Information about Gerardo Ortiz

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Condensed Matter Physics & Quantum Information Science

Professor of Physics

Department of Physics

727 E. Third St.

Swain Hall West 230

Indiana University

Bloomington, IN 47405

E-mail: ortizg@indiana.edu

Phone: (812) 855-0367

Fax: (812) 855-5533

Education (CV):	M.S., Instituto Balseiro (Bariloche, Argentina), 1987 PhD., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Lausanne, Switzerland), 1992
Affiliations:	Center for the Exploration of Energy and Matter, Indiana University Department of Mathematics, Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory Institute for Quantum Computing (Waterloo - Canada)
Research Interests: (Keywords)	Quantum Many-Particle and Field Theory of Condensed Matter Systems Strongly Correlated Physics Unconventional States of Matter (including Topological Quantum Order) Exotic Superfluid/Superconducting and Magnetic Phenomena Theory of Phase Transitions Topological Properties in Condensed Matter Cold Atom Physics Imitation of Physical Phenomena with Quantum Computers and Simulators Entanglement and Quantum Complexity Quantum Measurement Theory Integrability and Exact-Solvability
Teaching:	The Fall semester of 2011 I teach Quantum Mechanics I (PHYS-P 511)
Book on Phase Transitions:	Elements of Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena by Hidetoshi Nishimori and Gerardo Ortiz (Oxford University Press)
Leo M. Falicov Fellowship:	The Leo M. Falicov fellowship in Theoretical Physics is a competitive award for students pursuing a PhD in the Department of Physics at Indiana University
Links:	Theory Center, Indiana University Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory Institute for Quantum Computing (Waterloo - Canada) Perimeter Institute (Waterloo - Canada)