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 administered by Taylor & Francise through their Philosophical Magazine.
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 Mott Medal and Prize is awarded for distinguished contributions to condensed matter or materials physics. Established in 1997, the award recognizes outstanding contributions to the field and comes with a silver medal and £1,000 prize. Sir Nevill Mott was a British physicist who won the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems.
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, 2025N