James P. Eisenstein

James Philip Eisenstein , called Jim Eisenstein, (born May 15, 1952 in St. Louis ) is an American solid-state physicist.

Eisenstein graduated from Oberlin College with a bachelor's degree in 1974 and received a PhD in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1980 . After a short time as an Assistant Professor at Williams College, he joined Bell Laboratories in 1983 , where he became a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in 1993. In 1996 he became Professor at Caltech , where he has been Frank J. Roshek Professor of Physics and Applied Physics since 2004 .

He is concerned with the collective behavior of two-dimensional electron systems in semiconductor heterostructures (generated with molecular beam epitaxy in gallium arsenide) and graphene (single and double-layered) at low temperatures and high magnetic fields, especially double-layered two-dimensional systems and the fractional quantum Hall effect with quantum number 5/2. His group discovered new phases in two-dimensional electron systems that resemble liquid crystals. In addition, his group found evidence of a new type of superfluid behavior in double-layer two-dimensional electron systems (with Cooper pairs corresponding to exciton excitations in one layer coupled with hole excitation in the other layer).

In 2007 he and Steven M. Girvin , Allan H. MacDonald received the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize for fundamental experimental and theoretical research on correlated many-electron systems in low dimensions (laudation). He was a Loeb Lecturer , is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2005).

Web links

• Eisenstein Group

Individual evidence

1. ^ Buckley Prize 2007