Shinsei ryu

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Shinsei Ryū ( Japanese 笠 真 生 , Ryū Shinsei ; * 1976 or 1977) is a Japanese theoretical physicist who deals with theoretical solid-state physics. He is a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign .

Ryū studied physics at the University of Tokyo with a bachelor's degree in 2000 and a master's degree in 2002 and received his doctorate there in 2005 with Yasuhiro Hatsugai . As a post-doctoral student he was at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics until 2008 , where he worked with Tadashi Takayanagi . From 2008 to 2011 he was at the University of California, Berkeley . From 2011 to 2017 he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois. He is then an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago.

Theoretically, he deals with solid-state systems in which quantum mechanical and topological phenomena play a special role. For example unconventional superconductors , carbon nanotubes and graphene and topological insulators . He also used string theory methods .

Ryū is known for a work with Tadashi Takayanagi from 2006 in which they calculate the entropy from quantum entanglement in conformal field theories using the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of black holes in the context of Juan Maldacena's AdS / CFT correspondence , in the conformal field theories on a surface corresponds to a theory of gravity in the enclosed volume (Ryu-Takayanagi formula). This also has applications in solid state physics, since in many systems at the critical point conforming field theories also play a role. With Andreas Schnyder, Akira Furusaki and Andreas Ludwig he developed a classification of topological insulators and topological superconductors in three spatial dimensions. He also dealt with the fractional quantum Hall effect and quantum magnetic systems.

In 2015 he received the New Horizons in Physics Prize with Tadashi Takayanagi, Horacio Casini and Marina Huerta and the Nishina Prize with Akira Furusaki . In 2014 he was a Sloan Fellow and in 2002/03 a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. In 2012 he received the Prize for Solid State Physics in Japan and in 2013 the Nishinomiya Yukawa Prize .

Fonts

  • with Takayanagi: Holographic derivation of entanglement entropy from AdS / CFT. In: Physical Review Letters . Volume 96, 2006, p. 181602, Arxiv
  • with Andreas Schnyder, Akira Furusaki, Andreas Ludwig: Topological insulators and superconductors: ten-fold way and dimensional hierarchy. In: New J. Phys. Volume 12, 2010, p. 065010, Arxiv

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 西宮 湯 川 記念 賞 に 京都 大 ・ 高 柳 教授 、 イ リ ノ イ 大 ・ 笠 准 教授 に . In: Sankei West. Sankei Shimbun, October 22, 2013, accessed August 20, 2015 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Ryu, Shinsei
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 笠 真 生 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1976 or 1977