Phys. 406. 65. Rev. [ 17] Innehll 1 Referenser Rev. B320, 669 (1989). Nucl. Lett. Mod. Anyone can make an ordinary mistake, but it takes a genius to make a profound mistake. Neutralino Dark Matter in Focus Point Supersymmetry (with J. Feng and K. Matchev) Phys. hep-th/9202014 [91/71] Rev. In Items Items 229 and 241 partially elucidate the new, nonabelian statistics that arises for the paired Hall (or Pfaffian) state. The two scientistsand Politzer working independentlyobserved that quarks were so tightly bound together that they could not be separated as individual particles but that the closer quarks approached one another, the weaker the strong force became. 460. The most dramatic of these, that protons viewed at ever higher resolution would appear more and more as field energy (soft glue), was only clearly verified at HERA twenty years later. The Universe is a Strange Place Lepton-Photon Interactions at High Energies, Interna- tional Symposium XXII 447-461 (2005). Geometry of Self Propulsion at Low Reynolds Number (with A. Shapere), Jour. Phys. ng nhn bng C nhn Khoa hc v Ton hc ti i hc Chicago nm 1970, . Want to Read. He later served on the faculty at Princeton (197481) and taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara (198088). Global Structure of Evaporating Black Holes (with M. Parikh), Phys. Hawking Radiation of Charged Black Hole through Gauge and Gravitational Anomaly (with S. Iso and H. Umetsu) Phys. Interest in entanglement entropy has swelled over the years, due to its connections with quantum information theory, the characterization of quantum critical points, and (through holography) to quantum gravity. Inflationary Axion Cosmology (with M.S. Lett. A Piece of Magic: The Dirac Equation It Must be Beautiful ed. Lett. In Item 33 I introduced and named the axion. J. Mod. Lett. Lett. Rev. Each of the first three papers in this cluster presents an idea that plays a continuing major part in assessing the possible role of supersymmetry in the description of Nature. High Density Quark Matter and the Renormalization Group in QCD with two and three flavors (with T. Scha efer), Phys. 16 Selected Publications hep-ph/9711395 [97/119] B404 (1993) 577. hep-ph/9303281 [93/16] FRANK WILCZEK, Nobel Prize Winner & Professor of Physics at MIT. B482 388-399 (2000). Elementary Examples of Baryon Number Generation (with D. Toussaint), Phys. Lett. Rev. [1] His favorite physicist is James Clerk Maxwell. Phys.B Proc. B363, 207 (1991). Families from Spinors (with A. Zee), Phys. Lett. We discussed how a proper treatment of spatial fluctations can invalidate the usual treatment of chemical kinetics, which implicitly assumes homogeneity. And he is proud of his family. Phys. Research Areas High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory (617) 253-0284 wilczek@mit.edu Office: 6-301 What is Quantum Theory?, Physics Today , 53N6 11-12, (2000) [MIT-CTP-3159]. B634 69-73 (2006). Items 36 and 37 contain especially original uses of QCD. Selected Publications The statistics of these objects, like their spin, interpolates continuously between the usual boson and fermion cases. Frank has literary and inventive projects in the works. Other Cosmology The titles of most of the papers in this section give a pretty clear idea of their subject matter. Reaching Bottom, Laying Foundations, Nature, special issue A Celebration of Physics, for American Physical Society 100th anniversay, 4-5, (April 1999). In 2004, he was part of the team that won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the . D. Gross, M. Henneaux and A. Sevrin, (World Scientific) April 2013, hep-th 1204.4683, [MIT-CTP 4358] (April 2012). Phys. Field Corrections to Induced Statistics (with A. Goldhaber, R. MacKenzie), Mod. He is the prize-winning author of numerous books, including A Beautiful Question and Longing for the Harmonies.Wilczek is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT; founding director of the T. D. Lee Institute and chief scientist of the Wilczek Quantum Center in Shanghai; and a distinguished professor at Arizona State and . [22] Wilczek has appeared on an episode of Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, where Penn referred to him as "the smartest person [they have] ever had on the show." Honors [29] On January 25, 2013, Wilczek received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Science and Technology at Uppsala University, Sweden. In Items 181 and 186 the full machinery of the renormalization group was brought to bear on this problem, and a host of universal predictions are made, including the existence and properties of a tricritical point as both temperature and strange quark mass are varied. 81. 57, 514 (1989). D29, 338 (1984). G. Buschhorn and J. Wess (Springer 2004). B449, 24-29, (1999). Lett. 236. 86 3492-3495 (2001). 198. Born in Mineola, New York, of Polish and Italian origin, Wilczek was educated in the public schools of Queens, attending Martin Van Buren High School.It was around this time Wilczek's parents realized that he was exceptional - in part as a result of Frank Wilczek having been administered an IQ test. Lett. 225. In Item 425, I made a case for a very specific exotic (tetraquark) hadron. 176. Phys. Lett. Rev. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2004 was awarded jointly to David J. Positivity Conditions on SU(5) Potentials (with R. MacKenzie), Phys. G. Farmelo 102-130 (Granta, 2002). Lett. Quantum Time Crystals quant-ph 1202.2539 v 2, Phys Rev. These are concepts in physics which he named and pioneered. Rev. On Absolute Units 1: Choices Physics Today 58N10 12-13 (2005). 256. Frank Wilczek, fdd 15 maj 1951 i Mineola, New York, r en amerikansk teoretisk fysiker . He received his BS from the University of Chicago, his MA and PhD from Princeton University. On Magic Moments Seed Nov. 2006 39. Phys. 283. Lifes Parameters Physics Today 56N2 10-11 (2003). If axions exist and have low mass within a specific range, they are of interest as a possible component of cold dark matter. QCD: High Density 457. And youre glue Nature 400, 21-23. Treiman and A. Zee), Phys. Solitons in Superfluid 3He-A: Bound States on Domain Walls (with J. L. Ho, J. R. Fulco and J. R. Schrieffer), Phys. The theory, which was independently discovered by H. David Politzer, was important for the development of quantum chromodynamics. B450, 325-331, (1999). This article was most recently revised and updated by, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frank-Wilczek, The Nobel Foundation - Autobiography of Frank Wilczek. 31. Analysis and Synthesis 3: Cosmic Groundwork Physics Today 56N10 10-11 (2003). B333, (1994) 55-61. hepth/ 9401072 [93/87] The internet is an amazing source of information (and misinformation) about almost any topic. Gibbons, Hawking, Siklos (Cambridge University Press, 1983). Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks. [MIT-CTP-3709]. Phys. He played a central part in formulating and establishing theoretical physics' two standard models the standard model of fundamental interactions and the standard model of cosmology. Abstract. The Worlds Numerical Recipe Daedalus 131-1 142-147 (2001). Lett. In some cases, an amendment to the Heisenberg commutation relations is required. 252. [18][19], Wilczek is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Future of Life Institute, an organization that works to mitigate existential risks facing humanity, particularly existential risk from advanced artificial intelligence. B378, 175 (1992). Frank Wilczek, a theoretical physicist and mathematician who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004, is joining Arizona State University as a professor in the physics department. Superconductivity from Perturbative One-Gluon Exchange in High Density Quark Mat- ter (with T. Scha efer) Phys. cond-mat/9602112 [95/111] 312. Here I will only mention a few highlights. Non-Fermi Liquid Fixed Point in 2+1 Dimensions, (with Chetan Nayak), Nucl. 358. B380, 447 (1992). 49, 1549 (1982). Geometric and Renormalized Entropy in Conformal Field Theory, (with C. Holzhey and F. Larsen), Nucl. In the same year he was awarded the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Commemorative Medal from Charles University in Prague. Implicitly, and in part explicitly, they present my vision of physics. Rev. 394. Weinberg later agreed to adopt Wilczek's name for the particle. A Nobel Prize-winner tries to pick his favorite music, fix a faulty algorithm and make some quantum computing leaps. Ive had some fun dirtying my hands with this. 430. In Item 278 we discuss how some extremely simple, symmetric potentials can be shown both analytically and numerically to develop an exponential set of inequivalent local minima. Rev. . He was raised Catholic.. Phys. Rev. In Item 177 Holzhey and I discussed a class of dilaton black holes that behave much like elementary particles; it later developed, that in certain cases these solutions in fact do correspond to elementary objects in string theory. 272. 186. Frank Wilczek: I think the question can be understood in two different ways. Whence the Force of F=ma? In Item 271 we made the case that there need be no phase transition between this color-flavor locked phase and 3-flavor nuclear matter, and in Item 276 we made went deeper into the analytic theory, and also considered more flavors. J. Cronin (U. of Chicago Press 2004). 369. Lett. Lett. These are three papers that dont fit naturally anywhere else. 246. [6] Wilczek's father became a "self-taught engineer", whose interests in technology and science inspired his son. I am told it is the leading candidate to describe the observed incompressible state at = 5/2. Cross-Confinement in Multi-Chern-Simons Theories (with Lorenzo Cornalba), Phys. With our current understanding, we have four fundamental forces. 95. It is not entirely obvious how to quantize such Hamiltonians, but a consistent, well-motivated procedure is proposed in item 457. His current theoretical research includes work on Axions, Anyons, and Time Crystals. Quantum Numbers of Textured Hall Effect Quasiparticles (with C. Nayak), Phys. 346. Space-Time Approach to Holonomy Scattering (with Y.-S. Wu), Phys. 13. [91/70] 106. 44. [31] In 2022 he was awarded the Templeton Prize[32] for work that reveals "a vision of a universe that he regards as embodying mathematical beauty at the scales of the magnificently large and unimaginably small".[33]. 202. 241. 174. B631 170-176 (2005). of Mod. Rev. I mention a few of its most striking successes, both achieved and prospective. 167. Item 353 is a high-level discussion of Rev. The enigmatic electron (2013) Nature 498 31[MIT-CTP 4466] One aspect of this, which requires less radical departures than the full program, is a connection between the meaning of the cosmolog- ical term (initial value versus microscopically determinate) and the question whether one should require invariance under volume-changing transformations. Journal Club: Promise that Anyon Particles Hold for Quantum Computing Excites the Physicist Who Named Them Nature 437 299 (2005). Frank Wilczek 17 455. Here are a few URLs if you want to dig into elementary particles and unification. Lett. Limitations on the Statistical Description of Black Holes (with P. Schwarz, A. Shapere and S. Trivedi), Mod. 4 M. Shifman 2016-2151 (World Scientific, 2001). When quarks were brought very close together, the force was so weak that the quarks acted almost as if they were free particles not bound together by any force. 180. Several of the other papers here are devoted to analysis of exotic dynamics around non-abelian strings. 71, S85-S95, (1999); More Things in Heaven and Earth A celebration of Physics at the Millennium, ed. hep-th/9710135 [97/116] Frank Anthony Wilczek (/wltk/;[2] born May15, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician and Nobel laureate. Lett. Just beautiful. Gretchen Ertl for The New York Times By Claudia Dreifus. Geometric Phases in Physics (a text and reprint volume, edited with A. Shapere) (World Scientific, 1989). Lett. A Vol. Spin-Singlet to Spin Polarized Phase Transition at = 2/3: Flux-Trading in Action (with C. Nayak), Nucl. In preparing the biography, I reflected on my great good fortune in having supportive people and institutions. 271. 199. This is your front page! hep-ph/9810509 [98-90] 57. J. Mod. Lett. 389. 91. 279. Frank Wilczek: The subject of the Nobel Prize was figuring out one of the fundamental forces of nature theoretically. He contributes regularly to Physics Today and to Nature, explaining topics at the frontiers of physics to wider scientific audiences. Still to this day I think the quantum theory of angular momentum is one of the absolute pinnacles of human achievement. Phys. Frank Wilczek [5.18.21] It came to me, viscerally, that the intricate calculations I'd done using pen and paper (and wastebasket) might somehow describe this entirely different realm of existencenamely, a physical world of particles, tracks, and electronic signals, created by the kind of machinery I was looking at. In the fall of 2000, he moved from the Institute for Advanced Study, where he was the J.R. Oppenheimer Professor, to the MIT Department of Physics, where he is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics. The Interactions and Excitations of Nonabelian Vortices (with M. Alford, K. Benson, S. Coleman and J. March-Russell), Phys. gr-qc/9406042 [94/46] 48, 1144 (1982). Item 26 presented an ansatz for instanton solutions, which in a generalized form became quite influential. When only 21 years old and a graduate student at Princeton University, in work with David Gross he defined the properties of color gluons, which hold atomic nuclei together. Statistical Mechanics of Anyons (with D. Arovas, J.R. Schrieffer and A. Zee), Nucl. Introduction to Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science, Hermann Weyl author, (Princeton University Press, 2008) [MIT-CTP 4005] Apparent difficulties confronting that idea are enumerated, then overcome. [22], Wilczek is on the board for Society for Science & the Public. 194. Miscellaneous [38], Although most experimental searches for dark matter candidates have targeted WIMPs, there have also been many attempts to detect axions. 26 Internal Frame Dragging and a Global Analogue of the Aharonov-Bohm Effect (with J. March-Russell and J. Preskill), Phys. I had the honor to present the rapporteurs talk on high energy physics at the 100th Anniversary Solvay Conference; this is item 455. It is brief, but of very broad scope. B 411, 112-116, (1997). Statistical Transmutation, Anyons, and Chern-Simons Theory R. Chiao, physics.gen-ph/0708.4361 [MIT-CTP 3847]. Color-Flavor Locking and Chiral Symmetry Breaking in High Density QCD, (with M. Alford and K. Rajagopal), Nucl. B602 307-328 (2001). Linking Numbers, Spin, and Statistics of Solitons (with A. Zee), Phys. 327. 306. 414. 157. 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. Scaling Deviations for Neutrino Reactions in Asymptotically Free Field Theories (with S. Treiman and A. Zee) Phys. Anomalies, Hawking Radiation and Regularity in Rotating Black Holes (with S. Iso and H. Umetsu) Phys. To understand ourselves and our place in the universe, we should have humility but also self-respect, the physicist writes in a new book. Frank Wilczek is a theoretical physicist, author, and intellectual adventurer. Frank Wilczek has a special fondness for rainbows. String Theory Item 119 is one of the earliest papers on T-duality. He has also worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara and was also a visiting professor at NORDITA. 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. QCD: High Temperature Item 91 is foundational. Gravity and electromagnetism, which are classical forces that have been known for a long time and have had beautiful theories for a long time in the case of gravity. 220. Lett. 154. 405. Gibbons, Hawking, Siklos (Cambridge University Press, 1983). Phys. B358, 447 (1991). 348. Lett. His current theoretical research includes work on Axions, Anyons, and Time Crystals. Colloquium with Frank Wilczek November 24 2016 at Fysikum . 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Frank Wilczek 11 B328, 140 (1989). Lett. 38 (2010) pp. A Niemi, F. Wilczek, E. Ardonne, H. Hansson, http://iopscience.iop.org/1402- 4896/2012/T146/010101 (2012). 143. Jour. Exact solutions and the adiabatic heuristic for quantum Hall states (with M. Greiter), Nucl. 110. Frank Wilczek Phys. 88. [45][46], In 2020, experimenters from the Ecole Normale Suprieure and from the Centre for Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies (C2N) reported in Science that they had made a direct detection of anyons. Self-Dual Models with Terms (with A. Shapere), Nucl. Whence the Force of F=ma? After graduating from the University of Chicago (B.S., 1970), Wilczek studied under Gross at Princeton University, earning an M.S. In recent years I have been asked to do this on a regular basis for both Nature and Physics Today. Treiman and A. Zee), Phys. Turner), Phys. Mod. Might Our Vacuum be Metastable? In 2004 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, and in 2005 the King Faisal Prize. Branched Quantization (with A. Shapere) (June 2012), quant-ph 1207.2677 [MIT-CTP 4381]. B 516, 704-718 (1998). D26, 3679 (1982). Lett. Frank has an insatiable appetite for puzzles and games. B337, 695 (1990). 88 161102 (2001). in Item 94, and spelled out so even the blind can see it in Item 129. The Future of Particle Physics as a Natural Science, Published in Critical Problems in Physics in celebration of the 250th Anniversary of Princeton University, November 1996, eds. Frank Wilczek is a theoretical physicist, author, and intellectual adventurer. 350 From Concept to Reality to Vision Eur. Hes worked on an unusually wide variety of topics, ranging across condensed matter physics, astrophysics and particle physics. Frank Wilczek 13 Frank Wilczek 7 309. 295. 51, 2250 (1983). Some Basic Aspects of Fractional Charge Selected Papers of J. Robert Schrieffer ed. 68. Suppl. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Netherlands Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a Trustee of the University of Chicago. Disassembling Anyons, Phys. 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.