Dr. Steven Kivelson

Biography

Steven Kivelson is the Prabhu Goel Family Professor in the Department of Physics at Stanford University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University in 1979. His primary research focuses on the interactions between electrons in solids and the emergent phenomena that arise from these interactions. Kivelson investigates macroscopic behaviors of materials that are commonly encountered in everyday life as well as exotic materials and devices that are engineered in the laboratory. His work significantly contributes to the field of condensed matter physics, examining the richness and diversity of behaviors exhibited by strongly interacting systems, which include a range of collective behaviors, from the functioning of neurons in the brain to the collective condensation of Cooper pairs, resulting in macroscopic quantum phenomena associated with superconducting order. Kivelson's current research areas include the theory of quantum liquid crystalline phases in highly correlated electronic fluids, intertwined orders in the theory of high-temperature superconductivity, theories pertaining to spin liquids and fractionalized quantum phases, and the theory surrounding glass transitions in super-cooled liquids.

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