21 Facts About Subir Sachdev

Subir Sachdev is Herchel Smith Professor of physics at Harvard University specializing in condensed matter.

Subir Sachdev was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2014, received the Lars Onsager Prize from the American Physical Society and the Dirac Medal from the ICTP in 2018, and was elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society ForMemRS in 2023.

Subir Sachdev has made extensive contributions to the description of the diverse varieties of entangled states of quantum matter, and of their behavior near quantum phase transitions.

Subir Sachdev's research has exposed remarkable connections between the nature of quantum entanglement in certain laboratory materials, and the quantum entanglement in astrophysical black holes, and these connections have led to new insights on the entropy and radiation of black holes.

Subir Sachdev attended school at St Joseph's Boys' High School, Bangalore and Kendriya Vidyalaya, ASC, Bangalore.

Subir Sachdev attended college at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi for a year.

Subir Sachdev held professional positions at Bell Labs and at Yale University, where he was a Professor of Physics, before returning to Harvard, where he is the Herchel Smith Professor of Physics.

Subir Sachdev has held visiting positions as the Cenovus Energy James Clerk Maxwell Chair in Theoretical Physics at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and the Dr Homi J Bhabha Chair Professorship at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.

Subir Sachdev has been a Visiting Scholar at the Flatiron Institute since 2019, and Miguel Virasoro Visiting International Chair, at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics since 2024.

Subir Sachdev has been on the Physical Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize from 2018.

Subir Sachdev has developed the theory of quantum criticality, elucidating its implications for experimental observations on materials at non-zero temperature.

Subir Sachdev has developed the theory of critical quantum spin liquids which feature fractionalization and emergent gauge fields, along with absence of quasiparticles.

Subir Sachdev was the first to show that the RVB state is an odd Z2 gauge theory,.

Subir Sachdev showed that antiferromagnets with half-integer spin form odd Z2 spin liquids, and those with integer spin form even Z2 spin liquids.

Subir Sachdev obtained many results on the confinement transitions of the RVB state, including restrictions on proximate quantum phases and the nature of quantum phase transitions to them.

Subir Sachdev has made seminal advances in the theory of condensed matter systems near a quantum phase transition, which have elucidated the rich variety of static and dynamic behavior in such systems, both at finite temperatures and at T=0.

Subir Sachdev has made pioneering contributions to many areas of theoretical condensed matter physics.

Professor Subir Sachdev is a world renowned condensed matter theorist, with many seminal contributions to the theory of strongly interacting condensed matter systems.

Subir Sachdev is a pioneer in the study of systems near quantum phase transitions.

Subir Sachdev has pioneered the exploration of the connection between physical properties of modern quantum materials and the nature of quantum entanglement in their many-particle state, elucidating the diverse varieties of entangled states of quantum matter.

Subir Sachdev has made profound contributions to theoretical condensed matter physics research.