Rev. 229. Frank Anthony Wilczek ( / w l t k / ; [2] geboren 15. Hes worked on an unusually wide variety of topics, ranging across condensed matter physics, astrophysics and particle physics. 178. Lett. 455. Rev. Observability of Earth-Skimming Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos (with J. Feng, P. Fisher, This is a cluster of papers wherein the methods of superconductivity theory are applied to QCD at high density. D25, 553 (1982). The axion is a hypothetical elementary particle. Frank Wilczek was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004. 407. Item 30 introduced the Higgs-gluon-gluon coupling, which plays a central role in the anticipated phenomenology of that particle. Rev. 186. 469. Phys. Finally Item 172 is an attempt to portray the big picture, for a wide physics audience. 170. Rev. 128. Pierce (World Scientific, July 2008), Int. Some Applications of a Simple Stationary Line Element for the Schwarzschild Geom- etry, (with P. Kraus), Mod. 307. Futures- Six public lectures by Nobel and Templeton Laureate Frank Wilczek, Nobel physicist Frank Wilczek on paradox, beauty and truth. In Items 203 and 205 we show, by tough concrete calculations, how the worst aspects of the inconsistency can be relieved by enforcing full energy conservation (including gravitational self- energy). 209. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. The deepest of these consequences result from the infinite number of degrees of freedom invoked to implement locality. Illustrations of Vacuum Polarization by Solitons (with R. MacKenzie), Phys. 167. Betsy Devine (born 1946) is an American author, journalist, and blogger, with published works including Longing for the Harmonies (1988), an appreciation of modern physics with Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek, and of Absolute Zero Gravity (1993), a collection of light-hearted material about science, with biologist Joel E. Cohen. Mass Splittings from Symmetry Obstruction (with L. Cornalba), Phys. He is known, among other things, for the discovery of asymptotic freedom, the development of quantum chromodynamics, the invention of axions, and the discovery and exploitation of new forms of quantum statistics (anyons). Selected Publications Frank Wilczek Funny, Science, Doe 31 Copy quote An ordinary mistake is one that leads to a dead end, while a profound mistake is one that leads to progress. Peter Freund played a big role in my life, though, because he taught this course on group theory, or symmetry in physics thathe was so enthusiastic, and he really gushedand it's beautiful material. We find a detailed match between the calculable properties of the high-density (quark) phase and the properties of the low-density (nuclear) phase one has learned to expect from phenomenology, numerics, etc. 161 Relic Gravitational Waves and Extended Inflation (with M.S. Frank Wilczek, a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist, author and Arizona State University Distinguished Professor, whose boundary-pushing investigations into the fundamental laws of nature have transformed our understanding of the forces that govern our universe, was announced today as the winner of the 2022 Templeton Prize . Item 112 presents a simple, natural example. Rev. 401. Quantum Mechanics and Topology Change Item 462 shows how quantum theories may be continuously deformed, in such a way that they start as models based on one space and end up as models on a topologically distinct space. Lett. Lett. He was the first permanent member of the National Science Foundation's Institute for Theoretical Physics and, later, the J.R. Oppenheimer Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. 265. I had the honor to present the rapporteurs talk on high energy physics at the 100th Anniversary Solvay Conference; this is item 455. 134 3-12 (2004). Wen, A. Zee), Phys. [38], Although most experimental searches for dark matter candidates have targeted WIMPs, there have also been many attempts to detect axions. Wilczek won the Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society in 2003. . Phys. Lett. Frank Wilczek, 2004 Laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physics, speaks at 'Nobel Week Dialogue: the Future of Truth' conference at at Svenska Massan on December 9, 2017, in Gothenburg, Sweden. D. 78 083507. astro-ph/0807.1726 [MIT-CTP3950] (2008). Frank Wilczek 17 Space-Time Approach to Holonomy Scattering (with Y.-S. Wu), Phys. What is Quantum Theory?, Physics Today , 53N6 11-12, (2000) [MIT-CTP-3159]. Rev. Rev. Rev. D 55, 4591, (1997). Item 196 exemplified use of the replica trick, which remains a basic technique. Lett. 18. 340. J. Cronin (U. of Chicago Press 2004). Frank Wilczek was a Member (1976-78) in the School of Natural Sciences prior to his tenure on the Institute's Faculty. He had decided to sit in on a class by physics . Rare Muon Decays, Heavy Leptons and CP Violations (with S. Treiman and A. Zee), Phys. 254. [2]He is currently the Herman Feshbach . Item 78 demonstrates the non-thermal production mechanism for axions during the Big Bang. 387. This [asymptotic freedom] is a phenomenon whereby the building blocks which make up the nucleus of an atom 'quarks' behave as free particles when they are close together, but become more strongly attracted to each other as the distance between them increases. Fundamentals by Frank Wilczek: 9780735223905 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books "Fundamentals might be the perfect book for the winter of this plague year. Frank Wilczek is a Nobel Prize winning physicist at MIT. Lett. Item 68, an early review, was among the first to discuss QCD as an established theory. 1 No. About Frank Wilczek: From wikipedia: Frank Anthony Wilczek (born May 15, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician and a Nobel laureate. [48] In 2018, several research teams reported the existence of time crystals. Item 214 is the only observable tip of a much larger iceberg representing my interest in quantum computing. 69, 132 (1992). B328, 140 (1989). Rev. 210. Lett. He taught at Princeton from 197481. 198. Remarks on Dyons, Phys. B437 (1995) 231. hep-th/9411219 [94/101] So let me answer each of them separately. 252. Quark Description of Hadronic Phases (with T. Scha efer), Phys. In items 395 and 399 the analysis was successfully extended to charged and rotating black holes. Lett. 43, 816 (1979). The jury is still out. Gretchen Ertl for The New York Times By Claudia Dreifus. Lett. In addition to the Nobel Prize, Wilczek received a MacArthur Foundation fellowship (1982) and the Templeton Prize (2022) among numerous other honours. The Minimal CFL-Nuclear Interface (with M. Alford, K. Rajagopal, and S. Reddy) Phys. B417, (1994) 359. cond-mat/9312086 [93/89] D24, 1681 (1981). (with M. Turner), Nature 298, 633 (1982). Rev. D33, 2079 (1986). Items 385 and 386 explore some novel possibilities for dynamical flavor symmetry breaking. B537, 443-458, (1999). Positron Line Radiation as a Signature of Particle Dark Matter in the Halo (with M.S. Lecture slides Pdf 2.30 MB QCD Lava Lamp Animation 518 kB Read the Nobel Lecture Pdf 983 kB Copyright The Nobel Foundation 2004 From Les Prix Nobel. Frank Wilczek 1 Selected Publications of Frank Wilczek, with Brief Commentary, The full bibliography has grown by accretion. 371. 166. In Item 66 we introduced a discrete matter symmetry sufficient to banish catastrophic proton decay in supersymmetric models. 235. 430. Liberating Quarks and Gluons, Nature, 391 , 330-331, (22 Jan. 1998). Lett. Positivity Conditions on SU(5) Potentials (with R. MacKenzie), Phys. And he is proud of his family. Rev. Phys. hep-th/9801184 [97-142] 19. [90/4] Enforced Neutrality of the Color-Flavor Locked Phase (with K. Rajagopal) Phys. Several of the other papers here are devoted to analysis of exotic dynamics around non-abelian strings. Fantastic Realities: 49 Mind Journeys and a Trip to Stockholm (World Scientific, 2006). Baryogenesis These papers present pioneering discussions of how the phenomenon of baryon number viola- tion, natural within unified gauge models, can lead and initially symmetric Universe to evolve an asymmetry between matter and antimatter, as observed. B349, 414 (1991). Frank Wilczek held his Nobel Lecture December 8, 2004, at Aula Magna, Stockholm University. Mod. Asymptotic Freedom, Lecture on receipt of the Dirac Medal, October 1994, published by ICTP, Trieste, Italy. Fractional Statistics and the Quantum Hall Effect (with D. Arovas and J.R. Schrieffer), Phys. Phys. Several exmamples are presented in Items 97, 98, and 104. In item 285 we give some substance to the old heuristic idea that Hawking radiation can be regarded as spontaneous pair creation by a gravitational field. B602 307-328 (2001). 50. String Theory Item 119 is one of the earliest papers on T-duality. hep-th/9201059 [91/64] Rev. Lett. Grind- hammer, Kniehl, Kramer, and Ochs 337-356 (2006). Ive had some fun dirtying my hands with this. All this happens at weak coupling, in a tractable, controlled theoretical framework. of Mod. 335. Phys. Exact solutions and the adiabatic heuristic for quantum Hall states (with M. Greiter), Nucl. Rev. Film from Frank Wilczek's Installation colloquium, November 24. Gross, H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczek "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction". The Universe According to Frank Wilczek WATCH: Celebrating Dr. Frank Wilczek Dr. Frank Wilczek is a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist and author, whose boundary-pushing investigations into the fundamental laws of nature have transformed our understanding of the forces that govern our universe. A Long View of Particle Physics, Solvay Conference Proceedings The Theory of the Quantum World ed. Rev. I mention a few of its most striking successes, both achieved and prospective. These are concepts in physics which he named and pioneered. 25. 274. [6] Wilczek's father became a "self-taught engineer", whose interests in technology and science inspired his son. Lett. It is brief, but of very broad scope. [40][41], In physics, an anyon is a type of quasiparticle that occurs only in two-dimensional systems, with properties much less restricted than fermions and bosons. Phys. Cole (December 1984) 1.2 Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and Variations from Modern Physics (1987) Internal Structure of Black Holes (with F. Larsen), Phys. Finally, Item 279 was prepared for a special supplement issue of Nature, also designed to celebrate the century in physics. Learn about Frank's research and affiliations. [4] In May 2022, he was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities. Anyone can make an ordinary mistake, but it takes a genius to make a profound mistake. 44. Phys. D18, 4686 (1978). 28 Lett. During his last year as a math major at Chicago, he attended a course taught by Peter Freund on group theory in physics, which Wilczek later described as being "basically particle physics", and very influential:[6]. A line element that is regular through the horizon and particular well adapted to such calculations, and has other features of interest, was introduced in Item 202 (the mathematics, though not the quantum physics, of this line element has a prehistory). Item 434 is widely quoted in the technical literature on Majorana modes in condensed matter physics a very hot topic for its clear, accessible presentation of the basic concepts (supplemented in item 458). Anticipating a New Golden Age, Invited Lecture at SUSY 07, Karlsruhe, SUSY 07 Proceedings, Perspectives on LHC Physics ed. I discovered the possibility of fractional statstics for myself, and put it in the context of gauge theories, in the first three items listed below. This is a cluster of papers concerned with the quantum theory of black holes. 68. 393. Remarks on the New Resonances at 3.1GeV and 3.7GeV (with C.G. We proposed one such gauge theory, now known as. Lett. Standard Model Phenomenology 75-104 in Vision of Discovery in honor of Charles Townes 90th Birthday ed. Riemann-Einstein Structure from Volume and Gauge Symmetry, Phys. A Relationship Between Hawking Radiation and Gravitational Anomalies (with S. Robinson) Phys. Phys. 37. Turner), Phys. Frank Wilczek 27 You can edit the text of your front page by clicking on the "edit" tab above. 18 M. Shifman77-93 (World Scientific, 2004). Here I will only mention a few highlights. D10, 2881 (1974). When Frank Wilczek was a teenager in New York in the 1960s, he sometimes went shopping with his mother. He received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at the University of Chicago in 1970, a Master of Arts in Mathematics at Princeton University, 1972, and a Ph.D. in . 71. We discovered the main phenomena for ourselves, as presented in Item 39, but we were scooped by Yoshimura as we were developing them. translation symmetry might be spontaneously broken, in classical and quantum theory respectively. 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