J. C. Séamus Davis

J. C. Séamus Davis is an Irish physicist whose research explores the world of macroscopic quantum physics. Davis concentrates upon the fundamental physics of exotic states of electronic, magnetic, atomic and space-time quantum matter. A specialty is development of innovative instrumentation to allow direct atomic-scale visualization or perception of the quantum many-body phenomena that are characteristic of these states.

Davis operates three suites of ultra-low vibration laboratories, one in Beecroft Building at Oxford University (UK), another in the Kane Building at University College Cork (IE) and a third in Clark Hall at Cornell University (US). Other key components of the program are at the Max Planck Graduate Center for Quantum Materials in Dresden (DE).

Biography[]

Davis was admitted to University College Cork (UCC) in 1978 and studied physics under Frank Fahy, earning a B.Sc. there in 1983.^[1] He got a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989, became a postdoctoral research associate there in 1990 and joined the faculty in 1993, rising through the ranks to become a full Professor of Physics in 2001. From 1998 to 2003, he was also a Faculty Physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He then joined Cornell University as a Professor of Physics in 2003, and was appointed J.G. White Distinguished Professor of Physics in 2008. Also in 2007, he became SUPA Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of St Andrews. He joined Brookhaven National Laboratory in 2007 as a Senior Physicist, and in 2009 was appointed Director of DOE's Center for Emergent Superconductivity, an Energy Frontier Research Center. In 2019 Davis became Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford, UK; Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, UK; Professor of Quantum Physics at University College Cork, IE; and Emeritus Professor of Physics at Cornell University, NY, USA.^{[citation needed]}

Research[]

Davis' research focuses upon the macroscopic quantum physics of emergent quantum matter at low temperatures.

Active research interests include studies of: Macroscopic Quantum Mechanics, Space-time as Quantum Matter, Quantum Monopole and Spin liquids, Correlated High-Tc Superconductors, Electronic Liquid Crystals, Electron-pair Crystals, Magnetic topological insulators, Electron Fluid-flow Visualization

For these studies, a variety of specialized instrumentation has been developed including scanning tunneling microscopes, quantum interferometers, quantum mechanical oscillators and spin noise spectrometers.

Publications representing elements of the active research program can be found at: Davis Group Research

Awards[]

Davis has been the recipient of

• Outstanding Performance Award of the Berkeley National Lab. (2001) ^[2]
• Science and Technology Award of Brookhaven National Lab. (2013)
• London Prize (2005) for his research on superfluids,^[3]
• Kamerlingh-Onnes Prize (2009) for his research on high temperature superconductivity,^[3]
• Science Foundation Ireland Medal of Science (2016) ^[3]
• Lounasmaa Prize (2020) for his pioneering research into visualizing electronic quantum matter at the atomic scale ^[4]

In 2014 he received an Honorary Doctorate (D.Sc.) from National University of Ireland.^[5] In 2019 he was awarded a Science Foundation Ireland Research Professorship. In 2020 he was awarded a Royal Society Research Professorship.^[6] He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK), the American Physical Society (USA), the Max Planck Gesellschaft (DE), the Royal Irish Academy (IE), and a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences. ^[7]

References[]

External links[]

• Davis Group
• Davis Group - University of Oxford
• Davis Group - University College Cork
• Davis Group - Cornell University

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