S. Hands

Simon Hands graduated with the B.A. degree from Cambridge University in 1983 and the Ph.D. degree from Edinburgh University in 1986. Since then, he has held research positions at the Universities of Oxford, Illinois, and Glasgow, followed by a period at CERN, before joining the newly formed particle physics theory group at Swansea in 1993. He held both Advanced and Senior Research Fellowships from the UK funding body PPARC, and became a Professor at Swansea in 2003. My research has always centred on lattice field theory, with interests ranging over dynamical symmetry breaking, lattice fermion formulations, topological excitations, disordered systems, low-dimensional fermion models with applications in condensed matter systems, and novel techniques in spectroscopy. Much of his recent attention has focussed on the study of QCD under extreme conditions of temperature and in particular nonzero baryon charge density.

Biography Updated on 4 September 2007

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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Meson spectral functions at nonzero momentum in hot QCD
    Nuclear Physics A, vol. 785, no. 1-2, pp. 202–205, 2007
  2. Chiral symmetry restoration in anisotropic QED_{3}
    Physical Review B, vol. 75, no. 13, 2007
  3. Critical flavor number in the three dimensional Thirring model
    Physical Review D, vol. 75, no. 10, 2007
  4. Spectral Functions at Small Energies and the Electrical Conductivity in Hot Quenched Lattice QCD
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 99, no. 2, 2007
  5. Deconfinement in dense two-color QCD
    The European Physical Journal C, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 193–206, 2006
  6. Supercurrent flow in NJL2+1 at high baryon density
    Physics Letters B, vol. 637, no. 4-5, pp. 229–234, 2006
  7. The Lattice NJL Model at Non-zero Baryon and Isospin Densities
    Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements, vol. 140, pp. 532–534, 2005
  8. QED in 2+1 Dimensions with Fermi and Gap Anisotropies
    Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements, vol. 140, pp. 811–813, 2005
  9. Fluctuations in the vicinity of the phase transition line for two flavor QCD
    Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements, vol. 140, pp. 505–507, 2005
  10. QCD at non-zero temperature and density from the Lattice
    Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements, vol. 141, pp. 186–190, 2005
  11. Lattice study of anisotropic quantum electrodynamics in three dimensions
    Physical Review B, vol. 72, no. 5, 2005
  12. Thermodynamics of two flavor QCD to sixth order in quark chemical potential
    Physical Review D, vol. 71, no. 5, 2005
  13. Study of QCD Thermodynamics at Finite Density by Taylor Expansion
    Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement, vol. 153, pp. 118–126, 2004
  14. Quantum Chaos in Supersymmetric QCD at Finite Density
    Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement, vol. 153, pp. 295–300, 2004
  15. Lattice Simulations of 2-Colour QCD with Wilson Fermions
    Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement, vol. 153, pp. 60–68, 2004
  16. Noncompact three-dimensional quantum electrodynamics with N_{f}=1 and N_{f}=4
    Physical Review B, vol. 70, no. 10, 2004
  17. The equation of state for two flavor QCD at finite density
    Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements, vol. 129-130, pp. 545–547, 2004
  18. A BCS gap on the lattice
    Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements, vol. 129-130, pp. 554–556, 2004
  19. Where is the chiral critical point in 3-flavor QCD?
    Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements, vol. 129-130, pp. 614–616, 2004
  20. High density effective theory confronts the Fermi liquid
    Physical Review D, vol. 69, no. 1, 2004
  21. Numerical portrait of a relativistic BCS gapped superfluid
    Physical Review D, vol. 69, no. 7, 2004
  22. Zero lattice sound
    Physical Review D, vol. 70, no. 5, 2004
  23. Equation of state for two flavor QCD at nonzero chemical potential
    Physical Review D, vol. 68, no. 1, 2003
  24. Fermi surface phenomena in the (2+1)D four-Fermi model
    Physical Review D, vol. 68, no. 1, 2003
  25. The quark mass and µ dependence of the QCD chiral critical point
    Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements, vol. 119, pp. 517–519, 2003
  26. The QCD phase transition at high temperature and low density
    Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements, vol. 119, pp. 538–540, 2003
  27. The Chiral Limit of Non-compact QED
    Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements, vol. 119, pp. 974–976, 2003
  28. Lattice matter
    Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements, vol. 106-107, pp. 142–150, 2002
  29. Diquark condensation in dense SU(2) matter
    Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements, vol. 106-107, pp. 450–452, 2002
  30. Aspects of the thermal phase transition of QCD with small chemical potential
    Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements, vol. 106-107, pp. 459–461, 2002
  31. Evidence for BCS diquark condensation in the 3+1d lattice NJL model
    Physics Letters B, vol. 548, no. 3-4, pp. 196–203, 2002
  32. Non-compact QED with ?2
    Nuclear Physics B, vol. 645, no. 1-2, pp. 321–336, 2002
  33. Numerical portrait of a relativistic thin film BCS superfluid
    Physical Review D, vol. 65, no. 3, 2002
  34. Mesonic wave functions in the three-dimensional Gross-Neveu model
    Physical Review D, vol. 65, no. 11, 2002
  35. QCD thermal phase transition in the presence of a small chemical potential
    Physical Review D, vol. 66, no. 7, 2002
  36. Application of the maximum entropy method to the (2+1)D four-fermion model
    Physical Review D, vol. 66, no. 9, 2002
  37. The phase diagram of QCD
    Contemporary Physics, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 209–225, 2001
  38. Three-dimensional QED with dynamical fermions in an external magnetic field
    Physical Review D, vol. 64, no. 3, 2001
  39. Two-color QCD at nonzero quark-number density
    Physical Review D, vol. 64, no. 9, 2001
  40. Critical Behavior in the Dense Planar Nambu–Jona-Lasinio Model
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 86, no. 5, pp. 753–756, 2001
  41. The (2+1)-dimensional Gross–Neveu model with a U(1) chiral symmetry at nonzero temperature
    Physics Letters B, vol. 515, no. 3-4, pp. 407–413, 2001
  42. Two-colour QCD at finite fundamental quark-number density and related theories
    Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements, vol. 94, no. 1-3, pp. 457–460, 2001
  43. Numerical study of dense adjoint 2-color matter
    Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements, vol. 94, no. 1-3, pp. 461–468, 2001
  44. Diquark condensation in dense adjoint matter
    The European Physical Journal C, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 451–461, 2001
  45. The three-dimensional Thirring model for Nƒ = 4 and Nƒ = 6
    Nuclear Physics B, vol. 552, no. 1-2, pp. 339–362, 1999
  46. Symmetries and spectrum of SU(2) lattice gauge theory at finite chemical potential
    Nuclear Physics B, vol. 558, no. 1-2, pp. 327–346, 1999
  47. Chiral symmetry restoration and realisation of the Goldstone mechanism in the U(1) Gross-Neveu model at non-zero chemical potential
    Nuclear Physics B, vol. 557, no. 1-2, pp. 327–351, 1999
  48. The phase diagram of the three dimensional Thirring model
    Physics Letters B, vol. 461, no. 3, pp. 263–269, 1999
  49. Logarithmic corrections to the equation of state in the SU(2) ? SU(2) Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model
    Nuclear Physics B, vol. 520, no. 1-2, pp. 382–408, 1998
  50. Magnetic monopoles as agents of chiral symmetry breaking in U(1) lattice gauge theory
    Physics Letters B, vol. 416, no. 1-2, pp. 150–156, 1998
  51. Log triviality in the Nambu — Jona-Lasinio Model
    Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements, vol. 63, no. 1-3, pp. 673–675, 1998
  52. Magnetic current and chiral symmetry breaking in quenched QED
    Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements, vol. 63, no. 1-3, pp. 709–711, 1998
  53. Three-dimensional thirring model for small Nf
    Nuclear Physics B, vol. 502, no. 1-2, pp. 269–308, 1997
  54. Electromagnetic self-duality in a lattice model
    Nuclear Physics B, vol. 462, no. 2-3, pp. 291–314, 1996
  55. The U(1) Gross-Neveu model at non-zero chemical potential
    Nuclear Physics B, vol. 442, no. 1-2, pp. 364–388, 1995
  56. Level crossing for hot sphalerons
    Nuclear Physics B, vol. 425, no. 1-2, pp. 39–66, 1994
  57. Spectroscopy, equation of state and monopole percolation in lattice QED with two flavors
    Nuclear Physics B, vol. 413, no. 1-2, pp. 503–534, 1994
  58. The four-Fermi model in three dimensions at non-zero density and temperature
    Nuclear Physics B, vol. 390, no. 2, pp. 355–378, 1993
  59. The universality class of monopole condensation in non-compact quenched lattice QED
    Physics Letters B, vol. 289, no. 3-4, pp. 400–404, 1992
  60. The magnetic condensate, strong vector forces and monopoles
    Nuclear Physics B, vol. 357, no. 2-3, pp. 467–494, 1991
  61. Monopole condensation and the dynamics of chiral symmetry breaking in non-compact lattice QED with dynamical fermions
    Physics Letters B, vol. 261, no. 3, pp. 294–302, 1991
  62. Compositeness, anomalous dimensions and renormalizability in four-Fermi theories
    Physics Letters B, vol. 273, no. 1-2, pp. 111–117, 1991
  63. Towards the chiral limit of strongly coupled quenched QED
    Nuclear Physics B, vol. 333, no. 2, pp. 551–580, 1990
  64. Lattice monopoles and lattice fermions
    Nuclear Physics B, vol. 329, no. 1, pp. 205–224, 1990
  65. On the value and origin of the chiral condensate in quenched SU(2) lattice gauge theory
    Nuclear Physics B, vol. 347, no. 3, pp. 819–853, 1990
  66. Finite size effects and chiral symmetry breaking in quenched three-dimensional QED
    Nuclear Physics B, vol. 335, no. 2, pp. 455–468, 1990
  67. The equation of state and critical exponents in quenched strongly coupled QED
    Nuclear Physics B, vol. 347, no. 1-2, pp. 217–242, 1990
  68. Linearized lattice QED
    Nuclear Physics B, vol. 344, no. 1, pp. 255–282, 1990