Max Metlitski
Max A. Metlitski , Maxim (e) Metlitski is a Canadian theoretical solid-state physicist.
Metlitski studied physics and mathematics at the University of British Columbia with a bachelor's degree in 2003 and a master's degree in physics in 2005, and received her PhD in theoretical physics from Harvard University in 2011 with Subir Sachdev . As a post-doctoral student , he was at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara until 2015 . Then he was at the Perimeter Institute . In 2017 he became an Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .
He is particularly concerned with topological phases in many-body physics such as quantum Hall states and topological insulators as well as SPTs (symmetry protected topological phases). Among other things, this enabled new insights into the exotic metallic state in semi-filled Landau levels , which was predicted by Bertrand Halperin , Patrick A. Lee and N. Read in 1993 as Fermi quasiparticles made up of electrons and vortex pairs. Metlitski found indications that they behave like massless Dirac fermions and that the results of topological phases are similar to the surface states of topological insulators. The investigation of topological phases in many-particle physics also led him to the discovery of unexpected dualities in certain gauge field theories. He also dealt with quantum criticality and quantum phase transitions, entanglement in many-body systems and non-Fermi liquid phases in metals (such as orthogonal metals).
For 2020 he received the New Horizons in Physics Prize for decisive contributions to the understanding of the topological states of matter and their connections to one another (laudation).
Fonts (selection)
- with KB Buckley, Ariel Zhitnitsky : Neutron stars as type-I superconductors, Physical Review Letters, Volume 92, 2004, p. 151102, Arxiv
- with Subir Sachdev: Quantum phase transitions of metals in two spatial dimensions , 2 parts, Phys. Rev. B, Volume 82, 2010, p. 075127 (Part 1: Ising-nematic order), 075128 (Part 2: Spin-density-wave order), Arxiv, Part 1 , Arxiv, Part 2
- with Scott D. Geraedts, Michael P. Zaletel, Roger SK Mong, Ashvin Vishwanath, Olexei I. Motrunich: The half-filled Landau level: the case for Dirac composite fermions , Science, Volume 352, 2016, pp. 197-201, Arxiv
- with C. Wang, A. Nahum, C. Xu, T. Senthil: Deconfined critical points, symmetries and dualities, Phys. Rev. X, Volume 7, 2017, p. 031051, Arxiv
- with Lukasz Fidkowski , A. Vishwanath: Surface Topological Order and a new 't Hooft Anomaly of Interaction Enabled 3 + 1D Fermion SPTs, Arxiv 2018
- with R. Thorngren: Intrinsic and emergent anomalies at deconfined critical points, Phys. Rev. B, Volume 98, 2018, p. 085140, Arxiv
- A 1d lattice model for the boundary of the quantum spin-Hall insulator, Arxiv 2019
- with RA Jones: 1d lattice models for the boundary of 2d 'Majorana' fermion SPTs: Kramers-Wannier duality as an exact Z2 symmetry, Arxiv 2019
Web links
- Homepage at MIT
- Aspects of Critical Behavior of Two Dimensional Electron Systems by Max Metlitski, Diss. Phil. (physics) Harvard University, 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rahul Nandkishore, Max A. Metlitski, T. Senthil: Orthogonal Metals: The simplest non-Fermi liquids, Phys. Rev. B, Volume 86, 2012, p. 045128, Arxiv
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Metlitski, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Metlitski, Max A .; Metlitski, Maxim; Metlitski, Maxim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |