ALEXANDRE ABANOV
Professor
Physics and Astronomy
alexandre.abanov@stonybrook.edu | (631)-632-8174, Physics B-102
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Curriculum Vitae. (Last updated: 2025 Jul 30)

Biography
Alexander G. Abanov is a Professor of Physics at Stony Brook University. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Chicago in 1997 and held a postdoctoral position at MIT before joining the Stony Brook faculty in 2000. From 2012 to 2022, he served as Deputy Director of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics. He has held visiting professorships in Switzerland, Italy, and Israel. His research lies at the intersection of theoretical condensed matter physics and mathematical physics. He is particularly interested in systems governed by the principles of quantum mechanics, including superfluids, superconductors, magnetic systems, and Quantum Hall systems.

Research Statement
Research on strongly correlated electronic systems: hydrodynamic approach to correlated systems, collective theory of Calogero-Sutherland models, phase slips in disordered superconducting wires, quantum anomalies, topological terms in the effective actions induced by fermions, Quantum Hall Effect, topological phasers of matter, high temperature superconductivity, multifractal properties of exactly solvable models (Hofstadter problem), quasi-one-dimensional magnets, applications of quantum geometry.