Ady Stern

Photo of Ady Stern

Ady Stern is a professor of physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. He received his PhD from Tel Aviv University in Israel and was a junior fellow at Harvard University. His research focuses on the quantum Hall effect, non-Abelian states of matter, and mesoscopic physics. He is also interested in the popularization of science.


Viewpoint

Liberating anyons from two dimensions

The combination of trivial and topological band insulators with a superconductor is bringing anyons—particles that behave neither according to purely Bose nor Fermi statistics—into the three-dimensional world. Read More »

Viewpoint

Corralling Interfering Anyons

A delicate interference experiment elucidates the collective behavior of quasiparticles that are neither bosons nor fermions, but something in between. Read More »