Rev. Phys. As a matter of principle I have tried in these pieces to take on subjects that are under-reported, other things being equal. ed. Frank Wilczek held his Nobel Lecture December 8, 2004, at Aula Magna, Stockholm University. D10, 1649 (1974). Lett. Other Cosmology The titles of most of the papers in this section give a pretty clear idea of their subject matter. In the same year he was awarded the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Commemorative Medal from Charles University in Prague. Bernard Carr (2005). As the 2022 Templeton Prize laureate, Dr. Wilczek will participate in several virtual and in-person events, including a 2022 Templeton Prize event in the fall, where he will deliver a Templeton . He was particularly inspired by two of his high school physics teachers, one of whom taught a course that helped students with the national Westinghouse Science Talent Search. 176. B 10, 2125, (1996). 66, 3205 (1991) [91/18]. 66. D63 4502-4505 (2001). An extremely intriguing possibility is that the 2-flavor color superconducting phase goes over into ordinary nuclear matter with no phase transition. 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. Hadron Systematics and Emergent Diquarks (with A. Selem) Ringberg 2005 ed. Rev. 2n Quasihole States Realize 2n1-Dimensional Spinor Braiding Statistics in Paired Quantum Hall States (with Chetan Nayak), Nucl. 401. 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. Some earlier work on this subject had been done by Leinaas and Myrheim, and roughly contemporary independent work on the foundations was done by Goldin, Menikoff, and Sharp. 86 3492-3495 (2001). 55, 122 (1985). Item 286 was commissioned by the director of Brookhaven National Laboratory, Jack Marburger, in response to a kerfluffle in the press about possible exotic, catastrophic risks associated with the RHIC turn-on. Asymptotically Free Gauge Theories, II (with D. Gross), Phys. Tippett: Frank Wilczek won the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics for his discoveries about quarks that helped illuminate our understanding of the 4 fundamental forces of nature in the Standard Model of physics though Frank Wilczek more poetically calls the Standard Model the Core Theory. Archaeopteryx Looks Up New York Academy of Sciences Update 20 (Sept./Oct. Paired Hall States in Double Layer Electron Systems (with M. Greiter and X.G.Wen), Phys. 165.CosmologyandBrokenDiscreteSymmetry(withS.Trivedi,J.PreskillandM.B.Wise), Nucl. Mod. In Search of Symmetry Lost Nature 433 239-247 (2004). Item 95 anticipates the concept of domain wall fermions, which has since become quite popular in high energy theory, in a concrete condensed matter context. Phys. Wen), Phys. In Fundamentals, Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek offers the reader a simple yet profound exploration of reality based on the deep revelations of modern science. Rare Muon Decays, Heavy Leptons and CP Violations (with S. Treiman and A. Zee), Phys. Corrections? Item 25 contains, I believe, the first discussion of kinetic neutrino mixing, and shows how it can arise in simple gauge theory models. His current research focus includes Axions, Anyons, and Time . Quark Description of Hadronic Phases: A first cut at applying the lessons learned from color-flavor locking and quark-hadron continuity to real QCD, which is complicated by splitting between strange and light quarks. 353. He has received many honors for his work, notably including the Nobel Prize. Solar Neutrino Oscillations (with L. Krauss), Phys. Author Frank Wilczek has been playing with unified visions of nature since, as a 21 year-old physics grad student, he did work that won him the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics. Discrete Gauge Symmetry in Continuum Theories (with L.M. Here are a few URLs if you want to dig into elementary particles and unification. When that symmetry is spontaneously broken, a new particle results, as shown independently by Wilczek and by Steven Weinberg. Rev. 396. Particle Physics and Cosmology: Foundation and Working Pictures, in The Very Early Universe, eds. 142. Phys. [90/35] Phys. It contains quite a bit of secondary material (that is, conference proceedings, reviews, and so forth) and lacks cohesive organization. 404. Frank has literary and inventive projects in the works. 64. Fractional Statistics and the Quantum Hall Effect (with D. Arovas and J.R. Schrieffer), Phys. 68. Wilczek also contributed to the study of questions relating to cosmology, condensed matter physics, and black holes. Low Energy Manifestations of Heavy Particles: Application to Neutral Current (with J. Collins and A. Zee), Phys. B537, 443-458, (1999). Phys. Treiman and A. Zee), Phys. Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. Rev. Entanglement (Geometric) Entropy Item 194 defined the entanglement (originally geometric) entropy in quantum field theory, and computed for an interval in 1+1 dimensional conformal field theory. D64 074017 (2001). Lett. 151. QCD: High Temperature Item 91 is foundational. Lett. He has received UNESCOs Dirac Medal, the American Physical Societys Sakurai Prize, the Michelson Prize from Case Western University, and the Lorentz Medal of the Netherlands Academy for his contributions to the development of theoretical physics. 18. Renormalization Group Approach to Low Temperature Properties of a Non-Fermi Liq- uid Metal, (with C. Nayak), Nucl. 16 Selected Publications Item 330 goes to the conceptual roots of the fractionalization phenomenon. cond-mat/9501050 [94/108] Rev. His. Space-Time Aspects of Quasiparticle Propagation (with R. Levien and C. Nayak) Int. ' (: Frank Anthony Wilczek; -15 1951) , 2004. . 135. hep-th/9710135 [97/116] Lett. It was later found to be embodied, with some refinements, in the projective ribbon statistics of Freedman, Hastings, Nayak et al. hep-th/9803075 [98-20] Forward to reprinting of Radioactive Transformations by Ernest Rutherford (Yale Uni- versity Press) pp. 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". Later authors including Cardy developed a very pretty renormalization group analysis of the phenomena we found here, and generalizations. 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. Phys. Kingsley, S. Treiman and A. Zee), Phys. This is a cluster of papers concerned with the quantum theory of black holes. Quantum Field Theory, in the American Physical Society Centenary issue of Rev. 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. 169. 85 5042-5045 (2000). Phys. Near-Zero Modes in Superconducting Graphene (with Pouyan Ghaemi) (August, 2007) cond.-mat:supr-con/0709.2626 v2 (September 2011) Phys. D26, 3679 (1982). With our current understanding, we have four fundamental forces. 48, 1437 (1982). Operator Analysis of Nucleon Decay (with A. Zee), Phys. G. Kane and A. 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. 203. 335. Rev. 44. 43, 816 (1979). Lett. 1 No. . 449. B5, 1273 (1991). of Mod. 95. [91/65] 226. Lett. B450, 325-331, (1999). Selected Publications Lett 75 748 (1995). Rev. Rev. Tegmark) Phys. This suggestion stimulated a lot of activity, both theoretical and experimental. Axions and Family Symmetry Breaking, Phys. [13] They married in 1973, and together they have two daughters. Jour. Lett. 129. Physics begins to answer. Lett. Examples of Vacuum Polarization by Solitons (with R. MacKenzie), Phys. The statistics of these objects, like their spin, interpolates continuously between the usual boson and fermion cases. Item 130 has become the standard reference on its subject matter. A Vol. 469. Fundamental Constants, pp. Frank Wilczek. Phys. ", "A theoretical physicist searches for the design behind nature's beauty", "Stephen Hawking: 'Transcendence looks at the implications of artificial intelligence but are we taking AI seriously enough? The axion is a hypothetical elementary particle. Remarks on Dyons, Phys. B3, 1001 (1989). Phys. Phys. Families from Spinors (with A. Zee), Phys. Rev. Miscellaneous Lett. 249. He is a co-founding member of the Kosciuszko Foundation of the Collegium of Eminent Scientists of Polish Origin and Ancestry. Mod. Rev. Lett. 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. 283. (See fundamental interaction.) Item 136 describes a possible subtle new form of spin ordering, that exhibits a gap but no easily accessible order parameter, and supports exotic quasiparticle excitations. Lett. Phys. 453. 4. Dimensionless Constants, Cosmology and Other Dark Matters (with M. Tegmark, A. Aguirre, and M. Rees) Phys. Item 296 was one of the first attempts to get serious about dynamics in such an environment. Item 298 is an enthusiastic brief review. Extremely interesting possibilities, as yet in- sufficiently explored, arise in theories with several Chern-Simons fields, particularly when several distinct two-dimensional planes are involved. 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. 31. 407. Cosmic Asymmetry Between Matter and Antimatter, Scientific American, December 1980, p. 82. Linking Numbers, Spin, and Statistics of Solitons (with A. Zee), Phys. From Not Wrong to (Maybe) Right Nature 428 261 (2004). 462.ModelsofTopologyChange(withAlfredShapereandZhaoxiXiong)hep-th1210.3545, [ MIT-CTP 4397] (October 2012) Mathematics of Gauge Theory On a few occassions I have published exploratory mathematical ideas that seemed to me espe- cially pretty or naturally connected to physics, without any immediate sense of how they might be applied. This seems to be borne out by numerical simulation work, as explained in item 407. With clarity and an infectious sense of joy, he guides us through the essential concepts that form our understanding of what the world is and how it works. 244. [7], Wilczek was educated in the public schools of Queens, attending Martin Van Buren High School. Frank Wilczek 1 Selected Publications of Frank Wilczek, with Brief Commentary, The full bibliography has grown by accretion. The enigmatic electron (2013) Nature 498 31[MIT-CTP 4466] 11. Phys. Axions, Including Axion Cosmology Phys. Minimal Potentials with Very Many Minima (with Marin Soljacic). Gauge Dependence of Renormalization Group Parameters (with W. Caswell), Phys. Weak Decays of Charmed Hadrons (with R.L. 49. Rev. of Mod. Items 153, 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. Item 259 was prepared as part of the American Physical Society Centennial volume. Frank has an insatiable appetite for puzzles and games. If axions exist and have low mass within a specific range, they are of interest as a possible component of cold dark matter. 294. The following version is less complete, but better organized. 269.Fermionmasses,neutrinooscillations,andprotondecayinthelightofSuperKamiokande (with K.S. [6] 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 physics at Princeton . Phys. B 424 (1994) 443. hep-th/9403108 [93/88] 181. 271. [24], Wilczek was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1990, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993,[25][26] and the American Philosophical Society in 2005. 3169-3189. 245. Mass Without Mass I: Most of Matter Physics Today 52N11 (1999). 298 QCD Made Simple Physics Today, 53N8 22-28 (2000). Matter-Antimatter Accounting, Thermodynamics, and Black Hole Radiation (with D. Toussaint, S. Treiman and A. Zee), Phys. hep-th/9609099 [96-95] At the University of Chicago, where Frank Wilczek was an undergraduate, regularly scheduled classes were "improvised and semivoluntary" amid the turmoil, as he recalls. D 55, 4591, (1997). Lett. The 123 Sigma rule extends the well-known 68-95-99.7 rulewhich can explained as follows:: 1 sigma is 1 standard deviation. Exact solutions and the adiabatic heuristic for quantum Hall states (with M. Greiter), Nucl. Item 92 was a pioneering discussion of the possibility of deviations from Newtons law at short distances, both from an experimental and from a theoretical Possible Form of Vacuum Deformation by Heavy Particles (with R. MacKenzie and A. Zee), Phys. 267. 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. Spinoza, Beethoven, Walt Whitman, Einstein good company! Lett. Item 30 introduced the Higgs-gluon-gluon coupling, which plays a central role in the anticipated phenomenology of that particle. Back to Basics at High Temperature, Physics Today, 11 (April 1998). Spin Dependent Hubbard Model and a Quantum Phase Transition in Cold Atoms (with W. V. Liu and P. Zoller) Phys. 52, 1524 (1984). In the technical part of item 453 I returned to the analysis of level crossings in the presence of symmetry, and found some beautiful universal structure. A Relationship Between Hawking Radiation and Gravitational Anomalies (with S. Robinson) Phys. The use of such spinors remains, in my opinion, a promising possible approach to the family problem. Items 80-82 were talks at the famous Nuffield conference. Phys. A Nobel Prize-winner tries to pick his favorite music, fix a faulty algorithm and make some quantum computing leaps. A70 033603 (2004). My Favorites [discussion of favorite books] New York Academy of Sciences Update 19 (May/June 2006). 270. Lett. 82. Finally, Item 279 was prepared for a special supplement issue of Nature, also designed to celebrate the century in physics. B112, 133 (1982). 65, 13 (1990). Hawking Radiation as Tunneling (with M. 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