Robert B. Hallock, Ph.D
Education
University of Massachusetts: B.S. (June 1965)
Stanford University: M.S. (June 1967)
Stanford University: Ph.D. (August 1969)
Stanford University: Postdoctoral Research
Expertise
Hallock’s research is in the general area of experimental condensed matter physics, with an emphasis on low temperature phenomena, particularly liquid helium, liquid helium films, and solid helium.
Affiliations
Hallock’s affiliations have included membership on the Buckley Prize Award Committee of the American Physical Society, membership on the evaluation committee that carried out an evaluation of the Council for Undergraduate Research, membership on the Fundamental Physics Discipline Working Group that advises NASA, membership on various international conference organizing committees, chair of the international Quantum Fluids and Solids 1998 conference, member and past Chair of the Steering Committee for the yearly Quantum Fluids and Solids international conferences. He is also currently the United States representative to the IUPAP Commission C5, and serves as the IUPAP-C5 Chairman. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and has held AFOSR-NRC, A. P. Sloan, J.S. Guggenheim, and Distinguished University Faculty Fellowships.
Representative Publications
"Observation of Persistent Currents in a Saturated Superfluid Film" (with R.K. Galkiewicz), Phys. Rev. Letters 33, 1073 (1974).
"Direct Observation of Pulsed Third Sound Mass Displacement Waves in Unsaturated Superfluid 4He Films" (with J.S. Brooks and F.M. Ellis), Phys. Rev. Letters 40, 240 (1978).
"Thermal Transport on the Superfluid Side of the Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition in 4He Films" (with J. Maps), Phys. Rev. B26, 3979 (1982).
"NMR Observation of Steps in the Magnetization of 3He in Thin 3He - 4He Mixture Films" (with R.H. Higley and D.T. Sprague), Phys. Rev. Letters 63, 2570 (1989).
"Anomalous Wetting of Helium on Cesium" (with K.S. Ketola and S. Wang), Phys. Rev. Letters 68, 201 (1992).
"Memory, Congruence and Avalanche Effects in Hysteretic Capillary Condensation", (with M.P. Lilly and P.A. Finley), Phys. Rev. Letters 71, 4186 (1993).
"Unexpected Mass Decoupling for 3He - 4He Films on a Solid Hydrogen Substrate" (with P.T. Finley and P.S. Ebey), Phys. Rev. Letters 98, 265301 (2007).
"Mass Flux and Solid Growth in Solid 4He for 60 mK - 700 mK" (with M.W. Ray), Phys. Rev. Letters 105, 145301 (2010).
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