
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.