Jeffrey Goldstone
Jeffrey Goldstone | |
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| Born | 3 September 1933 Linked-cluster theorem |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Quantum mechanics |
| Institutions | MIT Cambridge |
| Doctoral advisor | Hans Bethe |
Jeffrey Goldstone (born 3 September 1933) is a
.He worked at the
quantum computation
.
Biography
Born in Manchester, he was educated at
linked-cluster theorem, showing that only connected diagrams contribute to the calculation.[2]
Goldstone was a research fellow of
relativistic field theories with spontaneously broken symmetries. With Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg
, he proved that in such theories zero-mass particles (Nambu–Goldstone bosons) must exist.
From 1962 to 1976, Goldstone was a faculty member at Cambridge. In the early 1970s, with
MIT
, where he has been the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics since 1983 and was Director of the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics from 1983-89.
Goldstone published research on solitons in quantum field theory with Roman Jackiw and Frank Wilczek, and on the quantum strong law of large numbers with Edward Farhi and Samuel Gutmann. Since 1997, he has been working, with Farhi, Gutmann, Michael Sipser and Andrew Childs, on quantum computation algorithms.[3]
Awards and honors
- Fellow of the Royal Society (elected 1977),
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1977),
- Fellow of the American Physical Society (1987).
- Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (2000).
- Dannie Heineman Prize of the American Physical Society (1981) "For his contribution to nuclear physics, condensed matter physics and to quantum field theory, in establishing the first rigorous diagrammatic technique for the many-body problem and in proving a fundamental theorem on spontaneously broken global symmetry."[4]
- Guthrie Medal of the Institute of Physics (London) (1983)
- Dirac Medal of the International Center for Theoretical Physics (Trieste) (1991).
See also
- Adiabatic quantum computation
- Effective action
- Goldstinos
- Sgoldstino
- Goldstone's theorem
- Quantum approximate optimization algorithm
Notes and references
- ISBN 0-387-10504-2.
- ISBN 978-0-486-42827-7.
- ^ Bio at MIT
- ^ APS Citation
External links
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