Barry Friedman

Barry Friedman is a Professor in the Department of Physics at Sam Houston State University (SHSU), specializing in computational and theoretical condensed matter and chemical physics. His research focuses on quantum Hall systems, particularly their computational aspects.

His work explores the behavior of electrons in two-dimensional GaAs heterostructures under high magnetic fields and low temperatures, with emphasis on non-Abelian quasi-particles and their implications for quantum computation. He utilizes numerical methods like direct diagonalization and density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) to study many-body electron wave functions.

• Quantum Hall systems
• Non-Abelian statistics
• Quantum computation
• Entanglement entropy
• Topological phases of matter