Eduardo Fradkin

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Eduardo Hector Fradkin (born February 21, 1950 in Buenos Aires ) is an American theoretical solid-state physicist of Argentine descent, professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and director of the Institute for Condensed Matter Theory there .

Fradkin studied physics at the Universidad de Buenos Aires until 1973 and received his doctorate in 1979 from Stanford University . As a post-doctoral student, he worked at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign until 1980 and became a Research Assistant Professor before becoming Assistant Professor of Physics in 1981 and Associate Professor in 1984. Since 1989 he has been a full professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2014 he became Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Physics there and in 2011 director of the Institute for Condensed Matter Theory there.

In his doctoral thesis, Fradkin made influential contributions to the development of lattice scale theories . In his further career he mainly devoted himself to the theory of condensed matter, where he applied, among other things, field theoretical methods. His best-known research topics include the fractional quantum Hall effect and high-temperature superconductivity . Together with Steven Kivelson and others, Fradkin proposed that strongly correlated electron systems can form phases that behave analogously to nematic liquid crystals - that is, they have a broken rotational symmetry with an unbroken translational symmetry . This prediction has been confirmed experimentally in several material systems, including copper - and iron - based superconductors. Fradkin is the author of a much-cited book on field theories in condensed matter theory.

Fradkin was made a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1998 , a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2013. From 1998 to 1999 he was a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow.

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  • Field Theories of Condensed Matter Physics . Cambridge University Press, 2013. (First published 1991)

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  1. ↑ Eduardo Fradkin, Stephen H. Shenker: Phase diagrams of lattice gauge theories with Higgs fields . In: Physical Review D . tape 19 , no. 12 , June 15, 1979, pp. 3682-3697 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevD.19.3682 .
  2. ↑ ES Fradkin, GA Vilkovisky: Quantization of relativistic systems with constraints . In: Physics Letters B . tape 55 , February 1, 1975, ISSN  0370-2693 , p. 224-226 , doi : 10.1016 / 0370-2693 (75) 90448-7 , bibcode : 1975PhLB ... 55..224F .
  3. ^ Ana Lopez, Eduardo Fradkin: Fractional quantum Hall effect and Chern-Simons gauge theories . In: Physical Review B . tape 44 , no. 10 , September 1, 1991, pp. 5246-5262 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevB.44.5246 .
  4. ^ VJ Emery, E. Fradkin, SA Kivelson: Electronic liquid-crystal phases of a doped Mott insulator . In: Nature . tape 393 , no. 6685 , June 1998, ISSN  1476-4687 , p. 550–553 , doi : 10.1038 / 31177 ( nature.com [accessed April 21, 2019]).
  5. ↑ SA Kivelson, IP Bindloss, E. Fradkin, V. Oganesyan, JM Tranquada: How to detect fluctuating stripes in the high-temperature superconductors . In: Reviews of Modern Physics . tape 75 , no. 4 , October 8, 2003, p. 1201-1241 , doi : 10.1103 / RevModPhys.75.1201 .
  6. ↑ Vadim Oganesyan, Steven A. Kivelson, Eduardo Fradkin: Quantum theory of a nematic Fermi fluid . In: Physical Review B . tape 64 , no. 19 , October 17, 2001, p. 195109 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevB.64.195109 .
  7. ↑ Eduardo Fradkin, Steven A. Kivelson, Michael J. Lawler, James P. Eisenstein, Andrew P. Mackenzie: Nematic Fermi Fluids in Condensed Matter Physics . In: Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics . tape 1 , no. 1 , 2010, p. 153-178 , doi : 10.1146 / annurev-conmatphys-070909-103925 .
  8. ↑ B. Keimer, CT Lin, C. Bernhard, A. Ivanov, Y. Sidis: Electronic Liquid Crystal State in the High-Temperature Superconductor YBa2Cu3O6.45 . In: Science . tape 319 , no. 5863 , February 1, 2008, ISSN  0036-8075 , p. 597–600 , doi : 10.1126 / science.1152309 , PMID 18187621 ( sciencemag.org [accessed April 21, 2019]).
  9. ↑ Ian R. Fisher, James G. Analytis, Hsueh-Hui Kuo, Jiun-Haw Chu: Divergent Nematic Susceptibility in an Iron Arsenide Superconductor . In: Science . tape 337 , no. 6095 , August 10, 2012, ISSN  0036-8075 , p. 710-712 , doi : 10.1126 / science.1221713 , PMID 22879513 ( sciencemag.org [accessed April 21, 2019]).
  10. ↑ Field theories condensed matter physics 2nd edition | Condensed matter physics, nanoscience and mesoscopic physics. Retrieved April 21, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Fradkin, Eduardo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fradkin, Eduardo Hector (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires