Leonid Glazman

Biosketch

Leonid Glazman is the Donner Professor of Physics and Professor of Applied Physics at Yale University, as well as a member of the Yale Quantum Institute. He earned his undergraduate degree from Kharkov State University and Ph.D. in Physics from the Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. He joined the Physics faculty of the University of Minnesota in 1990, where he was one of the founding members of the William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute (FTPI). He later was named the McKnight Presidential Chair of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics and served as FTPI Director until moving to Yale. He has been on the Yale faculty since 2007. Glazman is known for his work on quantum physics of interacting condensed matter in constrained geometries, which include low-dimensional and mesoscopic systems. Here, “meso-” refers to scales far exceeding atomic ones, but still small enough to render macroscopic laws of physics inapplicable. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Research Interests

Glazman is a condensed matter theorist with broad interests in quantum many-body physics of low-dimensional and mesoscopic systems. He is particularly focused on phenomena relevant to low-temperature physics and its applications. Glazman was one of the theorists who successfully predicted that a many-body resonance known as the Kondo effect would arise in electron transport across quantum dots. His work on the properties of quantum wires has led him and his collaborators to introduce the notion of a nonlinear Luttinger liquid, which – in addition to its importance for experiments – built new bridges between different parts of quantum many-body theory ranging from phenomenology to mathematical physics. His foundational contributions to the quantum theory of Coulomb blockade and charge parity effects in superconducting Coulomb islands are important to essentially all types of superconducting qubits, from well-developed transmons to prospective topological qubits based on semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures. His current research focuses on quantum many-body theory of low-dimensional solids and physics of superconducting qubits.