Anton Burkov

Anton Burkov
Professor
Location: PHY 369
Phone: 519-888-4567 x46901

Research Interests

  • Quantum Materials

  • Condensed Matter

  • Quantum Science

  • Quantum Electronics

  • Quantum Sensors

  • Strongly correlated many-particle physics

  • Spintronics

  • Topological insulators

  • Weyl semimetals

Scholarly Research

Education

  • 2002 PhD Condensed Matter Theory, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A.

  • 1999 MSc Physics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A.

  • 1996 Diploma Solid State Physics, Saint-Petersburg State Technical University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Awards

  • 2023, Fellow, American Physical Society

  • 2019, APS Outstanding Referee

  • 2017, 2020 Outstanding Performance Award, University of Waterloo

  • 2005, Caltech Postdoctoral Prize Fellowship in Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology

Service

  • 2016-2020, Associate Graduate Officer, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo

  • 2018-present, Associate Editor, NPJ Quantum Materials

Professional Associations

  • 2013-present American Physical Society, Member

  • 2013-2017 NSF National High Magnetic Field Laboratory Renewal, Member of the review panel

Affiliations and Volunteer Work

  • Associate Faculty, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Teaching*

  • PHYS 335 - Condensed Matter Physics
    • Taught in 2025
  • PHYS 364 - Mathematical Physics 1
    • Taught in 2021, 2022, 2023
  • PHYS 435 - Current Topics in Condensed Matter Physics
    • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2025
  • PHYS 704 - Statistical Physics 1
    • Taught in 2022, 2023
  • PHYS 739 - Quantum Many Body Physics
    • Taught in 2020

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

Selected/Recent Publications

  • A.A. Burkov, Chiral charge conservation and ballistic magnetotransport in a disordered Weyl semimetal, arXiv:2509.25330.

  • Lei Gioia, A.A. Burkov, and T.L. Hughes, No-go theorem for single time-reversal invariant symmetry-protected Dirac fermions in 3+1d, arXiv:2508.19329.

  • Jinmin Yi and A.A. Burkov, Disordered Weyl semimetal as an array of coupled Hubbard chains, Phys. Rev. B 111, 165114 (2025).

  • Jinmin Yi and A.A. Burkov, Absence of localization in Weyl semimetals, Phys. Rev. B 109, 195152 (2024).

  • M. Smith, V.L. Quito, A.A. Burkov, P.P. Orth, and I. Martin, Theory for Cd3As2 films in the presence of magnetic fields, Phys. Rev. B 109, 155136 (2024).

  • A.A. Burkov, Michael Smith, Alexander Hickey, and Ivar Martin, Current-Induced Spin Accumulation and Magnetoresistance in Chiral Semimetals, Phys. Rev. B 108, 205115 (2023).

  • Jinmin Yi, Xuzhe Ying, Lei Gioia, and A.A. Burkov, Topological order in interacting semimet- als, Phys. Rev. B 107, 115147 (2023).

  • T. Serwatka, R.G. Melko, A.A. Burkov, and P.-N. Roy, Quantum Phase Transition in a One-Dimensional Water Chain, Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 026201 (2023) (Editor’s Suggestion, Featured in Physics).

  • Xuzhe Ying, A.A. Burkov, and Chong Wang, Dynamical Effects from Anomaly: Modified Electrodynamics in Weyl Semimetals, Phys. Rev. B 107, 035131 (2023).

  • A.A. Burkov, Topological properties of Dirac and Weyl semimetals, arXiv:2205.09866, chapter for Encyclopedia of Condensed Matter Physics, 2nd edition (Elsevier).

Graduate studies