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Teaching areas

Since joining AUS, I have taught the following physics courses: Preparatory Physics - PHY001;Conceptual Physics - PHY100; General Physics I- PHY101;General Physics II - PHY102;Physics for architects - PHY 104; Environmental physics - PHY 105; General Physics I- PHY101 Laboratory; General Physics II- PHY102 Laboratory; Modern Physics - PHY 201; PHY 394 Fundamentals of Nanophysics.

Research areas

My research is at the interface between theoretical condensed matter physics and quantum field and gauge theories. The language of these two disciplines helps me"To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour." I use powerful tools from relativistic quantum field theory to solve some strongly correlated condensed matter problems such as the fractional quantum Hall effect and Josephson junction arrays.

Education

PhD, Ph.d. In Theoretical Physics, University of Montreal, Canada, 1994

MS, Physics, Area Of Specialization: Dimerized Spin 1/2 Xy Model With Generalized Boundary Conditions And Conformal Invariance, Polytechnique school of Montreal, Canada, 1990

BS, Physics, University Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco, 1988

Professional experience

Associate Professor, College Of Arts And Sciences, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2007 - Present

Visiting Professor ,, University of British Columbia/Simon Fraser University, Canada, 2013 - 2014

Assistant Professor, College Of Arts And Sciences, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2000 - 2007

Instructor, Vancouver Community College, British Columbia, Canada, 1998 - 2000

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department Of Physics And Astronomy, University of British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada, 1995 - 1998

Research Associate, Department Of Physics, University of Concordia, Canada, 1995 - 1995

Research Associate, Subatomic Physics Laboratory, University of Montreal, Canada, 1994 - 1995

Teaching Assistant, Physics Department, University of Montreal, Canada, 1990 - 1994

Memberships

American Physical Society, APS, International, APS is a nonprofit membership organization working to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics through its outstanding research journals, scientific meetings, and education, outreach, advocacy, and international activities. APS represents over 55,000 members, including physicists in academia, national laboratories, and industry in the United States and throughout the world. Society offices are located in College Park, MD (Headquarters), Ridge, NY, and Washington., 2000 - 2007

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Dr. Said Sakhi

Professor

PhD, University of Montreal, Canada

Said Sakhi's research interest is at the interface between condensed matter and particle physics, where he applies techniques from quantum field theory to investigate quantum phase transitions in two dimensions, the fractional quantum Hall effect and the dynamics of Cooper pairs and vortices in Josephson junction arrays. Prior to his appointment at AUS, he was a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia and a research associate at the University of Concordia in Montreal.

Publications

Said Sakhi. Phi^6 model coupled to critical fermions with spontaneously broken scale symmetry, Physical Review D

Yahya Sheikh, Mohammad Hamdan And Said Sakhi. A review on encapsulated phase change materials (EPCM) used for thermal management and energy storage systems: fundamentals, materials, synthesis and applications, Journal Of Energy Storage

Said Sakhi. Instability of the phi^6 model with spontaneously broken scale symmetry, Journal Of Phys. Communications., 29 September 2022

Said Sakhi. Quantum materials modelling by Dirac fermions and the emergence of Chiral and Scale Anomalies, Aip Conference Proceedings 2440, 030010 (2022);, 20 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2022

Said Sakhi. Renormalization functions of the tricritical O(N)-symmetric Φ6 model beyond the next-to-leading order in 1/N., J. Phys. Commun., 14 May 2021

Said Sakhi. Quantum materials modelling by Dirac fermions and the emergence of Chiral and Scale Anomalies, Aip Conference Proceedings.

Said Sakhi. Tricritical behavior in a Chern-Simons gauge field theory, Journal Of Physics: Conference Series, 1 October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2019

Said Sakhi And Prasanta Panigrahi. Bifurcation of fixed points in a O(N)-symmetric (2 + 1)-dimensional gauged Φ6 theory with a Chern-Simons term, Physical Review D, 22 February 2019

Said Sakhi. Tricritical behavior in the Chern-Simons-Ginzburg-Landau theory of self-dual Josephson junction arrays, Physical Review D, 30 May 2018

Said Sakhi. Multi-critical behaviour in a self-dual Josephson junction array –fixed dimension renormalization versus large-N technique, Journal Of Physics: Conf. Series 807 (2017) 102003., 2017

Said Sakhi And Adil Patel. Magnetic phenomena in exchange coupled spin systems, Iop Journal Of Physics: Conf. Series. J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 869, 012037 (2017)https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/869/1/012037, July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2017

Ali Alnaser, Shahin Abdel-naby, Raza Syed, Said Sakhi, Yousef Salamin, Mehmet Egilmez, Sami El-khatib, Nasser Hamdan, Nidhal Guessoum And Tariq Majeed. Preface, 11 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2017

Ali Alnaser, Shahin Abdel Naby, Raza Syed, Said Sakhi, Yousef Salamin, Mehmet Egilmez, Sami El-khatib, Nasser Hamdan, Nidhal Guessoum And Tariq Majeed. Preface, 11 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2017

Said Sakhi. Large-N analysis of the critical behavior of the topological Ginzburg-Landau theory of self-dual Josephson junction arrays, Physical Review D (particles, Fields, Gravitation And Cosmology), 1 August 2014

Said Sakhi. Quantum critical properties in the topological Ginzburg–Landau theory of self-dual Josephson junction arrays, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics And Its Applications (issn 0378-4371), 14 August 2013

Said Sakhi. The response functions of self-dual Josephson junctionarrays near the quantum phase transition, Journal Of Physics A: Mathematical And Theoretical, 11 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2012

Said Sakhi. Effects of radiative corrections on a quantum disordered self-dual Josephson junction array, J Low Temp Phys, February 2010

Said Sakhi. The phase diagram of quantum disordered superconducting networks,, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser., 2009

Said Sakhi. The quantum effective potential of a self-dual Josephson Junction array, Europhysics Letters (epl), 1 August 2009

Said Sakhi. Quantum disordering effects in bilayer Josephson junction arrays, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor., 1 February 2008

Said Sakhi. Bilayer Self-dual Josephson junction arrays, Physical Review B, 1 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2006

Said Sakhi. Vortex dynamics in coupled layers of Josephson Junctions arrays, Rom. Journ. Phys., 2005

Said Sakhi. Landau-Ginzburg approach to topological excitations in Josephson junction arrays, Europhysics Letters, 1 December 2005

Said Sakhi. Quantum Hall states and Drag effect in capacitively coupled double-layered Josephson Junctions arrays, Physical Review B, 1 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2005

Said Sakhi. Periodic density modulation effects on a correlated two-dimensional composite fermion system, Physical Review B, 1 August 2001

Said Sakhi. Coulomb drag in double layer electron systems at even denominator filling factors, Physical Review B, 1 August 1997

Said Sakhi And P. Vasilopoulos. Correlation effects in double quantum-well systems, Physical Review B, 1 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 1997

Said Sakhi. Spontaneous symmetry breaking in a 2+1-dimensional four-Fermi gauge-field theory at finite temperature and within a large-N scheme, Physical Review B, 1 March 1997

Richard Mackenzie, Prasanta Panigrahi And Said Sakhi. Superconductivity in a 2+1 dimensional model through the Kosterlitz-Thouless mechanism: Large N and finite temperature analyses, International Journal Of Modern Physics A (ijmpa), 1 August 1994

Said Sakhi. Effective action of a 2+1 dimensional model of nonrelativistic fermions submitted to a uniform magnetic field: dissipation effects, Physical Review B, 1 May 1994

Richard Mackenzie, Prasanta Panigrahi, Manu Paranjape And Said Sakhi. On the quantization of identical particles, Teoreticheskaya I Matematicheskaya Fizika, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 1994

Richard Mackenzie, Prasanta Panigrahi And Said Sakhi. Superconductivity in a planar field theory via the Kosterlitz-Thouless mechanism, Physical Review B (condensed Matter And Materials Physics), 1 August 1993

Sakhi Said And G Spronken. XY model and conformal invariance, Report Udem-lpn-th-48/1990, September 1990

Conference Presentations

Instability of the phase of the phi^6 model with spontaneously broken scale invariance, 9th International Conference On Modeling, Simulation And Applied Optimization Held In Marrakech, Morocco On April 26-28, 2023, 27 April 2022

Theoretical foundation of Josephson junction dynamics, Summer School Qiqt-2021, June 2021

Quantum materials modelling by Dirac fermions and the emergence of Chiral and Scale Anomalies, The 4th International Conference On Materials Engineering And Nanotechnology (icmen 2021), 3 April 2021

RG flows and bifurcations in the O(N) | Φ |^6 Chern-Simons gauge model, International Conference On Strongly Correlated Electron Systems (sces2019), 26 September 2019

Tricritical behavior in a Chern-Simons gauge field theory, First Sharjah International Conference On Particle Physics, Astrophysics And Cosmology (fisicpac), 12 November 2018

Tricritical behavior in the Chern-Simons-Ginzburg-Landau theory of Josephson junction arrays., Topological States In Strongly Interacting Light-matter Systems, 19 March 2018

Quantum criticality in a self-dual topological Ginzburg-Landau theory of Josephson junction arrays. Poster presentation, International Conference On Quantum Criticality And Novel Phases (qcnp), 26 February 2017

Multi-critical behaviour in a self-dual Josephson junction array –fixed dimension renormalization versus large-N technique, International Conference Of Strongly Correlated Electron Systems (sces) 2016,, May 2016

Critical Behavior of a topological theory of self-dual Josephson junction arrays using large N technique, Schladming Winter School, 1 March 2015

Quantum critical properties in the topological Ginzburg-Landau theory of self-dual Josephson junction arrays, International Symposium On Quantum Fluids And Solids, 1 August 2013

Quantum dissipation and the response functions of self-dual Josephson junction arrays near the quantum phase transition. Poster presentation, 18 March 2012

Dissipation of mobile vortices in self-dual Josephson junction arrays, 21 March 2011

Effects of radiative corrections on a quantum disordered self-dual Josephson junction array, International Symposium On Quantum Fluids And Solids, 5 August 2009

The Radiative corrections to the effective potential of Josephson junction array systems, Internationa Conference On Cold Atoms, 12 December 2008

The phase diagram of quantum disordered superconducting networks,, 25th International Conference On Low Temperature Physics (lt25), The Netherlands., 6 August 2008

Quantum disordering and the phase diagram of Josephson junction arrays, Montreal University Joint High Energy Physics Seminars With Mcgill University, 4 June 2007

Effective field theory of self-dual Josephson junction arrays, International Focus Workshop On Mobile Fermions And Bosons On Frustrated Lattices, 10 January 2007

Effects of topological excitations in Josephson junction arrays, The American Physical Society, Aps March Meeting, 13 March 2006

Dynamics of vorticies and Cooper charges in two coupled layers of Josephson junction arrays (JJA) and the formation of quantum Hall states, American Physical Society, March Meeting, 22 March 2004

Non-perturbative QCD, Non-perturbative Qcd -- Structure Of The Qcd Vacuum. Yukawa Institute For Theoretical Physics, 2 December 1997

Charge density oscillations in a quasi-two-dimensional electron gas for integer filling factors, Canadian Association Of Physicists Conference, June 1995

Charge density oscillations in a quasi-two-dimensional electron gas for integer filling factors, Condensed Matter Workshop, February 1995

Magnetoplasmon excitations in nonrelativistic 2D-fermions, French Canadian Association For Advancement In Science Congress, June 1994

Superconductivity in 2+1 dimensions via Kosterlitz-Thouless mechanism – Large N and finite temperature analysis, Canadian Association Of Physicists Conference, June 1993

Quantum groups and integrable systems in statistical mechanics and field theory,, Summer School, Quantum Groups And Integrable Systems, June 1992

Dimerized spin 1/2 XY model with generalized boundary conditions and conformal invariance, American Physical Society, March Meeting, March 1990

Grants and sponsorships

Grant, Faculty Research Grant 2021 (FRG21-S-S22), AUS, 1 June 2021

Sponsored Research, Awarded a sabbatical leave for Spring 2021, AUS, 1 January 2021 - 27 May 2021

Grant, Faculty Research Grant 2020 (FRG20) (Course release+4000aed), AUS

Grant, Travel Grant to participate at International Conference on Strongly Correlated Electron Systems 2019. Okayama Convention Center in Okayama, Japan., AUS, 22 September 2019 - 28 September 2019

Grant, Faculty Research Grant 2019 (FRG19), AUS, 1 May 2019 - 31 May 2019

Fellowship, NSERC award from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, NSERC, Canada, September 1995 - August 1997

Awards and Honors

Sabbatical leave for Spring 2021, AUS, Awarded a sabbatical leave for Spring 2021 to carry out work on a condensed matter system near its quantum critical point at the Department of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata,, 21 May 2020

NSERC award from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, 1995 - 1997, NSERC Canada, 4 September 1995

Postgraduate scholarship award from University of Montreal, University of Montreal, September 1993

Best student presentation at the annual congress of Canadian Association of Physicists, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canadian Association of Physicists, Nominated for the best student presentation at the annual congress of Canadian Association of Physicists, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, 1993. • Postgraduate scholarship award from University of Montreal, 1993 - 1994. Award for the best undergraduate student’s achievement from the Ministry of higher education, Morocco 1988., June 1993

Best undergraduate student’s achievement, Ministry of higher education, Morocco, June 1988