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Srinivas Raghu is a Professor at the Leinweber Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stanford University. He earned his Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University in 2006. His research focuses on emergent behavior in quantum condensed matter systems, with a particular emphasis on non-Fermi liquids, quantum criticality, and statistical mechanics of strongly interacting disordered quantum systems. Raghu has made significant contributions to the understanding of half-filled Landau levels, quantum Hall insulator transitions, and superconductor-metal-insulator transitions. He is notably recognized for co-founding the field of topological photonics with Duncan Haldane, developing scaling theories for non-Fermi liquid metals alongside Shamit Kachru and Gonzalo Torroba, and contributing to Euclidean lattice descriptions of Chern-Simons matter theories and dualities in 2+1 dimensions with Jing-Yuan Chen and Jun Ho Son. His collaborative work has also explored 'dual' perspectives on quantum Hall transitions with Prashant Kumar and Michael Mulligan.
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