Mohit Randeria

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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Mohit Randeria
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1958|3|9}}
| birth_place = New Delhi, India
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| residence = [[Ohio]], USA
| nationality = [[Indian nationality|Indian]]
| fields = {{ublist | [[Condensed matter physics]] }}
| workplaces = {{ublist | 1987–89 [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign|University of Illinois]] | 1989–91 [[State University of New York at Stony Brook|State University of New York]] | 1991–95 [[Argonne National Laboratory]] | 1995–2004 [[Tata Institute of Fundamental Research]] | 2004– [[Ohio State University]] | 2002–03 [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign|University of Illinois]]-visiting }}
| alma_mater = {{ublist | 1975–80 [[Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi|IIT Delhi]] | 1980–82 [[California Institute of Technology]] | 1982–87 [[Cornell University]] }}
| doctoral_advisor = {{ublist | James P. Sethna | [[Anthony James Leggett]] }}
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| known_for = Studies on [[condensed matter theory]] and [[superconductivity]]
| awards = {{ublist| 1997 B.M. Birla Prize | 2002 [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics|ICTP]] Prize | 2002 [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]] |
2007 [[IIT Delhi]] Distinguished Alumni Award }}
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'''Mohit Randeria''' (born March 9, 1958) is a US-based Indian condensed matter physicist and a professor of physics at [[Ohio State University]]. Known for his research on condensed matter theory and superconductivity, Randeria is an elected fellow of the [[American Physics Society]]. The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to physical sciences in 2002.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx |title=View Bhatnagar Awardees |date=2017-11-11 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=2017-11-11}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Long link - please select award year to see details}}

== Biography ==
[[File:IIT Delhi.JPG|thumb|left|IIT Delhi]]
Born on March 9, 1958 in the India capital of [[New Delhi]], Mohit Randeria graduated in electrical engineering from the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi]] in 1980 and moved to the US for his master's studies to earn an MS degree in physics from [[California Institute of Technology]] in 1982.<ref name="IITD Distinguished Alumni Award">{{Cite web |url=http://www.iitd.ac.in/convocation/2007/DAA_mohit.pdf |title=IITD Distinguished Alumni Award |date=2017-10-20 |website=Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi |access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref> Subsequently, he enrolled at [[Cornell University]] in 1984 for his doctoral studies under the guidance of James P. Sethna and after securing a PhD in 1987, he did his post-doctoral work at the [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign]] during 1987–89, at the laboratory of [[Anthony James Leggett]], who would go on to win the [[Nobel Prize for Physics]] in 2003.<ref name="Biographical Information">{{Cite web |url=http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~randeria/shortvita2010.pdf |title=Biographical Information |date=2017-10-20 |website=Ohio State University |access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref>

== Legacy ==
[[File:Meissner effect p1390048.jpg|thumb|235px|A magnet levitating above a high-temperature superconductor, cooled with liquid nitrogen]]
Randeria's work has primarily been focused on high temperature [[superconductors]].<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=263 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2017-10-17 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=2017-10-17}}</ref> Besides, he has also worked on condensed matter theory, ultracold [[atomic gases]], [[photoelectron]] [[spectroscopy]], ''magnetism, disorder and nanoscale inhomogeneity in oxides''<ref name="Dr. Mohit Randeria Professor Faculty">{{Cite web |url=https://physics.osu.edu/people/randeria.1 |title=Dr. Mohit Randeria Professor Faculty |date=2017-10-20 |website=Ohio State University |access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref> as well as ''theoretical analysis of photoemision spectroscopy experiments''.<ref name="Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners">{{Cite web |url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf |title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners |date=2017-10-17 |publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |access-date=2017-10-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043957/http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref> His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles<ref name="On ResearchGate">{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/6636005_Mohit_Randeria |title=On ResearchGate |date=2017-10-17 |access-date=2017-10-17}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}} and [[Google Scholar]], an online article repository of scientific articles, has listed 223 of them.<ref name="On Google Scholar">{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=P9U5KzEAAAAJ&hl=en |title=On Google Scholar |date=2017-10-17 |publisher=Google Scholar |access-date=2017-10-17}}</ref>

Randeria is known to have been active in organizing science conferences and seminars.<ref name="Biographical Information" /> He served as the co-organizer of ''Correlated Quantum Matter'' workshop in 2005 and ''Recent Progress in Many-Body Theories'' international conference in 2009 and was a member of advisory committees/panels of the ''International Conference on Low Temperature Physics'' in 2005, ''Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity M2S'' conference held in [[Dresden]] in 2006, ''Basic Research Needs for Superconductivity'' seminar of [[Ministry of Power (India)|Department of Energy]] in 2006, ''Spectroscopies of Novel Superconductors'' seminar in 2007 and ''Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity'' seminar held in Tokyo in 2009. The plenary or invited talks delivered by him include two talks at [[Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics]] in 2004 and 2009, the talks at [[Oxford University]] and [[Princeton University]] in 2004, at [[University of Notre Dame]], [[Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems]] and [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]] in 2005, at [[Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics]], Indian Institute of Science, Brasilia Winter School and Rutgers Mathematical Physics Conference in 2006, at [[Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics]] and [[Institut Henri Poincaré]] in 2007 count among them.

== Awards and honors ==
Randeria received the B. M. Birla Science Prize of the [[Birla Science Museum|B. M. Birla Science Centre]] in 1997.<ref name="B. M. Birla Science Prize">{{Cite web |title=B. M. Birla Science Prize |date=2017-10-20 |website=B. M. Birla Science Centre }}</ref> A year later, he was selected for the Swarnajayanti Fellowship of the [[Department of Science and Technology (India)|Department of Science and Technology]] for a five-year tenure that ran between 1998 and 2003. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]], one of the highest Indian science awards in 2002.<ref name="CSIR list of Awardees">{{Cite web |url=http://www.csir.res.in/careeraward/prize-winner-indexdiscipline-wise |title=CSIR list of Awardees |date=2017 |publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research}}</ref> The same year, he received the ICTP Prize of the [[International Center for Theoretical Physics]].<ref name="Mohit Randeria on APS">{{Cite web |url=https://physics.aps.org/authors/mohit_randeria |title=Mohit Randeria on APS |date=2017-10-20 |access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref> His alma mater, the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi chose him for the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2008 and the [[American Physics Society]] elected him as their fellow in 2008.<ref name="APS Fellow Archive">{{Cite web |url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=R&year=2017&unit_id=&institution= |title=APS Fellow Archive |date=2017-10-20 |website=American Physics Society |access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref>

== Selected bibliography ==
=== Chapters ===
* {{cite book|author1=A. Griffin|author2=D. W. Snoke|author3=S. Stringari, Mohit Randeria (chapter author)|title=Bose-Einstein Condensation|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=suqJdr2pPIsC&pg=PA355|date=13 July 1996|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-58990-1|pages=355–|chapter=Crossover from BCS Theory to Bose-Einstein Condensation}}
* {{cite book|author1=Raymond F. Bishop (Editor)|author2=Nandini Trivedi, Amit Ghoshal, Mohit Randeria (Chapter authors)|title=Recent Progress in Many-body Theories: The Proceedings of the 10th International Conference, Seattle, USA, September 10-15, 1999|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZwMWNePry2sC&pg=PA54|year=2000|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=978-981-02-4318-0|pages=54–|chapter=Recent Progress on Models of Highly Disordered Superconductors}}
* {{cite book|author1=Adolfo Avella|author2=Ferdinando Mancini|author3=Mohit Randeria, Rajdeep Sensharma, Nandini Trivedi (chapter authors)|title=Strongly Correlated Systems: Theoretical Methods|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RrH3vDbMFikC&pg=PA29|date=1 November 2011|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-642-21831-6|pages=29–|chapter=Projected Wavefunctions and High T<sub>c</sub> Superconductivity in Doped Mott Insulators}}
* {{cite book|author1=Piers E. T. Al COLEMAN|author2=Mohit Randeria (Chapter author)|title=PWA90: A Lifetime of Emergence|journal=Pwa90: A Lifetime of Emergence|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IdjACwAAQBAJ&pg=PA113|date=21 December 2015|isbn=978-981-4733-63-2|pages=113–|chapter=High T<sub>c</sub> Superconductivity and RVB|bibcode=2016pwa..book.....C|doi=10.1142/9882}}

=== Articles ===
* {{Cite journal |last=Mohit Randeria |title=High Tc superconductivity in doped Mott insulators |journal=Larkin Memorial Conference |date=2007 |url=http://larkinconf.itp.ac.ru/presentations/Randeria.pdf}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Mohit Randeria |title=Ultracold Fermi gases: Pre-pairing for condensation |journal=Nature Physics |publication-date=2010 |volume=6 |issue=8 |pages=561–562 |doi=10.1038/nphys1748|bibcode=2010NatPh...6..561R |year=2010 }}
* {{Cite journal |last=Mohit Randeria, Edward Taylor |title=BCS-BEC Crossover and the Unitary Fermi Gas |journal=Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics |publication-date=2014 |volume=5 |issue=a |pages=209–232 |doi=10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-031113-133829|bibcode=2014ARCMP...5..209R |year=2014 |arxiv=1306.5785 |s2cid=119292503 }}
* {{Cite journal |last=Mohit Randeria |title=Introduction to Many-Body Physics |journal=Physics Today |publication-date=2017 |volume=70 |issue=5 |pages=59–60 |doi=10.1063/PT.3.3558|bibcode=2017PhT....70e..59R |year=2017 |doi-access=free }}

== See also ==
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* [[Chaos theory]]
* [[Condensed matter theory]]
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== Notes ==
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== References ==
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== Further reading ==
* {{Cite document |last=Mohit Randeria, Edward Taylor |title=BCS to BEC Crossover and the Unitarity Fermi Gas |date=2014 |url=http://boulderschool.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Randeria-Boulder-lecture4.pdf}}

== External links ==
* {{cite book|author=Società italiana di fisica|title=Models and Phenomenology for Conventional and High-Temperature Superconductivity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ndrDAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA498|year=1998|publisher=IOS Press|isbn=978-1-61499-221-9|pages=498–}}
* {{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A8WRIeGmik |title=A simple fermion model for a direct transition from an insulator to a superconductor |last=Mohit Randeria |date=July 6, 2016 |publisher=Department of Physics Technion |format=YouTube video |access-date=2017-10-20}}
* {{Cite web |url=http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~randeria/publications2010.pdf |title=Publications - Mohit Randeria |date=2017-10-20 |website=Ohio State University |access-date=2017-10-20}}

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