Alan Luther
Alan Harold Luther is an American theoretical solid-state physicist.
Luther studied electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Bachelor 1962, Master 1963) and received his doctorate in physics from the University of Maryland in 1967 . As a post-doc he was at the Technical University of Munich and from 1969 at the Brookhaven National Laboratory . From 1971 he was Assistant Professor and from 1973 Associate Professor at Harvard University . From 1973 he was at Nordita in Copenhagen , where he became professor in 1976 and is now retired.
In 1974 he and Victor Emery found exact solutions for one-dimensional electron gas models (Luther Emery liquids). He also dealt with conformal field theories, the generalized Bethe approach, spin chains and two-dimensional models of statistical mechanics, strongly correlated electron systems in two dimensions, high-temperature superconductivity.
In 1975 he became a research fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellow ). In 2001 he received the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize with Emery for fundamental contributions to the theory of interacting electrons in one dimension .
Fonts
- Luther, Emery Backward Scattering in the one dimensional electron gas , Physical Review Letters Vol. 33, 1974, p. 589
- Luther, Emery New mechanism for a phonon anomaly and lattice distortion in quasi one-dimensional conductors , Phys. Rev. Lett. 37, 1976, pp. 107-110
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Luther, Alan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Luther, Alan H .; Luther, Alan Harold (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1962 |