Alan Harold Luther (born December 14, 1940) is an American physicist, specializing in condensed matter physics.
Luther graduated in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a B.S.
[3] In 1974 he found, with Victor Emery, exact solutions for one-dimensional electron gas models (Luther-Emery liquids).
[4] Luther's research also deals with boson-fermion duality, conformal field theories, the generalized Bethe ansatz, spin chains and two-dimensional models of statistical mechanics, strongly correlated electron systems in two dimensions, and high-temperature superconductivity.
[5] In 2001 he received (with Victor Emery) the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize for "fundamental contribution to the theory of interacting electrons in one dimension.