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Mehran Kardar

Massachusetts Institute of Technology ORCID

461

Works

24,108

Citations

70

h-index

208

i10-index

Research Topics

Theoretical and Computational Physics Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

Affiliations

DuPont (United States)2010–2010

Harvard University1984–2013

University of California, Santa Barbara1990–2009

Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences1996–1999

Tel Aviv University1988–2005

Top Works

Dynamic Scaling of Growing Interfaces

Mehran Kardar,Giorgio Parisi,et al.

19865,303 citations

Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics

Material Dynamics and Properties

Burgers equation with correlated noise: Renormalization-group analysis and applications to directed polymers and interface growth

Ernesto Medina,Terence Hwa,et al.

1989675 citations

The “friction” of vacuum, and other fluctuation-induced forces

Mehran Kardar,Ramin Golestanian

1999667 citations

Statistical Physics of Fields

2007620 citations

Scaling of Directed Polymers in Random Media

Mehran Kardar,Yicheng Zhang

1987531 citations

Statistical Physics of Particles

2007474 citations

Pressure is not a state function for generic active fluids

Alexandre Solon,Yaouen Fily,et al.

2015474 citations

Long range interactions in nanoscale science

Roger H. French,V. Adrian Parsegian,et al.

2010437 citations

Casimir Forces between Arbitrary Compact Objects

Thorsten Emig,Noah Graham,et al.

2007367 citations