Steven R. White

Steven R. White (born December 26, 1959 in Lawton, Oklahoma) is a professor of physics at the University of California at Irvine. He graduated from University of California at San Diego; he then received his Ph.D. at Cornell University. He is most known for inventing the Density Matrix Renormalization Group in 1992. This is a numerical variational technique for high accuracy calculations of the low energy physics of quantum manybody systems. His over one hundred papers on this and related subjects have been used and cited very widely—his most cited article has been cited over a thousand times.

Awards

• National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellowship, 1982–1985
• Andrew D. White Supplementary Fellowship, 1982–1985
• IBM Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1988–1989
• American Physical Society, Fellow, 1998
• American Physical Society, Division Councillor for Computational Physics, 1999
• American Physical Society Aneesur Rahman Prize, 2003
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2008)
• Physical Review Letters Milestone Paper of 1992 (Honored 2008)

Most cited publications

• S.R., White, "Density Matrix Formulation for Quantum Renormalization Groups," Physical Review Letters 69, 2863 (1992). Cited 1735 times as of June, 2011.
• S.R., White, "Density Matrix Algorithms for Quantum Renomalization Groups," Physical Review B 48, 10345-10356 (1993). Cited 1261 times.
• N.E. Bickers, D.J. Scalapino, and S.R. White, "Conserving Approximations for Strongly Correlated Electron Systems: Bethe-Salpeter Equation and Dynamics for the Two-Dimensional Hubbard Mobel," Physical Review Letters, 62, 961 (1989). Cited 583 times.

External links

• "Steven White's home page at the University of California at Irvine". 

• "List of 47 of his papers at arXiv, submitted as Steven White". 

• "List of 73 of his papers at arXiv, submitted as S.R. White". 
• American Physical Society profile