Charles L. Kane
Charles Lewis Kane (* around 1965 ) is an American theoretical solid-state physicist.
Life
Kane graduated from the University of Chicago with a bachelor's degree in 1985 and received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989 while he was an IBM fellow. As a post-doctoral student , he was at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center from 1989 to 1991 . He became Assistant Professor in 1991 , Associate Professor in 1997 and has been Professor at the University of Pennsylvania since 2006 .
He dealt with mesoscopic solid-state physics and in particular with the fractional quantum Hall effect , one-dimensional conductors such as carbon nanotubes and two-dimensional conductors such as graphene , Luttinger fluids and topological insulators . He is a pioneer in the field of topological insulators, which he predicted in 2005 ( quantum spin Hall effect ) and which were experimentally confirmed in 2007. These are materials that are insulators inside, but have topologically protected conduction band states on the surface with spin-aligned currents. They allow quasiparticles that are Majorana fermions and have potential applications as topological quantum computers.
Liang Fu is one of his PhD students .
Awards
In 2010 he received the Condensed Matter Europhysics Prize. In 2012 he received the Dirac Medal (with F. Duncan M. Haldane and Shoucheng Zhang, in particular for their pioneering work on two- and three-dimensional topological insulators) and the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize . In 2006 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 2012 he received a grant from the Simons Foundation (Simons Investigator). In 2013 he received the Physics Frontiers Prize and in 2014 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences . For 2015 he was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute and for 2018 the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award .
Together with Eugene J. Mele , he was awarded the 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics .
Fonts
- with MZ Hazan Topological Insulators , Reviews of Modern Physics, Volume 82, 2010, p. 3046
- Topological Insulators , Physics World, February 2011
Web links
- Homepage
- Side at Penn State
- Videos by and about Charles L. Kane on the Technical Information Library AV Portal
Individual evidence
- ^ University of Pennsylvania, Physics & Astronomy: Charles Kane ; Retrieved August 9, 2012.
- ↑ Kane, Mele Quantum Spin Hall Effect in Graphene , Phys. Rev. Lett., Volume 95, 2005, p. 226801, Kane, Mele topological order and quantum spin Hall effect , ibid., P. 146802, Arxiv, pdf
- ^ Liang Fu, Charles L. Kane, Superconducting proximity effect and Majorana fermions at the surface of a topological insulator, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 100, 2008, p. 096407, Arxiv
- ↑ Physics World 2012 for receiving the award
- ↑ Laudation Oliver Buckley Prize
- ^ National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected. ( Memento of the original from August 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release from the National Academy of Sciences (nasonline.org) dated April 29, 2014
- ↑ Breakthrough Prize - Winners of the 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics and Mathematics Announced . Article dated October 17, 2018, accessed October 17, 2018.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kane, Charles L. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kane, Charles Lewis (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American theoretical solid-state physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1965 |