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Bertrand I. Halperin

Bertrand I. Halperin

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Physics

D-Index
105
Citations
71197
World Ranking
1356
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - Wolf Prize in Physics for key insights into the broad range of condensed matter physics: Leggett on superfluidity of the light helium isotope and macroscopic quantum phenomena; and Halperin on two- dimensional melting, disordered systems and strongly interacting electrons.
  • 2001 - Lars Onsager Prize, American Physical Society
  • 1982 - Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize, American Physical Society For his contributions to the understanding of the changes in matter at phase transitions, especially phenomena occur-ring in magnets, superconductors, and two dimensional solids
  • 1982 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1981 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1972 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS)

Overview

Bertrand I. Halperin is affiliated with the Indian Institute of Science in India, focusing primarily on research in physics and astronomy. Their work spans multiple subfields, including atomic and molecular physics and optics, condensed matter physics, artificial intelligence, materials chemistry, and electrical and electronic engineering.

The scientist's research addresses a broad range of topics with a particular emphasis on quantum and electron transport phenomena. Other main areas of study include the physics of superconductivity and magnetism, cold atom physics and Bose-Einstein condensates, topological materials and phenomena, quantum information and cryptography, graphene research and applications, and quantum many-body systems.

Bertrand I. Halperin has published extensively in well-regarded scientific venues. Frequent publication platforms include arXiv (Cornell University), Physical Review B, Science, Nature Physics, and Nature Communications.

Recent papers of note include:

  • Imaging the Meissner effect in hydride superconductors using quantum sensors, 2024, Nature
  • Crossover between strongly coupled and weakly coupled exciton superfluids, 2022, Science
  • Hunting for Majoranas, 2023, Science
  • Higgs-Mediated Optical Amplification in a Nonequilibrium Superconductor, 2021, Physical Review X
  • Robustness of quantum Hall interferometry, 2022, Physical Review B

Frequent co-authors working with Bertrand I. Halperin include Amir Yacoby, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Philip Kim, and Maxwell Block.

Throughout their career, the scientist has received several awards recognizing contributions to the field. These include the Wolf Prize in Physics in 2002, given for key insights into condensed matter physics; the Lars Onsager Prize from the American Physical Society in 2001; membership in the National Academy of Sciences since 1982; the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize in 1982 for work on phase transitions; and fellowships with the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Physical Society.

Best Publications

  • Theory of Dynamic Critical Phenomena

    P. C. Hohenberg;B. I. Halperin

  • Anomalous low-temperature thermal properties of glasses and spin glasses

    P. w. Anderson;B. I. Halperin;c. M. Varma

  • Dislocation-mediated melting in two dimensions

    David R. Nelson;B. I. Halperin

  • Quantized Hall conductance, current-carrying edge states, and the existence of extended states in a two-dimensional disordered potential

    B. I. Halperin

  • Theory of Two-Dimensional Melting

    B. I. Halperin;David R. Nelson

  • Hopping Conductivity in Disordered Systems

    Vinay Ambegaokar;B. I. Halperin;J. S. Langer

  • Theory of the half-filled Landau level.

    Bertrand I. Halperin;Bertrand I. Halperin;Patrick A. Lee;Nicholas Read

  • Two-dimensional quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnet at low temperatures.

    Sudip Chakravarty;Bertrand I. Halperin;David R. Nelson

  • Statistics of quasiparticles and the hierarchy of fractional quantized Hall states

    B. I. Halperin

  • Nonlocal magnetization dynamics in ferromagnetic heterostructures

    Yaroslav Tserkovnyak;Arne Brataas;Gerrit E. W. Bauer;Bertrand I. Halperin

  • Voltage Due to Thermal Noise in the dc Josephson Effect.

    Vinay Ambegaokar;B. I. Halperin

  • Theory of the quantized Hall conductance

    B.I. Halperin

  • First-Order Phase Transitions in Superconductors and Smectic- A Liquid Crystals

    B. I. Halperin;T. C. Lubensky;Shang-keng Ma

  • Resistive transition in superconducting films

    B. I. Halperin;David R. Nelson

  • Low temperature behavior of two-dimensional quantum antiferromagnets

    Sudip Chakravarty;Bertrand I. Halperin;David R. Nelson

  • Scaling Laws for Dynamic Critical Phenomena

    B. I. Halperin;P. C. Hohenberg

  • Dislocations and the commensurate-incommensurate transition in two dimensions

    S. N. Coppersmith;Daniel S. Fisher;B. I. Halperin;P. A. Lee

  • Excitations from a filled Landau level in the two-dimensional electron gas

    C. Kallin;B. I. Halperin

  • Impurity-Band Tails in the High-Density Limit. I. Minimum Counting Methods

    B. I. Halperin;Melvin Lax

  • Theory of dynamic critical phenomena

    Bertrand I. Halperin

Frequent Co-Authors

Amir Yacoby
Amir Yacoby Harvard University
Yaroslav Tserkovnyak
Yaroslav Tserkovnyak University of California, Los Angeles
Eugene Demler
Eugene Demler Harvard University
Kenji Watanabe
Kenji Watanabe National Institute for Materials Science
Takashi Taniguchi
Takashi Taniguchi National Institute for Materials Science
Mikhail D. Lukin
Mikhail D. Lukin Harvard University
Philip Kim
Philip Kim Harvard University
Arne Brataas
Arne Brataas Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Ian Affleck
Ian Affleck University of British Columbia

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