Dmitri Kharzeev

Dmitri E. Kharzeev (Russian: Дмитрий Эдуардович Харзéев; 6 September 1963) is a theoretical physicist working on quantum field theory, nuclear physics, and condensed matter physics. He is a Professor of Physics^[1] and Director of Center for Quantum Materials at Stony Brook University, and the Head of RIKEN-BNL Theory group at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, New York.

Kharzeev was educated at Moscow State University. In 1986, he won the USSR Physics competition for students. After completing his PhD at Moscow State University in 1990, Kharzeev worked as a postdoc at Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics, Theory Division of CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, and Bielefeld University. In 1997, he became the first Fellow of the RIKEN-BNL Center at Brookhaven National Laboratory directed by Tsung-Dao Lee, a Nobel laureate. He then stayed at BNL, and in 2004 became the Head of Nuclear Theory group. In 2010 Kharzeev became a Professor of Physics at Stony Brook University, and in 2015 founded the Center for Quantum Materials.

His main contribution to quantum field theory is the chiral magnetic effect which finds its applications both in nuclear and condensed matter physics. In 2014, Kharzeev collaborated with a team of experimental physicists from BNL, Princeton and Berkeley to discover the chiral magnetic effect in a Dirac semimetal ZrTe5; this result was published in Nature Physics.

Kharzeev’s contributions to nuclear physics include the KLN (Kharzeev-Levin-Nardi) model of multi-particle production in high energy nuclear collisions, the theory of long-range forces in Quantum Chromodynamics, theory of baryon stopping, and a series of papers on anomaly-induced transport in systems with chiral fermions. He published over 200 papers, and his h-index is h=65 according to Google Scholar.

Awards

2013 Humboldt Prize

2010 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

2006 Fellow, American Physical Society^[2]

2005 Sackler Fellow

2005 Emilio Segre Distinguished Scholar

Works

D. Kharzeev, “Parity violation in hot QCD: Why it can happen, and how to look for it” Phys.Lett. B633 (2006) 260-264

D. E. Kharzeev, L. D. McLerran, H. J. Warringa, “The Effects of topological charge change in heavy ion collisions: 'Event by event P and CP violation' “, Nucl.Phys. A803 (2008) 227-253

K. Fukushima, D. E. Kharzeev, H. J. Warringa, “The Chiral Magnetic Effect”, Phys.Rev. D78 (2008) 074033

Qiang Li, Dmitri E. Kharzeev, Cheng Zhang, Yuan Huang, I. Pletikosic, A.V. Fedorov, R.D. Zhong, J.A. Schneeloch, G.D. Gu, T. Valla, "Observation of the chiral magnetic effect in ZrTe5”, Nature Physics (2016) e-Print: arXiv:1412.6543

Yu. L. Dokshitzer, D.E. Kharzeev, “Heavy quark colorimetry of QCD matter” Phys.Lett. B519 (2001) 199-206

D. E. Kharzeev, “The Chiral Magnetic Effect and Anomaly-Induced Transport”, Prog.Part.Nucl.Phys. 75 (2014) 133-151

References

1. [http://mysbfiles.stonybrook.edu/~dkharzeev/ stonybrook.edu
2. APS Fellows