Kathryn Levin
American physicist
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Kathryn Levin is an American physicist who is Professor of Quantum Science at the University of Chicago.[1] Levin works on high temperatures cuprates and the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer – Bose–Einstein condensate crossover.[1]
Kathryn J. Levin | |
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| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley Harvard University |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of California, Irvine University of Rochester University of Chicago |
Early life and education
Levin is the daughter of a physicist.[2] She was an undergraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated top of the class of the College of Letters and Science.[2] She completed her doctoral research at Harvard University, where she studied the transport and electronic properties of alloys.[3][4] She completed two postdoctoral research positions, one at the University of Rochester and one at the University of California, Irvine.[1]
Research and career
Levin works in condensed matter theory, superconductivity and superfluidity.[5] Her early work considered superfluid helium.[3] In 1995, quantum coherent Bose–Einstein condensatess were demonstrated in trapped atoms, and Levin was amongst the first to recognize it could be used to create coherent pairs of fermionic atoms.[6]
Levin works on cuprates and superconductors, and atomic gas superfluids.[3][7]
Levin currently works at the James franck institute, which specialize's in the intersections of physics, chemistry and material science's.[8]
Levin has trained about 25 PhD students and about 25 postdoctoral scholars during her continuing career.[1]
Recognition
Levin was named as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 1991, after a nomination from the APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics, "for her contributions to our understanding of strongly interacting Fermion systems".[9]
Personal life
Levin is married with two children.[10]
Selected publications
- Joseph Kinast; Andrey Turlapov; John E. Thomas; Qijin Chen; Jelena Stajic; Kathryn Levin (27 January 2005). "Heat capacity of a strongly interacting Fermi gas". Science. 307 (5713): 1296–1299. arXiv:cond-mat/0502087. Bibcode:2005Sci...307.1296K. doi:10.1126/SCIENCE.1109220. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 15681340. Wikidata Q81340809.
- Assa Auerbach; K. Levin (1 August 1986). "Kondo bosons and the Kondo lattice: Microscopic basis for the heavy Fermi liquid". Physical Review Letters. 57 (7): 877–880. doi:10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.57.877. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 10034184. Wikidata Q74476676.
- Si Q; Zha Y; Levin K; Jianping Lu (1 April 1993). "Comparison of spin dynamics in YBa2Cu3O7- delta and La2-xSrxCuO4: Effects of Fermi-surface geometry". Physical Review B. 47 (14): 9055–9076. doi:10.1103/PHYSREVB.47.9055. ISSN 0163-1829. PMID 10004956. Wikidata Q74375640.