Honors

• Fellow of the Royal Society of London; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Boston); Fellow of the American Physical Society; Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK); Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; winner of the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize of the American Physical Society (1993); Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow (1984-88).

Current Research Description

See also Recent talks.

I am currently (June 2011) developing a new geometric description of the fractional quantum Hall effect that introduces the "shape" of the "composite boson", described by a "unimodular" (determinant 1) spatial metric-tensor field as the fundmamental collective degree of freedom of FQHE states. See arXiv:1106.3375 This new "Chern-Simons + quantum geometry" description is a replacement for the "Chern-Simons + Ginzburg-Landau" paradigm introduced c.1990. Unlike its predecessor, it provides a description of the FQHE collective mode that agrees with the Girvin-Macdonald-Platzman "single-mode approximation". This work grew out of an earlier study arxiv:0906.1854 of the dissipationless "Hall viscosity" of FQHE states.

Princeton Info.

• Princeton University's home page.
• Princeton University Physics Department home page.
• Physics Department calendar (Seminars, Colloquium, etc.)
• Princeton Condensed Matter Group Page.

Condensed Matter Info.

• Preprint Search (Haldane) .

Last modified June 2011