Elihu Abrahams
Elihu Abrahams (born 3 April 1927 in Port Henry, New York) is a theoretical physicist, specializing in condensed matter physics.[1][2]
Abrahams received in 1947 his bachelor's degree[1] and in 1952 his PhD, with Charles Kittel as thesis advisor, from the University of California, Berkeley with thesis Spin-lattice relaxation in ferromagnetics. In 1952–1953 he was a research associate in physics at UC Berkeley. He was in 1953–1955 a research associate and in 1955–1956 an assistant professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He became in 1956 an assistant professor, then an associate professor, and in 1964 a full professor at Rutgers University.[3]
Abrahams’ research is in theoretical condensed matter physics. His main interests concern the quantum-mechanical many-body problem in the presence of very strong particle-particle interactions. In this area, he has been using the techniques of quantum statistical mechanics and field theory to investigate the phase transitions and the transport and thermodynamic properties of a number of systems, including high-temperature cuprate superconductors, metals at the threshold of breakdown of Fermi-liquid behavior, iron pnictide superconductors, heavy-fermion metals, localized spins in metals, magnets with unusual spin correlations, and the disordered interacting electron fluid in two dimensions.[2]
Abrahams was in 1964 elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1986–1987. In 1987 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Selected publications
- with C. Kittel: Dipolar broadening of magnetic resonance lines in magnetically diluted crystals. Physical Review, 1953 doi:10.1103/PhysRev.90.238
- with A. Miller: Impurity conduction at low concentrations. Physical Review, 1960 doi:10.1103/PhysRev.120.745
- with T. Tsuneto: Time variation of the Ginzburg-Landau order parameter. Physical Review, 1966 doi:10.1103/PhysRev.152.416
- with P.W. Anderson, D.C. Licciardello, T.V. Ramakrishnan: Scaling theory of localization: Absence of quantum diffusion in two dimensions. Physical Review Letters, 1979 doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.42.673
- with P.W. Anderson, P.A. Lee, T.V. Ramakrishnan: Quasiparticle lifetime in disordered two-dimensional metals. Physical Review B, 1981 doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.24.6783
- with R.G. Palmer, D.L. Stein, P.W. Anderson: Models of hierarchically constrained dynamics for glassy relaxation. Physical Review Letters, 1984 doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.53.958
- with C.M. Varma, S. Schmitt-Rink: Charge transfer excitations and superconductivity in “ionic” metals. Solid state communications, 1987 doi:10.1016/0038-1098(87)90407-8
- with S.V. Kravchenko, M.P. Sarachik: Metallic behavior and related phenomena in two dimensions. Reviews of Modern Physics, 2001 doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.73.251
- with S.Y. Savrasov, G. Kotliar: Correlated electrons in δ-plutonium within a dynamical mean-field picture. Nature, 2001 doi:10.1038/35071035
- with Q. Si: Strong correlations and magnetic frustration in the high Tc iron pnictides. Physical Review Letters, 2008 doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.076401
References
External links
- Home page of Elihu Abrahams, physics.uclaucla.edu (with list of recent publications)
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