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LAUGHLIN, ROBERT
B.
rbl@large.stanford.edu
Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
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
carrying 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. physics beyond the Standard Model, and vacuum
structure of field theories.
Awards :
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 Acamdey of Sciences, Co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics
(1998).
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