CURRENT POSITION
Associate Professor: |
Faculty of Physics and Math, University of Latvia,
8 Zellu street, Riga LV-1002, Latvia.
room 601, phone +371-67033742, fax +371-67033751
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Online contact info: |
slava@latnet.lv,
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PERSONAL DETAILS
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Born on March 16, 1978, in Riga, Latvia, citizen of Latvia
- Married to Sanita Kashcheyeva, two children (born 2004 and 2006)
EDUCATION
- (2002-2006) Doctor of Philosophy (physics), Tel
Aviv University, Israel
Thesis "Quantum pumping in mesoscopic systems", advisors Prof. A. Aharony and Prof. O. Entin-Wohlman
- (2000-2002) Master of natural sciences
in physics with distinctions, University of
Latvia (diploma)
- (2001) Completed "Graduate
course on the physics of random systems", University of Oslo, Norway
(certificate)
- (1996-2000) Bachelor of natural sciences
in physics with distinctions, University of Latvia (list
of grades, diploma)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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(12.2007-to date) Associate Professor at the Faculty of Physics and Math, University of Latvia,
8 Zellu street, Riga LV-1002, Latvia. (Lecturer prior to 03.2013)
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(2009-to date)
Leading researcher at the Faculty of Computing, University of Latvia,
19 Raina blvd., Riga LV-1586, Latvia.
- (1999-2011) Leading researcher at the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics and Computer Simulations, Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Latvia, 8 Kengaraga street, Riga LV-1063, Latvia, http://www.cfi.lu.lv/teor/. (Engineer prior to 01.2006, research assistant prior to 03.2007, researcher prior to 10.2009)
- (18.05.2009-11.07.2009) Visiting Scholar at University of California at Berkeley Physics Department, the Budker group.
- (29.10.2007-24.11.2007) Visiting Scientist at
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Dept. of Semiconductor Physics and Magnetism 2.53, Bundesallee 100, Braunschweig D-38116, Germany.
- (10.2006-09.2007) Post-doctoral Fellow at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Dept. of Physics,
Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel.
- (2002-2006) Graduate research student
at School of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Exact Sciences,
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.
- (1996-2002) Programming instructor at the
Youth Computer courses "Progmeistars",
6 Pulkvezha Briezha str, Riga LV-1010, Latvia, http://www.progmeistars.lv/.
AWARDS
- (2008,2012)
Entry into Top 10 Achievements of the Science in Latvia in 2008 and
2012, an annual list compiled by the Latvian Academy of Sciences.
- (2012)
Latvia's Young Talent in Science and Medicine, national award by monthly magazine Santa.
- (2011)
Exact sciences teacher of the year, University of Latvia Students' annual award.
- (2010-2011)
Award for teaching of Latvian laureates of the International Physics Olympiad, The Cabinet of Minsters of the Republic of Latvia.
- (2008)
Best e-course of the year award for the electronic course "Modern concepts of natural sciences", University of Latvia.
- (2003-2005)
Prize for excellence in research for graduate students, School of
Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University.
- (2001)
Kristaps Morbergs scholarship for
distinguished students, University of Latvia.
- (2001)
Award of the Latvian Academy of
Sciences
for the research project "Study of oscillation synchronization mechanism
in spatially distributed Lotka-type stochastic system".
- (1996) Bronze medal at the 8th
International Olympiad in Informatics,
Veszprém, Hungary.
- (1996) Bronze medal at the 27th
International Physics Olympiad, Oslo, Norway.
SKILLS
- Fluency in Latvian, Russian and English languages.
- Advanced analytical and numerical computations (Mathematica/Numerical Recipies);
simulation software development (C/Java/Pascal);
basic system and network administration (Unix/Windows).
PUBLICATIONS
Publications registered in ISI Web of Science (SCI),
Google Scholar, Scopus, and ADS.
Full text for most of my publications can be found on arXiv.org.
- V. Kashcheyevs and V. N.
Kuzovkov, Global oscillation mechanism in the stochastic Lotka model,
Phys.
Rev. E 63, 061107 (2001).
- E. A. Kotomin, V. Kashcheyevs, V. N.
Kuzovkov, K. Schwartz, and C. Trautmann, Modeling of primary defect aggregation
in tracks of swift heavy ions in LiF,
Phys.
Rev. B 64, 144108 (2001).
- V. Kashcheyevs, E. A. Kotomin, and V. N.
Kuzovkov, Computer modelling of metal colloid formation in tracks of swift
heavy ions in ionic solids,
Radiat. Eff. Defects Solids 155,
145-151 (2001).
- V. Kashcheyevs, E. A. Kotomin, and V. N.
Kuzovkov, Modeling of primary defect aggregation in tracks of
swift heavy ions in alkali halides,
Surface & Coatings Technology
158-159C, 269-272 (2002).
- V. N. Kuzovkov, W. von Niessen, V. Kashcheyevs, and
O. Hein, Exact analytic solution for the generalized Lyapunov
exponent of the two-dimensional Anderson localization,
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter
14,
13777-13797, (2002); cond-mat/0212036.
- O. Entin-Wohlman, A. Aharony, and V. Kashcheyevs,
Quantized
adiabatic quantum pumping due to interference,
J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 72A,
77–82 (2003);
cond-mat/0208069.
- O. Entin-Wohlman, A. Aharony, and V. Kashcheyevs,
Adiabatic quantum pumping of coherent electrons,
Turk. J. Phys. 27,
371-381 (2003);
cond-mat/0308408.
- V. N. Kuzovkov, V. Kashcheyevs, and W. von Niessen,
Reply to Comment on 'Exact analytic solution for the generalized Lyapunov
exponent of the two-dimensional Anderson localization',
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter
16, 1683-1685 (2004);
cond-mat/0402468.
- V. Kashcheyevs, A. Aharony, and O. Entin-Wohlman,
Resonance approximation and charge loading and unloading in adiabatic quantum pumping,
Phys.
Rev. B 69, 195301 (2004);
cond-mat/0308382;
included in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science &
Technology 9, issue 19, article 20 (May 17, 2004).
- V. Kashcheyevs, A. Aharony, and O. Entin-Wohlman,
Quantized charge pumping by surface acoustic waves in ballistic quasi-1D channels,
Eur. Phys. J. B 39, 385 (2004);
cond-mat/0402590.
- V. Kashcheyevs, A. Aharony, and O. Entin-Wohlman,
Applicability of the equations-of-motion technique for
quantum dots,
Phys.
Rev. B 73, 125338 (2006);
cond-mat/0511656;
included in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale
Science & Technology
13,
issue 14, article 20 (April 10, 2006).
- V. Kashcheyevs, A. Schiller, A. Aharony, and O. Entin-Wohlman,
Unified description of phase lapses, population inversion, and
correlation-induced resonances in double quantum dots,
Phys.
Rev. B 75, 115313 (2007);
cond-mat/0610194.
- B. Kaestner, V. Kashcheyevs, S. Amakawa, L. Li, M. D. Blumenthal, T. J. B. M. Janssen, G. Hein, K. Pierz, Th. Weimann, U. Siegner, and H. W. Schumacher,
Single-parameter non-adiabatic quantized charge pumping,
Phys.
Rev. B 77, 153301 (2008);
arXiv:0707.0993. pdf
- B. Kaestner, V. Kashcheyevs, G. Hein, K. Pierz, U. Siegner, and H. W. Schumacher,
Robust single-parameter quantized charge pumping,
Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 192106 (2008);
arXiv:0803.0869.
- M. R. Buitelaar, V. Kashcheyevs, P. J. Leek, V. I. Talyanskii, C. G. Smith, D. Anderson, G. A. C. Jones, J. Wei, and D.H. Cobden,
Adiabatic charge pumping in carbon nanotube quantum dots,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 126803 (2008); arXiv:0804.3219.
- V. Kashcheyevs,
Low-frequency excitation of double quantum dots,
Proc. SPIE 7142, 714206 (2008),
AOMD-6 invited paper; arXiv:0809.0900.
- V. Kashcheyevs,
C. Karrasch, T. Hecht, A. Weichselbaum, V. Meden, and A. Schiller,
A quantum criticality perspective on the charging of narrow quantum-dot levels,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 136805 (2009); arXiv:0810.2538.
- B. Kaestner, Ch. Leicht, V. Kashcheyevs,
K. Pierz, U. Siegner, H. W. Schumacher,
Single-parameter quantized charge pumping in high magnetic fields,
Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 012106 (2009); arXiv:0811.1121.
- Ch. Leicht, B. Kaestner, V. Kashcheyevs, Ph. Mirovsky, Th. Weimann, K. Pierz, and H. W. Schumacher,
Non-adiabatic pumping of single electrons affected by magnetic fields,
Physica E 42, 911 (2010);
arXiv:0909.2778; proceedings of
EP2DS-18.
- V. Kashcheyevs and B. Kaestner,
Universal decay cascade model for dynamical quantum dot initialization,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 186805 (2010);
arXiv:0901.4102.
- B. Kaestner, Ch. Leicht, Ph. Mirovsky, V. Kashcheyevs, E. V. Kurganova, U. Zeitler, K. Pierz, and H. W. Schumacher,
Constructive role of non-adiabaticity for quantized charge pumping,
AIP Conf. Proc. 1399, 345 (2010); arXiv:1007.2062; proceedings of ICPS-30.
- Ch. Leicht, Ph. Mirovsky, B. Kaestner, F. Hohls, V. Kashcheyevs, E. V. Kurganova, U. Zeitler, Th. Weimann, K. Pierz, and H. W. Schumacher,
Generation of energy selective excitations in quantum Hall edge states,
Semicond. Sci. Technol. 26, 055010 (2011), featured article;
arXiv:1009.5897.
- V. Kashcheyevs, Exact non-Hookean scaling of cylindrically bent elastic sheets and the large-amplitude pendulum,
Am. J. Phys. 79, 657 (2011);
arXiv:1008.4649. pdf
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L. Fricke, F. Hohls, N. Ubbelohde, B. Kaestner, V. Kashcheyevs, Ch. Leicht, Ph. Mirovsky, K. Pierz, H. W. Schumacher, and R. J. Haug,
Quantized current source with mesoscopic feedback ,
Phys. Rev. B 83, 193306 (2011).
- V. Kashcheyevs, Exact canonical occupation numbers in a Fermi gas with finite level spacing and a q-analog of Fermi-Dirac distribution
(2011),
arXiv:1110.6264.
- V. Kashcheyevs, A. Tamburrano, and M. S. Sarto, Quantum transport and current distribution at radio frequency in multiwall carbon nanotubes,
IEEE Trans. Nanotechnol. 11, 492 (2012).
- A. Sorokine, D. Bocharov, S. Piskunov, and V. Kashcheyevs, Electronic charge redistribution in LaAlO3(001) thin films deposited at SrTiO3(001) substrate: first principles analysis and the role of stoichiometry,
Phys. Rev. B 86, 155410 (2012);
arXiv:1205.4175.
- V. Kashcheyevs and J. Timoshenko, Quantum fluctuations and coherence in high-precision single-electron capture,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 216801 (2012);
arXiv:1205.3497.
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L. Fricke, M. Wulf, B. Kaestner, V. Kashcheyevs, J. Timoshenko, P. Nazarov, F. Hohls, Ph. Mirovsky, B. Mackrodt, R. Dolata, Th. Weimann, K. Pierz, H. W. Schumacher, Counting statistics for electron capture in a dynamic quantum dot,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 126803 (2013),
featured as Editor's suggestion;
arXiv:1211.1781,
- S. Fahlvik Svensson,E. A. Hoffmann, N. Nakpathomkun, P. M. Wu, H. Q. Xu, H. A. Nilsson, D. Sánchez,
V. Kashcheyevs, and H. Linke, Nonlinear thermovoltage and thermocurrent in quantum dots,
arXiv:1307.0617.
INVITED SEMINARS AND TALKS
- Chalmers University of Technology, October 25, 2001, Göteborg, Sweden. Host: dr. Alexei Heintz.
Kinetics group seminar "Self-organisation
in surface reaction systems".
- Latvian Physical Society, May 22, 2002, Riga, Latvia. Host: prof.
Imants Bērsons.
LPS seminar
"Electronic quantum pump".
- University of Latvia, September 7, 2005, Riga, Latvia. Host: prof.
Mārcis Auziņš.
Colloquium
"Quantum nanogames".
- Weizmann Institute of Science, March 9, 2006, Rehovot, Israel. Host: prof.
Alexander Finkel'stein.
Condensed matter Thursday seminar "Equations-of-motion
technique applied to quantum dot models" (ppt, less technical version).
- Cavendish lab, University of Cambridge, September 25, 2006, Cambridge,
UK. Hosts: drs. Mark Buitelaar and Bernd Kästner.
Seminar "Modelling
of adiabatic charge transport: pumped charge quantization and beyond".
- Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, December 18, 2006, Beer-Sheva,
Israel.
Seminar "Correlations in quantum dots: How far can analytics go?"
(ppt).
- Seminar talk "Interference and correlations in two-level transport" (ppt) delivered in April-May 2007
at
Göttingen University (host: juniorprof. Volker Meden),
Bochum University (host: prof. Jürgen König),
Augsburg University (host: dr. Sigmund Kohler),
The Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste, Italy (host: dr. Mikhail Kiselev), and
LMU, Munich (host: prof. Jan von Delft).
- "Correlated Electron Day", June 21, 2007, Technion, Haifa, Israel.
Invited short talk "Orbital correlations in 2-level dots close to and far from a Kondo degeneracy".
- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), November 13, 2006, Braunschweig, Germany
UK.
Colloquium
"Converging theoretical perspectives on charge pumping"
(ppt).
- Seminar
"Modelling of recent charge pumping experiments" (ppt) delivered in April 2008
at
University of Geneva, Switzerland (host: prof. Markus Büttiker) and
ETH Zürich, Switzerland (host: dr. Ivan Shorubalko).
CONFERENCES
- 15th Scientific Meeting of the Institute for
Solid State Physics, February 15-17, 1999, Riga, Latvia.
Influence of structural disorder on oscillation
synchronization in surface reaction systems (contributed talk)
- 18th International Conference on Atomic Collisions
with Solids, July, 1999, Odense, Denmark.
Modeling of Metal Colloid Formation in Tracks
of Swift Heavy Ions in Ionic Solids (poster)
- 12th International Conference on
Surface Modification of Materials by Ion Beams
, September 9-14, 2001, Marburg, Germany.
Modeling of Primary Defect Aggregation in
Tracks of Swift Heavy Ions in Alkali Halides (poster)
- Summer School-Conference
"Quantum Computation
at the Atomic Scale", June 1-11, 2003, Istanbul, Turkey.
Single-electron transport by surface acoustic waves
(contributed talk)
- NATO Advanced Research Workshop
"Theory of Quantum Transport in Metallic and Hybrid Nanostructures",
August 24-29, 2003, St.Petersburg, Russia.
- Euro-Summer School on Condensed Matter Theory
"Quantum Coherence, Correlations, and Mesoscopics", August 9-22, 2004, Windsor, UK
Resonant transmission and quantized charge transfer in
adiabatic quantum pumping (poster abstract,
full text)
- The 50th Annual Meeting of the
Israel Physical Society, December 9, 2004, Haifa, Israel.
Adiabatic quantum pumping and charge quantization
due to resonant transmission (poster)
- The workshop
"Interactions and Dynamics in Low Dimensional Quantum Systems" at the
Weizmann Institute of Science, January 4-7, 2006, Rehovot, Israel.
Applicability of the
equations-of-motions technique for quantum dots
(poster full text)
- International Workshop
"Physics of Zero and One Dimensional Nanoscopic Systems",
February 1-9, 2006, Calcutta, India.
Applicability of the
equations-of-motions technique for quantum dots
(poster)
- "Quantum pumping" workshop,
January 7-12, 2007, Haifa, Israel.
Pumping versus bias: elements of adiabatic transport theory for recent experiments on double quantum dots
(invited poster)
- International workshop "Interaction and Interference in Nanoscopic Transport",
February 18-23, 2008, Dresden, Germany.
From single particle to correlation-dominated criticality in a level-crossing transition
(poster no.22,
full text)
- International conference "Advances in Atomic and Molecular Physics 2008",
June 16-18, 2008, Ratnieki, Latvia.
Low-frequency excitation of quantum dots: charge pumping in nanocircuits
(invited talk)
- 6th International Conference "Advanced Optical and Molecular Devices",
August 24-27, 2008, Riga, Latvia.
Transport-probed spectroscopy: from phonon-assisted tunnelling to adiabatic charge pumping
(invited talk)
- International workshop "Nanoscience and nanotechnology 2008",
October 20-24, 2008, Frascati, Italy.
Adiabatic pumping put to test: modeling of low-frequency
electron transport through carbon nanotubes
(contributed talk)
- International workshop "Towards Reality in Nanoscale Materials'08",
December 2-5, 2008, Levi, Finland.
Models for charge localization and adiabatic
redistribution in carbon nanotubes
(poster)
- International Minerva workshop "The Science of Complexity",
March 29 - April 1, 2009, Eilat, Israel.
Quantum criticality perspective on population
fluctuations of a localized electron level
(invited talk, ppt)
- International conference "Fermions 2009:
From Correlated Electrons to Cold Atoms",
October 13-18, 2009, Obergurgl, Austria.
Dynamic quantum dot spectroscopy via strongly non-adiabatic electron counting
(contributed talk)
- International workshop "Nanoscience and nanotechnology 2009",
October 19-22, 2009, Frascati, Italy.
Decay cascade theory for dynamical quantum dot
initialization and quantized charge transport
(contributed talk)
- International Conference on "Quantum Metrology 2011",
May 11 - 13, 2011, Poznan, Poland.
Single-gate non-adiabatic quantized charge pumps
(invited talk, pptx,
pdf)

Image (c) Andrej Shitov, "Subbota", 2009
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