Steven R. White
Encyclopedia
Steven R. White is the professor of physics
at the University of California at Irvine. He graduated from University of California at San Diego; he then received his Ph.D.
at Cornell University
. He is most known for inventing the Density Matrix Renormalization Group
in 1992. This is a numerical variational technique for high accuracy calculations of the low energy physics of quantum manybody systems. His over one hundred papers on this and related subjects have been used and cited very widely—his most cited article has been cited over a thousand times.
Physics
Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
at the University of California at Irvine. He graduated from University of California at San Diego; he then received his Ph.D.
Ph.D.
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at Cornell University
Cornell University
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. He is most known for inventing the Density Matrix Renormalization Group
Density matrix renormalization group
The density matrix renormalization group is a numerical variational technique devised to obtain the low energy physics of quantum many-body systems with high accuracy. It was invented in 1992 by Steven R...
in 1992. This is a numerical variational technique for high accuracy calculations of the low energy physics of quantum manybody systems. His over one hundred papers on this and related subjects have been used and cited very widely—his most cited article has been cited over a thousand times.
Awards
- National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellowship, 1982–1985
- Andrew D. White Supplementary Fellowship, 1982–1985
- IBM Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1988–1989
- American Physical Society, Fellow, 1998
- American Physical Society, Division Councillor for Computational Physics, 1999
- American Physical Society Aneesur RahmanAneesur RahmanAneesur Rahman pioneered the application of computational methods to physical systems. His 1964 paperon liquid argon studied a system of 864 argon atoms on a CDC 3600 computer, utilizing a Lennard-Jones potential. His algorithms still form the basis for many codes written today...
Prize, 2003 - Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2008)
- Physical Review Letters Milestone Paper of 1992 (Honored 2008)
Most cited publications
- S.R., White, "Density Matrix Formulation for Quantum Renormalization Groups," Physical Review Letters 69, 2863 (1992). Cited 1735 times as of June, 2011.
- S.R., White, "Density Matrix Algorithms for Quantum Renomalization Groups," Physical Review B 48, 10345-10356 (1993). Cited 1261 times.
- N.E. Bickers, D.J. Scalapino, and S.R. White, "Conserving Approximations for Strongly Correlated Electron Systems: Bethe-Salpeter Equation and Dynamics for the Two-Dimensional Hubbard Mobel," Physical Review Letters, 62, 961 (1989). Cited 583 times.