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117
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56071
World Ranking
905
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483

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1996 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1995 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1985 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For important contributions to the synthesis and understanding of new materials in single crystal form, particularly high critical temperature superconductors and heavy Fermion superconductors

Overview

Zachary Fisk is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Physics and Astronomy, as well as Materials Science. Within these areas, their work focuses notably on Condensed Matter Physics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, alongside aspects of Materials Chemistry and Geophysics.

The scientist's key research topics include rare-earth and actinide compounds, topological materials and phenomena, iron-based superconductors research, magnetic properties of alloys, advanced condensed matter physics, physics of superconductivity and magnetism, and high-pressure geophysics and materials.

Zachary Fisk has published extensively across several high-profile venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical review. B./Physical review. B
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Physical Review Research
  • Proceedings of the International Conference on Strongly Correlated Electron Systems (SCES2019)

Some of their recent papers are:

  • "Comprehensive surface magnetotransport study of SmB6" (2020), Physical review. B./Physical review. B
  • "Evidence for multiband superconductivity and charge density waves in Ni-doped ZrTe2" (2022), Journal of Alloys and Compounds
  • "Metallic islands in the Kondo insulator SmB6" (2020), Physical Review Research
  • "Probing FeSi, a d-electron topological Kondo insulator candidate, with magnetic field, pressure, and microwaves" (2023), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Visualization of localized perturbations on a (001) surface of the ferromagnetic semimetal EuB6" (2020), Physical review. B./Physical review. B

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • P. F. S. Rosa
  • J. C. Souza
  • J. Sichelschmidt
  • P. G. Pagliuso
  • S. Wirth

Zachary Fisk has been recognized through several awards and honors. These include being a Fellow of the American Physical Society since 1985, with a citation noting contributions to the synthesis and understanding of new materials in single crystal form, especially high critical temperature superconductors and heavy Fermion superconductors.

They were also elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995, became a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1996, and were named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Proceedings of the International School of Physics Enrico Fermi

    G Aeppli;HA Mook;TE Mason;Stephen M Hayden

  • Pressure-induced superconductivity in quasi-2D CeRhIn5

    H. Hegger;C. Petrovic;E. G. Moshopoulou;M. F. Hundley

  • Possibility of Coexistence of Bulk Superconductivity and Spin Fluctuations in UPt3

    G. R. Stewart;Z. Fisk;J. O. Willis;J. L. Smith

  • UBE13 - AN UNCONVENTIONAL ACTINIDE SUPERCONDUCTOR

    H. R. Ott;H. Rudigier;Z. Fisk;J. L. Smith

  • Growth of single crystals from metallic fluxes

    P. C. Canfield;Z. Fisk

  • Spin waves and electronic interactions in La2CuO4

    R Coldea;R Coldea;Stephen M Hayden;G Aeppli;TG Perring

  • Heavy-fermion superconductivity in CeCoIn5 at 2.3K

    C. Petrovic;P.G. Pagliuso;M.F. Hundley;R. Movshovich

  • Resonant ultrasound spectroscopic techniques for measurement of the elastic moduli of solids

    A. Migliori;J.L. Sarrao;William M. Visscher;T.M. Bell

  • Cu and O NMR studies of the magnetic properties of YBa2Cu3O6.63 (Tc=62 K).

    M. Takigawa;A. P. Reyes;P. C. Hammel;J. D. Thompson

  • The Crystal Structure of Superconducting La2CuO4.032 by Neutron Diffraction

    C Chaillout;S W Cheong;Z Fisk;M S Lehmann

  • High-temperature weak ferromagnetism in a low-density free-electron gas

    D. P. Young;D. Hall;M. E. Torelli;Z. Fisk;Z. Fisk

  • Unconventional superconductivity in CeIrIn5 and CeCoIn5: specific heat and thermal conductivity studies.

    R. Movshovich;M. Jaime;J. D. Thompson;C. Petrovic

  • A New Heavy-Fermion Superconductor CeIrIn5: Relative of the Cuprates?

    C. Petrovic;R. Movshovich;M. Jaime;P. G. Pagliuso

  • p-Wave Superconductivity in UBe13

    H. R. Ott;H. R. Rudigier;T. M. Rice;K. Ueda

  • Heavy-electron metals: new highly correlated States of matter.

    Z. Fisk;D. W. Hess;C. J. Pethick;D. Pines

  • Surface electronic structure of the topological Kondo-insulator candidate correlated electron system SmB6.

    M. Neupane;N. Alidoust;S. Y. Xu;T. Kondo

  • Unconventional Superconductivity in CeIrIn5 and CeCoIn5: Specific Heat and Thermal Conductivity Studies

    Z. Fisk;M. Jaime;R. Movshovich;C. Petrovic

  • Low-temperature surface conduction in the Kondo insulator SmB6

    Steven Wolgast;Çaǧliyan Kurdak;Kai Sun;J. W. Allen

  • Unconventional charge gap formation in FeSi

    Z. Schlesinger;Z. Fisk;Hai-Tao Zhang;M. B. Maple

  • Two-dimensional Fermi surfaces in Kondo insulator SmB6

    G. Li;Z. Xiang;Z. Xiang;F. Yu;T. Asaba

Frequent Co-Authors

J. D. Thompson
J. D. Thompson Los Alamos National Laboratory
H. R. Ott
H. R. Ott ETH Zurich
Eric D. Bauer
Eric D. Bauer Los Alamos National Laboratory
Satoru Nakatsuji
Satoru Nakatsuji University of Tokyo
Frank Steglich
Frank Steglich Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
Luis Balicas
Luis Balicas Florida State University
J. L. Sarrao
J. L. Sarrao SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
M. B. Maple
M. B. Maple University of California, San Diego
Susan M. Kauzlarich
Susan M. Kauzlarich University of California, Davis
Liu Hao Tjeng
Liu Hao Tjeng Max Planck Society

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