Boris Altshuler

Boris Altshuler is a Professor of Physics at Columbia University working on the theory of complex quantum systems, including disordered many-body systems, mesoscopic structures, ultracold quantum gases and physical realizations of quantum computers. With Basko and Aleiner, he showed in 2005 that the states of a many-body system can be localized in Hilbert space, establishing many-body localization (MBL) as a central concept in the field, with implications for the foundations of statistical physics. His Alliance visiting professorship was at École polytechnique (2015-16).