Marcos Rigol

Distinguished Professor of Physics
Marcos Rigol

Mail: 104 Davey Lab, PMB #109 
University Park, PA 16802

Education

Institute of Nuclear Sciences and Technology (ICSTN), Havana, Cuba (B.S. in Nuclear Physics, Summa Cum Laude), 1999
Institute of Nuclear Sciences and Technology (ICSTN), Havana, Cuba (M.S. in Nuclear Physics), 2000
University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany (Ph.D. in Physics, Summa Cum Laude), 2004

Specialties:

Condensed Matter Physics

  • Theoretical
  • Computational

Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

  • Theoretical
  • Computational

Honors and Awards

  • American Physical Society Outstanding Referee (2021)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2019)
  • Faculty Scholar Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Physical Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University (2019)
  • Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Physics, Clarivate Analytics Web of Science Group (2019)
  • Vice Chair ('16-'17), Chair-Elect ('17-'18), Chair ('18-'19), and Past Chair ('19-'20), Division of Computational Physics (DCOMP) of the American Physical Society
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society (2015)
  • Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (2015)
  • Young Scientist Prize - Structure and Dynamics of Condensed Matter - International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) (2011)

Selected Publications (past five years)

  • K. Yang, Y. Zhang, K.-Y. Li, K.-Y. Lin, S. Gopalakrishnan, M. Rigol, B. L. Lev, Phantom energy in the nonlinear response of a quantum many-body scar state, Science 385, 1063 (2024).
  • M. Abdelshafy and M. Rigol, Numerical linked-cluster expansions for two-dimensional spin models with continuous disorder distributions, Phys. Rev. E 109, 054127 (2024).
  • R. Patil, L. Hackl, G. R. Fagan, and M. Rigol, Average Pure-State Entanglement Entropy in Spin 1/2 Systems with SU(2) Symmetry, Phys. Rev. B 108, 245101 (2023).
  • Y. Le, Y. Zhang, S. Gopalakrishnan, M. Rigol, and D. S. Weiss, Observation of hydrodynamization and local prethermalization in 1D Bose gases, Nature 618, 494 (2023).
  • Y. Zhang, L. Vidmar, and M. Rigol, Statistical properties of the matrix elements of observables in interacting integrable systems, Phys. Rev. E 106 014132 (2022).
  • T. LeBlond, D. Sels, A. Polkovnikov, and M. Rigol, Universality in the onset of quantum chaos in many-body systems, Phys. Rev. B 104, L201117 (2021).
  • N. Malvania, Y. Zhang, Y. Le, J. Dubail, M. Rigol, and D. S. Weiss, Generalized hydrodynamics in strongly interacting 1D Bose gases, Science 373, 1129 (2021).
  • M. Brenes, T. LeBlond, J. Goold, and M. Rigol, Eigenstate Thermalization in a Locally Perturbed Integrable System, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 070605 (2020).
  • J. M. Wilson, N. Malvania, Y. Le, Y. Zhang, M. Rigol, and D. S. Weiss, Observation of Dynamical Fermionization, Science 367, 1461 (2020).

Selected Reviews & Tutorials