Professor Victor M. Yakovenko

Victor M. Yakovenko, Ph.D. is Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland. His research group is Condensed Matter Theory. He is Fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) and Member of the Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials (CNAM).
 
Victor coauthored Classical Econophysics. His research interests include:

• Unconventional superconductors: quasi-one-dimensional, organic, triplet, high-Tc,…
• Andreev bound states in superconductors
• Strongly correlated materials close to a metal-insulator transition: heavy-fermions, two-dimensional electron gas, He-3 films, …
• Physical effects of high magnetic fields, the quantum Hall effect
• Econophysics: Applications of statistical physics to economics and finance
• Photovoltaic conversion of solar energy

He authored Novel method for photovoltaic energy conversion using surface acoustic waves in piezoelectric semiconductors, and coauthored Spin-polarized tunneling current through a thin film of topological insulator in a parallel magnetic field, Applications of statistical mechanics to economics: Entropic origin of the probability distributions of money, income, and energy consumption, Detecting D-Wave Pairing and Collective Modes in Fermionic Condensates with Bragg Scattering, Shockley model description of surface states in topological insulators, and Spectroscopy of the soliton lattice formation in quasi-one-dimensional fermionic superfluids with population imbalance. Read the full list of his publications!
 
Victor earned his M.S. in Physics at the Moscow Physical-Technical Institute in 1984. He earned his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics at the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow in 1987.
 
Watch New Developments in the Statistical Mechanics of Money, Income, and Wealth. Read Inequality and Investment Bubbles: A Clearer Link Is Established and Signature of long-sought particle that could revolutionize quantum computing seen by Purdue physicist. View his ResearcherID profile.