Tamar (Tami) Pereg-Barnea
Physics department,
California Institute of Technology,
MC 114-36, Pasadena, CA 91125
e-mail: tamipb(at)caltech(dot)edu
website: www.its.caltech.edu/~tamarp
Date of birth: April 24, 1974, Israel 
Citizenships: Israeli, Canadian

Employment
Aug. 2011 – Assistant professor, McGill University
Sept. 2008 – present Postdoctoral fellow, California Institute of Technology
2005 – 2008 Postdoctoral fellow, the University of Texas, Austin

Education

2005 Ph.D., Physics, the University of British Columbia.

2001 M.Sc., Physics, the University of British Columbia.

1999 B.Sc., Physics and Computer Science, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Awards and Distinctions

2005-2007	NSERC PDF (National Science and Engineering Research council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship)	University of Texas at Austin
2005	Postdoctoral Prize Fellowships in Theoretical Physics (declined)	California institute of Technology
2004	KITP (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics) graduate fellowship	UC Santa Barbara
2002-2004	NSERC PSGB (National Science and Engineering Research council of Canada Post Graduate award)	University of British Columbia
2001-2002	University Graduate Fellowship (UGF)	University of British Columbia
2001-2002	Jack Davis affiliated award	University of British Columbia
2000	University fellowship	Hebrew University
2000- 2001	Excellence award for incoming graduate students	Hebrew University
1997	Dean of science list for undergraduate students	Hebrew University

Research Experience

2008-present California Institute of Technology, postdoctoral researcher
Research topics include quantum oscillations in the high T_c cuprates,
Klein tunneling in distorted honeycomb lattices, Iron based
superconductivity and topological insulators.
Advisor: Gil Refael

2005-2008	The University of Texas, postdoctoral researcher. Research topics include coulomb interactions, impurities, quantum interference and edge states in graphene, orbital order in perovskite systems, orbitally degenerate 2D systems in hetero-junctions, high Tc and unconventional superconductivity. Advisor: Allan H. MacDonald
2001-2005	The University of British Columbia, Ph.D. Research focused on high Tc superconductivity and gauge field theories. Advisor: Marcel Franz.
2000-2001	The University of British Columbia, M.Sc. Research in high Tc superconductivity, analysis of zero field ESR experiments. Advisor: Walter N. Hardy.

Teaching and other Work Experience

2010 – present California Institute of Technology, co-supervisor of a
Graduate student in his research work.

2009 – 2010 California Institute of Technology, co-supervisor of an
undergraduate student in a senior’s thesis research.

Summer 2009 California Institute of Technology, mentor of an undergraduate
student fellow. Responsibilities include the assignment of an
appropriate research problem, guidance in the study of background
material and in performing calculations.

2005-2008 The University of Texas, co-supervisor of two graduate students in the
study of graphene.

2000-2005	The University of British Columbia, graduate teaching assistantship. - Grader for a graduate condensed matter course - Grader for an advanced undergraduate thermodynamics course - Tutorial lecturer of a first year physics course - Lab instructor of a first year physics course
1999-2000	Physics department, Hebrew University, graduate teaching assistantship. - Second year physics honours lab instructor.
1998-2000	Intel Corporation, Israel, Network products design centre. Computer programmer, Principal responsibilities include: - Design and implementation of a virtual environment for a network control device at its development stage. - Preparation and teaching of a course for engineers on the simulation environment usage.

Other Activities

2006	Served on the organizing committee of the “Emerging Themes in Physics” workshop. (http://www.ph.utexas.edu/ETP-2006)
2004- present	Referee for Physical Review Letters and Physical review B.
2003-2004	Co-organized a student-run theory seminar (UBC)
2003	Served on the CIAR Quantum materials summer school organizing committee (UBC)
2000	Volunteer math teacher for small groups of high-school students in Jerusalem.
1994-1995	Army service, the Israeli Defense Force.
1992-1993	Volunteer youth leader in a disadvantaged community in Israel.

Invited Talks

Disorder as a Window to the Fermi Sea

Physics Colloquium College of William and Mary, January 2010.

Physics Colloquium McGill University, February 2010.

Physics Colloquium Rice University, February 2010.

Quantum oscillations from Fermi arcs

California Condensed Matter Theory Meeting, University of California, Riverside, November 2008.

Condensed matter seminar, UC Riverside, March 2009
Quantum vortices workshop, Aspen center of physics, July 2009

Correlations and disorder in graphene

Physics colloquium, Wake Forest University, January 2008

American Physical Society March meeting 2008

Condensed matter seminar, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, July 2008

Condensed matter seminar, The Israeli Institute of Technology (Technion),
July 2008.

High Tc Superconductivity: From a phase fluctuating superconductor to normal modes of a Cooper pair Wigner crystal
Condensed matter seminar, California Institute of Technology, October 2006.
Condensed matter seminar, Texas A&M University, April 2006.
Physics colloquium, McMaster University, March 2006.

Condensed matter seminar, The Hebrew University, January 2006.

Condensed matter seminar, University of Texas, December 2005.

Andreev Edge states on a Triangular Lattice: Detecting the pairing symmetry of Na_0.35CoO₂^.yH₂O

Condensed matter seminar, University of Colorado at Boulder, March 2005.
Condensed matter seminar, Boston University, February 2005.

Condensed matter seminar, Harvard University, February 2005.

Condensed matter seminar, University of Toronto, Janurary 2005.

Condensed matter seminar, University of Waterloo, Janurary 2005.

Condensed matter seminar, The Israeli Institute of Technology (Technion), December 2004.

Interference of quasiparticles and theories of the high Tc superconductors
Condensed matter seminar, KITP Santa-Barbara, January 2004.

Condensed matter seminar, Hebrew University, December 2003.

Condensed matter seminar, University of British Columbia, December 2003.

High T_c superconductivity and the QED₃ theory of the cuprates
Boulder summer-school, July 2003.

Coexistence of Antiferromagnetism and superconductivity in QED₃

SFU-UBC monthly meeting, October 2002.

AC conductivity in QED₃

CIAR superconductivity summer school, McMaster, May 2002.

Zero Field ESR – A novel Technique for measuring the London penetration depth
Strongly correlated electron systems winter school, Jerusalem, December 2001
CIAR superconductivity summer school, Sherbrook, May 2001

Publications

1. Coexistence of bulk antiferromagnetic order and superconductivity in the QED₃

theory of copper oxides.

T. Pereg-Barnea and M. Franz, Phys. Rev. B 67, 060503(R) (2003).

2. Gauge invariant response functions in Algebraic Fermi liquids.

M. Franz, T. Pereg-Barnea, D.E. Sheehy and Z. Tesanovic,

Phys. Rev. B 68, 024508(2003).

3. Theory of the quasiparticle interference patterns in the pseudogap phase of the cuprate

superconductors.

T. Pereg-Barnea and M.Franz,

Phys. Rev. B 68, 180506(R) (2003).

4. Absolute values of the London penetration depth in YBa₂Cu₃O_6+y measured by zero

field ESR on Gd doped crystals.

T. Pereg-Barnea P.J Turner, R. Harris, G. K. Mullins, J. S. Bobowski, M. Raudsepp,

Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn and W. N. Hardy,

Phys. Rev. B 69, 18513 (2004).

5. Quasiparticle interference patterns as a test for the nature of the pseudogap phase in

the cuprate superconductors.

T. Pereg-Barnea and M.Franz,

Int. J. of Mod. Phys. B 19, 731 (2004).

6. Andreev Edge State on Semi-Infinite Triangular Lattice: Detecting the Pairing

Symmetry in Na_0.35CoO₂.yH₂O.

T. Pereg-Barnea and Hsiu-Hau Lin,

Euro. Phys. Lett. 69, 791 (2005).

7. Duality and the vibrational modes of a Cooper-pair Wigner crystal
T. Pereg-Barnea and M.Franz,

Phys. Rev. B 74, 014518 (2006).

8. Chirality and Correlations in Graphene
Yafis Barlas, T. Pereg-Barnea, Marco Polini, Reza Asgari and A.H. MacDonald,

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 23661 (2007).

9. Graphene: A Pseudochiral Fermi Liquid
Marco Polini, Reza Asgari, Yafis Barlas, T. Pereg-Barnea and A.H. MacDonald ,

Solid State Communications 143, 58 (2007).

10. The Role of Electron-electron Interactions in Graphene ARPES Spectra

Marco Polini, Reza Asgari, Giovanni Borghi, Yafis Barlas, T. Pereg-Barnea,
A.H. MacDonald,

Phys. Rev. B 77, 081411(R) (2008).

11. Chiral quasiparticle local density of states maps in graphene

T. Pereg-Barnea, and A.H. MacDonald,

Phys. Rev. B 78, 014201 (2008).

12. Magnetic field evolution of the quasiparticle interference in a d-wave superconductor
T. Pereg-Barnea, and M. Franz,

Phys. Rev. B 78, 020509 (2008).

13. Theory of inter-edge superexchange in zigzag edge magnetism

J. Jung, T. Pereg-Barnea and A. H. MacDonald,

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 227205 (2009)

14. Quantum oscillations from Fermi arcs
T. Pereg-Barnea, H. Weber, G. Refael, M. Franz, accepted for publication in Nature
Physics (doi:10.1038)

15. Klein tunneling of light in anisotropic optical graphene

O. Bahat-Treidel, O. Peleg, M. Grobman, N. Shapira, T. Pereg-Barnea and M. Segev,

arXiv:0905.4278 unpublished

16. Vortex as a probe - suggested measurement of the order parameter structure in iron-
based superconductors

Eugeniu Plamadeala, T. Pereg-Barnea and Gil Refael unpublished