Welcome to Peter Denteneer's home page:

Who am I:

Lecturer (universitair docent) at the Instituut-Lorentz of
the Leiden Institute of Physics (LION) of Universiteit Leiden.
My coordinates:
Dr. P.J.H. Denteneer
Instituut-Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, LION
Leiden University
P.O. Box 9506, 2300 RA Leiden
The Netherlands
My e-mail address can be found here
071-527 5508 (office)
071-527 5511 (fax)

Onderwijs

(bachelor: QM2 - voorjaar 2010)

Econophysics

(2009/2010)

Teaching

(master: QT - Fall 2009)

Research Miscellaneous

Research:

General area: Condensed Matter Theory and Statistical Physics

Selection of notable publications:

* PRL2009: My shortest-title-ever paper: Feshbach-Einstein condensates. Using a new numerical quantum Monte Carlo algorithm we study condensed phases of mixtures of ultracold atoms and molecules created via Feshbach-resonance interaction. We find a new quantum phase: the super-Mott phase, which has characteristics of both superfluids and (Mott) insulators. We also find opportunity to dissociate the name Bose from atomic and molecular condensates (appropriate since Bose never envisioned this possibility); published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 015301 (2009); also available as e-print cond-mat/0810.3763; authors: Valéry Rousseau and PJHD (Univ. Leiden, NL).

* PRL2005: on the visibility of absorption images as obtained from ultracold bosonic atoms in their superfluid and Mott-insulating phases; the observed, but unexplained, kinks in experiment are also found in our numerical simulations and are now better understood; published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 220402 (2005); also available as e-print cond-mat/0509560; authors: Pinaki Sengupta (UC Riverside, USA), Marcos Rigol (UC Davis, USA), George Batrouni (INLN, Nice, France), PJHD (Univ. Leiden, NL), and Richard Scalettar (UC Davis, USA).

* PRL2004: on what happens if a cold, dilute Bose gas is confined to one spatial dimension (e.g. by using lasers) and the repulsive interaction between bosons gets very large; the bosons become almost like fermions, but not quite! This new state of quantum matter is called a Tonks-Girardeau gas; published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 210401 (2004); also available as e-print cond-mat/0408596; authors: Lode Pollet, Stefan Rombouts (Univ. Gent, Belgium) and PJHD (Univ. Leiden, NL).

* PRL2003: on the effect of a Zeeman magnetic field (coupling just to spin, not orbit of electrons) on a two-dimensional disordered electronic system; published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 246401 (2003); also available as e-print cond-mat/0302576; co-author: Richard Scalettar (UC Davis, USA).

* PRL2002: on the 1D Bose-Hubbard model in a harmonic trap, relevant to Bose condensates of ultracold atoms captured in optical lattices of criss-crossing laser beams; published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 117203 (2002); also available as e-print cond-mat/0203082; authors: George Batrouni, Valéry Rousseau (INLN, Nice, France), Richard Scalettar (UC Davis, USA), Marcos Rigol, Alejandro Muramatsu (Univ. Stuttgart, Germany), PJHD (Univ. Leiden, NL) and Matthias Troyer (ETH Zürich, Switzerland). This paper has been cited more than 100 times in the five years after it's publication!

* PRL2001: on the role of symmetry in the effect of disorder on the Mott-Hubbard insulator; published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 146401 (2001); also available as e-print cond-mat/0106204; co-authors: Richard Scalettar (UC Davis, USA) and Nandini Trivedi (Tata Institute, Mumbai, India).

* PRL1999: on the possibility of a metal to insulator transition in a two-dimensional interacting disordered electronic system; published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4610-4613 (1999); also available as e-print cond-mat/9907246; co-authors: Richard Scalettar (UC Davis, USA) and Nandini Trivedi (Tata Institute, Mumbai, India).

* Full list of my publications and writings (text).

* Top-10 of my most-cited publications (text).

* Top-10 of my most-frequent co-authors (text).

* Promo for prospective master thesis students (text and picture).


Econophysics in Leiden:

Voorjaar 2010:
Het college Econofysica (gericht op derdejaars bachelor studenten natuurkunde en sterrenkunde) wordt gehouden op 8 maandagen in januari, februari en maart 2010.

Het college wordt gegeven door 4 verschillende docenten:

  • Dr. Peter Denteneer (Instituut-Lorentz, Univ. Leiden): ma 11 jan., 1 feb. 2010
  • Dr.ir. Fedor van Mullem (Rabo): ma 18 en 25 jan. 2010
  • Dr. Vincenzo Vitelli (Instituut-Lorentz, Univ. Leiden): ma 8 en 15 feb. 2010
  • Prof.dr. Marcel Ausloos (Univ. Luik, België): ma 22 feb., 1 maart 2010

In de regel wordt van 11:15-13u college gegeven en van 13:45-14:30u een opgaven/discussie sessie gehouden. Nadere informatie en details worden gegeven via het Blackboard systeem.

Najaar 2009:
Introductie colleges Econophysics in oktober/november 2009 door Dr.ir. Fedor van Mullem (Rabobank), Dr. Peter Denteneer (Instituut-Lorentz, Universiteit Leiden) en Prof.dr. Harry van Zanten (TU Eindhoven, EURANDOM).

*** Collegemateriaal: ***

  • College I

    (Dr.ir. Fedor van Mullem, 15 oktober 2009): Financiële markten en instrumenten.

  • College II

    (Dr. Peter Denteneer, 22 oktober 2009): Het standaard model van de financiële wiskunde:

    het Merton-Black-Scholes model voor de prijs van een optie.

  • College III

    (Prof.dr. Harry van Zanten, 5 november 2009): Voorbij het Black-Scholes-Merton model.


Onderwijs (in Dutch):

* College Quantummechanica 2 (voorjaar 2010): alle informatie wordt gegeven via het blackboard systeem.

* Colleges verzorgd in eerdere jaren:


Teaching (in English):

* Course Quantum Theory (Fall 2009): Text books and course description

*** !! Latest news Quantum Theory!! ***

(Oct.6, 2009) From now on all info on the QT course (incl. problem sets) will be given via Blackboard.

(Sept.30, 2009) The tentative date for the exam is Friday Jan.15, 2010 (place and time will be announced later).

(Sept.29, 2009) The hand-in problem of problem set 2 (see below) is Problem 10.

(Sept.22, 2009) Problem set 2 is posted (below); hand-in problem to be announced later; Problems 8 to 10 can be done with the material discussed in the first 3 lectures (up to page 109 of Le Bellac), the others after lecture 4 of Sept.29.

(Sept.15, 2009) The hand-in problem of the first problem session (see below) is Problem 7. Your worked-out solution to the hand-in problem can be put in the mailbox of the teaching assistant, Jörn Venderbos, in room Oort 253. The deadline is the Tuesday in the week after the problem session. Your corrected work will generally be available at the next problem session.

(Sept.8, 2009) The first set of problems is posted below; you can start already!

(July 14, 2009) First problem session QT: Tuesday Sept. 15, 2009, in HL204 (13:45-15:30h)

(July 14, 2009) First lecture QT: Tuesday Sept. 8, 2009, in HL204 (11.15-13h)

(July 14, 2009) The course Quantum Theory in Fall 2009 will resemble that of Fall 2008 (see below), but will differ in details.
In particular, the text book is again Quantum Physics by M. Le Bellac. More information will follow here and/or via Blackboard.

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*** Problem Sessions Quantum Theory *** (Tuesday, 13:45-15:30h, HL204)

  • Teaching assistant:

    MSc. Jörn Venderbos (venderbos@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl, office: Oort 268)

  • Dates and problem sets:

    Problem session 1: Tuesday Sep. 15, 2009; Chapter 2 and 3; Problem Set 1.
    Problem session 2: Tuesday Sep. 29, 2009; Chapter 3 and 4; Problem Set 2.
    Problem session 3: Tuesday Oct. 13, 2009; Chapter 6; Problem Set 3 posted on Blackboard.
    Problem session 4: Tuesday Oct. 27, 2009;
    Problem session 5: Tuesday Nov. 10, 2009;
    Problem session 6: Tuesday Nov. 24, 2009;
    Problem session 7: Tuesday Dec.   8, 2009;

*** Exam Quantum Theory ***

  • Date:

    Friday January 15, 2010

  • Time & Place:

    10-13h, HL 226/228 (Huygens Lab)

  • Format:

    Written exam; no books, notes or formula sheets may be used during the exam.

  • Material to be studied (for the exam of January 2010):

    * Textbook Quantum Physics - Le Bellac: Ch.1 (introductory reading material; no detailed knowledge required), Ch.2, Ch.3 (section 3.1.3 can be skipped for exam), Ch.4, Ch.5 (not treated in detail; study superficially), Ch.6 (sections 6.3.3 and further can be skipped for exam), Ch.7, Ch.8 (sections 8.1, 8.3.3 and 8.4 can be skipped for exam), Ch.9 (only section 9.1 is exam material), Ch.11 (the Fresnel representation on p.382-383 can be skipped; also section 11.4.2 was skipped).
    * Second Quantization: Le Bellac, p.438-442, plus detailed lecture notes Denteneer (version of Fall 2009, see Blackboard).
    * Path Integrals: Ch.8 from textbook by Townsend; see additional material handout.
    * The 39 problems from Problem Sets 1 to 7 of Fall 2009 (see Blackboard/Assignments).

  • Previous exams:

    Examples of previous Quantum Theory exams: exam of January 2007, exam of January 2008 and exam of January 2009.

* Lecture courses in previous years: 2001/2002 , 2006/2007, 2007/2008, 2008/2009


Miscellaneous: