Subir Sachdev
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
Subir Sachdev is Herchel Smith professor of physics at Harvard University specializing in condensed matter. He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2014, received the Lars Onsager Prize from the American Physical Society and the Dirac Medal from the ICTP in 2018, and was elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society ForMemRS in 2023. He was a co-editor of the Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics 2017–2019, and is Editor-in-Chief of Reports on Progress in Physics since 2022.
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Subir Sachdev is Herchel Smith professor of physics at Harvard University specializing in condensed matter. He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2014, received the Lars Onsager Prize from the American Physical Society and the Dirac Medal from the ICTP in 2018, and was elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society ForMemRS in 2023. He was a co-editor of the Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics 2017–2019, and is Editor-in-Chief of Reports on Progress in Physics since 2022.
Affiliation
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
Top Publications
- Quantum Phase Transitions (2000) - 3,416 citations
- Quantum Phase Transitions (2011) - 2,848 citations
- Quantum phase transitions (1999) - 2,107 citations
- Gapless spin-fluid ground state in a random quantum Heisenberg magnet (1993) - 1,925 citations
- Quantum Phase Transitions (2006) - 1,565 citations
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- Full name
- Subir Sachdev
- ORCID
- 0000-0002-2432-7070
- OpenAlex ID
- https://openalex.org/A5041649350
Research interests
- Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism, Quantum many-body systems, Advanced Condensed Matter Physics, Theoretical and Computational Physics, Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
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- Quantum Phase Transitions ↗2000 · Cambridge University Press eBooks3,416OpenAlex citations
- Quantum Phase Transitions ↗2011 · Cambridge University Press eBooks2,848OpenAlex citations
- Quantum phase transitions ↗1999 · Physics World2,107OpenAlex citations
- Gapless spin-fluid ground state in a random quantum Heisenberg magnet ↗1993 · Physical Review Letters1,925OpenAlex citations
- Quantum Phase Transitions ↗2006 · Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics1,565OpenAlex citations
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- Quantum Phase Transitions ↗2000 · Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Quantum Phase Transitions ↗2011 · Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Quantum phase transitions ↗1999 · Physics World
- Gapless spin-fluid ground state in a random quantum Heisenberg magnet ↗1993 · Physical Review Letters
- Quantum Phase Transitions ↗2006 · Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics
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