Sébastien Balibar, J. C. Séamus Davis, and Richard E. Packard will receive the Fritz London Prize in Low Temperature Physics this August at the 24th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics in Orlando, Florida.
Balibar is being recognized for “his work on the surfaces of helium crystals, especially their roughening transitions, their quantum dynamics, and their instability under stress, for his study of cavitation in liquid helium at negative pressure using high amplitude acoustic waves and for his early experiments on quantum evaporation of superfluid 4He,” according to the citation. He is a director of research at CNRS and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
Davis, a professor of physics at Cornell University, is being honored for “his studies of superfluid 3He weak link arrays revealing a rich variety of phenomena including quantum interference,” and for his “invention and development of spectroscopic imaging STM [scanning tunneling microscope]...
