Faculty & Staff Directory
Igor Mazin
- Professor of Practice in Advanced Studies in Theoretical Physics (Condensed Matter Theory)
Contact Info
- Name
- Dr. Igor I. Mazin
- Job Title
- Professor of Practice in Advanced Studies in Theoretical Physics (Condensed Matter Theory)
- Website
- Phone Number
- Office Number
- Planetary Hall, Room 119, MSN 3F3
Affiliations
Departments
- Physics & Astronomy Department (Research Faculty)
- Physics & Astronomy Department (Faculty)
Centers
- Quantum Science and Engineering Center
Research Areas
- Materials Science
- Physics
Education
- Ph.D., Theoretical Physics,P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow (1984)
- M.S., Physics of Metals, Moscow Institute for Steel and Alloys (1977)
About
I was born in Moscow, USSR, in 1955. I got my PhD in theoretical physics in 1984 from the P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow. In 1989-1994, I was a Humboldt Fellow and later a research staff member at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Germany. In 1994-1996, I was a research associate at the Geophysical Lab of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. From 2010 to 2019, I worked at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. In 2019, I retired and assumed a position as a professor at GMU.
Current Research
I am mostly, albeit not entirely, a computational theorist specializing in superconducting, magnetic, optical, and other properties of real materials. For instance, in 2018, I received the Bardeen Prize in Theory of Superconductivity "for influential first-principles theoretical approaches to a broad class of multi-orbital superconductors".
Teaching Focus
I am trying to flip the classroom as much as possible. I see little value in repeating to my students what they can read in their textbooks. Rather, I focus on solving real problems and on thinking outside the box.
Selected Publications
- I.I. Mazin, D.J. Singh, M.D. Johannes, and M.H. Du, Unconventional sign-reversing superconductivity in LaFeAsO1-xFx, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 057003, 2008
- A. Y. Liu, I. I. Mazin, J. Kortus, Beyond Eliashberg superconductivity in MgB2: anharmonicity, two-phonon scattering, and multiple gaps, Phys. Rev. Lett., 87, 87005, 2001
- Gap symmetry and structure of Fe-based superconductors. P.J. Hirschfeld, M.M. Korshunov, I.I. Mazin. Reports on Progress in Physics 74, 124508, 2011
- Superconductivity gets an iron boost. I. I. Mazin, Nature, 464, 183, 2010
How to define and calculate the degree of spin polarization in ferromagnets. I.I. Mazin, Phys. Rev. Lett., 83, 1427, 1999
My nearly complete publication list is available at https://mason.gmu.edu/~imazin2/list.html. If you want to learn more about my work and my background, I recommend #175, #199, #246, #267, #302, and #318.
Awards
- State Prize for Young Scientists of the USSR (1989)
- Fellow of American Physical Society (1997)
- John Bardeen Prize (2018)
- Heraeus Research Award (2018)
Contact Info
- Name
- Dr. Igor I. Mazin
- Job Title
- Professor of Practice in Advanced Studies in Theoretical Physics (Condensed Matter Theory)
- Website
- Phone Number
- Office Number
- Planetary Hall, Room 119, MSN 3F3