Department of Physics Faculty

Kevin Bedell

John H. Rourke Professor of Physics

Society Membership, Honors, Committees, etc.

  • John H. Rourke Professor of Physics, 艾可直播 College, 1999
  • Fellow of The American Physical Society, 1993
  • Selected by Dowling College as one of the top 40 Alumni in the 40-year history of Dowling College, October 2009
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  • Member, American Physical Society Wheatley Award Committee, 1998 鈥 2000
  • Member, Theory Coordinating Committee, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, FL, 1993 鈥 1995
  • Member, Science Advisory Committee, Magnet Lab (NHMFL), January 1995 鈥 December 1995
  • Member, Search Committee for the Condensed Matter Theory Chair, Royal Technical Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, 1997
  • Advisor to Search Committee for a Condensed Matter Theory Faculty Position, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Canberra, Australia, 1997
  • Review Panelist for The National Research Council Research Associateship Program, sponsored by The National Academies, January 2005 鈥 2014
  • Lead member of a three-person panel to review the Physics Department at the University of Vermont, April 18-21, 2006
  • Lead member of a two-person consultancy team to review the Physics Department at SUNY Oswego. This was part of a project funded by a KECK/PKAL proposal and the University, September 14-16, 2006
  • External consultant for SUNY Oswego鈥檚 Integrated Science Building Committee, September 16-17, 2006
  • Member External Review Committee for the DOE to review the BES program of the Division of Materials Science & Engineering at Argonne National Laboratory, May 12- 16, 2008
  • Member External Review Committee for the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Sweden, June 24-27, 2008
  • Member, Committee of Visitors for DOE, Review the Materials Sciences and Engineering Division of the entire DOE complex, including National Laboratories and Universities, March 31 鈥 April 2, 2009
  • Member of the External Review Committee for the DOE to review the BES program of the Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory, April 4 鈥 7, 2011
  • Chair of 艾可直播 College Physics Department Search committee, October 2014 to June 2015. We hired two new junior 艾可直播members as a result of this search
  • Committee of Visitors (COV) for the Division of Materials Research, appointed July 2015 to December 10, 2015

Administrative and Professional Experience

  • Editor for听Advances in Physics, November 1995 to November 2015
  • Vice Provost for Research, 艾可直播 College, Oct. 2006 - Sept. 2010
  • Chair, Department of Physics, 艾可直播 College, Jan. 1996 - Oct. 2006
  • Co-Director, Many-Body Theory Program at LANL, Jan. 1996 - Sept. 2002
  • Director, Program in Correlated Electron Theory, LANL, Nov. 1991 - Dec. 1995
  • Staff Member, Los Alamos National Laboratory, T-11, Sept. 1986 - Jan. 1996
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Kamerling Onnes Lab, Leiden, Sept. 1985 - Aug. 1986
  • Postdoc, Institute for Theoretical Physics, SUNY Stony Brook, Feb. 1982 - Aug. 1985
  • Research Associate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, Sept. 1979 - Jan. 1982

Selected Conferences and Invited Talks

  • Invited speaker at the Condensed Matter Meeting of the Brazilian Physical Society, "What Kind of Liquid Are the High Temperature Superconductors?" May 5 鈥 8, 1992
  • Invited participant in the Aspen Center for Physics Summer Workshop on "Non-Fermi Liquid and Unconventional Metals," July 18 鈥 August 6, 1994
  • Invited speaker at the "Seventh Conference on Superconductivity and Applications," Buffalo, New York, "The Theory of High-Tc: Are We There Yet?" September 7 鈥 9, 1994
  • Invited lecturer at the National Center for Theoretical Physics in Canberra, Australia, "Microscopic Foundations of Fermi Liquid and Non-Fermi Liquid Theories of High Temperature Superconductors," November 1 鈥 11, 1994
  • Invited speaker at 鈥淪pectroscopies of Novel Superconductors鈥 Conference,鈥 Cape Cod, MA, speaking on "Reflections on the Conference: Spectroscopies of Novel Superconductors, 1997,鈥 September 1997
  • Invited participant in the Aspen Center for Physics Summer Workshop on "Superconductivity in Unconventional Metals," July 17 鈥 August 2, 1999
  • Invited participant in the Los Alamos National Laboratory Workshop on "Complex Adaptive Matter," August 23 鈥 28, 1999
  • Invited speaker at the "Workshop on the Nuclear Standard Model: Ieri, Oggi, Doani: A celebration of Vijay Pandharipande's sixtieth birthday," Elba, Italy, speaking on "New Collective Modes in Ferromagnetic Metals: Are there lessons to be learned for nuclear matter?" June 26 鈥 30, 2000
  • Invited speaker at the "Workshop on Superconductivity and Emergent Behavior in Correlated Electron Systems," Los Alamos, NM, speaking on "S-Wave Superconductivity in Weak Ferromagnets,鈥 September 9 鈥 11, 2000
  • Invited participant in the Institute for Theoretical Physics Workshop on "High Temperature Superconductivity,鈥 September 12 鈥 October 9, 2000
  • Invited speaker at the "Tradeline Conference on New Cost-Effective Planning Models and Building Programs for College and University Learning Facilities," Hilton Head, SC, speaking on "Space: The final frontier," November 9 鈥 10, 2000 (This was a talk I presented with two architects from Shepley Bulfinch, Richardson & Abbott.)
  • Invited participant in the Aspen Center for Physics Summer Workshop on 鈥淓mergent Behavior in Correlated Electron Superconductors,鈥 July 2 鈥 15, 2001
  • Invited participant in "From Superconductivity to Magnetism: A Symposium to honor Professor J. R. Schrieffer, Nobel Laureate,鈥 Santa Fe, NM, October 18 鈥 19, 2001
  • Invited lecturer at the March 2002 American Physical Society Annual Meeting, speaking on "Superconductivity and the Normal State Near Ferromagnetic Quantum Criticality," March 20, 2002
  • Invited speaker and breakout group leader at "Shaping the Physics Agenda for the Next Decade: A conference for physics department chairs," sponsored by APS and AAPT, College Park, MD, speaking on "How to Increase the Number of Physics Majors," June 7 鈥 9, 2002
  • Invited speaker at 鈥淨uantum Criticality in Correlated Matter鈥 Conference, Columbia University, New York, NY, speaking on 鈥淨uantum Fluctuation Driven First Order Phase Transitions in a Weak Ferromagnetic Metal,鈥 March 2003
  • Invited participant in the Aspen Center for Physics Workshop on 鈥淐ompeting Orders and Quantum Criticality in Correlated Electrons, Bosons, and Spin Systems,鈥 July 7 鈥 August 10, 2003
  • Invited participant in 鈥淣uclear Energy and Science for the 21st Century: Atoms for peace plus fifty鈥 Conference, Washington, D.C., October 22, 2003
  • Invited speaker at 鈥淪pectroscopies of Novel Superconductors, 2004鈥 Conference, Sitges, Spain, speaking on 鈥淨uantum Fluctuation Driven First Order Phase Transitions in Weak Ferromagnetic Metals,鈥 July 2004
  • Invited participant in the Aspen Center for Physics Workshop on 鈥淧seudogaps in Strongly Correlated Metals,鈥 August 30 鈥 September 10, 2004
  • Invited speaker at 鈥淪haping Environments for Undergraduate Learning in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Fields鈥 Conference, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, speaking on 鈥淪pace Matter: The 艾可直播 College story,鈥 September 10 鈥 12, 2004 (Of note: This was a meeting involving architects, administrators, faculty, and building planners who have or who will be building science facilities.)
  • Invited participant in the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Workshop on 鈥淨uantum Phase Transitions,鈥 February 13 鈥 March 5, 2005
  • Invited participant in the Aspen Center for Physics Workshop on 鈥淚nteractions, Coherence & Control in Mesoscopic Systems,鈥 July 11 鈥 31, 2005

Selected Publications

1.听听听听 The Stability of the Roton Liquid in Superfluid 4He, K.S. Bedell, I.A. Fomin, and D. Pines, J. Low Temp. Phys. 48, 417 (1982).

2.听听听听 The Incompressibility of Neutron-Rich Nuclear Matter, M. Prakash and K.S. Bedell, Phys. Rev. C 32, 1118 (1985).

3.听听听听 One-Component Fermi Liquid Theory and the Properties of UPt3, C.J. Pethick, D. Pines, K.F. Quader, K.S. Bedell, and G.E. Brown, Phys. Rev. Lett. 57, 1955 (1986).

4.听听听听 Nuclear Spin-Lattice Relaxation in 3He-4He Mixtures, M. Lowe, P.C. Hammel, R.E. Ecke, K. Bedell, and M. Takigawa, Phys. Rev. B 37, 2281 (1988).

5.听听听听 听Robustness of a Local Fermi Liquid Against Ferromagnetism and Phase Separation, J. Engelbrecht and K. S. Bedell, Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 4265 (1995).

6.听听听听 Luttinger鈥檚 Theorem in One Dimensional Metals, K. B. Blagoev and K. S. Bedell, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 1106 (1997).

7.听听听听 Effect of Ferromagnetic Spin Correlations on Superconductivity in Ferromagnetic Metals, K. B. Blagoev, J. R.Engelbrecht, and K. S. Bedell, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 133-136 (1999).

8.听听听听 Coexistence of Ferromagnetism and Superconductivity, N. I. Karchev, K. B. Blagoev, K. S. Bedell and P. B. Littlewood, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 846 (2001).

9.听听听听 Quantum Spin Hydrodynamics and a New Spin Current mode in Ferromagnetic Metals, K. S. Bedell and K. B. Blagoev, Phil. Mag. Letters 81, 511 (2001).

10.听 Absence of Wigner Crystallization in Graphene, Hari P. Dahal, Y. Joglekar, K. S. Bedell, and A. V. Balatsky, Phys. Rev. B 74, 233405 (2006).

11.听 Spin Waves in Quasiequilibrium Spin Systems, K. S. Bedell and Hari P. Dahal, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, (2006).

12.听 听The Virial Theorem in Graphene and other Dirac Materials, J. Dustan Stokes, Hari P. Dahal, Alexander V. Balatsky, and Kevin S. Bedell, Phil. Mag. Letters, 93, 672 (2013).

13.听 听Effective Spin Diffusion in Spin-Polarized Equilibrium and Quasiequilibrium Fermi liquids, Hari P. Dahal and K. S. Bedell, Phys. Rev. B 87, 174406 (2013).

14.听 听Spin Orbit Magnetism and Unconventional Superconductivity, Yi Zhang and K. S. 听Bedell, Phys. Rev. B 87, 115134 (2013).

15.听 Approaching Pomeranchuk Instabilities from the Ordered Phase: A Crossing-symmetric Equation Method, Kelly Reidy, Khandker Quader and Kevin Bedell听Nuclear Physics A 928, 168 (2014).

16.听 鈥淭he 鈥楬iggs鈥 amplitude mode in weak ferromagnetic metals,鈥 Yi Zhang, Paulo F.听听 Farinas and Kevin S. Bedell, Acta Physica Polonica A 127 (215) (A Conference proceedings, Physics of Magnetism 2015).

17.听 鈥淪uperfluid (Amplitude) Fluctuations Above Tc in a Unitary Fermi Gas,鈥 Hua Li, Jason Jackiewicz, and Kevin S. Bedell, Phys. Rev B 91 075107 (2015).

18.听 鈥淨uantum spin transport and dynamics through a ferromagnetic/normal metal junction,鈥 Hua Li and Kevin S. Bedell, Phys. Rev. B 92, 224437 (2015).

Recently Submitted Papers

  • "Consequences of the Inherent Density Dependence in Dirac Materials," by Matthew Gochan and Kevin Bedell. Submitted to JLTP, August 2017.
  • 鈥淓xotic quantum statistics from a many-body theory of Majorana fermions,鈥 by Joshuah T. Heath and Kevin S. Bedell. Submitted to PRB, September 2017

Selected Books and Conference Proceedings Edited

  • High Temperature Superconductivity: The Los Alamos Symposium 1989, K.S. Bedell, D. Coffey, D.E. Meltzer, D. Pines and J.R. Schrieffer, editors (Addison-Wesley, Redwood City 1990).
  • Strongly Correlated Electronic Materials: The Los Alamos Symposium 1993, K.S. Bedell, Z. Wang, D. Meltzer, A. Balatsky, and E. Abrahams, editors (Addison-Wesley, Redwood City, 1994).