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Smith, Naftali

Adjunct lecturer
Smith, Naftali
Email
smithnaf@bgu.ac.il
Website
https://sites.google.com/view/naftalismith
Research type
Theoretical
Research topics

My main research interests include the theory of large deviations (rare events) in a broad range of systems from physics, chemistry, biology, ecology and epidemiology, and random matrix theory and its connection to quantum effects observed in cold atoms (in particular, trapped fermions). I am also looking for applications of my research tools to the environment, for instance, to climate systems.

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Publications

  1. Bettelheim, E. and Smith, N.R. and Meerson, B., "Inverse Scattering Method Solves The Problem Of Full Statistics Of Nonstationary Heat Transfer In The Kipnis-Marchioro-Presutti Model", Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 130602 (2022)
  2. Eldad Bettelheim and Naftali R. Smith and Baruch Meerson, Full Statistics Of Nonstationary Heat Transfer In TheKipnis-Marchioro-Presutti Model, arXiv:2204.06278 (2022)
  3. Naftali R. Smith, Large Deviations In Chaotic Systems: Exact Results And Dynamical PhaseTransition, arXiv:2204.04652 (2022)
  4. Naftali R. Smith and Satya N. Majumdar, Condensation Transition In Large Deviations Of Self-Similar GaussianProcesses With Stochastic Resetting, arXiv:2202.03546 (2022)
  5. Smith, N.R., "Anomalous Scaling And First-Order Dynamical Phase Transition In Large Deviations Of The Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Process", Phys. Rev. E 105, 014120 (2022)
  6. Smith, N.R. and Le Doussal, P. and Majumdar, S.N. and Schehr, G., "Counting Statistics For Noninteracting Fermions In A Rotating Trap", Phys. Rev. A 105, 043315 (2022)
  7. Dean, D.S. and Le Doussal, P. and Majumdar, S.N. and Schehr, G. and Smith, N.R., "Kernels For Non Interacting Fermions Via A Green’S Function Approach With Applications To Step Potentials", J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 54, 084001 (2021)
  8. Gautié, T. and Smith, N.R., "Constrained Non-Crossing Brownian Motions, Fermions And The Ferrari–Spohn Distribution", J. Stat. Mech. 2021, 033212 (2021)
  9. Smith, N. and Le Doussal, P. and Majumdar, S. and Schehr, G., "Full Counting Statistics For Interacting Trapped Fermions", SciPost Phys. 11, 110 (2021)
  10. Smith, N.R. and Le Doussal, P. and Majumdar, S.N. and Schehr, G., "Counting Statistics For Noninteracting Fermions In A <Mml:Math Xmlns:Mml="Http://Www.W3.Org/1998/Math/Mathml"><Mml:Mi>D</Mml:Mi></Mml:Math>-Dimensional Potential", Phys. Rev. E 103, L030105 (2021)
  11. Agranov, T. and Zilber, P. and Smith, N.R. and Admon, T. and Roichman, Y. and Meerson, B., "Airy Distribution: Experiment, Large Deviations, And Additional Statistics", Phys. Rev. Research 2, 013174 (2020)
  12. Smith, N.R. and Dean, D.S. and Le Doussal, P. and Majumdar, S.N. and Schehr, G., "Noninteracting Trapped Fermions In Double-Well Potentials: Inverted-Parabola Kernel", Phys. Rev. A 101, 053602 (2020)
  13. Meerson, B. and Smith, N.R., "Comment On “Minimum Action Path Theory Reveals The Details Of Stochastic Transitions Out Of Oscillatory States”", Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 059801 (2019)
  14. Meerson, B. and Smith, N.R., "Geometrical Optics Of Constrained Brownian Motion: Three Short Stories", J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 52, 415001 (2019)
  15. Smith, N.R. and Meerson, B., "Geometrical Optics Of Constrained Brownian Excursion: From The Kpz Scaling To Dynamical Phase Transitions", J. Stat. Mech. 2019, 023205 (2019)
  16. Smith, N.R. and Meerson, B. and Vilenkin, A., "Time-Averaged Height Distribution Of The Kardar–Parisi–Zhang Interface", J. Stat. Mech. 2019, 053207 (2019)
  17. Zilber, P. and Smith, N.R. and Meerson, B., "Giant Disparity And A Dynamical Phase Transition In Large Deviations Of The Time-Averaged Size Of Stochastic Populations", Phys. Rev. E 99, 052105 (2019)
  18. Smith, N.R. and Kamenev, A. and Meerson, B., "Landau Theory Of The Short-Time Dynamical Phase Transitions Of The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Interface", Phys. Rev. E 97, 042130 (2018)
  19. Smith, N.R. and Meerson, B., "Exact Short-Time Height Distribution For The Flat Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Interface", Phys. Rev. E 97, 052110 (2018)
  20. Smith, N.R. and Meerson, B. and Sasorov, P., "Finite-Size Effects In The Short-Time Height Distribution Of The Kardar–Parisi–Zhang Equation", J. Stat. Mech. 2018, 023202 (2018)
  21. Smith, N.R. and Meerson, B. and Sasorov, P.V., "Local Average Height Distribution Of Fluctuating Interfaces", Phys. Rev. E 95, 012134 (2017)
  22. Smith, N.R. and Meerson, B., "Extinction Of Oscillating Populations", Phys. Rev. E 93, 032109 (2016)