Jainendra K. Jain
Erwin
W. Mueller Professor of Physics
Department of Physics
The Pennsylvania State
University
104 Davey Laboratory
University Park, PA
16802
Tel: (814) 574-7497
Fax: (814) 865-3604
Email: jain at
phys.psu.edu
B.Sc. Maharaja
College, Jaipur
, India,1979
M.Sc.
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, 1981
Ph.D. SUNY @ Stony Brook,
1985
I had my schooling in Sambhar, a
tiny village located at the eastern margin of the Thar desert in
Rajasthan, India.
After earning my Bachelor's degree from the Maharaja
College, Jaipur, and Master's degree from the Indian
Institute of Technology, Kanpur, I joined the Stony Brook University
in 1981 for my Ph.D. in physics, which I completed in 1985 under the
guidance of Professor
Philip B. Allen. Subsequent to postdoctoral work at the University
of
Maryland and the Yale Univeristy, I returned to the Stony Brook
University as an Assistant Professor in 1989, and was promoted to
Associate
Professor and Full Professor before moving to the
Pennsylvania State University in 1998 as the Erwin W. Mueller Professor
of
Physics.
As a many body condensed matter theorist, my primary focus has been the
study of unexpected conceptual structures that emerge when electrons
behave cooperatively. Closest to my heart has been the fractional
quantum Hall effect, which provides a
new paradigm for collective
behavior that rivals superconductivity and superfluidity in its scope
and elegance. My most important
contribution has been the introduction of exotic particles that I
named "composite
fermions," and the explanation of the mysterious fractional
quantum Hall effect as the integral quantum Hall effect of composite
fermions, thus unifying the two phenomena. Composite fermions,
topological bound states of electrons and quantized vortices,
provide a coherent account of a vast body of experimental facts,
exhibit phenomena and states beyond the
fractional quantum Hall effect, and have
been directly observed in
numerous experiments. More information can be found
in the padagogical articles and text books listed here.
Selected
Publications
Honors
Collaborators
EPQHS2 (Emergent
Phenomena in Quantum Hall Systems-2)
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