PHIL ALLEN
Professor Emeritus/Research Professor
Physics and Astronomy
philip.allen@stonybrook.edu | (631)-632-8179, Physics B-146
Curriculum Vitae. (Last updated: 2023 Apr 05)
Biography
Phil Allen joined the faculty at Stony Brook in 1971, after spending two years doing
research at Bell Laboratories. He obtained a PhD from U. of Calif. Berkeley (1964-1969)
and a bachelor’s degree from Amherst College (1960-1964).
Research Statement
Phil Allen’s group in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook is interested
improving theories and assisting experiments in solid state physics if theory has
not yet been developed. Topics include the transition temperature of superconductors,
the transport of electricity and heat in metals, insulators, and amorphous semiconductors,
and relaxation toward equilibrium of electrons in solids driven by light or other
perturbations. The underlying picture usually involves quasiparticles, such as electrons
and phonons. Many interesting unsolved problems arise when there is break-down of
quasiparticles due to excessive disorder or strong interactions.
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