Steven R. White

Steven R. White is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine. He is a condensed matter physicist who specializes in the simulation of quantum systems. 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. These strongly correlated systems include both high-temperature superconductors and quantum spin liquids. He is most known for inventing the Density Matrix Renormalization Group (DMRG) 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 over seven thousand citations.

Awards National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellowship, 1982–1985 Andrew D. White Supplementary Fellowship, 1982–1985 IBM Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1988–1989 American Physical Society, Fellow, 1998 American Physical Society, Division Councilor for Computational Physics, 1999 American Physical Society Aneesur Rahman Prize, 2003 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2008) Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2016) Physical Review Letters Milestone Paper of 1992 (Honored 2008) Perimeter Distinguished Visiting Research Chair (2012–present) Member, National Academy of Sciences (2018)

Most cited publications Cited 2416 times, according to Web of Science, October, 2014; over 7000 citations, according to Google Scholar, February, 2023. Cited 1598 times. Cited 657 times.