Victor Galitski

Victor Galitski (Russian: Виктор Михайлович Галицкий) is a Russian-American physicist, a theorist in the areas of condensed matter physics and quantum physics.

Victor Galitski
Born
Moscow, Russia
NationalityUnited States
Alma materMoscow State University
William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical physics
Condensed matter physics
InstitutionsJoint Quantum Institute
University of Maryland
Doctoral advisorAnatoly Larkin

Education and Career

Galitski earned his PhD in applied math in 1999 (under Prof. Dmitry Sokoloff from the Math Faculty in Moscow State University) and a 2nd PhD in condensed matter physics under Prof. Anatoly Larkin in 2002. Galitski was later a postdoctoral fellow at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. He has been on the faculty at the University of Maryland since 2005, where he is now a Chesapeake Chair Professor of Theoretical Physics. He is also a Fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute there, an honorary professor at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and a foreign partner of the Australian ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies (FLEET).

Galitski has been awarded the NSF career award, Simons Investigator award,[1], the George Soros Fellowship, and the Future Fellowship from Australian Research Council. His notable researches include the 2010 prediction of topological Kondo insulators.[2][3][4] In 2006, he introduced a new kind of spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein Condensate.[5][6] In 2007, together with University of Maryland coworkers including Sankar Das Sarma, Galitski resolved the minimal conductivity puzzle in graphene physics.[7] Together with Gil Refael, Galitski co-introduced Floquet topological insulators.[8][9] He is a co-founder of Aspen Quantum Consulting company.[10]

Books
  • Galitski, Victor; Karnakov, Boris; Kogan, Vladimir; Galitskii, Victor (2013). Exploring Quantum Mechanics: A Collection of 700+ Solved Problems for Students, Lecturers, and Researchers. London, U.K.: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199232727.

Family background

Victor Galitski was born in Moscow, Russia in a family of Russian, German, and Jewish ancestry. His grandfather Victor Galitskii (Галицкий,_Виктор_Михайлович) was a renowned physicist,[11][12] who worked with Lev Landau,[13] Arkady Migdal, and other luminaries, and was director of the Theoretical Physics Department in the Kurchatov Institute. Galitski's grandmother, Tatiana Leonteva, had traced her origins to a pre-revolutionary noble family descending from count Grigory Orlov family tree.

  1. Peter Coclains, "Immigrant Scientists Enrich the U.S.," Wall Street Journal, July 28, 2013
  2. Dzero, M.; et al. (2010). "Topological Kondo Insulators". Phys. Rev. Lett. 104 (10): 106408. arXiv:0912.3750. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.106408. PMID 20366446.
  3. Reich, Eugenie Samuel (2012). "Hopes surface for exotic insulator". Nature. 492 (7428): 165. Bibcode:2012Natur.492..165S. doi:10.1038/492165a. PMID 23235853.
  4. Natalie Wolchover, "Paradoxical Crystal Baffles Physicists," Quanta Magazine
  5. Stanescu, T. D.; et al. (2008). "Spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates". Phys. Rev. A. 78 (2): 023616. arXiv:0712.2256. Bibcode:2008PhRvA..78b3616S. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.78.023616.
  6. Galitski, V.; Spielman, I. (2013). "Spin–orbit coupling in quantum gases". Nature. 494 (7435): 49–54. arXiv:1312.3292. doi:10.1038/nature11841. PMID 23389539.
  7. Adam, S.; et al. (2007). "A self-consistent theory for graphene transport". PNAS. 104 (47): 18392–18397. arXiv:0705.1540. Bibcode:2007PNAS..10418392A. doi:10.1073/pnas.0704772104. PMC 2141788. PMID 18003926.
  8. Lindner, N.; et al. (2011). "Floquet topological insulator in semiconductor quantum wells". Nature Physics. 7 (6): 490–495. arXiv:1008.1792. doi:10.1038/nphys1926.
  9. David L. Chandler, MIT News Office (October 24, 2013) "Persuading light to mix it up with matter," https://news.mit.edu/2013/persuading-light-to-mix-it-up-with-matter-1024
  10. Aspen Quantum Consulting. https://www.aspenquantum.com/
  11. "A study of the Galitskii-Feynman T matrix for liquid 3He," https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00116928
  12. "Total energy from the Galitskii-Migdal formula using realistic spectral functions," https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.62.4858
  13. V.M.Galitskii, L. D.Landau, and A.B.Migdal, "The disintegration of the deuteron by the Coulomb field of the nucleus," Physica 22, 1168 (1956)
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