Jan Aarts [2020]
Leiden University
Citation: For ground-breaking contributions to the experimental investigations of complex-electron superconductors and superconductor-ferromagnet interfaces, and for exceptional service to science and society.
Nominated by: DCMP
Katherine Aidala [2020]
Mount Holyoke College
Citation: For innovative development of scanning probe techniques to characterize soft materials, study disordered semiconductors, and apply azimuthal magnetic fields to magnetic nanostructured materials; for exceptional mentoring of undergraduate women in physics; and promoting public appreciation of science.
Nominated by: DCMP
Carlo Beenakker [2020]
Leiden University
Citation: "For definitive contributions to the theory of quantum transport and outstanding service to the
international scientific community."
Nominated by: DCMP
Claude Bourbonnais [2020]
Université de Sherbrooke
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the theory of low-dimensional conductors and superconductors.
Nominated by: DCMP
Jinfeng Jia [2020]
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Citation: For significant contributions to growth and characterization of epitaxial thin films and the demonstration of proximity induced topological superconductivity and observation of signatures of Majorana fermions.
Nominated by: DCMP
Eun-Ah Kim [2020]
Cornell University
Citation: For broad contributions to theoretical condensed matter physics, including new conceptual frameworks for interpreting experiments.
Nominated by: DCMP
Israel Klich [2020]
University of Virginia
Citation: For deep insights and rigorous results in many areas of condensed-matter theory, including entanglement entropy, the Casimir effect, electron counting and control, and topological order.
Nominated by: DCMP
Onuttom Narayan [2020]
University of California, Santa Cruz
Citation: For definitive work correcting the Fourier law of thermal transport below 2D, and for wide ranging contributions to statistical mechanics of granular systems.
Nominated by: DCMP
Vadim Oganesyan [2020]
CUNY-CSI
Citation: For highly influential and foundational work on the theory of strongly intereracting quantum systems, including ground-breaking work on many-body localization.
Nominated by: DCMP
Arun Paramekanti [2020]
University of Toronto
Citation: For contributions to the theory of superconductivity, magnetism, and exotic phases in strongly
correlated quantum materials.
Nominated by: DCMP
Nikolai Sinitsyn [2020]
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Citation: For outstanding and original contributions to spin noise spectroscopy, anomalous Hall effect, geometric phases, multistate Landau-Zener models, and many-body nonadiabatic transitions.
Nominated by: DCMP
Oleg Starykh [2020]
University of Utah
Citation: For important contributions to the theory of quasi-one-dimensional quantum magnets and the magnetization physics of frustrated antiferromagnets.
Nominated by: DCMP
Dieter Vollhardt [2020]
University of Augsburg
Citation: For pioneering contributions in condensed matter theory, in particular on strongly correlated electron systems, on disordered quantum systems, and on the superfluid phases of helium-3.
Nominated by: DCMP
Xiaodong Xu [2020]
University of Washington
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the discovery and understanding of emergent physics in two dimensional materials, including 2D magnets, spin/valley-pseudospin effects in 2D semiconductors and heterostructures, and monolayer quantum spin Hall insulator.
Nominated by: DCMP
Wang Yao [2020]
The University of Hong Kong
Citation: "For pioneering contributions to valley optoelectronics by laying down the theoretical foundation for versatile control of valley and spin in 2D semiconductors and their heterostructures."
Nominated by: DCMP
Jun Zhu [2020]
Pennsylvania State University
Citation: For fundamental advances in the understanding of charge-, valley- and spin-transport in 2D materials.
Nominated by: DCMP