Professor Asle Sudbø at the Department of Physics has been named Fellow of the American Physical Society. Professor Sudbø is honored for his contribution in research that will contribute to the development of future information technology.
The American Physical Society (APS) is one of the world’s largest organization of physicists.
The APS Fellowship Program recognizes members who have made exceptional contributions to research results in physics research, important applications in physics, management within or work in physics, or special contributions to physics education.
Professor Sudbø was nominated to be an APS Fellow “for pioneering contributions to the theory of vortex matter in highly fluctuating superconductors, super fluids and multi-component condensates”.
Information technology of the future
Sudbø’s research could have applications in future green information technology. This is one of the overarching research topics in the Center for Outstanding Research Quantum Spintronics (QuSpin), where Sudbø is one of four main researchers.
Sudbø is currently researching, among other things, new types of superconductors, where the connection between the electron’s charge and the spin is important. In superconductors there are important conditions called vortexes, which can be viewed as a number of tornadoes (at the quantum level) of exactly the same strength.
The vortex conditions of these new materials can be manipulated by an electric field, and can provide completely new and more useful properties than before. Among other things, they could conceivably be used as qubits: elementary operating parts in quantum computers.
Prestigious award
Each year, less than half a percent of APS members are recognized by their fellow colleagues and nominated for the “Fellow of the American Physical Society”.
– Being named Fellow of the American Physical Society is a prestigious award, which also illustrates Sudbø’s important contributions to research at the QuSpin research center, says Tor Grande, vice-dean of research at the Faculty of Science.
