Victor Galitski

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Victor Galitski
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Born
Moscow, Russia
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Moscow State University
William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute
Scientific career
Fields Theoretical physics
Condensed matter physics
Institutions Joint Quantum Institute
University of Maryland
Doctoral advisor Anatoly Larkin

Victor Galitski is a Russian-American physicist, a theorist working in the area of quantum physics.

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Education and career

Galitski earned his PhD in applied math (under Prof. Dmitry Sokoloff from the Math Faculty in Moscow State University) and a 2nd PhD in quantum physics under Prof. Anatoly Larkin. 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 Open Society 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]

In July 2021, Galitski published a viral essay on linkedin, entitled "Quantum Computing Hype is Bad for Science," [10] cautioning about unsupported, inflated claims in the quantum computing industry and the dangerous possibility of "quantum Ponzi schemes."

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Family background

Victor Galitski was born in Moscow, Russia in a family of Jewish, German, and Russian ancestry. His grandfather Victor Galitskii (Галицкий,_Виктор_Михайлович  [ ru ]) was a renowned physicist, [11] [12] who worked with Lev Landau, [13] and Arkady Migdal, and was director of the theoretical physics department in the Kurchatov Institute.

  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 . Bibcode:2010PhRvL.104j6408D. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.106408. PMID   20366446. S2CID   119270507.
  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. S2CID   10273804.
  6. ↑ Galitski, V.; Spielman, I. (2013). "Spin–orbit coupling in quantum gases". Nature. 494 (7435): 49–54. arXiv: 1312.3292 . Bibcode:2013Natur.494...49G. doi:10.1038/nature11841. PMID   23389539. S2CID   240743.
  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 . Bibcode:2011NatPh...7..490L. doi:10.1038/nphys1926. S2CID   26754031.
  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. ↑ V. Galitski, "Quantum Computing Hype is Bad for Science," https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/quantum-computing-hype-bad-science-victor-galitski-1c/?trackingId=WOuRqwByRr6JL00V9sXWDQ%3D%3D
  11. ↑ Ghassib, H. B.; Bishop, R. F.; Strayer, M. R. (1976-05-01). "A study of the Galitskii-Feynman T matrix for liquid 3He" . Journal of Low Temperature Physics. 23 (3): 393–410. doi:10.1007/BF00116928. ISSN   1573-7357. S2CID   121402516.
  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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