Joaquin Mazdak Luttinger | |
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 Joaquin Mazdak Luttinger | |
| Born | 2 December 1923 New York City, United States |
| Died | 6 April 1997 (aged 73) New York City, US |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Luttinger liquid Luttinger's theorem Luttinger parameter Luttinger–Kohn model Luttinger–Ward functional Anomalous Hall effect Kohn–Luttinger superconductivity |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1974) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics of interacting particles |
| Institutions | University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University |
| Notable students | T. V. Ramakrishnan |
Joaquin (Quin) Mazdak Luttinger (December 2, 1923 – April 6, 1997) was an American physicist well known for his contributions to the theory of interacting electrons in one-dimensional metals[1] (the electrons in these metals are said to be in a Luttinger-liquid state) and the Fermi-liquid theory. He received his BS and PhD in physics from MIT in 1947.[2] His brother was the physical chemist Lionel Luttinger (1920–2009) and his nephew is the mathematician Karl Murad Luttinger (born 1961).
- ^ The Luttinger model was introduced by Luttinger in 1963 (J. Math. Phys., Vol. 4, 1154 (1963)). Luttinger's solution of this model was however incorrect. The correct solution was later provided by D. C. Mattis and E. H. Lieb (J. Math. Phys., Vol. 6, 304 (1965)). The error by Luttinger consists of solving the problem without imposing an appropriate cut-off on sums over momenta, whereby he erroneously mapped the interacting problem onto a non-interacting one. The Luttinger model is akin, but not identical, to an earlier model introduced by Sin-Itiro Tomonaga (Progress of Theoretical Physics, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 544-569 (1950)).
- ^ "Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics". history.aip.org. Retrieved 2020-01-04.