Selected publications

Overview

Review Articles

Thomas Vojta, Disorder in Quantum Many-Body Systems, Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys. 10, 233 (2019), arXiv:1806.05611
Thomas Vojta, Phases and phase transitions in disordered quantum systems, arXiv:1301.7746 (Pedagogical introduction to strong disorder physics at quantum phase transitions. Based on lectures given at the XVII Training Course in the Physics of Strongly Correlated Systems in Vietri sul Mare, Italy in October 2012)
Thomas Vojta, Quantum Griffiths Effects and Smeared Phase Transitions in Metals: Theory and Experiment, J. Low Temp. Phys. 161, 299-323 (2010), arXiv:1005.2707
Thomas Vojta, Computing quantum phase transitions, Reviews in Computational Chemistry 26, 167-221 (2008), arxiv:0709.0964
Thomas Vojta, Rare region effects at classical, quantum and nonequilibrium phase transitions, J. Phys. A 39, R143-R205 (2006), cond-mat/0602312
D. Belitz, T.R. Kirkpatrick, and Thomas Vojta, How generic scale invariance influences quantum and classical phase transitions, Rev. Mod. Phys. 77, 579-632 (2005), cond-mat/0403182
Thomas Vojta, Quantum Phase Transitions in Electronic Systems, Annalen der Physik 9, 403-440 (2000), cond-mat/9910514

Quantum Phase Transions and Disorder

P. Reiss, D. Graf, A.A. Haghighirad, T. Vojta and A.I. Coldea, Signatures of a Quantum Griffiths Phase close to an Electronic Nematic Quantum Phase Transition, Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 246402 (2021), arXiv:2103.07991
M. Puschmann, J. Crewse, J.A. Hoyos and T. Vojta, Collective Modes at a Disordered Quantum Phase Transition, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 027002 (2020), arXiv:1911.04452
Ruizhe Wang, Adane Gebretsadik, Sara Ubaid-Kassis, Almut Schroeder, Thomas Vojta, Peter J. Baker, Francis L. Pratt, Stephen J. Blundell, Tom Lancaster, Isabel Franke, Johannes S. Möller, and Katharine Page, Quantum Griffiths Phase Inside the Ferromagnetic Phase of Ni1-xVx, Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 267202 (2017), arXiv:1612.07207
Hatem Barghathi and Thomas Vojta, Phase transitions on random lattices: How random is topological disorder?, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 120602 (2014), arXiv:1402.4425
L. Demkó, S. Bordács, T. Vojta, D. Nozadze, F. Hrahsheh, C. Svoboda, B. Dóra, H. Yamada, M. Kawasaki, Y. Tokura, and I. Kézsmárki, Disorder promotes ferromagnetism: Rounding of the quantum phase transition in Sr$_{1-x}$Ca$_x$RuO$_3$, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 185701 (2012), arXiv:1202.3810
S. Ubaid-Kassis, T. Vojta and A. Schroeder, Quantum Griffiths Phase in the Weak Itinerant Ferromagnetic Alloy Ni-V, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 066402 (2010), arXiv:0912.1146
Thomas Vojta, Chetan Kotabage and Jose A Hoyos, Infinite-randomness quantum critical points induced by dissipation, Phys. Rev. B 79, 024401 (2009), arXiv:0809.2699, see also accompanying Viewpoint Commentary by G. Refael, Physics 2, 1 (2009)
Jose A Hoyos and Thomas Vojta, Theory of smeared quantum phase transitions, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 240601 (2008), arXiv:0802.2303
Jose A Hoyos, Chetan Kotabage and Thomas Vojta, Effects of Dissipation on a Quantum Critical Point with Disorder, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 230601 (2007), arXiv:0705.1865
Thomas Vojta and Joerg Schmalian, Percolation Quantum Phase Transitions in Diluted Magnets, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 237206 (2005), cond-mat/0508211
Thomas Vojta, Disorder-Induced Rounding of Certain Quantum Phase Transitions, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 107202 (2003), cond-mat/0212305

Superconductors and Superfluids

Fawaz Hrahsheh and Thomas Vojta, Disordered bosons in one dimension: from weak to strong randomness criticality, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 265303 (2012), arXiv:1210.4807
Priyanka Mohan, Paul M. Goldbart, Rajesh Narayanan, John Toner and Thomas Vojta, An anomalously elastic, intermediate phase in randomly layered superfluids, superconductors, and planar magnets, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 085301 (2010), arXiv:1003.5201
Matthias Vojta, Thomas Vojta and Ribhu K. Kaul, Spin Excitations in Fluctuating Stripe Phases of Doped Cuprate Superconductors, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 097001 (2006), cond-mat/0510448

Nonequilibrium Transitions

Thomas Vojta and Jose A Hoyos, Infinite-noise criticality: Nonequilibrium phase transitions in fluctuating environments, Europhys. Lett. 112, 30002 (2015), arXiv:1507.05677
Hatem Barghathi and Thomas Vojta, Random fields at a nonequilibrium phase transition, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 170603 (2012), arXiv:1206.1878
Thomas Vojta, Adam Farquhar and Jason Mast, Infinite-randomness critical point in the two-dimensional disordered contact process, Phys. Rev. E 79, 011111 (2009), arXiv:0810.1569
Thomas Vojta and Man Young Lee, Nonequilibrium Phase Transition on a Randomly Diluted Lattice, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 035701 (2006), cond-mat/0511065

Random Walks and Anomalous Diffusion

S. Janušonis, J.H. Haiman, R. Metzler and T. Vojta, Predicting the Distribution of Serotonergic Axons: A Supercomputing Simulation of Reflected Fractional Brownian Motion in a 3D-Mouse Brain Model,, Front. Comp. Neuroscience 17, 1189853 (2023), bioRxiv:2023.03.19.533385
T. Vojta, S. Halladay, S. Skinner, S. Janušonis, T. Guggenberger, and R. Metzler, Reflected fractional Brownian motion in one and higher dimensions, Phys. Rev. E 102, 032108 (2020), arXiv:2004.14511
Skirmantas Janušonis, Nils Detering, Ralf Metzler and Thomas Vojta, Serotonergic Axons as Fractional Brownian Motion Paths: Insights Into the Self-Organization of Regional Densities, Front. Comp. Neuroscience 14, 56 (2020), bioRxiv:2019.12.27.889725
Alexander H.O. Wada and Thomas Vojta, Fractional Brownian motion with a reflecting wall, Phys. Rev. E 97, 020102(R) (2018), arXiv:1711.05232