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Erez Berg

Head shot of UCSB professor Erez Berg

Erez Berg

Professor, Materials and Electrical & Computer Engineering
Mehrabian Presidential Chair in Engineering

Affiliation: 
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Materials

Contact

2244 Materials Research Lab

University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5050

Fellow of: 

American Physical Society

Honors

Andre Deloro Prize for Scientific Research, Weizmann Institute; Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists in Israel (2019); Morris L. Levison Prize in Physics, Weizmann Institute; Minerva Arches Prize, Minerva Foundation; Alon Fellowship, Council of Higher Education, Israel; Kirkpatrick Award for Excellence in Teaching, Stanford University 

Research

Understanding the quantum mechanical behavior of electrons in solids is one of the most influential scientific discoveries that have shaped the age we live in. The mission of the Berg Research Group is to push this frontier further. Researchers in his group are interested in the physics that emerges from the interactions of a large number of quantum particles, with applications ranging from high temperature superconductivity to quantum information. They employ a large variety of analytical and numerical techniques, including methods borrowed from quantum field theory, quantum Monte Carlo simulations, and tensor network methods. Particular research topics include: topological phases of matter, strongly correlated electrons, superconductivity, periodically driven systems, and two-dimensional Van der Waals materials.

Education

PhD Physics, Stanford University
MS  Physics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
BA  Physics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology