Mihailo Cubrović
mihailo [dot] cubrovic [at] scl [dot] rs

Research interests:

Problems at the interface of strongly correlated systems and high-energy theory, studying critical and non-equilibrium behavior in various systems with help of ideas from field- and string theory, in particular:

• AdS/CFT correspondence and dual gravity description of strongly coupled field theories
• non-Fermi liquids and quantum-critical electrons, search for novel phases of matter
• confinement/deconfinement transition in many-body systems, in particular heavy-fermion materials and Quantum Hall systems
• description of thermalization and equilibration through thermo-field dynamics; critical  behavior in thermalization
• vortices, solitons and topology in nonlinear optics and analogies with condensed-matter systems

Selected Publications:

• M. Cubrovic, J. Zaanen, and K. Schalm: "String Theory, Quantum Phase Transitions, and the Emergent Fermi Liquid", Science 325, 439 (2009).
  
• M. Cubrovic, J. Zaanen, and K. Schalm: "Constructing the AdS Dual of a Fermi Liquid: AdS Black Holes with Dirac Hair", JHEP 10, 017 (2011).
  
• M. V. Medvedyeva, E. Gubankova, M. Cubrovic, K. Schalm, and J. Zaanen: "Quantum Corrected Phase Diagram of Holographic Fermions", JHEP 12, 025 (2013).
  
• M. Cubrovic and M. Petrovic: "Quantum Criticality in Photorefractive Optics: Vortices in Laser Beams and Antiferromagnets", Phys. Rev. A 96, 053824 (2017).
  
• M. Cubrovic: "The Bound on Chaos for Closed Strings in Anti-de Sitter Black Hole Backgrounds", JHEP 1912, 150 (2019).
  
• M. Cubrovic: "Replicas, Averaging and Factorization in the IIB Matrix Model", JHEP 2022, 136 (2022).