Jainendra K. Jain Explained

Jainendra K. Jain
Birth Date:17 January 1960
Birth Place:Rajasthan, India
Fields:Condensed matter theory
Doctoral Advisor:Philip B. Allen, Steven Kivelson
Known For:Composite fermions

Jainendra K. Jain, an Indian-American physicist, is the Evan Pugh University Professor, Erwin W. Mueller Professor of Physics, and Holder of Eberly Family Chair of Physics at the Pennsylvania State University. He received the Oliver E. Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society in 2002, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021, and was selected Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy in 2024.[1] Jain is known for his theoretical work on quantum many body systems, most notably for postulating particles known as Composite Fermions.

Biography

Jain received his primary, middle and high school education in a government school in a rural village called Sambhar, Rajasthan,[2] located at the eastern margin of Thar desert in India. He received bachelor's degree at Maharaja College, Jaipur,[3] his master's degree in physics at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur[3] and PhD at the Stony Brook University,[3] where he worked with Profs. Philip B. Allen and Steven Kivelson. After post-doctoral positions at the University of Maryland and the Yale University he returned to the Stony Brook University as a faculty in 1989. In 1998 he moved to the Pennsylvania State University[1] .

Jain is a quantum physicist in the field of condensed matter theory with interests in the area of strongly interacting electronic systems in low dimensions. As the originator of the exotic particles called composite fermions, he pioneered and developed the composite fermion theory of the fractional quantum Hall effect and unified the fractional and the integral quantum Hall effects. His writings include a monograph Composite Fermions,[4] published in 2007 by the Cambridge University Press. He co-edited with Bertrand Halperin a book Fractional Quantum Hall Effects: New Developments,[5] published in 2020 by World Scientific.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jainendra K Jain — Penn State Department of Physics. www.phys.psu.edu. en. 2018-02-24.
  2. Web site: Profile of Jainendra K. Jain.
  3. Web site: Array of contemporary American Physicists. American Institute of Physics. 20 October 2010.
  4. Web site: Composite fermions. Cambridge University Press. en. 2018-02-24.
  5. Web site: Fractional Quantum Hall Effects: New Developments.
  6. Web site: INSA Foreign Fellows elected .
  7. Web site: 2021 NAS Election.
  8. Web site: Evan Pugh University Professors .
  9. Web site: AAAS Fellow.
  10. Web site: Buckley Prize. www.aps.org. en. 2018-02-24.