American Journal of Condensed Matter Physics

American Journal of Condensed Matter physics is a peer reviewed, scientific journal, which publishes papers that contain fundamental condensed matter science.

Orion Ciftja

Editorial Board Member of American Journal of Condensed Matter Physics

Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Prairie View A&M University, USA

Research Areas

Strongly Correlated Electron Systems and The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect;Nanoscale Semiconductor Quantum Dots;Monte Carlo Algorithms For Quantum Many-Body Problems;Nanoscale Molecular Magnetism;Quantum Liquids and Solids.

Education

1997Ph.DInternational School of Advanced Studies (SISSA/ISAS), Trieste, Italy
1995Master PhilInternational School of Advanced Studies (SISSA/ISAS), Trieste, Italy
1994ICTP DegreeInternational Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy
1991Diploma DegreeUniversity of Tirana, Tirana, Albania

Experience

2008-presentAssistant/Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, Texas 77446, USA 
2007-2009KITP Scholar, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
2000-2002Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA 
1999-2000Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA 
1997-1999Post-Doctoral Fellow, Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
1994Guest Scientist, International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste I-34100, Italy

Academic Achievement

NSF Award # 08045658 Grant: RUI-Anisotropy in Correlated Electronic Systems in Quantum Hall Regime, September 15, 2008-August 31, 2011
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), University of California-Santa Barbara Scholar Award for the period 2007-2009. On the congratulating letter accompanying the Award Certificate [dated December 15, 2006], Dr. David Gross, Director and 2004 No
Recipient of the Texas A&M University System (TAMUS) Teaching Excellence Award (Fall 2010).
Recipient of the third Texas A&M University System (TAMUS) Teaching Excellence Award (Fall 2009). The only faculty from the College of Arts and Sciences ranked in the Top 5% Category
Recipient of the second Texas A&M University System (TAMUS) Teaching Excellence Award (Spring 2009). The only faculty from the College of Arts and Sciences ranked in the Top 5% Category
Recipient of the first Texas A&M University System (TAMUS) Teaching Excellence Award (Fall 2008). The only faculty from the College of Arts and Sciences ranked in the Top 5% Category. On the congratulating letter accompanying the Award [dated February 25,
Outstanding Faculty Award for Academic Year 2007-2008, Department of Physics, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, Texas
Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU)-Department of Physics Citation, December 8, 2006 "In recognition of being the most prolific publisher of scientific papers in internationally refereed journals and for his work on the newsletter preview"

Membership

Regular Member of the American Physical Society (APS) [http://www.aps.org] since May 1997
Member of Anacapa Society (which promotes, supports, trains and assists the careers of researchers in theoretical and computational physics at primarily undergraduate institutions) [http://anacapasociety.org/] since August 2009
Sigma Advisor of the Sigma Pi Sigma Physics Society, Chapter # 308, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, Texas (Zone 13) since 2007
Society of Physics Students (SPS) Co-Advisor (with Dr. Fa-chung Wang), SPS Chapter # 5693, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, Texas (Zone 13) since 2007
Academy Member of the Texas A&M University System's Academy for Educator Development
Editorial Board Member for: Applications and Applied Mathematics (AAM) Journal [ISSN 1932-9466]
Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Nano Education
Reviewer/Referee for: Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Physical Review E, Journal of Physics B, Journal of Physics D, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Physics Letters A, Optics Communications, Physica Status Solidi (b), Modern Physics Lett
Panel Reviewer for National Science Foundation (NSF) [various programs]
Vertical team member for the College Readiness Assignment Design Team for the Texas College and Career Readiness Initiative (since April 2009)
Book Reviewer (several textbooks)
Host/Coordinator of campus/department activities and departmental research seminars
Member of many Departmental, College and University Committees
Chair of several committees such as Curriculum and Instruction Committee (current), Seminar Committee (current), Recruitment and Outreach Committee (past), etc

Publications: Conferences/Workshops/Symposiums/Journals/Books

[1]  O. Ciftja and I. Hysi, The electrostatic potential of a uniformly charged disk as the source of novel mathematical identities, Appl. Math. Lett. 24, 1919 (2011).
[2]   O. Ciftja, B. Cornelius, K. Brown, and E. Taylor, Finite-size Monte Carlo results for anisotropic quantum Hall liquids, Phys. Rev. B 83, 193101 (2011).
[3]  O. Ciftja, Semi-classical model of strongly correlated Coulomb systems in weak magnetic field, Contrib. Plasma Phys. 51, No. 4, 401 (2011).
[4]  O. Ciftja, Erratum to "Exact results for systems of electrons in the fractional quantum Hall regime II" [Physica B 404, 2244 (2009)], Physica B 406, 2054 (2011).
[5]  O. Ciftja, Coulomb self-energy of a uniformly charged three-dimensional cube, Physics Letters A, 375, 766 (2011).
[6]  O. Ciftja, Magnetic properties of small molecular clusters, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 200, 022002 (2010).
[7]   O. Ciftja, Analytic wave functions for the half-filled lowest Landau level, Int. J. Mod. Phys. B 24, 3489 (2010).
[8]   O. Ciftja, Anisotropy of quantum Hall phases at filling factor 9/2, J. Appl. Phys. 107, 09C504 (2010).
[9]  O. Ciftja and J. Quintanilla, Effective interaction potentials in the uppermost Landau level, J. Low. Temp. Phys. 159, 189 (2010).
[10]  O. Ciftja, Coulomb self-energy and electrostatic potential of a uniformly charged square in two dimensions, Physics Letters A, 374 (7), 981 (2010).
[11]  O. Ciftja, A Jastrow correlation factor for two-dimensional parabolic quantum dots, Modern Physics Letters B, 23 (26), 3055 (2009).
[12]  O. Ciftja, Exact results for systems of electrons in the fractional quantum Hall regime II, Physica B 404, 2244 (2009).
[13]  O. Ciftja, A. Babineaux, and N. Hafeez, The electrostatic potential of a uniformly charged ring, Eur. J. Phys. 30, 623 (2009).
[14]  O. Ciftja, Classical behavior of few-electron parabolic quantum dots, Physica B 404, 2629 (2009).
[15]  O. Ciftja, Lamellar-like structures in ferrofluids placed in strong magnetic fields, Solid State Communications 149, 532 (2009).
[16]  O. Ciftja, Exact results for systems of electrons in the fractional quantum Hall regime, Physica B 404, 227 (2009).
[17]  O. Ciftja, Few-electrons semiconductor quantum dots in magnetic field, Physica Status Solidi (c) 6, 825 (2009).
[18]  O. Ciftja, The cultivation of scientific ideas in a student-centered environment, The International Journal of Science in Society, 6 (2), 195 (2009).
[19]  O. Ciftja and C. Wexler, Anisotropy in two-dimensional electronic quantum Hall systems at half filling of valence Landau levels, Physica B 403, 1511 (2008).
[20]  O. Ciftja, Spin dynamics of an ultra-small nanoscale molecular magnet, Nanoscale Res. Lett. 2:168-174 (2007).
[21]  O. Ciftja, An experimentally justified confining potential for electrons in two-dimensional semiconductor quantum dots, J Computer-Aided Mater Des 14:37-44 (2007).
[22]  O. Ciftja, Generalized description of few-electron quantum dots at zero and nonzero magnetic field, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 19, 046220 (2007).
[23]  O. Ciftja, Solution of the stationary Schrodinger's differential equation for a delta-split harmonic oscillator using the numerical diagonalization technique, Dynamics of Continuous Discrete and Impulsive Systems-Series A-Mathematical Analysis 13: 367-376 Suppl. S, Oct (2006).
[24]  O. Ciftja, Monte Carlo study of Bose Laughlin wave function for filling factors 1/2, 1/4 and 1/6, Europhys. Lett. 74(3), 486 (2006).
[25]  C. Wexler and O. Ciftja, Novel liquid crystalline phases in quantum Hall systems, Int. J. Mod. Phys. B 20, 747 (2006). [Review Article]
[26]  O. Ciftja and M. G. Faruk, Two interacting electrons in a one-dimensional quantum dot: Exact numerical diagonalization, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 18, 2623 (2006).
[27]  O. Ciftja and M. G. Faruk, Two-dimensional quantum-dot helium in a magnetic field: Variational theory, Phys. Rev. B 72, 205334 (2005).
[28]  O. Ciftja, G. S. Japaridze and X. Q. Wang, An anyon wavefunction for the fractional quantum Hall effect, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 17, 2977 (2005).
[29]  O. Ciftja and A. A. Kumar, Ground state of two-dimensional quantum-dot helium in zero magnetic field: perturbation, diagonalization and variational theory, Phys. Rev. B 70, 205326 (2004).
[30]  O. Ciftja, C. M. Lapilli, and C. Wexler, Liquid crystalline states for two-dimensional electrons in strong magnetic fields, Phys. Rev. B 69, 125320 (2004).
[31]  O. Ciftja and S. A. Chin, Short-time-evolved wave functions for solving quantum many-body problems, Phys. Rev. B 68, 134510 (2003).
[32]  A.J. Schmidt, O. Ciftja and C. Wexler, Trial state for a two-dimensional hexatic, Phys. Rev. B 67, 155315 (2003).
[33]  O. Ciftja and C. Wexler, Monte Carlo simulation method for Laughlin-like states in a disk geometry, Phys. Rev. B 67, 075304 (2003).
[34]  C. Wexler and O. Ciftja, Liquid crystalline states in quantum Hall systems, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 14, 3705 (2002).
[35]  O. Ciftja and C. Wexler, Fermi hypernetted-chain study of half-filled Landau levels with broken rotational symmetry, Phys. Rev. B 65, 205307 (2002).
[36]  O. Ciftja and C. Wexler, Coulomb energy of quasiparticle excitations in Chern-Simons composite fermion states, Solid State Commun. 122/7-8, 401 (2002).
[37]  O. Ciftja and C. Wexler, Hypernetted-chain study of broken rotational symmetry states for the ν=1/3 fractional quantum Hall effect and other fractionally filled Landau levels, Phys. Rev. B 65, 045306 (2002).
[38]  O. Ciftja and C. Wexler, Energy gaps for fractional quantum Hall states described by a Chern-Simons composite fermion wavefunction, Eur. Phys. J. B 23, 437 (2001).
[39]  O. Ciftja, Siu. A. Chin and F. Pederiva, He4 shadow wave function with an inverse seventh power particle-particle correlation function, J. Low. Temp. Phys.122 (5/6), 605 (2001).
[40]  O. Ciftja, The irregular tetrahedron of classical and quantum spins subjected to a magnetic field, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 34, 1611 (2001).
[41]  O. Ciftja, S. Moroni and S. Fantoni, The coherent-state wave function for solid 3He, J. Phys. Condens. Matter 13, 1041 (2001).
[42]  O. Ciftja, Theoretical estimates for the correlation energy of the unprojected composite fermion wavefunction, Physica E 9, 226 (2001).
[43]  O. Ciftja, Spin correlation functions of some frustrated ultra-small classical Heisenberg clusters, Physica A 286, 541 (2000).
[44]  O. Ciftja, The Fermi-sea-like limit of the composite fermion wave function, Eur. Phys. J. B 13, 671 (2000).
[45]  O. Ciftja, A simple derivation of the exact wavefunction of a harmonic Oscillator with time-dependent mass and frequency, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 32, 6385 (1999).
[46]  O. Ciftja, M. Luban, M. Auslander and J.H. Luscombe, Equation of state and spin-correlation functions of ultra-small classical Heisenberg magnets, Phys. Rev. B 60 (14), 10122 (1999).
[47]  O. Ciftja, Effective hypernetted-chain study of even-denominator-filling state of the fractional quantum Hall effect, Phys. Rev. B 59 (15), 10194 (1999).
[48]  O. Ciftja, Exact results for a composite fermion wave function, Phys. Rev. B 59 (12), 8132 (1999).
[49]  O. Ciftja and S. Fantoni, Fermi hypernetted-chain study of unprojected wave functions to describe the half-filled state of the fractional quantum Hall effect, Phys. Rev. B 58 (12), 7898 (1998).
[50]  O. Ciftja and S. Fantoni, Application of Fermi hypernetted-chain theory to composite fermion quantum Hall states, Phys. Rev. B 56 (20), 13290 (1997).
[51]  O. Ciftja, S. Fantoni, J.W. Kim and M.L. Ristig, Application of the Fermi hypernetted-chain theory and the effective correlation factor method for Laughlin quantum Hall states, J. Low. Temp. Phys. 108, 357 (1997).
[52]  O. Ciftja, S. Fantoni and K. Gernoth, Hypernetted-chain treatment and the extended shadow wave functions for the fractional quantum Hall hierarchical states, Phys. Rev. B 55 (20), 13739 (1997).
[53]  O. Ciftja and S. Fantoni, A new hypernetted-chain treatment for Laughlin quantum Hall states, Europhys. Lett. 36 (9), 663 (1996).
[54]  R. Mejdani, A. Gashi, O. Ciftja and A. Lambros, Ladder Ising spin configurations. Magnetic properties, Physica Status Solidi (b) 197, 153 (1996).