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D-Index
126
Citations
77094
World Ranking
634
National Ranking
352

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2014 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2003 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 2001 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his contributions to the theory of quantum phase transitions and its application to correlated electron materials
  • 1989 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Subir Sachdev is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a significant focus on several subfields including Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics; Condensed Matter Physics; Nuclear and High Energy Physics; Materials Chemistry; and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

Their scientific contributions cover a broad range of topics with numerous publications on Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism, Advanced Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum and electron transport phenomena, Quantum many-body systems, Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates, Theoretical and Computational Physics, and Topological Materials and Phenomena.

Frequent publication venues for their work include arXiv (Cornell University), Physical Review B, Physical Review Letters, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Physical Review Research.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Subir Sachdev include:

  • Probing topological spin liquids on a programmable quantum simulator, 2021, Science
  • Quantum optimization of maximum independent set using Rydberg atom arrays, 2022, Science
  • Quantum phases of Rydberg atoms on a kagome lattice, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Notes on the complex Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model, 2023, OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Orderly disorder in magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene, 2022, Science

Subir Sachdev has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Rhine Samajdar, Haoyu Guo, Maine Christos, Mathias S. Scheurer, and Aavishkar A. Patel.

Their academic recognitions include election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019, membership in the National Academy of Sciences since 2014, and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2003), the American Physical Society (2001) with a citation for contributions to the theory of quantum phase transitions and its application to correlated electron materials, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1989.

Best Publications

  • Quantum Phase Transitions

    Subir Sachdev

  • Gapless spin-fluid ground state in a random quantum Heisenberg magnet.

    Subir Sachdev;Jinwu Ye

  • Deconfined Quantum Critical Points

    T. Senthil;Ashvin Vishwanath;Leon Balents;Subir Sachdev

  • Large- N expansion for frustrated quantum antiferromagnets

    N. Read;Subir Sachdev

  • Quantum criticality beyond the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson paradigm

    T. Senthil;Leon Balents;Subir Sachdev;Ashvin Vishwanath

  • Kagomé- and triangular-lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnets: Ordering from quantum fluctuations and quantum-disordered ground states with unconfined bosonic spinons.

    Subir Sachdev

  • Valence Bond and Spin-Peierls Ground States of Low-Dimensional Quantum Antiferromagnets

    N. Read;Subir Sachdev

  • Quantum phases of matter on a 256-atom programmable quantum simulator

    Sepehr Ebadi;Tout T. Wang;Harry Levine;Alexander Keesling

  • Theory of the Nernst effect near quantum phase transitions in condensed matter and in dyonic black holes

    Sean A. Hartnoll;Pavel K. Kovtun;Markus Müller;Subir Sachdev

  • Observation of the Dirac fluid and the breakdown of the Wiedemann-Franz law in graphene

    Jesse Crossno;Jing K. Shi;Ke Wang;Xiaomeng Liu

  • Theory of two-dimensional quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnets with a nearly critical ground state.

    Andrey V. Chubukov;Subir Sachdev;Jinwu Ye

  • Bekenstein-Hawking Entropy and Strange Metals

    Subir Sachdev;Subir Sachdev;Subir Sachdev

  • Weak magnetism and non-Fermi liquids near heavy-fermion critical points

    T. Senthil;Matthias Vojta;Subir Sachdev

  • Spin-Peierls, valence-bond solid, and Néel ground states of low-dimensional quantum antiferromagnets

    N. Read;Subir Sachdev

  • Holographic Metals and the Fractionalized Fermi Liquid

    Subir Sachdev

  • Bond-operator representation of quantum spins: Mean-field theory of frustrated quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnets

    Subir Sachdev;Ravindra N. Bhatt

  • Quantum magnetism and criticality

    Subir Sachdev

  • Probing topological spin liquids on a programmable quantum simulator.

    G Semeghini;H Levine;A Keesling;S Ebadi

  • Quantum criticality: competing ground states in low dimensions

    Subir Sachdev

  • Ising and Spin orders in Iron-Based Superconductors

    Cenke Xu;Markus Mueller;Subir Sachdev

Frequent Co-Authors

Leon Balents
Leon Balents Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences
J. C. Davis
J. C. Davis University of Oxford
Andrey V. Chubukov
Andrey V. Chubukov University of Minnesota
Ashvin Vishwanath
Ashvin Vishwanath Harvard University
Hiroshi Eisaki
Hiroshi Eisaki National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Antoine Georges
Antoine Georges École Polytechnique
Steven Girvin
Steven Girvin Yale University
Mikhail D. Lukin
Mikhail D. Lukin Harvard University
Philip Kim
Philip Kim Harvard University

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