Kimchi

Itamar Kimchi did his Ph.D. work with Prof. Ashvin Vishwanath at the University of California, Berkeley. His undergraduate studies, in physics and mathematics, were done at MIT. He then returned to MIT as a Pappalardo Postdoctoral Fellow in Physics before joining JILA as an NRC fellow. Itamar was born in Jerusalem, Israel, and grew up there and in Rockville, Maryland.  

My research interests, in the theory of quantum matter, focus on model systems that allow us to discover conceptually new insights in the theory, and that often are also relevant to experiments. A favorite setting is frustrated quantum spin systems, sometimes with strong spin-orbit coupling (e.g. iridates), sometimes also with quenched disorder. Other settings include topological quantum anomalies, quantum Hall, topological semimetals, and increasingly various cold atomic and molecular systems.