Rodney Baxter

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Rodney Baxter
Theoretical Physics
InstitutionsIraq Petroleum Company (1964-1965)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1968-1970)
Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge (1992)
Australian National University (1970-2002)

Rodney James Baxter

six-vertex model and eight-vertex model, and the chiral Potts model and hard hexagon model. A recurring theme in the solution of such models, the Yang–Baxter equation
, also known as the "star–triangle relation", is named in his honour.

Biography

Baxter was educated at

Royal Society of London, and the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, where he was Royal Society Research Professor in 1992. In 1980 he was awarded the Boltzmann Medal, the main recognition for research contribution concerning statistical mechanics. In 2006, he was awarded the Lars Onsager Prize
"For his original and groundbreaking contributions to the field of exactly solved models in statistical mechanics, which continue to inspire profound developments in statistical physics and related fields".

Research

Baxter gained recognition in 1971 when he used the star-triangle relation to calculate the

order parameters of the eight-vertex and similar models. In 2005 he used the method of Michio Jimbo, Tetsuji Miwa and Nakayashiki to verify Albertini, McCoy, Perk and Tang's conjecture for the order parameter of the chiral Potts model
.

His use of the Yang–Baxter equation led to the formulation and the study of representations of the

quasi-triangular Hopf algebras which yield solutions of the Yang–Baxter equation
and provide insight into the properties of corresponding statistical models.

His book, Exactly solved models in statistical mechanics, has received over 4000 citations (according to Web of Science) in subsequent work in statistical mechanics and the study of quantum groups, and is used widely in teaching at universities.

Awards and honours

Publications

  • Baxter, Rodney J. (1982), Exactly solved models in statistical mechanics (PDF), London: Academic Press Inc. [Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers],
    Zbl 0538.60093

References

  • V. Chari and A.N. Pressley, A Guide to Quantum Groups Cambridge University Press, 1994

External links


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