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.

He works mostly in condensed matter theory, specializing in computational techniques for strongly correlated systems. 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.