Screen LibraryFrank Wilczek : 50 years of theoretical physics /
"Frank Wilczek is one of the foremost theoretical physicists of the past half-century. He has made several fundamental contributions that shape our understanding of high energy physics, cosmology, condensed matter physics, and statistical physics. In all these fields his many discoveries contin...
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| Publisher Address: | New Jersey : |
| Publication Dates: | [2022] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"Frank Wilczek is one of the foremost theoretical physicists of the past half-century. He has made several fundamental contributions that shape our understanding of high energy physics, cosmology, condensed matter physics, and statistical physics. In all these fields his many discoveries continue to play a key role in shaping the direction of modern theoretical physics. Among Wilczek's major achievements is the discovery of asymptotic freedom, which predicts and explains the ultraviolet behavior of non-abelian gauge theories. The axion, which he co-discovered and named, has emerged as the prevalent candidate for explaining the origin of dark matter in the Universe. His invention of color-flavor locking explains chiral symmetry breaking in high density quantum chromodynamics. His introduction of fractional statistics and anyons are pivotal to our understanding of the fractional quantum Hall effect and form the building blocks of topological quantum computing. His invention of the time crystal concept has catalyzed extensive investigations of dynamical phases of physical systems. This volume serves as a tribute to Frank Wilczek's legendary scientific contributions, commemorating his 70th birthday and the first 50 years of his career as a theoretical physicist. The contributors include several of his PhD students, close collaborators, and both past and present colleagues"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xvii, 334 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), music ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9789811255175 9811255172 |
| Index Number: | QC16 |
| CLC: | K837.126.11 |
| Call Number: | K837.126.11/W667 |
| Contents: |
Professor Wilczek Comes to Harvard / Pre-K Memories of Frank Wilczek / Anyonic and Fermionic Statistics in a Mesoscopic Collider / Wilczek's Quantum Connection with USTC / Effective Field Theory of Quantum Black Holes / What the World Looks Like Upside Down / Gravitons in the Strong-Coupling Regime / Adventures in Phase Space: From Non-Commuting Coordinates to Quantum Error Correction / Mean Field Theories of Quantum Hall Liquids Justified: Variations on the Greiter-Wilczek Theme / Homage to Frank Wilczek / Ambiguities in the Definition of Local Spatial Densities in Light Hadrons / Fermi Liquids and Fractional Statistics in One Dimension / Breached Pair Superfluidity: A Brief Review / A Musical Tribute to Anyons / Working with Frank Wilczek to Make the Invisible, Visible / From Schrödinger to Sisyphus / Vision Crystallized in Time / Clean Energy from Dark Matter? / The Third Cosmological Paradigm / A Note on Complex Spacetime Metrics / Classical Computer, Quantum Computer, and the Gödel's Theorem / Thermodynamics of Small Systems and Time-Scale Separation / To be Frank in Shanghai: A Physicist's Journey of Driving Aspirations Forward / Publications by Frank Wilczek. |