Statistical Physics and Thermodynamics Physicist (PhD)

Posted 25 Sep 2026

$80–110/hr

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Platform

Mercor

Work

Remote · Contract · 10 hrs/wk

Eligibility

Open to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden

Field

Science & research

Skills

Statistical PhysicsDisordered Spin ModelsNishimori LineQuantum Error-Correction ThresholdsMixed-State Topological OrderKramers-Wannier DualityIsing ModelsReplica TrickEntanglement EntropyAsymptotic AnalysisConvolution Integral EquationsLong-Range DispersalGenerating Function MethodsTransfer-Matrix MethodsLattice Path EnumerationTwo-Dimensional Conformal Field TheoryVirasoro AlgebraBPZ EquationsConformal BlocksOperator Product ExpansionCoulomb Gas MethodsBosonizationLaTeXPythonSymPy

About this role

About the work CritPt is a public benchmark of research-level physics challenges, built to test whether frontier AI models can carry out genuine physics research reasoning rather than textbook problem solving. The benchmark paper is arXiv:2509.26574 and we recommend reading it…

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