Benjamin L. Lev
Benjamin L. Lev | |
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| Born | September 9, 1977 (age 46) Colorado Springs, CO |
| Alma mater | Princeton University (A.B.) Caltech (Ph.D.) |
| Known for | Quantum many-body physics:
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| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Doctoral advisor | Hideo Mabuchi |
| Other academic advisors | Jun Ye (postdoc) |
| Website | levlab |
Benjamin Leonard Lev is an American physicist and Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University.[2][3][4][5] He studies quantum many-body physics, both in and out of equilibrium, by combining the tools of ultracold atomic physics, quantum optics, and condensed matter physics.
Biography[edit]
Lev grew up in Crystal River, Florida, and attended Crystal River High School. He received his physics bachelor's degree magna cum laude from Princeton in 1999 and his physics Ph.D. from Caltech in 2005, working with Hideo Mabuchi. Lev was an NRC postdoc[6] at JILA with (2006-2007) Jun Ye and an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2008-2011). He joined the Stanford faculty in 2011, where he is now lllProfessor of lllPhysics[3] and Applied Physics[4] and runs a quantum many-body physics research lab.[7]
Work[edit]
Lev's research focuses on exploring quantum many-body physics, especially in nonequilibrium settings. The contributions of his group include:
- The first laser cooling and trapping of dysprosium,[8] followed by the first creation of a Bose-Einstein condensate[9] (BEC) and a degenerate Fermi gas[10] of Dy. These were the first quantum gases of an open-shell lanthanide (rare-earth) element.[11] Dysprosium is the most magnetic fermionic element, and terbium and the bosonic isotopes of Dy are the most magnetic bosonic elements.[12] Together with prior work on BECs of chromium,[13] Lev's work opened new research directions using highly magnetic dipolar quantum gases for quantum many-body experiments.[11]
- The use of 1D gases of Dy to create a novel hierarchy of quantum many-body scar states in 2020.[14][15] This was realized by the discovery of a dipolar stabilization mechanism that allows super-Tonks-Girardeau states to be prepared using a topological pump in energy space.[14][15]
- Creation of the first optical lattice with sound.[16][17] The lattice had phonon excitations and formed the first supersolid that possesses a key property of solids, vibration. This work was based on the system of confocal multimode cavity QED with BECs, which was developed by his group and collaborators.[18]
- Development of a quantum sensor called the SQCRAMscope, a Scanning Quantum Cryogenic Atom Microscope.[19][20] It was employed in the imaging of nematic electron transport in iron-based superconductors.[21][22][23]
Awards and fellowships[edit]
Lev has received several awards for his work, including a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from President Obama.[24][25] and a Packard Foundation Fellowship,[26] as well as National Science Foundation CAREER Award[27] and Air Force Office of Scientific Research, DARPA, and Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program awards.[28][29][30] Lev was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society[31] ``for groundbreaking experiments on quantum gases of lanthanide atoms with large magnetic dipole moments, theoretically proposing and experimentally demonstrating many-body multimode cavity QED for many-body physics and the demonstration of novel scanning quantum gas imaging of quantum materials." He serves on the editorial board of Physical Review X[32]
References[edit]
- ^ "The David and Lucile Packard Foundation". The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. 2022-08-30. Retrieved 2023-03-11.
- ^ "Benjamin Lev's Profile". Stanford Profiles. Retrieved 2023-03-11.
- ^ a b "Benjamin Lev". Physics Department. Retrieved 2023-03-11.
- ^ a b "Benjamin Lev". Applied Physics Department. 2021-11-10. Retrieved 2023-03-11.
- ^ "Prof. Benjamin Lev". Lev Lab. 2021-11-10. Retrieved 2023-03-11.
- ^ "NRC postdoc". nationalacademies.org. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
- ^ "Lev Lab". Home. 2013-05-30. Retrieved 2023-03-11.
- ^ Lu, M.; Youn, S.-H.; Lev, B. (2010). "Trapping Ultracold Dysprosium: A Highly Magnetic Gas for Dipolar Physics". Physical Review Letters. 104 (6): 063001. arXiv:0912.0050. Bibcode:2010PhRvL.104f3001L. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.104.063001. PMID 20366817. S2CID 7614035.
- ^ Lu, M.; Burdick, N.; Youn, S.-H.; Lev, B. (2011). "Strongly Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensate of Dysprosium". Physical Review Letters. 107 (19): 190401. arXiv:1108.5993. Bibcode:2011PhRvL.107s0401L. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.107.190401. PMID 22181585. S2CID 21945255.
- ^ Lu, M.; Burdick, N.; Lev, B. (2012). "Quantum Degenerate Dipolar Fermi Gas". Physical Review Letters. 108 (21): 215301. arXiv:1202.4444. Bibcode:2012PhRvL.108u5301L. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.108.215301. PMID 23003275. S2CID 15650840.
- ^ a b Chomaz, L.; Ferrier-Barbut, I.; Ferlaino, F.; Laburthe-Tolra, B.; Lev, B.; Pfau, T. (2022). "Dipolar physics: a review of experiments with magnetic quantum gases". Rep. Prog. Phys. 86 (2): 026401. arXiv:2201.02672. doi:10.1088/1361-6633/aca814. PMID 36583342. S2CID 245837061.
- ^ Martin, W C; Zalubas, R; Hagan, L (January 1978). "Atomic energy levels - the rare earth elements". OSTI.GOV. OSTI 6507735. Retrieved 2023-03-11.
- ^ Lahaye, T; Menotti, C; Santos, L; Lewenstein, M; Pfau, T (2009-11-19). "The physics of dipolar bosonic quantum gases". Reports on Progress in Physics. 72 (12). IOP Publishing: 126401. arXiv:0905.0386. Bibcode:2009RPPh...72l6401L. doi:10.1088/0034-4885/72/12/126401. ISSN 0034-4885. S2CID 4888923.
- ^ a b Kao, W.; Li, K.-Y.; Lin, K.Y.; Gopalakrishnan, S.; Lev, B. (2021). "Topological pumping of a 1D dipolar gas into strongly correlated prethermal states". Science. 371 (6526): 296–300. arXiv:2002.10475. Bibcode:2021Sci...371..296K. doi:10.1126/science.abb4928. PMID 33446558. S2CID 231606819.
- ^ a b Kubota, T. (2021-01-14). "New state of matter in one-dimensional quantum gas". Stanford News. Retrieved 2023-03-11.
- ^ Guo, Yudan; Kroeze, Ronen M.; Marsh, Brendan P.; Gopalakrishnan, Sarang; Keeling, Jonathan; Lev, Benjamin L. (2021). "An optical lattice with sound". Nature. 599 (7884): 211–215. arXiv:2104.13922. Bibcode:2021Natur.599..211G. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03945-x. PMID 34759361. S2CID 233423569.
- ^ Kubota, T. (2021-11-10). "Adding sound to quantum simulations". Stanford News. Retrieved 2023-03-10.
- ^ Vaidya, V.; Guo, Y.; Kroeze, R.; Ballantine, K.; Kollár, A.; Keeling, J.; Lev, B. (2017). "Tunable-range, photon-mediated atomic interactions in multimode cavity QED". Physical Review X. 8: 011002. doi:10.1103/physrevx.8.011002. hdl:10023/12271. S2CID 41635927.
- ^ Yang, F.; Kollár, A.; Taylor, S.; Turner, R.; Lev, B. (2017). "Scanning Quantum Cryogenic Atom Microscope". Physical Review Applied. 7 (3): 034026. arXiv:1608.06922. Bibcode:2017PhRvP...7c4026Y. doi:10.1103/physrevapplied.7.034026. S2CID 41496962.
- ^ Wildermuth, S.; Hofferberth, S.; Lesanovsky, I.; Haller, E.; Andersson, L.-M.; Groth, S.; Bar-Joseph, I.; Krüger, P.; Schmiedmayer, J. (2005). "Microscopic magnetic-field imaging". Nature. 435 (7041). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 440. doi:10.1038/435440a. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 15917796. S2CID 11297149.
- ^ Yang, F.; Taylor, S.; Edkins, S.; Palmstrom, J.; Fisher, I.; Lev, B. (2020). "Nematic transitions in iron pnictide superconductors imaged with a quantum gas". Nature Physics. 16 (5): 514–519. arXiv:1907.12601. Bibcode:2020NatPh..16..514Y. doi:10.1038/s41567-020-0826-8. S2CID 256705047.
- ^ Analytis, J. (2020). "Cooking with quantum gas". Nature Physics. 16 (5): 506–507. Bibcode:2020NatPh..16..506A. doi:10.1038/s41567-020-0861-5. S2CID 256706581.
- ^ Harris, M. (2020-11-27). "Ultracold atoms put high-temperature superconductors under the microscope – Physics World". Physics World. Retrieved 2023-03-11.
- ^ "President Obama Honors Outstanding Early-Career Scientists". whitehouse.gov. 2011-09-26. Retrieved 2023-03-11.
- ^ "President Obama Names Top U.S. Early Career Scientists and Engineers". NSF. 2011-10-17. Retrieved 2023-03-11.
- ^ "Lev, Benjamin". The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. 2018-08-16. Retrieved 2023-03-11.
- ^ "Benjamin Lev Receives NSF CAREER Award". UIUC Physics Department. Retrieved 2023-03-11.
- ^ "AFOSR YIP Awards". af.mil. 16 October 2008. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
- ^ "DARPA YFA Awards". darpa.mil. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
- ^ "ONR YIP Awards". navy.mil. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
- ^ "APS Fellow Archive". aps.org. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
- ^ "Physical Review X Editorial Board". aps.org. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
External links[edit]
- LevLab Group Website at Stanford University
- Personal Homepage of Benjamin Lev
- Publications of Benjamin Lev indexed by Google Scholar
External media[edit]
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