Dmitri Kharzeev

Dmitri E. Kharzeev (Russian: Дмитрий Эдуардович Харзéев; 6 September 1963) is a theoretical physicist working on quantum field theory, nuclear physics, and condensed matter physics. He is a Professor of Physics and Director of Center for Quantum Materials at Stony Brook University, and the Head of RIKEN-BNL Theory group at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, New York.

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Kharzeev was educated at Moscow State University. In 1986, he won the USSR Physics competition for students. After completing his PhD at Moscow State University in 1990, Kharzeev worked as a postdoc at Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics, Theory Division of CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, and Bielefeld University. In 1997, he became the first Fellow of the RIKEN-BNL Center at Brookhaven National Laboratory directed by Tsung-Dao Lee, a Nobel laureate. He then stayed at BNL, and in 2004 became the Head of Nuclear Theory group. In 2010 Kharzeev became a Professor of Physics at Stony Brook University, and in 2015 founded the Center for Quantum Materials.

His main contribution to quantum field theory is the chiral magnetic effect which finds its applications both in nuclear and condensed matter physics. In 2014, Kharzeev collaborated with a team of experimental physicists from BNL, Princeton and Berkeley to discover the chiral magnetic effect in a Dirac semimetal ZrTe5; this result was published in Nature Physics.

Kharzeev’s contributions to nuclear physics include the KLN (Kharzeev-Levin-Nardi) model of multi-particle production in high energy nuclear collisions, the theory of long-range forces in Quantum Chromodynamics, theory of baryon stopping, and a series of papers on anomaly-induced transport in systems with chiral fermions. He published over 200 papers, and his h-index is h=65 according to Google Scholar.