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93
Citations
43908
World Ranking
2014
National Ranking
1037

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2004 - Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize, American Physical Society For seminal contributions to the theory of condensed matter systems including the prediction and elucidation of the properties of new, partially ordered phases of complex materials.
  • 2002 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2000 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1985 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For theoretical contributions to our understanding of the properties and phase transitions of a number of condensed phases including polymers, random systems and liquid crystals
  • 1981 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1975 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Tom C. Lubensky is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Engineering, with significant contributions to various subfields including Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Biomedical Engineering, and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Lubensky's work addresses multiple scientific topics, notably Micro and Nano Robotics, Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, Liquid Crystal Research Advancements, Theoretical and Computational Physics, Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation, Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena, and Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics.

Frequent coauthors include Tomer Markovich, Olaf Stenull, Alexis de la Cotte, Sophie Ettinger, and Peter J. Collings.

The scientist has published extensively in venues such as Physical review. E, arXiv (Cornell University), Physical Review Letters, Physical Review X, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

  • Odd Viscosity in Active Matter: Microscopic Origin and 3D Effects (2021, Physical Review Letters)
  • Emergent Potts Order in a Coupled Hexatic-Nematic XY model (2022, Physical Review X)
  • Multifunctional twisted kagome lattices: Tuning by pruning mechanical metamaterials (2020, Physical review. E)
  • Nonreciprocity and odd viscosity in chiral active fluids (2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Director Fluctuations in Two-Dimensional Liquid Crystal Disclinations (2021, Crystals)

Throughout their career, Lubensky has received several awards and honors, including designation as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008 and Membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 2002. They were awarded the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize by the American Physical Society in 2004 for research related to condensed matter systems. Other fellowships include the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2000, the American Physical Society in 1985, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1981, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1975.

Best Publications

  • Principles of condensed matter physics

    Paul M. Chaikin;Thomas C. Lubensky

  • Nonlinear elasticity in biological gels.

    Cornelis Storm;Cornelis Storm;Jennifer J. Pastore;F. C. MacKintosh;T. C. Lubensky

  • Novel Colloidal Interactions in Anisotropic Fluids

    Philippe Poulin;Holger Stark;T. C. Lubensky;D. A. Weitz

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

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

  • Topological boundary modes in isostatic lattices

    C. L. Kane;T. C. Lubensky

  • TOPOLOGICAL DEFECTS AND INTERACTIONS IN NEMATIC EMULSIONS

    T. C. Lubensky;David Pettey;Nathan Currier;Holger Stark

  • Abrikosov dislocation lattice in a model of the cholesteric-to-smectic-A transition.

    S. R. Renn;T. C. Lubensky

  • Phonons, phasons, and dislocations in quasicrystals.

    Joshua E.S. Socolar;T. C. Lubensky;Paul Joseph Steinhardt

  • Brownian Motion of an ellipsoid

    Yilong Han;Ahmed Alsayed;Maurizio Nobili;Jian Zhang

  • Elasticity and dislocations in pentagonal and icosahedral quasicrystals.

    Dov Levine;T. C. Lubensky;Stellan Ostlund;Sriram Ramaswamy

  • Microrheology, stress fluctuations, and active behavior of living cells.

    A. W. C. Lau;Brenton D Hoffman;A. Davies;John C Crocker

  • State-dependent diffusion: Thermodynamic consistency and its path integral formulation

    Andy W.C. Lau;Tom C. Lubensky

  • Hydrodynamics of icosahedral quasicrystals

    T. C. Lubensky;Sriram Ramaswamy;John Toner

  • One- and Two-Particle Microrheology

    Alex J. Levine;T. C. Lubensky

  • Entropically Driven Colloidal Crystallization on Patterned Surfaces

    Keng-hui Lin;John C. Crocker;Vikram Prasad;Andrew Schofield

  • Statistics of lattice animals and dilute branched polymers

    T. C. Lubensky;Joel Isaacson

  • Molecular chirality and chiral parameters

    A. B. Harris;Randall D. Kamien;T. C. Lubensky

  • Criticality and isostaticity in fibre networks

    Chase P. Broedersz;Chase P. Broedersz;Xiaoming Mao;Tom C. Lubensky;Frederick C. MacKintosh

  • Critical phenomena in semi-infinite systems. II. Mean-field theory

    T. C. Lubensky;Morton H. Rubin

  • Critical properties of random-spin models from the ∊ expansion

    T. C. Lubensky

Frequent Co-Authors

Arjun G. Yodh
Arjun G. Yodh University of Pennsylvania
David A. Weitz
David A. Weitz Harvard University
Jerry P. Gollub
Jerry P. Gollub Haverford College
Fred C. MacKintosh
Fred C. MacKintosh Rice University
Mohammad F. Islam
Mohammad F. Islam Carnegie Mellon University
Paul A. Janmey
Paul A. Janmey University of Pennsylvania
John C. Crocker
John C. Crocker University of Pennsylvania
Charles L. Kane
Charles L. Kane University of Pennsylvania
Dennis E. Discher
Dennis E. Discher University of Pennsylvania
Lydéric Bocquet
Lydéric Bocquet École Normale Supérieure

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