Steven M. Girvin

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Steven Mark Girvin (born April 5, 1950 in Austin , Texas ) is an American theoretical physicist .

Career

Girvin studied at Bates College (Bachelor's degree in 1971) and the University of Maine (Master's degree in 1973). In 1977 he received his PhD from Princeton University . After post-doc at Indiana University and TH Chalmers in Gothenburg , he was with the National Bureau of Standards from 1979 to 1987 . He was then a professor at Indiana University and from 2001 professor at Yale University , where he was Deputy Provost from 2007 . He is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and Professor of Applied Physics at Princeton. In 1999 he co-founded the Boulder Summer School in Condensed Matter and Materials Physics and he also organized summer schools at the Aspen Center . In 1997/98 he headed the advisory board of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics .

As a theoretical solid-state physicist, Girvin deals with the quantum Hall effect and the transition between superconductivity and insulator in thin films, with quantum optics (superconducting microwave circuits with quantum electrodynamics methods, Circuit QED ) and quantum information theory . With his experimental colleagues Robert J. Schoelkopf and Michel Devoret , he demonstrated quantum information algorithms (such as Grover's search algorithm ) on a 2-qubit processor.

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2006) and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2004), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2007) and the American Physical Society . In 2007 he received the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize .

Fonts

  • with Prange (Ed.): The Quantum Hall Effect , Springer 1987, 2nd edition 1990 (therein by Girvin: Collective Excitations)
  • AA Clerk, MH Devoret, SM Girvin, F. Marquardt, RJ Schoelkopf: Introduction to quantum noise, measurement and amplification . In: Rev. Mod. Phys. tape 82 , 2010, p. 1155 , doi : 10.1103 / RevModPhys.82.1155 , arxiv : 0810.4729 .
  • Girvin: The quantum hall effect: novel excitations and broken symmetries . In: A. Comtet, T. Jolicoeur, S. Ouvry, F. David (Eds.): Topological Aspects of Low Dimensional Systems . Springer-Verlag, Berlin 2000, arxiv : cond-mat / 9907002 (Les Houches Lectures 1998).
  • Steven M. Girvin, Introduction to the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect . In: Séminaire Poincaré . tape 2 , 2004, p. 53-74 ( bourbaphy.fr [PDF]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Girvin, Schoelkopf, Devoret: Circuit QED and engineering charge based superconducting qubits . In: Physica Scripta T . tape 137 , 2009, p. 014012 , doi : 10.1088 / 0031-8949 / 2009 / T137 / 014012 , arxiv : 0912.3902 .
  2. ↑ Di Carlo et al. a .: Demonstration of 2 Qubit-Algorithms with a superconducting quantum processor . In: Nature . tape 460 , 2009, pp. 240 , doi : 10.1038 / nature08121 , arxiv : 0903.2030 .
  3. ↑ Steven M. Girvin. In: Member Directory. NAS, accessed November 6, 2018 .
  4. ↑ 2007 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize Recipient Steven M. Girvin. APS, accessed on November 6, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Girvin, Steven M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Girvin, Steven Mark (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Austin , Texas