Steven Girvin

Steven M. Girvin is an American physicist, who is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and deputy provost for science and technology at Yale University. Girvin is noted for his theoretical work on quantum many body systems, such as the fractional quantum Hall effect.
Biography.
Girvin was born in Austin, Texas in 1950 and went to high school in the village of Brant Lake, New York. A graduate of Bates College and the University of Maine, Girvin received his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University in 1977 after completing a doctoral dissertation, titled "Topics in condensed matter physics: the role of exchange in the lithium K edge and the fluorescence spectrum of heavily doped cadmium sulphide", under the supervision of John J. Hopfield. Girvin worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Indiana University, Bloomington and the National Bureau of Standards and held faculty position at Indiana University, before joining Yale as a Professor of Physics. Girvin was awarded a bronze medal for superior federal service by the Department of Commerce while serving as a physicist at the Bureau of Standards.
Girvin's research focus has been theoretical study of collective quantum behavior in strongly correlated many body systems and their phase transitions,; he has worked on problems such as quantum Hall effect, superconductor-insulator transition, quantum spin chains and so on. He works with experimentalists Rob Schoelkopf and Michel Devoret on the engineering problem of building a quantum computer, and on developing a new "circuit QED" using superconducting electrical circuits. The group was successful in experimentally implementing two-qubit quantum algorithms on a superconducting circuit. Girvin co-edited the book "The Quantum Hall Effect", which has been translated to Japanese, Chinese and Russian.
Girvin, James P. Eisenstein and Allan H. MacDonald won the 2007 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize for their "Fundamental experimental and theoretical research on correlated many-electron states in low dimensional systems"
In September 2020, Girvin was appointed as the director of the Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage located at Brookhaven National Laboratory. In his role, Girvin will oversee more than 80 scientists across 24 institutions as they "do the basic research needed to make dramatic advances in the performance of quantum computer modules".