Victor Galitski
American physicist
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Victor Galitski is an American physicist, a theorist working in the area of quantum physics.
University of Maryland
Victor Galitski | |
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| Alma mater | Moscow State University William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute |
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| Fields | Theoretical physics Condensed matter physics |
| Institutions | Joint Quantum Institute University of Maryland |
| Anatoly Larkin | |
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."
Books
- Galitski, Victor; Karnakov, Boris; Kogan, Vladimir; Galitskii, Victor (2013). Exploring Quantum Mechanics: A Collection of 700+ Solved Problems for Students, Lecturers, and Researchers. London, U.K.: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-923272-7.
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) 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.