Stefan Patchedjiev

After graduating from Canada's Dalhousie University, I worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. John Whitehead's research group at Memorial University of Newfoundland

We study the magnetic ordering in antimagnetic and ferromagnetic systems. More specifically, we use extensive Monte Carlo simulations to examine the effects of dilution of vacancies on the phase transitions in these systems. Interestingly, the vacancies sometimes induce global order. This happens even when they are distributed randomly on the surface. This strange phenomenon is named "order out of disorder".

 Scientific research interests include: Surface adsorption-desorption phenomena. Nonequilibrium thermodynamics on surfaces and Monte Carlo simulations.