RAVIN BHATT, Professor
Room B-430, Engineering Quadrangle

Christina Medina, Assistant
609-258-4641
609-258-6279 (f)
Barbara Zlotnik, Office and Grants Manager, EMD
609-258-3217

Fields of Research Activity: Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, in particular Disordered and Correlated Electronic Systems, Doped Semiconductors, Metal-Insulator Transitions, Quantum Hall Effect, and Random Magnets.
Experience: Fourteen years of research experience at Bell Laboratories. Visiting Professor at Imperial College, Ecole Normale Superieure, Princeton University, University of California, Santa Barbara and the Indian Institute of Science.
Biography: Ravin Bhatt was born in New Delhi, India in 1952. He received his B.Sc. (Honours) in Physics from the University of Delhi in 1971, and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois, Urbana in 1976. Prior to joining Princeton, he was at Bell Laboratories, first as Member of Technical Staff and then as Department Head of the Theoretical Physics Research Department. He has had visiting appointments at the Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris), Imperial College (London), the Institute for Theoretical Physics (Santa Barbara), the International Center for Theoretical Physics (Trieste) and the Indian Institute of Science (Bangalore). He is on the Advisory Board of the Aspen Center for Physics, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and the recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.
Membership in Societies: American Physical Society
Typical Publications:

  1. Y. Huo, R.E. Hetzel and R.N. Bhatt, "Universal Conductance in the Lowest Landau Level," Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 481 (1993).
  2. L. Allen, M.A. Paalanen and R.N. Bhatt, "Low Temperature Magnetization Studies of Nb-Si Films," Europhys. Lett. 21, 927 (1993).
  3. M. Guo, R.N. Bhatt and D.A. Huse, "Quantum Critical Behavior of a Three-dimensional Ising Spin Glass in a Tranverse Magnetic Field," Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 4137 (1994).
  4. B. Huckstein and R.N. Bhatt, "Influence of a Periodic Potential on the Integer Quantum Hall Effect," Surface Science 305, 438 (1994).
  5. D. Shahar, D.C. Tsui, M. Shayegan, R.N. Bhatt and J.E. Cunningham, "Universal Conductivity at the Quantum-Hall Liquid to Insulator Transition," Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 4511 (1995).
  6. R.A. Hyman, K. Yang, R.N. Bhatt and S.M. Girvin, "Random Bonds and Topological Stability in Gapped Quantum Spin Chains," Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 839 (1996).
  7. K. Yang and R.N Bhatt, "Floating of Extended States and Localization Transition in a Weak Magnetic Field," Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1316 (1996).
  8. P.A. Wolff, R.N. Bhatt, and A.C. Durst, "Polaron-polaron Interactions in Diluted Magnetic Semi-Conductors," Journal Appl. Phys. 79, 5196 (1996).
  9. M. Guo, R.N. Bhatt and D.A. Huse, "Quantum Griffiths Sigularities in the Transverse Field Ising Spin Glass," Phys. Rev. B, 54 3336 (1996).
  10. K. Yang and R.N. Bhatt, "Current Carrying States in a Random Magnetic Field," Phys. Rev. B 55, R1926 (1997).

August 31, 2004