Alan Harold Luther Explained

Alan Harold Luther
Birth Date:14 December 1940
Nationality:American
Education:Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, MS)
University of Maryland, College Park (PhD)
Occupation:Physicist
Awards:Oliver E. Buckley Prize (2001)
Fields:Physics

Alan Harold Luther (born December 14, 1940) is an American physicist, specializing in condensed matter physics.

Education and career

Luther graduated in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a B.S. in 1962 and an M.S. in 1963. In 1967 he graduated from the University of Maryland with a Ph.D. in physics[1] under the supervision of Richard Allan Ferrell.[2] As a postdoc Luther was from 1967 to 1969 at the Technical University of Munich and from 1969 to 1971 at Brookhaven National Laboratory. At Harvard University he was from 1971 to 1973 an assistant professor and from 1973 to 1976 an associate professor. At Nordita in Copenhagen he was from 1976 a full professor from 1976[1] until his retirement as professor emeritus.[3]

In 1974 he found, with Victor Emery, exact solutions for one-dimensional electron gas models (Luther-Emery liquids).[4] Luther's research also deals with boson-fermion duality, conformal field theories, the generalized Bethe ansatz, spin chains and two-dimensional models of statistical mechanics, strongly correlated electron systems in two dimensions, and high-temperature superconductivity.[1]

For the academic year 1975–1976 he was a Sloan Research Fellow.[5] In 2001 he received (with Victor Emery) the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize for "fundamental contribution to the theory of interacting electrons in one dimension."[1]

Selected publications

Books

References

  1. Web site: 2001 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize Recipient, Alan Harold Luther. American Physical Society.
  2. Web site: Richard Allan Ferrell. Physics Tree.
  3. Web site: People at NORDITA, Alan Luther. NORDITA (Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics).
  4. Xianlong, G.. Rizzi, M.. Polini, M.. Fazio, R.. Tosi, M. P.. Campo Jr, V. L.. Capelle, K.. 2007. Luther-Emery phase and atomic-density waves in a trapped fermion gas. Physical Review Letters. 98. 3. 030404. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.030404. cond-mat/0609346. arXiv preprint
  5. Web site: Sloan Research Fellows, Fellows Database. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. (Search on "Luther".)