Steve Girvin | |
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| Born | April 5, 1950 |
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| Known for | Strongly correlated electron states in low dimensional systems. |
| Awards | Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (2007) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Condensed matter theory |
| Institutions | Yale University |
| Thesis | Topics in condensed matter physics: the role of exchange in the lithium k edge and the fluorescence spectrum of heavily doped cadmium sulphide (1977) |
| Doctoral advisor | John J. Hopfield |
| Other academic advisors | G. D. Mahan |
| Doctoral students | Aditi Mitra |
Steven Mark Girvin[1] (born April 5, 1950) is an American physicist who is Sterling Professor and former Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at Yale University. He is noted for his theoretical work on quantum many body systems such as the fractional quantum Hall effect, and as co-developer of circuit quantum electrodynamics (circuit QED), the application of the ideas of quantum optics to superconducting microwave circuits. Circuit QED is now the leading architecture for construction of quantum computers based on superconducting qubits.