Duncan Haldane
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Born | Frederick Duncan Michael Haldane September 14, 1951[3][4] |
Nationality | British |
Citizenship | United States |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA, PhD) |
Known for | Haldane pseudopotentials in the Fractional quantum Hall effect |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Condensed matter theory |
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Thesis | An extension of the Anderson model as a model for mixed valence rare earth materials (1978) |
Doctoral advisor | Philip Warren Anderson[2] |
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Website | physics |
Frederick Duncan Michael Haldane FRS[1] (born 14 September 1951),[3] known as F. Duncan Haldane, is a British-American physicist who is Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at the physics department of Princeton University in the United States, and a Distinguished Visiting Research Chair[5] at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics with David J. Thouless and John Michael Kosterlitz.[6][7][8]
Education
Haldane was educated at St Paul's School, London[3] and Christ's College, Cambridge where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree followed by a PhD in 1978[9] for research supervised by Philip Warren Anderson.[2]
Career and research
Haldane worked as a physicist at Institut Laue–Langevin in France between 1977 and 1981, before joining the University of Southern California.[10][11] Haldane is known for a wide variety of fundamental contributions to condensed matter physics including the theory of Luttinger liquids, the theory of one-dimensional spin chains, the theory of fractional quantum hall effect, exclusion statistics, entanglement spectra and much more.[12][13]
As of 2011[update] he is developing a new geometric description of the fractional quantum Hall effect that introduces the "shape" of the "composite boson", described by a "unimodular" (determinant 1) spatial metric-tensor field as the fundamental collective degree of freedom of Fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) states.[14] This new "Chern-Simons + quantum geometry" description is a replacement for the "Chern-Simons + Ginzburg-Landau" paradigm introduced c.1990. Unlike its predecessor, it provides a description of the FQHE collective mode that agrees with the Girvin-Macdonald-Platzman "single-mode approximation".[15]
Awards and honours
Haldane was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1996[1] and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[when?] (Boston); a Fellow of the American Physical Society;[when?] and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics[when?] (UK); a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science;[when?]. He was awarded the Oliver E. Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society (1993); Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow (1984–88); Lorentz Chair (2008), Dirac Medal (2012);[16] Doctor Honoris Causae of the Université de Cergy-Pontoise (2015) [17] and Nobel Prize in Physics (2016).[6]
Personal life
Haldane and his wife, Odile Belmont, live in Princeton, New Jersey.[18]
References
- ^ a b c Anon (1996). "Professor Frederick Haldane FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-11-17. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
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- ^ a b c Duncan Haldane at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b c HALDANE. "HALDANE, Prof. (Frederick) Duncan (Michael)". Who's Who. Vol. 1997 (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black.
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- ^ "PERIMETER WELCOMES NEW DISTINGUISHED VISITING RESEARCH CHAIRS | Perimeter Institute". www.perimeterinstitute.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
- ^ a b Gibney, Elizabeth; Castelvecchi, Davide (2016). "Physics of 2D exotic matter wins Nobel: British-born theorists recognized for work on topological phases". Nature. 538 (7623). London: Springer Nature: 18–18. doi:10.1038/nature.2016.20722.
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(help) - ^ Devlin, Hannah; Sample, Ian (2016-10-04). "British trio win Nobel prize in physics 2016 for work on exotic states of matter – live". the Guardian. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
- ^ Haldane, F. D. M. (1983). "Nonlinear Field Theory of Large-Spin Heisenberg Antiferromagnets: Semiclassically Quantized Solitons of the One-Dimensional Easy-Axis Néel State". Physical Review Letters. 50 (15): 1153–1156. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.50.1153. ISSN 0031-9007.
- ^ Haldane, Frederick Duncan Michael (1978). An extension of the Anderson model as a model for mixed valence rare earth materials (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 500460873.
- ^ patch.com, Princeton University Professor Wins Nobel Prize In Physics.
- ^ nytimes.com October 4, 2016 3 Who Studied Unusual States of Matter Win Nobel Prize in Physics.
- ^ Duncan Haldane publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ Duncan Haldane's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- ^ "Geometrical Description of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
- ^ "Hall viscosity" and intrinsic metric of incompressible fractional Hall fluids [1]
- ^ "F. Duncan M. Haldane". Princeton University. Retrieved 2 July 2011.
- ^ "Doctor Honoris Causae". Université de Cergy-Pontoise. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
- ^ Heyboer, Kelly (October 4, 2016). "Princeton prof celebrates Nobel Prize win by returning to the classroom". NJ.com. Retrieved October 9, 2016.
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