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Robert B. Laughlin

Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Physics

Robert B. Laughlin

LAM, Room 342
McCullough Bldg
476 Lomita Mall
Stanford CA 94305-4045

tel 650-723-4563
fax 650-723-9389
rbl@large.stanford.edu

Home Page:
http://large.stanford.edu/rbl/


Research Interests

Current research is primarily high-temperature superconductivity theory. Recent work includes model studies of doped Mott insulators, computation spectroscopic quantities -- optical conductivity, magnetic susceptibility, photoemission -- from first principles, and development of new mathematical methods based on the fractional quantum Hall effect. These include the use of condensed matter lattice gauge theories, the use of quasiparticles carryin g fractional quantum numbers, and the application of conventional Feynman rules to systems containing both. Other interests include the theory of metals, localization, and quantum chaos.

Career History

  • A.B., 1972, University of California at Berkeley
  • Ph.D. , 1979, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Research Physicist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 1982-present
  • Associate Professor of Physics, Stanford University, 1985-89
  • Professor of Physics, 1989-present
  • IBM Fellow , 1976-78
  • E.O. Lawrence Award for Physics, 1985
  • Oliver E. Buckley Prize, 1986
  • Eastman Kodak Lecturer, University of Rochester, 1989
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1990
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professorship in the School of Humanities and Sciences, 1992-present
  • Co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics, 1998


Research Associates

  • Martin Greiter

Graduate Students

  • Giacomo Vacca
  • Darrell Schroeter

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