Sankar Das Sarma

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Sankar Das Sarma
Born	1953 Kolkata, India
Nationality	United States
Occupation	Theoretical Physicist

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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 Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), and the director of the Condensed Matter Theory Center at the University of Maryland, College Park. 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 Highly-Cited Researchers. In collaboration with Chetan Nayak and Michael Freedman of Microsoft Research, Das Sarma 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.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

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