Frank Wilczek Phys. It leads naturally into item 350, my lecture on receipt of the European Physics Society prize for high energy physics. He is a co-founding member of the Kosciuszko Foundation of the Collegium of Eminent Scientists of Polish Origin and Ancestry.[23]. 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). B 516, 704-718 (1998). Item 310 describes the interesting, thin but highly structured wall that will separate normal nuclear matter from the much denser CFL phase in neutron stars, if no other phases intervene. Renormalization Group Approach to Low Temperature Properties of a Non-Fermi Liq- uid Metal, (with C. Nayak), Nucl. Elementary Examples of Baryon Number Generation (with D. Toussaint), Phys. It also con- tains considerable explanatory material. Fun with Monopoles and Axions, in The Very Early Universe, eds. Positron Line Radiation as a Signature of Particle Dark Matter in the Halo (with M.S. 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. 64. Item 45 was an early model for how to use effective field theory ideas to analyze possible deviations from the Standard Model in a systematic way. Item 55 was an early use of higher-dimensional spinor representations, when this was considered quite adventurous. B340, 366 (1990). 261. SU(3) Predictions for Charmed Meson Decays (with S. Treiman), Phys. [22], Wilczek is on the board for Society for Science & the Public. Also in this paper we provided the foundational analysis of branching modes. With poetry and fervor, Wilczek takes us on a breathtaking journey to the frontiers of physics, and reminds us of just how privileged we human beings are to glimpse the foundations of reality." Paul Davies, Regents' Professor at Arizona State University and author of The Demon in the Machine " Fundamentals reflects Frank Wilczek's . Phys. Frank Wilczek 23 16 Selected Publications Item 259 was prepared as part of the American Physical Society Centennial volume. A7, 3911 (1992). Observability of Earth-Skimming Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos (with J. Feng, P. Fisher, [48] In 2018, several research teams reported the existence of time crystals. The Origin of Mass [modified from 342] Frontline 22N10 (2005); Mod. condmat/ 9605145 [96/52] Rev. 168. Lett. Item 263 proposes another sort of unusual quantum statistics, based on projective representations of the symmetric group, that can work in any dimension. Lett. 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. Matter-Antimatter Accounting, Thermodynamics, and Black Hole Radiation (with D. Toussaint, S. Treiman and A. Zee), Phys. hep-th/9710135 [97/116] My mind doesnt freeze up when I hear the a-word, but neither am I an enthusiast. In it, Pisarski and I applied the renormalization group to the QCD chiral transition. 384. Items 282 and 332 are perspectives on the broadest implications of QCD. Rev. Lett. 109. Tegmark) Phys. hep-ph/9711395 [97/119] B363, 207 (1991). 235. 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. [93/50] . Frank Anthony Wilczek (/wltk/;[2] born May15, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician and Nobel laureate. Lett. hep-th/9610252 [96-108] 270. B4, 1063 (1990). 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. 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]. B333, (1994) 55-61. hepth/ 9401072 [93/87] The Worlds Numerical Recipe Daedalus 131-1 142-147 (2001). [89/69] 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. [28] He was awarded the Lorentz Medal in 2002. Items 106 and 109 present ideas for neutrino and dark matter detection, that have influenced experimental work. Each has become a major focus of world-wide research. Item 254 is a heterodox but I think extremely intriguing approach to construction of gravity as a gauge theory. 109 (2012) 160401 (February 2012) MIT-CTP [4348]. Special Mod. 277. [8], After skipping two grades, Wilczek started high school in the 10th grade, when he was 13 years old. 30, 1343 (1973). 120. Why is there something rather than nothing? 339. 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. Chem. [50][51], A television interview with Frank Wilczek, Last edited on 19 February 2023, at 04:00, Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities, existential risk from advanced artificial intelligence, Campaign for the Establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, King Faisal International Prize for Science, Centre for Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies, Transcending Complacency on Superintelligent Machines, On the world's numerical recipe (an ode to physics), "Ultraviolet Behavior of non-Abelian Gauge Theories", Scaling Deviations for Neutrino Reactions in Aysmptotically Free Field Theories, "Frank Wilczek, Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics", "Dr. Frank Wilczek Receives 2022 Templeton Prize", "Oral history interview with Frank Wilczek, 2020 June 4", "The Nobel laureate who got hooked on Stockholm", "Discovering the Mathematical Laws of Nature", "Noteworthy graduates: Frank Wilczek, Nobel laureate in physics", "Westinghouse Science Talent Search 1967", "Wilczek thanks family, country and Mother Nature", "God, Dark Matter and Falling Cats: A Conversation with 2022 Templeton Prize Winner Frank Wilczek", "Why Is the World So Beautiful? cond- mat/9609094 [96/93] Peculiar Spin and Statistics in 2+1 Dimensions (with R. MacKenzie), Int. So let me answer each of them separately. The first interpretation is to ask whether quantum mechanics explains the phenomenon of free will, or whether there is something else that must be taken into account in our description of the world which is not within the scope . 372. Statistical Mechanics of Anyons (with D. Arovas, J.R. Schrieffer and A. Zee), Nucl. A6, 2677 (1991). On Anyon Superconductivity, (with Y-H. Chen, E. Witten and B. Halperin), Intl. Possible Electronic Structure of Domain Walls in Mott Insulators (with C. Nayak), Int. Solicited article for Universe or Multiverse ed. Weak Decays of Charmed Hadrons, II: Soft Meson Theorems (with R.L. Wilczek (surname) Frank (given name) 1951 births Nobel laureates in Physics Lorentz Medal winners King Faisal International Prize recipients for Science Fellows of the American Physical Society J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics recipients Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 416. They were provoked by the SuperK observation of neutrino mass, which greatly 57, 514 (1989). Supersymmetric Unified Models (with S. Dimopoulos), in The Unity of the Fundamental Interactions, ed. I am especially proud of Items 95 and 122. 373 Asymptotic Freedom: From Paradox to Paradigm Les Prix Nobel 100-124 (Almqvist & Wiesell International, Stockholm) (2004) Reheating an Inflationary Universe (with A. Aubrecht, P. Steinhart and M. Turner) Phys. Frank Wilczek held his Nobel Lecture December 8, 2004, at Aula Magna, Stockholm University. It was later found to be embodied, with some refinements, in the projective ribbon statistics of Freedman, Hastings, Nayak et al. Physics begins to answer. Wilczek has made seminal contributions to fundamental particle physics, cosmology and the physics of materials. 254. hep-th/9703131 [97/22] 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. 106 (2011) 050404 [MIT-CTP 4110]. D74 044017 (2006). D18, 242 (1978). 71, S85-S95, (1999); More Things in Heaven and Earth A celebration of Physics at the Millennium, ed. Enlightenment, Knowledge, Ignorance, Temptation, hep-ph/0512187 Summary talk given at Conference on Expectations of a Final Theory, Cambridge, England, in Universe or Multi- verse? 155. 180. [91/32] 143. QCD - The Modern Theory of Strong Interactions, Ann. Together with his wife Betsy Devine, he wrote a beautiful book, Longing for the Harmonies (W.W. Norton). 255. 306. Particle Physics and Cosmology: Foundation and Working Pictures, in The Very Early Universe, eds. A Physicist Tries to Answer", "My Wikipedia entry says "agnostic", but "pantheist" is closer to the mark. Professor Wilczek has been a Sloan Foundation Fellow (1975-77) and a MacArthur Foundation Fellow (1982-87). 396. His books included The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces (2008), A Beautiful Question: Finding Natures Deep Design (2015), and Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality (2021). Phys. 2: Rationalizations Physics Today 57N12 10-11 (2004). Baker, 1986. 3: Cultural Diversity Physics Today 58N7 10-11 (2004). 281. Emergence of Coherent Long Wavelength Oscillations After a Quench: Application to QCD, (with K. Rajagopal), Nucl. We have good control of it at ultrashort distances, thanks to asymptotic freedom. 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. 361. Here are a few URLs if you want to dig into elementary particles and unification. 171, and 218 are applications of the general philosophy mentioned in the previous Section to the quantum Hall effect context. [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. Babu and J. Pati), Phys. hep-ph/9712307 [97/136] High Density Quark Matter and the Renormalization Group in QCD with Two and Three Flavors: Showing how the renormalization of Fermi liquid parameters in QCD is surprisingly tractable, and identifying the favored couplings. Inequivalent Embeddings of SU(2) and Instanton Interactions, Phys. 40, 279 (1977). Phys. Frank Wilczek. Items 385 and 386 explore some novel possibilities for dynamical flavor symmetry breaking. Frank Wilczek 13 Simple Realizations of Magnetic Monopole Gauge Fields: Diatoms and Spin Proces- sion (with J. Moody and A. Shapere), Phys. [9][10], He received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and membership in Phi Beta Kappa[11] at the University of Chicago in 1970. "Pure" particle physics: connections between theoretical ideas and observable phenomena; This page was last edited on 19 February 2023, at 04:00. B 479, 529, (1996). Clear rating. After an injection of ideas from Laughlin, the analysis of many-body problems using statistical transmu- tation became quite sophisticated; this is reflected in the papers Items 142, 143, 154, and the book Item 155. [4] In May 2022, he was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities. ' (: Frank Anthony Wilczek; -15 1951) , 2004. He came to ASU from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was the Herman Feshback Professor of Physics. B3, 903 (1989). 136. 74. 78. Rev. Frank Wilczek, A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design 4 likes Like "Thus far our meditation on quantum reality has revealed that the world of everyday matter, when properly understood, embodies concepts of extraordinary beauty. Lett. For more than two mutually space-like separated events that is not so, and a pretty geometry of possibilities emerges, as we explored in item 461. His greatest. About Frank. Some of these have been crudely tested already. Scr. V32, 177 (1982). At the University of Chicago, where Frank Wilczek was an undergraduate, regularly scheduled classes were "improvised and semivoluntary" amid the turmoil, as he recalls. The Social Benefit of High-Energy Physics Macmillan Encyclopedia of Physics, Sup- plement: Elementary Particle Physics (2002). Selected Publications [90/4] D11, 1919 (1975). Rev. Frank Wilczek, the 2004 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2017. A6, 1631 (1991). Lett. Hes worked on an unusually wide variety of topics, ranging across condensed matter physics, astrophysics and particle physics. Phys. Contents. Lett. D24, 1681 (1981). Space-Time Aspects of Quasiparticle Propagation (with R. Levien and C. Nayak) Int. Rev. Frank Wilczek 21 Maxwells Other Demon, Nature 402, 22-23, (4 November 1999). Phys. Fermi and the Elucidation of Matter Fermi Remembered ed. Wilczek went to Princeton as a mathematics graduate student. 288. His. With our current understanding, we have four fundamental forces. [90/29] 107. When Words Fail Nature 410 149 (2001). 88 161102 (2001). 73, (1994) 2740. cond-mat/9405017 [94/25] 229. He is currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), full Professor at Stockholm University, as well as a Distinguished Origin Alchetron Sign in Sneha Girap (Editor) . "[21], Wilczek is also a supporter of the Campaign for the Establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, an organization which advocates for democratic reform in the United Nations, and the creation of a more accountable international political system. 157. [91/17] Phys. Lett. Scaling Deviations for Neutrino Reactions in Asymptotically Free Field Theories (with S. Treiman and A. Zee) Phys. In Item 57 we generalized the halving of quantum numbers discovered abstractly by Jackiw and Rebbi, and in the context of polyacetylene by Su, Schrieffer, and Heeger, to a much wider class of field theories, featuring other fractions. I took the opportunity to talk about the wide-ranging scientific impact of our work, which extends far beyond the profound but esoteric paradoxes that provoked it. When only 21 years old and a graduate student at Princeton in work with David Gross, he defined the . 150. It was around this time Wilczek's parents realized that he was exceptionalin part as a result of Frank Wilczek having been administered an IQ test. 282 What QCD Tells Us About Nature - and Why We Should Listen Nucl. 1.1 "The Quirk of the Quark", article in Esquire by K.C. cond-mat/9501052 [94/109] 358. B537, 443-458, (1999). Later authors including Cardy developed a very pretty renormalization group analysis of the phenomena we found here, and generalizations. 171. 460. 210. Item 94 also contains a calculation of the virial coefficient for the ideal anyon gas; this was perhaps the first physical con- sequence of anyon statistics to be cleanly identified. Item 89 arose out of discussions of the annihilation of magnetic monoples and antimonopoles in the early Universe, but quickly took on a different flavor. 36. He has received many prizes for his work, including a Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004. Item 405 is a big think. 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