Steven Girvin
American physicist (born 1950) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Steven M. Girvin is an American physicist[2] who is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at Yale University and who served as deputy provost for research at Yale from 2007 to 2017.[3] Girvin is noted for his theoretical work on quantum many body systems such as the fractional quantum Hall effect, and as co-developer of circuit QED, the application of the ideas of quantum optics to superconducting microwave circuits. Circuit QED is now the leading architecture for construction of quantum computers based on superconducting qubits.
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Steven M. Girvin | |
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Born | (1950-04-05) April 5, 1950 (age 74)[1] |
Alma mater | Bates College Princeton University |
Known for | Strongly correlated electron states in low dimensional systems. |
Awards | Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (2007) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Condensed matter theory |
Institutions | Yale University Indiana University, Bloomington |
Doctoral students | Aditi Mitra |
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