John Sous, assistant professor of applied physics and physics, has been awarded the 2025 Nevill F. Mott Prize at the Strongly Correlated Electron System (SCES) Conference.
Sous, who joined Yale in July 2024, was cited “for his models for nonequilibrium superconductivity in strongly driven systems and fundamental theoretical work on the possibility of high transition temperature bipolaronic superconductivity.”
The Nevill F. Mott Prize is awarded to a person who has made significant contributions to the theory of strongly correlated electron systems, and who is active in research no more than 8 years after the PhD.
Sous’s research focuses on the study of systems with a large number of degrees of freedom in which correlations act to stabilize novel behavior with functionalities that can be utilized in future-generation technologies, including but not limited to energy materials.
The goal of this research is to gain a general, unifying understanding of interacting statistical systems. Specific examples include correlated quantum matter (quantum materials and ultracold atoms & molecules) and dynamical non-linear systems (optically driven quantum systems and models of neural learning).
In addition to his appointment in Applied Physics, Sous is a member of the Yale Energy Sciences Institute and affiliated with the Yale Quantum Institute, Yale Foundations of Data Science Institute and the Wu Tsai Institute.
This story was adapted from the Yale School of Engineering and Applied Sciences News story of June 23, 2025.