Prof. Louis Taillefer
Fellow
Current Employer
Université de Sherbrooke
Election Year
2007
Academy
Academy of Science
Discipline
Physics
Department
Département de physique
Keywords
Matériaux quantiques, supraconductivité
Long Citation
Louis Taillefer is internationally renowned for innovative experimental research on new states of matter. He pioneered the use of heat transport at ultra-low temperatures to determine the symmetry of the superconducting state, probe critical behaviour at quantum phase transitions, and elucidate the nature of excited states in magnetic insulators. He was the first to directly measure the giant electron masses of f-electron materials. He discovered the first instance of multi-component superconductivity and the first violation of the Wiedemann-Franz law - the physical law that determines the universal ratio of charge and heat conductivities of a metal at absolute zero.
Short Citation
Louis Taillefer is internationally renowned for innovative experimental research on new states of matter. He pioneered the use of heat transport at ultra-low temperatures to determine the symmetry of the superconducting state, probe critical behaviour at quantum phase transitions, and elucidate the nature of excited states in magnetic insulators. He was the first to directly measure the giant electron masses of f-electron materials.
Louis Taillefer is internationally renowned for innovative experimental research on new states of matter. He pioneered the use of heat transport at ultra-low temperatures to determine the symmetry of the superconducting state, probe critical behaviour at quantum phase transitions, and elucidate the nature of excited states in magnetic insulators. He was the first to directly measure the giant electron masses of f-electron materials. He discovered the first instance of multi-component superconductivity and the first violation of the Wiedemann-Franz law - the physical law that determines the universal ratio of charge and heat conductivities of a metal at absolute zero.
Short Citation
Louis Taillefer is internationally renowned for innovative experimental research on new states of matter. He pioneered the use of heat transport at ultra-low temperatures to determine the symmetry of the superconducting state, probe critical behaviour at quantum phase transitions, and elucidate the nature of excited states in magnetic insulators. He was the first to directly measure the giant electron masses of f-electron materials.