Steven Kivelson

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'''Steven Allan Kivelson''' (born May 13, 1954) is an American theoretical physicist known for several major contributions to condensed matter physics. He is the Prabhu Goel Family Professor at Stanford University.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |title=Steven Kivelson Biography |url=https://history.aip.org/phn/11603025.html |accessdate=21 April 2020 |website=history.aip.org |publisher=AIP}}</ref> Before joining Stanford in 2004, he was a professor of physics at the University of California at Los Angeles.<ref name=":0" /> Kivelson is known for his theoretical work on high-temperature superconductivity and correlated systems.<ref name=":1" /> == Biography == Steven Kivelson was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1954.<ref name=":0" /> He is the son of Margaret Kivelson, an emeritus professor of earth and space sciences at UCLA, and {{ill|Daniel Kivelson|de}} (1929–2003), who was a professor of chemistry, also at UCLA.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Daniel Kivelson Obituary |url=https://www.chem.ucla.edu/news/Kivelson_Obit.html |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=www.chem.ucla.edu}}</ref>

Kivelson received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1979, working with C. Daniel Gelatt, Jr.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |url=http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=215250 |title=Steven Kivelson |publisher=Mathematics Genealogy Project |accessdate=March 14, 2019}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> He spent three years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, working with John Robert Schrieffer.<ref name=":1">{{cite web |last1=Biswas |first1=Sounak |last2=Kocherlakota |first2=Prashant |title=Interview: A Walk With Steven Kivelson Through the Realm of Strange Materials |url=https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/interview-a-walk-with-steven-kivelson-through-the-realm-of-strange-materials/ |website=The Wire Science |accessdate=21 April 2020 |date=3 February 2019}}</ref><ref name=":0" />

He then joined the faculty of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he was an assistant (1982–86), associate (1986–88) and full professor (1988–89).<ref name=":0" /> In 1988, he moved to the University of California, Los Angeles.<ref name=":0" /> In 2004, Kivelson joined the faculty at Stanford University, where he was appointed Prabhu Goel Family Professor of Physics in 2012.<ref name=":0" />

=== Doctoral students === Kivelson has advised many doctoral theses, including those of Assa Auerbach (1985),<ref name=":3" /> Shivaji Sondhi (1992)<ref name=":3" /> and Erica Carlson<ref name=":0" /> (2000).

== Research == In the 1995, Victor Emery and Kivelson developed the first model for high-temperature superconductivity based on the presence and fluctuations of charge stripes.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Service |first=Robert F. |date=1999-02-19 |title=Could Charge Stripes Be a Key to Superconductivity? |url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.283.5405.1106 |journal=Science |volume=283 |issue=5405 |pages=1106–1108 |doi=10.1126/science.283.5405.1106|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Mourachkine |first=Andrei |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9SWC9dUOj9kC&dq=kivelson+superconductivity+model&pg=PA8 |title=Room-temperature Superconductivity |date=2004 |publisher=Cambridge Int Science Publishing |isbn=978-1-904602-27-9 |language=en}}</ref> Unfortunately this model does not apply to cuprate superconductors due to the lack of charge–spin separation.<ref name=":2" />

In 2001, Kivelson, Eduardo Fradkin, and Vadim Oganesyan developed the theory of nematic Fermi fluids.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Cabra |first1=Daniel C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZPZu79HU-SAC&dq=electronic+liquid+crystals+kivelson&pg=PA108 |title=Modern Theories of Many-Particle Systems in Condensed Matter Physics |last2=Honecker |first2=Andreas |last3=Pujol |first3=Pierre |date=2012-01-05 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-3-642-10449-7 |language=en}}</ref>

== Awards and honors == Kivelson was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1995<ref>{{Cite web |title=Search Results - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/results?competition=ALL&fellowship_category=ALL&lower_bound=1995&page=2&query=&upper_bound=1995&x=16&y=11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140228013337/http://www.gf.org/fellows/results?competition=ALL&fellowship_category=ALL&lower_bound=1995&page=2&query=&upper_bound=1995&x=16&y=11 |archive-date=2014-02-28 |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=www.gf.org |language=en}}</ref> and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-04-28 |title=Steven Allan Kivelson {{!}} American Academy of Arts and Sciences |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/steven-allan-kivelson |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=www.amacad.org |language=en}}</ref> and to the National Academy of Sciences in 2010.<ref name=":0" /> In 2012, he was awarded the Bardeen prize (with Chandra Varma and James Sauls) instituted by the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Communications |first=Grainger Engineering Office of Marketing and |title=Bardeen Prize |url=https://physics.illinois.edu/people/honors-and-awards/bardeen-prize |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=physics.illinois.edu |language=en}}</ref>

He earned the 2025 Oliver E. Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society for "broad and insightful theoretical contributions that have significantly advanced the understanding of correlated quantum systems".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-10-21 |title=Steven Kivelson receives 2025 American Physical Society prize {{!}} Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences |url=https://humsci.stanford.edu/news-post/steven-kivelson-receives-2025-american-physical-society-prize |access-date=2025-05-28 |website=humsci.stanford.edu |language=en}}</ref>

== Textbooks ==

* {{Cite book |last1=Kivelson |first1=Steven A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iP_ZEAAAQBAJ |title=Statistical Mechanics of Phases and Phase Transitions |last2=Jiang |first2=Jack Mingde |last3=Chang |first3=Jeffrey |date=2024-06-25 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-24973-5 |language=en}}

==References== {{Reflist}}

== External links == * [https://profiles.stanford.edu/steven-kivelson Stanford faculty webpage]

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