Anthony Houghton
Professor of Physics

Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics

A graduate of the University of Birmingham, England where he also received the Ph.D. in 1959. After doing postdoctoral research at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, the University of California at San Diego and McMaster University, he joined the Brown University Faculty in 1963. A fellow of the American Physical Society, he has held Science Research Council Fellowships at the Universities of Manchester and Sussex in 1976 to 1977 and at Imperial College London in 1982-83, and Alexander von Humbolt Senior Scientist Awards at the University of Heidelberg in 1977 and 1978. He has been a visiting professor at Oxford University, the Norges Tekniske Hogskole, the University of Sussex, the University of Manchester, the University of Heidelberg, Imperial College, London, and the University of California at San Diego. Professor Houghton served as Chairman of the Physics Department from 1992 - 1998.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

"Renormalization Group Equation for Critical Phenomena" (with F. J. Wegner), Phys. Rev. A8, 401 (1973).

"High Order Behavior of Zero Component Field Theories Without the n–>0 Limit" (with L. Schafer), J. Phys. A12, 1309 (1979).

"Two Particle Spectral Function and a.c. Conductivity of an Amorphous System Far Below the Mobility Edge: A Calculation of Interacting Instantons" (with L. Schafer and F. J. Wegner), Phys. Rev. B22, 3598 (1980).

"Role of Initial Conditions in the Mean Field Theory of Spin Glass Dynamics" (with S. Jain and A. P. Young), Phys. Rev. B28, 2630 (1983).

"1/N Expansion for the Transport Coefficients of the Single Impurity Anderson Model" (with N. Read and H. Won), Phys. Rev. B35, 5123 (1987).

"Flux Lattice Melting in High Tc Superconductors" (with R.A. Pelcovits and A. Sudbo), Phys. Rev. B40 6763 (1989).

"Charge Fluctuations-Spin Fluctuations and Superconductivity in a Cu-O2 Sheet" (with A. Sudbo), Phys. Rev. B42, 4105 (1990).

"Gauge Interactions and Bosonized Fermion Liquids" (with H.J. Kwon and J.B. Marston), Phys. Rev. Lett. 73 284 (1994).

"Theory of Fermion Liquids" (with H.J. Kwon and J.B. Marston), Phys. Rev. B 52 8002 (1995).

"Quasiclassical Approach to Transport in the Vortex State and the Hall Effect" (with I. Vekhter), Phys. Rev. B57, 10831 (1998).

"Quasiparticle Thermal Conductivity in the Vortex State of High Tc Cuprates" ( with I.Vekhter ), Phys. Rev. Lett 83, 4626 (1999).

"Multidimensional Bosonization" (with J.V. Marston and H.J. Kwon) Advances in Physics 49, 141-228 (2000).