Douglas James Scalapino

Douglas James Scalapino (born December 10, 1933 in San Francisco ) is an American physicist who works in the field of theoretical solid-state physics.

Scalapino studied at Yale University (Bachelor 1955) and received his doctorate in 1961 with Edwin Thompson Jaynes at Stanford University (Irreversible statistical mechanics and the principle of maximum entropy). He then worked as research assistant to John Robert Schrieffer . From 1964 he was an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania , where he became a professor in 1968. In the same year he went first as a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara , where he became a professor in 1969 and founded the Institute of Theoretical Physics in 1979 with James Hartle and other colleagues. He was a consultant at IBM (1989 to 1992), DuPont (1963 to 2003) and at Los Alamos National Laboratory (1991 to 2000) , among others .

Scalapino deals with strongly correlated electron systems in solid-state physics and numerical methods for their investigation and in particular with the properties of high-temperature superconductors (HTSC). In this context, he examined the Hubbard model (which he had previously examined in 1981 with Blankenbeckler and Sugar using the quantum Monte Carlo method) and was able to show similarities to the behavior of Cuprate HTSL. He assumes short-range antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations as the interaction of the Cooper pairs in Cuprate HTSL.

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1991) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the American Physical Society , whose Condensed Matter department he headed in 1983/94. From 1964 to 1966 he was a Sloan Research Fellow and 1976/77 Guggenheim Fellow. In 1998 he received the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize and in 2006 the John Bardeen Prize. In 2013 he was awarded the Feenberg Medal .

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