Ashvin Vishwanath

Ashvin Vishwanath (born January 9, 1973) is an Indian-American theoretical physicist known for important contributions to condensed matter physics. He is a professor of physics at Harvard University.[1]

Education and Career

Vishwanath holds an undergraduate degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, completed in 1996. He obtained his doctorate from Princeton University under the supervision of Duncan Haldane. Between 2001-2004 he was a Pappalardo fellow at MIT where his collaborators included T. Senthil and Subir Sachdev. He joined the physics faculty at University of California, Berkeley in 2004, and moved to Harvard University in 2016.[1] He held a Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics from 2012-2015 and was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in materials science in 2014. He is one of the recipients of the 2016 EPS Europhysics Prize in condensed matter physics for theoretical studies on magnetic skyrmion phases in MnSi, a new phase of matter.[2] He is also a fellow of the American Physical Society.[3]

Research

Vishwanath has made important contributions to several areas in condensed matter physics. In particular, his most important contributions have been in deconfined quantum criticality (with T. Senthil, Matthew P. A. Fisher, Subir Sachdev and Leon Balents), Dirac and Weyl semimetals, iron-based high-temperature superconductors, magnetic skyrmion phases, and topological insulators where, in particular and more recently, he has explored several aspects and field theories of symmetry protected topological phases and Floquet topological phases. He has also done important works on quantum magnetic systems and quantum entanglement properties of spin liquids and related topological orders.

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References
  1. "Faculty: ASHVIN VISHWANATH | Harvard University Department of Physics". www.physics.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
  2. (EPS), European Physical Society. "CMD Europhysics Prize - European Physical Society (EPS)". www.eps.org. Retrieved 2017-10-18.
  3. "Vishwanath Group Homepage". sites.google.com. Archived from the original on 2016-08-26. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
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