Igor Shovkovy

Igor Shovkovy

Faculty Head and Professor,
CISA - School of Applied Sciences and Arts
Other ASU affiliations
Professor, Department of Physics
  • igor.shovkovy@asu.edu
  • Phone: 480-727-1953
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Long Bio

Igor Shovkovy is a Professor and Faculty Head of Polytechnic Science & Mathematics in the School of Applied Sciences and Arts, which is part of the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University. He received his doctoral degree in Theoretical Physics from the Bogolyubov Institute of Theoretical Physics in Kyiv, Ukraine (1997). He had postdoctoral training at the University of Cincinnati (1997-2000), the University of Minnesota (2000-2002), and Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt on Main (2002-2004). Before joining Arizona State University, Dr. Shovkovy held a Junior Fellow position at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (2004-2006) and an Assistant Professor position at Western Illinois University (2006-2008). Professor Shovkovy published over 120 articles, reviews, book chapters, and dozens of contributions in conference proceedings. His expertise includes theoretical nuclear physics, high-energy physics, and condensed matter physics. In 2014 Prof. Shovkovy received a visiting professorship award for senior international scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is one of the co-authors of the book "Electronic Properties of Dirac and Weyl Semimetals" published by World Scientific in 2021.

Education
  • Ph. D. Theoretical Physics, Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyiv, Ukraine 1997
  • M. Sc. Taras Shevchenko Kiev State University, Kyiv, Ukraine 1993
CV
Curriculum Vitae
Research Website URL
https://www.public.asu.edu/~ishovkov/
Google Scholar URL
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0lTba7gAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Experts.asu.edu URL
https://asu.pure.elsevier.com/en/persons/igor-shovkovy
ORCID Profile ID
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5230-6891
Research Interests

Professor Shovkovy's main research fields are theoretical nuclear, high-energy, and condensed matter physics. He is interested in a range of problems related to the matter under extreme conditions inside neutron stars, quark-gluon plasma created in heavy-ion collisions, physics of the early universe, as well as electronic properties of novel condensed matter materials (e.g., graphene, Dirac, and Weyl semimetals, as well as topological insulators), aspects of mathematical physics, etc.

In recent years, Prof. Shovkovy studied unusual properties of chiral forms of relativistic matter. He uses quantum field theoretical methods to get insight into the properties of such matter.

Professor Shovkovy is known for his work on magnetic catalysis of symmetry breaking in quantum field theory and its applications in graphene, for studies of color superconductivity in dense quark matter, as well as his research on chiral forms of (quasi-)relativistic matter.

Honors / Awards: 

  • 2014: Visiting Professorship for Senior International Scientists, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • 2011: Outstanding Referee for the journals of the American Physical Society
  • 1997: Prize of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine for young scientists
  • 1997: V. N. Gribov Scholarship & "Best Theoretical Presentation" award at the International School of Subnuclear Physics (35th course) in Erice, Italy.
Research Group

Postdocs

  • Dr. Ritesh Ghosh (Nov. 2023 -- now) 

Former Ph.D. students

  • Denys Rybalka (Aug. 2015 -- May 2019), Ph. D. thesis defended on March 25, 2019
  • Lifang Xia (Aug. 2013 -- May 2016), Ph. D. thesis defended on April 13, 2016
  • Xinyang Wang (Aug. 2009 -- Aug. 2013), Ph. D. thesis defended on July 2, 2013
  • Lang Yu (Jun. 2010 -- May 2012), Ph. D. thesis defended on April 6, 2012
Publications

List of publications 

External links: INSPIRE, arXiv, ADS, Publons, Scopus, Google Scholar

    Book

    • Electronic Properties of Dirac and Weyl Semimetals, E. V. Gorbar, V. A. Miansky, I. A. Shovkovy, and P. O. Sukhachov, (World Scientific, Singapore, 2021), ISBN: 978-981-120-734-1, DOI: 10.1142/11475

    Selected reviews

    • Anomalous plasma: chiral magnetic effect and all that, I. A. Shovkovy, published in Peter Suranyi 87th Birthday Festschrift A Life in Quantum Field Theory, edited by P. Argyres, G. Dunne, G. Semenoff, and R. Wijewardhana, (World Scientific, Singapore, 2022) pp. 291-316, e-Print Archive: arXiv:2111.11416
    • Quantum field theory in a magnetic field: From quantum chromodynamics to graphene and Dirac semimetals, V. A. Miansky and I. A. Shovkovy, Physics Reports 576 (2015) pp. 1-209, e-Print Archive: arXiv:1503.00732
    • Magnetic Catalysis: A Review, I. A. Shovkovy, Lect. Notes Phys. 871 (Springer, Berlin, 2013) pp. 13-49, e-Print Archive: arXiv:1207.5081
    • Two lectures on color superconductivity, I. A. Shovkovy, Found. Phys. 35 (2005) 1309, e-Print Archive: nucl-th/0410091

    Selected publications​

    • Rate and ellipticity of dilepton production in a magnetized quark-gluon plasma, X. Wang and I. A. Shovkovy, Phys. Rev. D 106, 036014 (2022), e-Print Archive: arXiv:2205.00276, Abstract | pdf | Phys. Rev. D
    • Photon polarization tensor in a magnetized plasma: Absorptive part, X. Wang and I. A. Shovkovy, Phys. Rev. D 104, 056017 (2021), e-Print Archive: arXiv:2103.01967, Abstract | pdf | Phys. Rev. D
    • Hydrodynamic modes in a magnetized chiral plasma with vorticity, D. O. Rybalka, E. V. Gorbar, and I. A. Shovkovy, Phys. Rev. D 99, 016017 (2019),  e-Print Archive: arXiv:1807.07608, Abstract | pdf | Phys. Rev. D
    • Consistent chiral kinetic theory in Weyl materials: chiral magnetic plasmons, E. V. Gorbar, V. A. Miransky, I. A. Shovkovy, and P. O. Sukhachov, Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 127601 (2017), e-Print Archive: arXiv:1610.07625, Abstract | pdf | Phys. Rev. Lett.
    • Origin of dissipative Fermi arc transport in Weyl semimetals, E. V. Gorbar, V. A. Miransky, I. A. Shovkovy, and P. O. Sukhachov, Phys. Rev. B 93, 235127 (2016),  e-Print Archive: arXiv:1603.06004, Abstract | pdf | Phys. Rev. B
    • Anomalous Maxwell equations for inhomogeneous chiral plasma, E. V. Gorbar, I. A. Shovkovy, S. Vilchinskii, I. Rudenok, A. Boyarsky, and O. Ruchayskiy, Phys. Rev. D 93, 105028 (2016), e-Print Archive: arXiv:1603.03442, Abstract | pdf | Phys. Rev. D
    • Radiative corrections to chiral separation effect in QED, E.V. Gorbar, V.A. Miransky, I.A. Shovkovy, and Xinyang Wang, Phys. Rev. D 88, 025025 (2013), e-Print: arXiv:1304.4606, Abstract | pdf | Phys. Rev. D
    • Fast equilibration of hadrons in an expanding fireball, J. Noronha-Hostler, C. Greiner, and I.A. Shovkovy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 252301 (2008), e-Print Archive: 0711.0930, Abstract | pdf | Phys. Rev. Lett.
    • Chromomagnetic instability in dense quark matter, Mei Huang and Igor A. Shovkovy,  Phys. Rev. D 70, 051501(R) (2004), e-Print Archive: hep-ph/0407049, Abstract | pdf | Phys. Rev. D
    • Gapless two flavor color superconductor, Igor Shovkovy and Mei Huang, Phys. Lett. B 564, 205 (2003), e-Print Archive: hep-ph/0302142, Abstract | pdf | Science Direct
    • Magnetic catalysis and anisotropic confinement in QCD, V.A. Miransky and I.A. Shovkovy, Phys. Rev. D 66, 045006 (2002), e-Print Archive: hep-ph/0205348, Abstract | pdf | Phys. Rev. D
    • Spontaneous symmetry breaking with abnormal number of Nambu-Goldstone bosons and kaon condensate, V.A. Miransky and I.A. Shovkovy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 111601 (2002), e-Print Archive: hep-ph/0108178, Abstract | pdf | Phys. Rev. Lett.
    • Schwinger-Dyson approach to color superconductivity in dense QCD, D.K. Hong, V.A. Miransky, I.A. Shovkovy and L.C.R. Wijewardhana, Phys. Rev. D 61, 056001 (2000), Erratum-ibid. 62 (2000) 059903(E), e-Print Archive: hep-ph/9906478, Abstract | pdf | Phys. Rev. D | (Erratum)
    • Catalysis of dynamical flavor symmetry breaking by a magnetic field in (2+1)-dimensions, V.P. Gusynin, V.A. Miransky, I.A. Shovkovy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 3499 (1994), Erratum-ibid.76, 1005 (1996), e-Print Archive: hep-ph/9405262, Abstract | pdf | Phys. Rev. Lett.
    Research Activity
    • Shovkovy,Igor*. Research in Relativistic Plasma under Extreme Conditions. NSF-MPS-PHY (8/1/2022 - 7/31/2025).
    • Shovkovy,Igor*. Research in Quantum Field Theory: Anomalous Properties of Chiral Matter. NSF-MPS-PHY (8/1/2017 - 7/31/2022).
    • Shovkovy,Igor*. Research in quantum field theory: Relativistic matter in a magnetic field. NSF-MPS-PHY (7/15/2014 - 6/30/2018).
    • Shovkovy,Igor*. Relativistic Matter Under Extreme Conditions. NSF-MPS (9/1/2010 - 6/30/2014).
    Courses
    2024 Fall
    Course Number Course Title
    PHY 495 Project Research
    PHY 792 Research
    PHY 492 Honors Directed Study
    PHY 302 Mathematical Mthds Physics II
    PHY 495 Project Research
    2024 Spring
    Course Number Course Title
    PHY 495 Project Research
    PHY 792 Research
    PHY 799 Dissertation
    PHY 493 Honors Thesis
    PHY 201 Math Methods Physics I
    PHY 495 Project Research
    2023 Fall
    Course Number Course Title
    PHY 495 Project Research
    PHY 792 Research
    PHY 492 Honors Directed Study
    PHY 302 Mathematical Mthds Physics II
    PHY 495 Project Research
    2023 Summer
    Course Number Course Title
    PHY 495 Project Research
    2023 Spring
    Course Number Course Title
    PHY 495 Project Research
    PHY 792 Research
    PHY 799 Dissertation
    PHY 331 Prin Modern Electromagnetism
    PHY 493 Honors Thesis
    PHY 201 Math Methods Physics I
    PHY 495 Project Research
    PHY 799 Dissertation
    2022 Fall
    Course Number Course Title
    PHY 495 Project Research
    PHY 792 Research
    PHY 302 Mathematical Mthds Physics II
    PHY 361 Introductory Modern Physics
    2022 Spring
    Course Number Course Title
    PHY 495 Project Research
    PHY 792 Research
    PHY 799 Dissertation
    PHY 331 Prin Modern Electromagnetism
    PHY 493 Honors Thesis
    PHY 201 Math Methods Physics I
    PHY 495 Project Research
    2021 Fall
    Course Number Course Title
    PHY 495 Project Research
    PHY 792 Research
    2021 Spring
    Course Number Course Title
    PHY 495 Project Research
    PHY 792 Research
    PHY 799 Dissertation
    PHY 331 Prin Modern Electromagnetism
    PHY 493 Honors Thesis
    PHY 201 Math Methods Physics I
    2020 Fall
    Course Number Course Title
    PHY 792 Research
    PHY 302 Mathematical Mthds Physics II
    PHY 361 Introductory Modern Physics
    2020 Summer
    Course Number Course Title
    PHY 792 Research
    2020 Spring
    Course Number Course Title
    PHY 792 Research
    PHY 799 Dissertation
    PHY 331 Prin Modern Electromagnetism
    PHY 493 Honors Thesis
    PHY 201 Math Methods Physics I
    2019 Fall
    Course Number Course Title
    PHY 792 Research
    PHY 331 Prin Modern Electromagnetism
    PHY 302 Mathematical Mthds Physics II
    2019 Summer
    Course Number Course Title
    PHY 792 Research
    Editorships

    Editorial Board Member of Particles, an international, open access, peer- reviewed journal covering nuclear physics, particle physics and astrophysics (2022-now)

    Service
    • Creator, organizer, and host of the Theoretical Physics Colloquium series (2020-2023)
    • Search Committee for the inaugural Director of the School of Applied Sciences and Arts, College of Integrative Science and Arts, Chair (Spring 2023)
    • College Personnel Committee for Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty, College of Integrative Science and Arts, Co-Chair (2022-now)
    • University hearing board, Office of the University Provost, Member (Spring 2021)
    • University Promotion and Tenure Committee, Member (2017-2020)
    • University Senate, President-Elect (2016-2017), President (2017-2018) and Past-President (2018-2019) of the Polytechnic Campus Assembly 
    • Interim Physics Program Leader, Science and Mathematics Faculty, College of Letters and Sciences (Spring 2016)
    • University Undergraduate Standards Committee, Member (2013 - 2015)
    • Contract Faculty and IP Review Committee, Science and Mathematics Faculty, SLS, Member (2012) and Chair (2013 - 2015)
    • Multiple Search Committees, Science and Mathematics Faculty, College of Letters and Sciences, Chair (2014), Member (2015)
    Expertise Areas
    Cosmology, Particle, and Astrophysics
    High Energy Theory
    Nuclear Physics
    Theoretical Solid State Physics
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