Daniel L. Stein

Daniel L. Stein is the Dean of science and Professor of physics and mathematics at New York University (NYU). Prior to that, he was a faculty member and the Head of Physics Department at the University of Arizona, as well as a faculty member at the Physics Department at Princeton University. He received a B.S. degree in physics and an A.B. degree in mathematics from Brown University in 1975, an M.S. degree in physics from Princeton University in 1977, and a Ph.D. degree in physics from Princeton University in 1979. His research is centered on the areas of theoretical condensed matter physics and mathematical statistical mechanics. It currently focuses primarily on randomness and disorder in condensed matter systems, with emphasis on magnetic materials and stochastic processes leading to rare nucleation events, particularly in mesoscopic and nanoscopic systems. In the past, he worked on topics as diverse as protein biophysics, biological evolution, amorphous semiconductors, superconductors and superfluids, liquid crystals, neutron stars, and the interface between particle physics and cosmology. He has been awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, University of Arizona College of Science Distinguished Teaching Award, and Commission on the Status of Women Vision 2000 Award. He has also been elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He served on numerous editorial boards of scientific journals, American Physical Society committees, and scientific advisory boards.

Biography Updated on 10 April 2008

Personal Home Page

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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. The Percolation Signature of the Spin Glass Transition
    Journal of Statistical Physics, vol. 130, no. 1, pp. 113–128, 2007
  2. Comment on “Nonlinear current-voltage curves of gold quantum point contacts” [Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 103104 (2005)]
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 88, no. 16, p. 166101, 2006
  3. Ising ferromagnet: zero-temperature dynamic evolution
    Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, vol. 39, no. 22, pp. 6841–6849, 2006
  4. Magnetic reversal in nanoscopic ferromagnetic rings
    Physical Review B, vol. 73, no. 5, 2006
  5. Theory of Metastability in Simple Metal Nanowires
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 95, no. 9, 2005
  6. Zero-temperature dynamics of 2D and 3D Ising ferromagnets
    Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 349–362, 2004
  7. Critical Behavior of the Kramers Escape Rate in Asymmetric Classical Field Theories
    Journal of Statistical Physics, vol. 114, no. 5/6, pp. 1537–1556, 2004
  8. Ordering and broken symmetry in short-ranged spin glasses
    Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, vol. 15, no. 32, pp. R1319–R1364, 2003
  9. Journal of Statistical Physics, vol. 106, no. 1/2, pp. 213–244, 2002
  10. Are There Incongruent Ground States in 2D Edwards–Anderson Spin Glasses?
    Communications in Mathematical Physics, vol. 224, no. 1, pp. 205–218, 2001
  11. Noise-Activated Escape from a Sloshing Potential Well
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 86, no. 18, pp. 3942–3945, 2001
  12. Interfaces and the Question of Regional Congruence in Spin Glasses
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 87, no. 7, 2001
  13. Aging in 1D Discrete Spin Models and Equivalent Systems
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 87, no. 11, 2001
  14. Droplet Nucleation and Domain Wall Motion in a Bounded Interval
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 87, no. 27, 2001
  15. Realistic spin glasses below eight dimensions: A highly disordered view
    Physical Review E, vol. 63, no. 1, 2000
  16. Zero-Temperature Dynamics of ±J Spin Glasses¶and Related Models
    Communications in Mathematical Physics, vol. 214, no. 2, pp. 373–387, 2000
  17. Zero-temperature dynamics of Ising spin systems following a deep quench: results and open problems
    Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, vol. 279, no. 1-4, pp. 159–168, 2000
  18. Nature of Ground State Incongruence in Two-Dimensional Spin Glasses
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 84, no. 17, pp. 3966–3969, 2000
  19. How an Anomalous Cusp Bifurcates in a Weak-Noise System
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 85, no. 7, pp. 1358–1361, 2000
  20. Metastable states in spin glasses and disordered ferromagnets
    Physical Review E, vol. 60, no. 5, pp. 5244–5260, 1999
  21. Observation of Saddle-Point Avoidance in Noise-Induced Escape
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 82, no. 9, pp. 1806–1809, 1999
  22. Blocking and Persistence in the Zero-Temperature Dynamics of Homogeneous and Disordered Ising Models
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 82, no. 20, pp. 3944–3947, 1999
  23. Simplicity of state and overlap structure in finite-volume realistic spin glasses
    Physical Review E, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 1356–1366, 1998
  24. Metastate approach to thermodynamic chaos
    Physical Review E, vol. 55, no. 5, pp. 5194–5211, 1997
  25. Experiments on Critical Phenomena in a Noisy Exit Problem
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 79, no. 17, pp. 3109–3112, 1997
  26. Limiting Exit Location Distributions in the Stochastic Exit Problem
    SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, vol. 57, no. 3, p. 752, 1997
  27. Spatial Inhomogeneity and Thermodynamic Chaos
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 76, no. 25, pp. 4821–4824, 1996
  28. Non-Mean-Field Behavior of Realistic Spin Glasses
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 76, no. 3, pp. 515–518, 1996
  29. Oscillatory Behavior of the Rate of Escape through an Unstable Limit Cycle
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 77, no. 24, pp. 4860–4863, 1996
  30. Random walks on random partitions in one dimension
    Physical Review E, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 4037–4047, 1996
  31. Ground-state structure in a highly disordered spin-glass model
    Journal of Statistical Physics, vol. 82, no. 3-4, pp. 1113–1132, 1996
  32. A scaling theory of bifurcations in the symmetric weak-noise escape problem
    Journal of Statistical Physics, vol. 83, no. 3-4, pp. 291–357, 1996
  33. Reaction–diffusion description of biological transport processes in general dimension
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 104, no. 5, p. 1918, 1996
  34. Random walks on a fluctuating lattice: A renormalization group approach applied in one dimension
    Physical Review E, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 2779–2786, 1995
  35. Broken ergodicity and the geometry of rugged landscapes
    Physical Review E, vol. 51, no. 6, pp. 5228–5238, 1995
  36. Spin-glass model with dimension-dependent ground state multiplicity
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 72, no. 14, pp. 2286–2289, 1994
  37. Effect of focusing and caustics on exit phenomena in systems lacking detailed balance
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 71, no. 12, pp. 1783–1786, 1993
  38. Escape problem for irreversible systems
    Physical Review E, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 931–938, 1993
  39. Exotic states in long-range spin glasses
    Communications in Mathematical Physics, vol. 157, no. 2, pp. 371–387, 1993
  40. Multiple states and thermodynamic limits in short-ranged Ising spin-glass models
    Physical Review B, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 973–982, 1992
  41. Transition-rate theory for nongradient drift fields
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 69, no. 26, pp. 3691–3695, 1992
  42. Endothelial surface charge of intestinal mucosal capillaries and its modulation by dextran
    Microvascular Research, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 160–178, 1991
  43. Benthos of the Gorda Ridge axial valley (NE Pacific Ocean): Taxonomic composition and trends in distribution
    Progress In Oceanography, vol. 24, no. 1-4, pp. 47–57, 1990
  44. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, vol. 23, no. 5, pp. L203–L208, 1990
  45. Broken symmetry and domain structure in Ising-like systems
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 65, no. 4, pp. 460–463, 1990
  46. Nature of the glass transition
    Physical Review B, vol. 38, no. 16, pp. 12035–12038, 1988
  47. Ground state of the ±J Ising spin glass
    Physical Review B, vol. 36, no. 10, pp. 5567–5571, 1987
  48. Comment on ‘‘Intractable computations without local minima’’
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 59, no. 3, pp. 373–373, 1987
  49. Self-organization in prebiological systems: Simulations of a model for the origin of genetic information
    Journal of Molecular Evolution, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 119–126, 1986
  50. Palmer et al. Respond
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 365–365, 1985
  51. Dynamics on Ultrametric Spaces
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 55, no. 15, pp. 1634–1637, 1985
  52. Models of Hierarchically Constrained Dynamics for Glassy Relaxation
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 53, no. 10, pp. 958–961, 1984
  53. A proposed method for polarizing liquid3He
    Journal of Low Temperature Physics, vol. 57, no. 3-4, pp. 249–263, 1984
  54. Biochemistry, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 1093–1102, 1984
  55. NMR of textures in rotating 3He-A
    Physical Review B, vol. 29, no. 11, pp. 6090–6095, 1984
  56. A Model for the Origin of Biological Catalysis
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 81, no. 6, pp. 1751–1753, 1984
  57. One-dimensional spin-glass model with long-range random interactions
    Physical Review B, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 602–605, 1983
  58. Vortices in rotating superfluid 3He-A
    Physical Review B, vol. 28, no. 9, pp. 5061–5074, 1983
  59. Ground state of3He-A in a sphere
    Journal of Low Temperature Physics, vol. 51, no. 3-4, pp. 257–263, 1983
  60. Evidence for Magnetic Coupling in the Thermal Boundary Resistance between Liquid 3He and Platinum
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 48, no. 26, pp. 1831–1834, 1982
  61. Magnetic vortices in a rotating 3P2 neutron superfluid
    Physical Review D, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 967–975, 1982
  62. Critical behavior of linear F4 models with G×G' symmetry
    Physical Review B, vol. 23, no. 7, pp. 3549–3552, 1981
  63. Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics, vol. 13, no. 15, pp. L391–L396, 1980
  64. Are grand unified theories compatible with standard cosmology?
    Physical Review D, vol. 21, no. 12, pp. 3295–3298, 1980
  65. Phase Transitions in Two-Dimensional Superfluid 3He
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 42, no. 8, pp. 504–507, 1979
  66. Topological theorem and its applications to condensed matter systems
    Physical Review A, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 1708–1711, 1979
  67. Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transitions in two-dimensional liquid crystals
    Physical Review B, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 2397–2399, 1978
  68. Boojums in Superfluid 3He-A and Cholesteric Liquid Crystals
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 40, no. 19, pp. 1269–1272, 1978