CCQ’s Nicolas Regnault Named American Physical Society Fellow

Nicolas Regnault, a research scientist at the Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ) at the Flatiron Institute, has been named a Condensed Matter Physics Fellow by the American Physical Society (APS). The fellowship recognizes those “who have contributed to the advancement of physics by independent, original research or who have rendered some other special service to the cause of the sciences.”

Regnault is a research director for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and a visiting researcher at Princeton University. He completed his Ph.D. thesis on integrable models for gravity and then moved to condensed matter physics. He is a renowned expert in fractional quantum Hall physics (especially its numerical aspects), topological phases of matter, entanglement properties in many-body quantum states and out-of-equilibrium quantum systems.

Regnault receives the award for his breakthroughs in these areas, including the creation of open-source resources, such as topological material databases and code for fractional quantum Hall systems, that will help accelerate science worldwide. He is also recognized for his seminal works on fractional Chern insulators and quantum many-body scars.