Boris Shklovskii

Boris Ionovich Shklovskii (born 1944) is a theoretical physicist, at the William I Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota, specializing in condensed matter. Shklovskii earned his A.B. degree in Physics, in 1966 and a Ph.D. in condensed matter theory, in 1968 from Leningrad University.[1]

Shklovskii is known for the Efros–Shklovskii variable-range hopping conductivity, a model for the temperature dependence of the electrical conductivity in the variable-range hopping regime.[2] He has also made important contributions to the theory of the Quantum Hall effect (explaining the structure of conducting edge channels[3] and predicting the formation of Quantum Hall stripe and bubble phases[4][5]) and to the theory of macromolecules (developing the theory of electrostatic charge inversion[6][7]).

Honors and awards

Shklovskii was awarded the Landau Prize of Academy of Sciences of USSR in 1986, the A.S. Fine Chair in Theoretical Physics in 1990,[1][8] and was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1997.[9]

In 2018, he received the 2019 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize for "pioneering research in the physics of disordered materials and hopping conductivity" together with Alexei L. Efros and Elihu Abrahams.[10]

In 2023 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.[11]

References

1. UMN BIO physics Shklovskii Retrieved 28 April 2019.
2. Efros, A.L.; Van Lien, Nguyen; Shklovskii, B.I. (1979). "Variable range hopping in doped crystalline semiconductors". Solid State Communications. 32 (10): 851–854. Bibcode:1979SSCom..32..851E. doi:10.1016/0038-1098(79)90484-8. ISSN 0038-1098.
3. Chklovskii, D. B.; Shklovskii, B. I.; Glazman, L. I. (1992-08-15). "Electrostatics of edge channels". Physical Review B. 46 (7). American Physical Society (APS): 4026–4034. Bibcode:1992PhRvB..46.4026C. doi:10.1103/physrevb.46.4026. ISSN 0163-1829. PMID 10004131.
4. Koulakov, A. A.; Fogler, M. M.; Shklovskii, B. I. (1996-01-15). "Charge Density Wave in Two-Dimensional Electron Liquid in Weak Magnetic Field". Physical Review Letters. 76 (3). American Physical Society (APS): 499–502. arXiv:cond-mat/9508017. Bibcode:1996PhRvL..76..499K. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.76.499. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 10061472. S2CID 41126815.
5. Fogler, M. M.; Koulakov, A. A.; Shklovskii, B. I. (1996-07-15). "Ground state of a two-dimensional electron liquid in a weak magnetic field". Physical Review B. 54 (3). American Physical Society (APS): 1853–1871. arXiv:cond-mat/9601110. Bibcode:1996PhRvB..54.1853F. doi:10.1103/physrevb.54.1853. ISSN 0163-1829. PMID 9986033. S2CID 13279439.
6. Shklovskii, B. I. (1999-11-01). "Screening of a macroion by multivalent ions: Correlation-induced inversion of charge". Physical Review E. 60 (5). American Physical Society (APS): 5802–5811. arXiv:cond-mat/9907351. Bibcode:1999PhRvE..60.5802S. doi:10.1103/physreve.60.5802. ISSN 1063-651X. PMID 11970478. S2CID 25976742.
7. Grosberg, A. Yu.; Nguyen, T. T.; Shklovskii, B. I. (2002-04-19). "Colloquium: The physics of charge inversion in chemical and biological systems". Reviews of Modern Physics. 74 (2). American Physical Society (APS): 329–345. Bibcode:2002RvMP...74..329G. doi:10.1103/revmodphys.74.329. ISSN 0034-6861.
8. UMN CSE Endowed Chairs and Professorship Archived 2016-03-28 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 28 April 2019.
9. "APS Fellow archive". APS. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
10. "2019 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize Recipient". American Physical Society. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
11. "Shklovskii elected to the National Academy of Sciences". University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering. Retrieved 8 August 2024.

External links

• National Public Radio Blog
• Boris Shklovskii publications indexed by Google Scholar