Massimo Boninsegni Professor of Physics University of Alberta

Contact information CCIS 3-185 Edmonton, AB (Canada) T6G 2E1 +1 (780) 492-6562 [email protected] www.ualberta.ca/~massimob

Personal Data Born in Genova, Italy, December 26 1963 Citizen of Italy and Canada (country of residence) Married to Antonella Cortese, no children

Experience Full professor of physics, University of Alberta ― 7/05-present Associate professor of physics, University of Alberta ― 7/02-6/05 Associate professor of physics, San Diego State University ― 8/01-6/02 Assistant professor of physics, San Diego State University ― 8/97-7/01 Postdoctoral fellow, University of Delaware ― 10/95-7/97 Postdoctoral research associate, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ―10/92-9/95 Graduate assistant, Florida State University ― 8/87-9/92

Visiting professorships Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France ― 4/09-7/09 Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Innsbruck, Austria― 1/09-4/09 INFM-BEC centre, Università degli studi di Trento, Italy― 7/06-1/07 Theoretical Physics Institute, ETH, Switzerland ― 2/07-5/07

Awards and Honors Fellow, American Physical Society, Division of Computational Physics (2007) Canada Research Chair, condensed matter physics, University of Alberta ― 3/03-2/08 TRW Excellence in Teaching award, San Diego State University ― 2000 SCRI graduate fellowship, Florida State University ― 7/90-8/92

Education Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida (USA) ― Ph.D. in physics, 1992 Università degli Studi di Genova, Genova, Italy ― Laurea in fisica, 1986

Research Interests Theoretical condensed matter physics, Quantum many-body problems, Superconductivity, Superfluidity, Bose condensation, Quantum Monte Carlo last updated on 12-1-2011

simulations, Computational physics

Publications 85 refereed articles in peer-reviewed international journals 21 in Physical Review Letters 15 as single author h-index: 28 (Google Scholar)

Invited conference presentations 1. The role of exchanges in the structure of quantum Lennard-Jones clusters Gordon Research Conference, Molecular and Ionic Clusters Ventura, California, January 2012 2. Supersolid droplet crystal in a Rydberg-blockaded gas Supersolidity 2010, Paris, France, July 2010 3. Novel supersolid phase: A Rydberg-blockaded dipolar gas Conference on Computational Physics, Trondheim, Norway, June 2010 4. Classical and quantum physics of hydrogen clusters Quantum Fluid Clusters International Workshop, Dresden, Germany, May 2009 5. Quantum melting of hydrogen clusters American Chemical Society annual meeting, Salt Lake City, March 2009 6. Supersolid phases of hard core bosons in optical lattices Supersolid 2008, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, August 2008 7. Classical and quantum physics of hydrogen clusters LT25, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 2008 8. The physics of hydrogen clusters: structure, superfluidity and quantum melting Cryocrystals and Quantum Crystals, Wroclaw (Poland), August 2008 9. Superfluidity and quantum melting of hydrogen clusters 6th Congress of the International Society of Theoretical Chemical Physics Vancouver, British Columbia, July 2008 10. Quantum melting and superfluidity of molecular hydrogen clusters American Physical Society, March meeting, New Orleans (LA), March 2008 11. Worm Algorithm for continuous-space Path Integral Monte Carlo QMC@ASU, Tempe (AZ), Mayb 2006 12. Numerical studies of the wetting transition of helium on alkali substrates American Physical Society, March meeting, Los Angeles (CA), March 1998 13. Ground state of frustrated quantum antiferromagnets Advances in electronic structure calculations, St. Mary’s city (MD), August 1995

Research Grants 1. Novel phases of quantum fluids Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada CAD $205,100 4/07 through 3/12 (single investigator) 2. Adsorption of quantum fluids inside carbon nanotubes Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada CAD $112,00 4/03 through 3/07 (single investigator) 3. Adsorption of quantum fluids inside carbon nanotubes U.S. National Science Foundation, Division of Materials Research $50,000 9/01 through 6/02 (single investigator) 4. Helium adsorption on alkali surfaces and graphite U.S. National Science Foundation, Division of Materials Research last updated on 12-1-2011

$90,000 9/98 through 8/01 (single investigator) 5. H2 physisorption on alkali metal substrates Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society $60,000 8/00 through 9/02 (single investigator) 6. Quantum Fluids inside carbon nanotubes Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society $25,000 9/99 through 8/01 (single investigator)

Refereeing Activity Member of the following editorial boards: ● Journal of Low Temperature Physics ● Interdisciplinary Life Sciences - Computational Life Science Reviewer for the following granting agencies: ● National Science Foundation (Division of Materials Research ● Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (condensed matter physics) ● Petroleum Research Fund, American Chemical Society ● Austrian Science Foundation

Membership American Physical Society (1988-) DCOMP executive committee, member at large (2009-) American Chemical Society (2002-) Sigma Xi (2001-)

Summer school organization and lecturership Organizer and lecturer, CIFAR-PITP International Summer school on numerical methods for strongly correlated systems in condensed matter physics Sherbrooke, Québec (Canada), June 2008

Conference and workshop organization Organizer, 1st international meeting on Advances in Computational Many-body physics Banff, Alberta (Canada), January 2005

Graduate student and postdoctoral mentoring 3 3 1 3

M.Sc. physics students (San Diego State University, 1997-2002) Ph.D. physics students (University of Alberta, 2002-) Ph.D. chemistry student (University of Alberta, 2002-) Post-doctoral associates (University of Alberta, 2002-)

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Publication List Refereed Articles 1. Bose soft discs: a minimal model for supersolidity S. Saccani, S. Moroni, E. Vtali and M. Boninsegni Mol. Phys. 109, 2807 (2011). 2. On the existence of supersolid 4He monolayer films M. Boninsegni J. Low Temp. Phys. 165, 67 (2011). 3. Structure, Bose-Einstein Condensation and superfluidity of two-dimensional confined dipolar assemblies P. Jain, F. Cinti and M. Boninsegni Phys. Rev. B 84, 014534 (2011). 4. On the possible “supersolid” chacter of Parahydrogen clusters F. Mezzacapo and M. Boninsegni J. Phys. Chem. A 115, 6831 (2011). 5. Phase diagram of soft-core bosons in two dimensions S. Saccani, S. Moroni and M. Boninsegni Phys. Rev. B 83, 092506 (2011). 6. 4He Luttinger Liquid in Nanopores A. Del Maestro, M. Boninsegni and I. Affleck Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 105303 (2011). 7. Quantum demixing in binary mixtures of dipolar bosons Piyush Jain and Massimo Boninsegni Phys. Rev. A 83, 023602 (2011). 8. The role of defects in Supersolid Helium-4 L. Pollet, M. Boninsegni, A. Kuklov, N. Prokof’ev, B. Svistunov and M. Troyer, Physics Procedia 7, 80 (2010). 9. Supersolid Droplet Crystal in a Rydberg-blockaded Gas F. Cinti, P. Jain, M. Boninsegni, A. Micheli, P. Zoller and G. Pupillo, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 135301 (2010). 10. Phases of lattice hard-core bosons in a periodic superlattice L. Dang and M. Boninsegni Phys. Rev. B 81, 224502 (2010). 11. Strongly correlated gases of Rydberg-dressed atoms: quantum and classical dynamics G. Pupillo, A. Micheli, M. Boninsegni, I. Lesanovsky and P. Zoller Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 223202 (2010). 12. Thin helium films on a glass substrate M. Boninsegni J. Low. Temp. Phys. 159, 441 (2010). 13. Off-diagonal correlations in a one-dimensional gas of dipolar bosons T. Roscilde and M. Boninsegni New J. Phys. 12, 033032 (2010). 14. Ground-state properties of quantum many-body systems: entangled-plaquette states and variational Monte Carlo F. Mezzacapo, N. Schuch, M. Boninsegni and J. I. Cirac New J. Phys. 11, 083026 (2009). 15. Disorder-induced superfluidity last updated on 12-1-2011

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Long Dang, Massimo Boninsegni and Lode Pollet Phys. Rev. B 79, 214529 (2009). Quantum statistics and the momentum distribution of liquid parahydrogen M. Boninsegni Phys. Rev. B 79, 174203 (2009) Classical and Quantum Physics of Hydrogen Clusters F. Mezzacapo and M. Boninsegni J. Phys. CM 21, 164205 (2009) Parahydrogen Clusters: Numerical Estimates and Physical Effects F. Mezzacapo and M. Boninsegni J. Phys. (Conference Series) 150, 032059 (2009). Phase Diagram of 4He Adsorbed on Graphite P. Corboz, M. Boninsegni, L. Pollet and M. Troyer Phys. Rev. B 78, 245414 (2008). Vacancy supersolid of hard-core bosons on the square lattice L. Dang, M. Boninsegni and L. Pollet Phys. Rev. B 78, 132512 (2008). Disorder and the elusive superfluid phase of para-hydrogen J. Turnbull and M. Boninsegni Phys. Rev. B 78, 144509 (2008). Local Stress and Superfluid properties of Solid 4He L. Pollet, M. Boninsegni, A. Kuklov, N. Prokof’ev, B. Svistunov and M. Troyer Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 097202 (2008) Local Superfluidity of Parahydrogen Clusters F. Mezzacapo and M. Boninsegni Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 145301 (2008) Phase diagram of an anisotropic bosonic t-J model M. Boninsegni and N. V. Prokof’ev Phys. Rev. B 77, 092502 (2008). Molecular hydrogen isotopes adsorbed on krypton-preplated graphite J. Turnbull and M. Boninsegni Phys. Rev. B 76, 104524 (2007). Superfluidity of isotopically doped parahydrogen clusters F. Mezzacapo and M. Boninsegni Phys. Rev. A 76, 021201 (2007). Luttinger liquid in the core of a screw dislocation in Helium-4 M. Boninsegni, A. Kuklov, L. Pollet, N. Prokof’ev, B. Svistunov and M. Troyer Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 035301 (2007). Superfluidity of grain boundaries in solid 4He L. Pollet, M. Boninsegni, A. Kuklov, N. Prokof’ev, B. Svistunov and M. Troyer Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 135301 (2007). Structure, superfluidity and quantum melting of hydrogen clusters F. Mezzacapo and M. Boninsegni Phys. Rev. A 75, 033201 (2007) Fate of vacancy-induced supersolidity in solid 4He M. Boninsegni, A. Kuklov, L. Pollet, N. Prokof’ev, B. Svistunov and M. Troyer Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 080401 (2006) Worm algorithm and diagrammatic Monte Carlo: a new approach to Path Integral Monte Carlo simulations M. Boninsegni, N. Prokof’ev and B. Svistunov Phys. Rev. E 97, 036701 (2006) last updated on 12-1-2011

32. Superfluidity and quantum melting of p-H2 clusters F. Mezzacapo and M. Boninsegni Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 045301 (2006) 33. Superglass phase of 4He M. Boninsegni, N. Prokof’ev and B. Svistunov Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 105301 (2006) 34. Worm algorithm for continuous-space path integral Monte Carlo simulations M. Boninsegni, N. Prokof’ev and B. Svistunov Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 070601 (2006) 35. Can incommensuration stabilize a superfluid phase of para-hydrogen ? M. Boninsegni Int. J. Mod. Phys. 20, 2677 (2006) 36. Supersolid phase of hard-core bosons on the triangular lattice M. Boninsegni and N. Prokof’ev Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 237204 (2005) 37. Permutation sampling in path integral Monte Carlo simulations M. Boninsegni J. Low Temp. Phys. . Rev. Lett. 141, 27 (2005) 38. Adsorption of para-hydrogen on Krypton pre-plated graphite J. Turnbull and M. Boninsegni J. Low Temp. Phys. 140, 269 (2005) 39. Adsorption of para-hydrogen on fullerenes J. Turnbull and M. Boninsegni Phys. Rev. B 71, 205421 (2005) Reprinted in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale science and technology 11, 23 (2005) 40. Path integral ground state with a fourth-order propagator: application to condensed helium J. E. Cuervo, P.-N. Roy and M. Boninsegni J. Chem. Phys. 122, 114504 (2005) 41. Theoretical study of H2 in a two-dimensional crystalline matrix M. Boninsegni New J. Phys. 7, 78 (2005) 42. Low temperature phase diagram of condensed para-hydrogen in two dimensions M. Boninsegni 43. Phys. Rev. B 70, 193411 (2004) Melting of a p-H2 monolayer on a Li substrate M. Boninsegni Phys. Rev. B 70, 125405 (2004). Erratum, Phys. Rev. B 71, 209903E (2005) 44. Condensate fraction in liquid 4He S. Moroni and M. Boninsegni J. Low Temp. Phys. 136, 129 (2004) 45. Structure and energetics of helium films on alkali substrates M. Boninsegni and L. Szybisz Phys. Rev. B 70, 024512 (2004) 46. Wetting of spherical surfaces by quantum fluids S. Hernandez, M. W. Cole and M. Boninsegni J. Low. Temp. Phys. 134, 309 (2004) 47. Helium adsorption on alkali metal substrates: a comparison of density functional and path integral Monte Carlo results Leszek Szybisz and M. Boninsegni last updated on 12-1-2011

J. Low Temp. Phys. 134, 127 (2004) 48. Adsorption of H2 on alkali metal substrates L. Szybisz and M. Boninsegni J. Low Temp. Phys. 134, 315 (2004) 49. Adsorption of atoms and fluids on spherical surfaces S. Hernandez, M. W. Cole and M. Boninsegni Phys. Rev. B 68, 125418 (2003) 50. Hard core bosons on a triangular lattice M. Boninsegni J. Low Temp. Phys. 132, 39 (2003) 51. Phase separation and stripes in a boson version of a doped quantum antiferromagnet M. Boninsegni Phys. Rev. B 65, 134403 (2002) 52. Phase separation in mixtures of hard core boson M. Boninsegni Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 087201 (2001) 53. Ab initio potentials and the equation of state of 4He at high pressure S.-Y. Chang and M. Boninsegni J. Chem. Phys. 115, 2629 (2001) 54. Helium in one-dimensional nanopores: free dispersion, localization and commensurate-incommensurate transition with nonrigid orbitals M. Boninsegni, S.-Y. Lee and V. H. Crespi Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3360 (2001) Reprinted in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale science and technology 3, 16 (2001) 55. Bose condensation in a restricted geometry M. Boninsegni Int. J. Mod. Phys. 15, 1659 (2001) 56. Condensation of helium in nanotube bundles M. W. Cole, V. H. Crespi, G. Stan, J. Hartman, S. Moroni and M. Boninsegni Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 3883 (2000) Reprinted in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale science and technology 1, 16 (2000) 57. Equation of state of solid 3He S. Moroni, F. Pederiva, S. Fantoni and M. Boninsegni Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2650 (2000) 58. Quantum Monte Carlo study of the equation of state of solid 3He F. Pederiva, S. Moroni, S. Fantoni and M. Boninsegni Physica B 284-288, 1177 (2000) 59. Ground state of 4He in one dimension M. Boninsegni and S. Moroni J. Low Temp. Phys. 118, 1 (2000) 60. Atoms in nanotubes: small dimensions and variable dimensionality G. Stan, S. Gatica, M. Boninsegni, S. Curtarolo and M. W. Cole Am. J. Phys. 67, 1170 (1999) 61. Helium adsorption on a lithium substrate M. Boninsegni, M. W. Cole and F. Toigo Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2002 (1999) 62. Superfluidity of monolayer helium films M. Boninsegni and M. W. Cole J. Low Temp. Phys. 113, 393 (1998) 63. Interstitial He and Ne in nanotube bundles last updated on 12-1-2011

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G. Stan, V. H. Crespi, M. W. Cole and M. Boninsegni J. Low Temp. Phys. 113, 447 (1998) Excitations in liquid 4He in disorder M. Boninsegni and H. R. Glyde J. Low Temp. Phys. 112, 251 (1998) The condensate and final-state effects in superfluid 4He R. T. Azuah, W. G. Stirling, H. R. Glyde, M. Boninsegni, P. E. Sokol and S. M. Bennington Phys. Rev. B 56, 14620 (1997) Bose condensate and structure of isotopic liquid-helium mixtures S. Moroni and M. Boninsegni Europhys. Lett. 40, 287 (1997) Path integral study of the 4He wetting transition M. Boninsegni and M. W. Cole J. Low Temp. Phys. 110, 685 (1997) Momentum distribution and final state effects in liquid neon R. T. Azuah, W. G. Stirling, H. R. Glyde and M. Boninsegni J. Low Temp. Phys. 109, 287 (1997) Microscopic calculation of superfluidity and kinetic energy in isotopic liquid helium mixtures M. Boninsegni and S. Moroni Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 1727 (1997) Density fluctuations in liquid 4He: path integrals and maximum entropy M. Boninsegni and D. M. Ceperley J. Low Temp. Phys. 104, 339 (1996) Direct measurements and PIMC calculation of kinetic energy of solid neon D. N. Timms, A. C. Evans, M. Boninsegni, D. M. Ceperley, J. Mayers and R. O. Simmons J. Phys. CM 8, 6665 (1996) Ground state of a frustrated quantum antiferromagnet: fixed-node Green function Monte Carlo study M. Boninsegni Phys. Lett. A 216, 313 (1996) A simple theory for the cuprates: the antiferromagnetic Van Hove scenario E. Dagotto, A. Nazarenko, A. Moreo, S. Haas and M. Boninsegni J. Superconductivity 8, 843 (1995) Ground state of a triangular quantum antiferromagnet: fixed-node Green function Monte Carlo study M. Boninsegni Phys. Rev. B 52, 15304 (1995) Path integral Monte Carlo simulation of isotopic liquid helium mixtures M. Boninsegni and D. M. Ceperley Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 2288 (1995) Flat quasiparticle dispersion in the 2D t-J model E. Dagotto, A. Nazarenko and M. Boninsegni Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 728 (1994) Monte Carlo study of the energy dispersion curve of a single hole in a quantum antiferromagnet M. Boninsegni Phys. Lett. A 188, 330 (1994) Isotopic shift of helium melting pressure: path integral Monte Carlo study last updated on 12-1-2011

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M. Boninsegni, C. Pierleoni and D. M. Ceperley Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 1854 (1994) Ground state of two holes in a quantum antiferromagnet: a Green’s function Monte Carlo study M. Boninsegni and E. Manousakis Phys. Lett. 178, 175 (1993) Two-hole d-wave binding in the physical region of the t-J model: a Green’s function Monte Carlo study M. Boninsegni and E. Manousakis Phys. Rev. B 47, 11897 (1993) Green’s function Monte Carlo study of the two-dimensional t-J model M. Boninsegni and E. Manousakis Phys. Rev. B 46, 560 (1992) Variational description of a quasihole excitation in a quantum antiferromagnet M. Boninsegni and E. Manousakis Phys. Rev. B 45, 4877 (1992) Quasihole excitation in a quantum antiferromagnet: variational Monte Carlo calculation M. Boninsegni and E. Manousakis Phys. Rev. B 43, 10353 (1991) Observation of a propagating normal-superconducting interface via I-V analysis in YBa2Cu3Ox C. M. Rey, R. J. Kennedy, M. Boninsegni, W. G. Moulton and L. R. Testardi J. Appl. Phys. 66, 745 (1989) Low temperature bolometer array M. Boninsegni, C. Boragno, P. Ottonello and U. Valbusa Rev. Sci. Instrum. B 60, 661(1989)

Non-refereed Publications 1. Monte Carlo study of isotopic liquid helium mixtures S. Moroni and M. Boninsegni Proceedings of LTXXII, Czech. J. Phys. 46, Suppl. S1, 303 (1996) 2. Single hole in the the t-J model: a variational Monte Carlo study M. Boninsegni and E. Manousakis Proceedings of Quantum Simulations of Condensed Matter Phenomena, Los Alamos (NM), August 1898. J. D. Doll and J. E. Gubernatis eds., World Scientific (Singapore 1989).

Book Chapters 1. Quantum Melting of Hydrogen Clusters M. Boninsegni Invited contribution, “Hanbook of Nanophysics”, Vol. 2, Clusters and Fullerenes, ed. by K. Sattler, CRC Press (Boca Raton, FL 2010).

last updated on 12-1-2011