Boris Shklovskii

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Boris Ionovich Shklovskii (born 1944) is a theoretical physicist, at the William I Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota, specializing in condensed matter. Shklovskii earned his A.B. degree in Physics, in 1966 and a Ph.D. in condensed matter theory, in 1968 from Leningrad University. [1]

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Shklovskii is known for the Efros–Shklovskii variable-range hopping conductivity, a model for the temperature dependence of the electrical conductivity in the variable-range hopping regime. [2] He has also made important contributions to the theory of the Quantum Hall effect (explaining the structure of conducting edge channels [3] and predicting the formation of Quantum Hall stripe and bubble phases [4] [5] ) and to the theory of macromolecules (developing the theory of electrostatic charge inversion [6] [7] ).

Honors and awards

Shklovskii was awarded the Landau Prize of Academy of Sciences of USSR in 1986, the A.S. Fine Chair in Theoretical Physics in 1990, [1] [8] and was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1997. [9]

In 2018, he received the 2019 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize for "pioneering research in the physics of disordered materials and hopping conductivity" together with Alexei L. Efros and Elihu Abrahams. [10]

In 2023 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. [11]

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References

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  2. ↑ Efros, A.L.; Van Lien, Nguyen; Shklovskii, B.I. (1979). "Variable range hopping in doped crystalline semiconductors". Solid State Communications. 32 (10): 851–854. Bibcode:1979SSCom..32..851E. doi:10.1016/0038-1098(79)90484-8. ISSN   0038-1098.
  3. ↑ Chklovskii, D. B.; Shklovskii, B. I.; Glazman, L. I. (1992-08-15). "Electrostatics of edge channels". Physical Review B. 46 (7). American Physical Society (APS): 4026–4034. Bibcode:1992PhRvB..46.4026C. doi:10.1103/physrevb.46.4026. ISSN   0163-1829. PMID   10004131.
  4. ↑ Koulakov, A. A.; Fogler, M. M.; Shklovskii, B. I. (1996-01-15). "Charge Density Wave in Two-Dimensional Electron Liquid in Weak Magnetic Field". Physical Review Letters. 76 (3). American Physical Society (APS): 499–502. arXiv: cond-mat/9508017 . Bibcode:1996PhRvL..76..499K. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.76.499. ISSN   0031-9007. PMID   10061472. S2CID   41126815.
  5. ↑ Fogler, M. M.; Koulakov, A. A.; Shklovskii, B. I. (1996-07-15). "Ground state of a two-dimensional electron liquid in a weak magnetic field". Physical Review B. 54 (3). American Physical Society (APS): 1853–1871. arXiv: cond-mat/9601110 . Bibcode:1996PhRvB..54.1853F. doi:10.1103/physrevb.54.1853. ISSN   0163-1829. PMID   9986033. S2CID   13279439.
  6. ↑ Shklovskii, B. I. (1999-11-01). "Screening of a macroion by multivalent ions: Correlation-induced inversion of charge". Physical Review E. 60 (5). American Physical Society (APS): 5802–5811. arXiv: cond-mat/9907351 . Bibcode:1999PhRvE..60.5802S. doi:10.1103/physreve.60.5802. ISSN   1063-651X. PMID   11970478. S2CID   25976742.
  7. ↑ Grosberg, A. Yu.; Nguyen, T. T.; Shklovskii, B. I. (2002-04-19). "Colloquium: The physics of charge inversion in chemical and biological systems". Reviews of Modern Physics. 74 (2). American Physical Society (APS): 329–345. Bibcode:2002RvMP...74..329G. doi:10.1103/revmodphys.74.329. ISSN   0034-6861.
  8. ↑ UMN CSE Endowed Chairs and Professorship Archived 2016-03-28 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  9. ↑ "APS Fellow archive". APS. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  10. ↑ "2019 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize Recipient". American Physical Society. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  11. ↑ "Shklovskii elected to the National Academy of Sciences". University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
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