Steven A. Kivelson
Steven Allan Kivelson (born May 13, 1954 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American theoretical solid-state physicist .
Kivelson is the son of astrophysicist Margaret Kivelson and chemistry professor Daniel Kivelson . He graduated from Harvard University with a master’s degree in 1977 and received his PhD from Princeton University in 1979 . He was a post-doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, Santa Barbara . He stayed at UCSB from 1981 to 1989 when he became a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Since 2004 he has been a professor at Stanford University .
Kivelson dealt with correlated electronic systems in solids. In the 1990s he and Victor Emery developed a theory of high-temperature superconductors in cuprates, which describes, among other things, the formation of stripe patterns. Recently, he and his colleagues have developed theories about hypothetical phases of correlated electron systems at low temperatures, which lie between the Fermigas phase of ordinary metals and Wigner crystals (they call them electronic liquid crystals ) and which are supposed to be observable in high-temperature superconductors and in the quantum hall effect. He also deals with the glass transition in supercooled liquids.
In 2001 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2010 . He was a Sloan Fellow in 1984, a Guggenheim Fellow in 1996 and a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1997 .
Fonts
- with D.-H. Lee, S.-C. Zhang Electrons in Flatland , Scientific American, March 1996
Web links
- Homepage in Stanford
- Steven Kivelson. In: Physics History Network. American Institute of Physics
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dates of birth according to the 1996 Guggenheim Foundation report
- ↑ VJEmery, SAKivelson, JMTranquada Stripe Phases in High Temperature Superconductors , Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 96, 8814 (1999)
- ↑ SAKivelson, E. Fradkin, V. Emery Electronic Liquid Crystal Phases of a Doped Mott Insulator , Nature 393, 550 (1998). E. Fradkin, SAKivelson Liquid Crystal Phases of Quantum Hall Systems , Phys. Rev. B 59, 8065 (1999)
- ^ Daniel Kivelson, Steven Kivelson, X. Zhao, Z. Nussinov, G. Tarjus A Thermodynamic Theory of Supercooled Liquids as they Get Glassy , Physica A 219, 27-38 (1995)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kivelson, Steven A. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kivelson, Steven Allan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 13, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston , Massachusetts |