Steven R. White
Steven R. White is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine. He graduated from the University of California, San Diego; he then received his Ph.D. at Cornell University, where he was a shared student with Kenneth Wilson and John Wilkins.
He is most known for inventing the Density Matrix Renormalization Group in 1992. This is a numerical variational technique for high accuracy calculations of the low energy physics of quantum many-body systems. His over one hundred seventy papers on this and related subjects have been used and cited widely—his most cited article has received about four thousand citations.Awards
- National Science Foundation Fellowship, 1982–1985
- Andrew D. White Supplementary Fellowship, 1982–1985
- IBM Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1988–1989
- American Physical Society, Fellow, 1998
- American Physical Society, Division Councillor for Computational Physics, 1999
- American Physical Society Aneesur Rahman Prize, 2003
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Physical Review Letters Milestone Paper of 1992
- Perimeter Distinguished Visiting Research Chair
- Member, National Academy of Sciences
Most cited publications
- Cited 2416 times, according to Web of Science, October, 2014; over 4000 citations, according to Google Scholar, April, 2016.
- Cited 1598 times.
- Cited 657 times.
