walls at nonzero temperature
  [M.E. Lucassen, H.J. van Driel, C. Morais Smith, and R.A. Duine, Phys. Rev. B 79, 224411 (2009)]
  
  
• Current-induced spin torques in III-V ferromagnetic semiconductors
  [Dimitrie Culcer, M. E. Lucassen, R. A. Duine, and R. Winkler, Phys. Rev. B 79, 155208 (2009)]
  
  
• Anomalous low-frequency noise in synthetic antiferromagnets: Possible evidence of current-induced domain-wall motion
  [D. Herranz, R. Guerrero, R. Villar, F.G. Aliev, A.C. Swaving, R.A. Duine, C. van Haesendonck, and I.Vavra, Phys. Rev. B 79, 134423 (2009)]
  
  
• Effects of non-adiabaticity on the voltage generated by a moving domain wall
  [R.A. Duine, Phys. Rev. B 79, 014407 (2009)]
  
  
• Creep of current-driven domain-wall lines: intrinsic versus extrinsic pinning
  [R.A. Duine and C. Morais Smith, Phys. Rev. B 77, 094434 (2008)]
  See also this figure.
  
  
• Current-Induced Torques in Magnetic Metals: Beyond Spin Transfer
  [P. M. Haney, R. A. Duine, A. S. Nunez, and A. H. MacDonald, J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 320, 1300 (2008)]
  
  
• Effective temperature and Gilbert damping of a current-driven localized spin
  [A.S. Nunez and R.A. Duine, Phys. Rev. B 77, 054401 (2008)]
  
  
• Spin pumping by a field-driven domain wall
  [R.A. Duine, Phys. Rev. B 77, 014409 (2008)]
  See also this talk.
  
  
• Current Induced Order Parameter Dynamics: Microscopic Theory Applied to Co/Cu/Co spin valves
  [P.M. Haney, D. Waldron, R.A. Duine, A.S. Nunez, H. Guo, and A.H. MacDonald, Phys. Rev. B 76, 024404 (2007)]
  
  
• Functional Keldysh Theory of Spin Torques
  [R.A. Duine, A.S. Nunez, Jairo Sinova, and A.H. MacDonald, Phys. Rev. B 75, 214420 (2007)]
  
  
• Ab-initio GMR and current-induced torques in Cr/Au/Cr multilayers
  [P.M. Haney, D. Waldron, R.A. Duine, A.S. Nunez, H. Guo, and A.H. MacDonald, Phys. Rev. B 75, 174428 (2007)]
  
  
• Changing Exchange Bias in Spin Valves with an Electric Current
  [Z. Wei, A. Sharma, A.S. Nunez, P.M. Haney, R.A. Duine, J. Bass, A.H. MacDonald, and M. Tsoi, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 116603 (2007)]
  
  
• Inelastic scattering in ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic metal spin valves
  [R.A. Duine, P.M. Haney, A.S. Nunez, and A.H. MacDonald, Phys. Rev. B 75, 014433 (2007)]
  
  
• Thermally-Assisted Current-Driven Domain Wall Motion
  [R.A. Duine, A.S. Nunez, and A.H. MacDonald, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 056605 (2007)]
  See also this talk.
  
  
• Theory of Spin Torques and Giant Magnetoresistance in Antiferromagnetic Metals
  [A.S. Nunez, R.A. Duine, P.M. Haney and A.H. MacDonald, Phys. Rev. B 73, 214426 (2006)]
  See also this talk.

Cold-Atom Systems

• Quantum vortex dynamics in two-dimensional neutral superfluids
  [C.-C. Joseph Wang, R. A. Duine, and A. H. MacDonald, submitted (2009)]
  
  
• Spin drag in noncondensed Bose gases
  [R. A. Duine and H. T. C. Stoof, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 170401 (2009)]
  This paper is selected for a Viewpoint Commentary by Marco Polini and Giovanni Vignale in the online journal "Physics". It is also labelled as editor's suggestion. See also this talk.
  
  
• A strongly interacting Bose gas: Nozières and Schmitt-Rink theory and beyond
  [Arnaud Koetsier, P. Massignan, R. A. Duine and H. T. C. Stoof, Phys. Rev. A 79, 063609 (2009)]
  
  
• Vortex-lattice pinning in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates
  [M.P. Mink, C. Morais Smith, and R.A. Duine, Phys. Rev. A 79, 013605 (2009)]
  See also this poster made by Martijn Mink.
  
  
• Spinning fermions
  [R.A. Duine, Physics 1, 27 (2008)]
  
  
• Achieving the Neel state in an optical lattice
  [Arnaud Koetsier, R. A. Duine, Immanuel Bloch, and H. T. C. Stoof, Phys. Rev. A 77, 023623 (2008)]
  See also this poster and this animation made by Arnaud Koetsier.
  
  
• Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov vortex lattice states in fermionic cold-atom systems
  [Y.-P. Shim, R.A. Duine and A.H. MacDonald, Phys. Rev. A 74, 053602 (2006)]
  
  
• Itinerant Ferromagnetism in an Ultracold Atom Fermi Gas
  [R.A. Duine and A.H. MacDonald, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 230403 (2005)]
  This paper discusses itinerant ferromagnetism in fermionic cold-atom system. The first experiment in this direction was recently performed, see this preprint. See also this talk.
  
  
• Pinning and collective modes of a vortex lattice in a Bose-Einstein condensate
  [J.W. Reijnders and R.A. Duine, Phys. Rev. A 71, 063607 (2005)]
  
  
• Quantitative Probe of Pairing Correlations in a Cold Fermionic Atom gas
  [R.A. Duine and A.H. MacDonald, Phys. Rev. A 71, 053613 (2005)]
  
  
• Pinning of vortices in a Bose-Einstein condensate by an optical lattice
  [J.W. Reijnders and R.A. Duine, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 060401 (2004)]
  In this paper we propose an experiment to observe vortex pinning in a Bose-Einstein condensate. The experiment has been performed by Shih-Kuang Tung and Volker Schweikhard in the group of Nobel Prize Laureate Eric Cornell: Click here to go to the experimental preprint. See also this talk about vortex dynamics and pinning in Bose-Einstein condensates.
  
  
• Quantum Phase Transition in an Atomic Bose Gas with a Feshbach Resonance
  [M.W.J. Romans, R.A. Duine, Subir Sachdev, and H.T.C. Stoof, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 020405 (2004)]
  See also this poster made by Mathijs Romans. See also this talk by Subir Sachdev on this topic.
  
  
• Noisy Dynamics of a Vortex in a Partially Bose-Einstein Condensed Gas
  [R.A. Duine, B.W.A. Leurs, and H.T.C. Stoof, Phys. Rev. A 69, 053623 (2004)]
  
  
• Atom-molecule coherence in Bose gases
  [R.A. Duine and H.T.C. Stoof, Phys. Rep. 396, 115-195 (2004)]
  
  
• Molecular Kondo Resonance in Atomic Fermi Gases
  [G.M. Falco, R.A. Duine, and H.T.C. Stoof, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 140402 (2004)]
  Click here to see an illustration of the bosonic Kondo resonance. See also this talk.
  
  
• Atom-molecule coherence in Bose gases
  [R.A. Duine, Ph. D. Thesis, promotor: prof. dr. H.T.C. Stoof, Utrecht University 2003]
  If you would like a hardcopy of this thesis, contact me! See also this talk covering most of the topics in my thesis.
  
  
• Many-body Aspects of Coherent Atom-Molecule Oscillations
  [R.A. Duine and H.T.C. Stoof, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 150405 (2003)]
  Klik hier om onze bijdrage aan het Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Natuurkunde over dit onderwerp te lezen.
  
  
• Josephson Frequency of Resonantly-Coupled Atomic and Molecular Condensates
  [R.A. Duine and H.T.C. Stoof, New J. Phys. 5, 69 (2003)]
  
  
• Microscopic Many-Body Theory of Atomic Bose Gases near a Feshbach Resonance
  [R.A. Duine and H.T.C. Stoof, J. Opt. B: Quantum Semiclass. Opt. 5, S212 (2003)]
  
  
• Dynamics of a Bose-Einstein Condensate near a Feshbach Resonance
  [R.A. Duine and H.T.C. Stoof, Phys. Rev. A 68, 013602 (2003)]
  
  
• Stochastic Dynamics of a Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensate
  [R.A. Duine and H.T.C. Stoof, Phys. Rev. A 65, 013603 (2002)]
  See also this poster and this talk.
  
  
• Explosion of a Collapsing Bose-Einstein condensate
  [R.A. Duine and H.T.C. Stoof, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2204 (2001)]
  See also these snapshots and this movie of a collapsing Bose-Einstein condensate. See also this talk.

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