Tin-Lun Ho

Theorist at the forefront of ultracold atomic gases, leaving his imprint on all aspects of Bose and Fermi gases, and quantum simulation. Created the subfield of spinor condensates flourishing at laboratories worldwide; he predicted the rich structures in high spin Bose gases, including the experimentally verified polar and ferromagnetic states; and the non-abelian cyclic phase in spin-2 Bose gases. Bringing Landau level physics to rapidly rotating Bose gases, and demonstrating the universal thermodynamics of strongly interacting Fermi gases, stimulated numerous experiments. His method to determine temperatures via virial theorems is now standard experimental technique. Leading theorist in quantum simulation of condensed matter physics, including his successful algorithm to deduce properties of bulk systems. Work on entropy redistribution forms the basis of experimental cooling schemes. First to point out the nature of Bose condensation with spin-orbit interaction in the famous National Institute of Standards and Technology experiment.