Sankar Das Sarma

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name = Sankar Das Sarma
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birth_date = 1953
birth_place = Kolkata, India
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occupation = Theoretical Physicist
nationality =flagicon|USA United States

Sankar Das Sarma is a theoretical physicist specializing in condensed matter physics, many-body theory, strongly correlated material, semiconductor physics, low dimensional systems, topological matter, materials physics, the quantum hall effect, statistical mechanics, nanoscience, spintronics and quantum computation. He is a Distinguished University Professor, a Fellow of the [http://www.jqi.umd.edu Joint Quantum Institute] (JQI), and the director of the [http://www.physics.umd.edu/cmtc/ Condensed Matter Theory Center] at the University of Maryland, College Park. [http://www.physics.umd.edu/people/faculty/dassarma.html Das Sarma] has co-authored more than 400 articles in the Physical Review Journal series of the American Physical Society, and is a highly cited scientist, being one of the Institute for Scientific Information [http://www.isihighlycited.com/ Highly-Cited Researchers] . In collaboration with Chetan Nayak and Michael Freedman of Microsoft Research, Das Sarma [http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0412343 introduced] the concept of a topological qubit in 2005, which has led to worldwide efforts in building a fault-tolerant quantum computer based on two-dimensional semiconductor structures. Das Sarma has mentored a large number of PhD students and postdoctoral research associates at Maryland, having supervised 25 PhD students and 40 postdoctoral fellows in the 1982-2007 period, with about 30 of these advisees themselves working as theoretical physicists all over the world. He is the editor of the book Perspectives in Quantum Hall Effects (ISBN 0-471-11216-X) and an author of several well-known review articles on spintronics and quantum computation. [ [http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AuthorDetail/authorid/155;jsessionid=baa6gWCz81 Spintronics review article in American Scientist, 2001] ] [ [http://scitation.aip.org/vsearch/servlet/VerityServlet?KEY=RMPHAT&CURRENT=NO&ONLINE=YES&smode=strresults&sort=rel&maxdisp=25&threshold=0&allprl=1&pjournals=RMPHAT&possible1zone=multi&bool1=and&pyear=2004&possible2=s+das+sarma&possible2zone=author&OUTLOG=NO&viewabs=RMPHAT&key=DISPLAY&docID=1&page=1&chapter=0 Spintronics review article in Reviews of Modern Physics, 2004] ] [ [http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-59/iss-7/contents.html Topological Quantum Computation review article in Physics Today, 2006] ] [ [http://www.physics.umd.edu/cmtc/ Condensed Matter Theory Center] ] [ [http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.1889 Topological Quantum Computation review article in Reviews of Modern Physics, 2008] ]

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