Egor Babaev (born 1973) is a Russian-born Swedish physicist. In 2001, he received his PhD in theoretical physics from
Uppsala University (Sweden). In 2006 he joined the faculty of the
KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. In 2007-2013 he shared this position with a faculty appointment at Physics Department of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (USA). He is currently full professor at the Physics Department KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
History
He received multiple awards in recognition of his research on superconductivity and superfluidity. His results, obtained with several collaborators and students, include a theory of new types of superconducting states in multicomponent systems
Type-1.5 superconductivity,(reviewed in
) theory of
metallic and superconducting superfluids and inter-component pairing induced by thermal fluctuation in multicomponent systems (reviewed in), prediction, often referred as Babaev-Faddeev-Niemi hypothesis of unconventional excitations in superconducting state: knotted solitons also dubbed as
Hopfions.
He is actively engaged in science communication to general public. Currently he is serving as the co-organiser and chair of the selection committee of the
Lise Meitner Distinguished Lecture
Lise Meitner Distinguished Lecture and Medal is a colloquium-style distinguished lecture that takes place at AlbaNova University Center in Stockholm on annual basis. The lecture commemorates Lise Meitner who spent a substantial part of her care ...
, the general audience lecture taking place at
AlbaNova University Center in Stockholm on annual basis. He coauthored the textbook on modern theory of
superfluidity with
Boris Svistunov
Boris Vladimirovich Svistunov (russian: Борис Владимирович Свистунов; born October 22, 1959) is a Russian-American physicist specialised in the condensed matter physics. He received his MSc in physics in 1983 from Moscow ...
and
Nikolay Prokof'ev.
In 2021, Babaev and collaborators published evidence of a "
quartic metal", an exotic phase of low-temperature matter that exhibits the breaking of
time-reversal symmetry.
Awards
Göran Gustafsson Prize in Physics from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences "For original theoretical research which has already shown new ways to understand complex systems and processes in materials physics"
American Physical Society Fellow "For pioneering contributions to the theory of multicomponent superconductors and superfluid
Tage Erlander prize in Physics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences "For groundbreaking theoretical work that predicts new states of matter in the form of quantum fluids with novel properties"
Outstanding Young Researcher Award from Swedish Research Council
US National Science Foundation CAREER Award
References
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1973 births
Living people
KTH Royal Institute of Technology faculty
Fellows of the American Physical Society
21st-century Swedish physicists
Uppsala University alumni
University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty
Scientists from Saint Petersburg