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'''Daniel Louis Jafferis''' (born July 23, 1983, in [[West Haven, Connecticut]]){{cn|date=August 2024}} is an American theoretical physicist, known for his research on [[quantum gravity]], [[Supersymmetry|supersymmetric]] [[quantum field theory]], and [[string theory]].<ref name=homepage>{{cite web|url=https://www.physics.harvard.edu/people/facpages/jafferis|title=Daniel L. Jafferis|website=Department of Physics, Harvard University}}</ref>

==Education and career==
Jafferis was privately home-schooled and at age 14 began his studies at [[Yale University]], where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics in 2001. He received his PhD in physics from [[Harvard University]] in 2007. His PhD thesis ''Topological string theory from D-brane bound states'' was supervised by [[Cumrun Vafa]].<ref>{{MathGenealogy|id=253310|name=Daniel Louis Jafferis}}</ref><ref>[https://academictree.org/physics/peopleinfo.php?pid=79596 Academic Tree of Cumrun Vafa]</ref> Jafferis was from 2007 to 2010 a [[post-doctoral fellow]] at [[Rutgers University]]{{cn|date=August 2024}} and from June 2010 to March 2011 a temporary member at the [[Institute for Advanced Study]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ias.edu/scholars/daniel-louis-jafferis|title=Daniel Louis Jafferis|website=Institute for Advanced Study|date=9 December 2019 }}</ref> He is a tenured professor of physics at Harvard University.<ref name=homepage/>

In 2008, Jafferis was, with Ofer Aharony,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ias.edu/scholars/ofer-aharony |title=Ofer Aharony - Scholars &#124; Institute for Advanced Study |date=9 December 2019 }}</ref> Oren Bergman,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://phys.technion.ac.il/en/people/faculty/person/60 |title=Oren Bergman - Physics Department, Technion }}</ref> and [[Juan Maldacena]],<ref>Ofer Aharony, Oren Bergman, Daniel Louis Jafferis, Juan Maldacena: N=6 superconformal Chern-Simons-matter theories, M2-branes and their gravity duals, JHEP 0810:091, 2008, [https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.1218 Arxiv]</ref> one of the discoverers of the [[Holographic principle|AdS-CFT]] correspondence of superconformal (N=6) Chern-Simons theory in three dimensions to M-theory in <math>AdS_4 \, \times \, S^7</math>, described by M2-[[branes]] – these are special branes, the solutions of eleven-dimensional [[supergravity]] having three-dimensional [[wiktionary:worldvolume|world-volume]] – in <math>AdS_4</math> (four-dimensional anti-DeSitter space).

In 2012, with Silviu Pufu,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://phy.princeton.edu/people/silviu-pufu |title=Silviu Pufu |website=Physics Department, Princeton University}}</ref> Benjamin Safdi,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://physics.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/benjamin-safdi |title=Benjamin Safdi &#124; Physics Department|website=U.C. Berkeley}}</ref> and [[Igor Klebanov]], he formulated a conjecture (conjectural F-theorem) about the behavior of the free energy F in renormalization group flows of a three-dimensional supersymmetric quantum field theory.<ref>Jafferis, Igor Klebanov, S. Pufu, B. Safdi, Towards the F-Theorem: N=2 field theories on the 3-sphere, JHEP 1106:102, 2011, [https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.1181 Arxiv]</ref>

In 2016, with Ping Gao<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.simonsfoundation.org/people/ping-gao/ |title=Ping Gao |website=Simons Foundation}}</ref> and [[Aron Wall|Aron C. Wall]], Jafferis proposed a mechanism for traversable [[wormhole]]s without exotic matter<ref>[https://www.quantamagazine.org/newfound-wormhole-allows-information-to-escape-black-holes-20171023/ Natalie Wolchover: Newfound Wormhole Allows Information to Escape Black Holes], Quanta Magazine, October 23, 2017</ref><ref>Ping Gao, Daniel Jafferis, Aron C. Wall: Traversable Wormholes via a Double Trace Deformation, JHEP 2017, [https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.05687 Arxiv 2016]</ref> with a description mathematically equivalent to [[quantum teleportation]].

==Awards and honors==
In 2012 Jafferis received the Henry Primakoff Award of the [[American Physical Society]] for "construction and study of three-dimensionals supersymmetric quantum field theories."<ref>{{cite web|title=DPF Prizes and Awards for 2012|date=October 23, 2011|website=DPF Newsletter, APS Division of Particles and Fields|url=http://www.dpfnewsletter.org/?p=616}}</ref> In 2019 he was awarded the [[New Horizons in Physics Prize]] for "fundamental insights about quantum information, quantum field theory, and gravity."<ref>{{cite web|title=Professor Daniel Jafferis awarded New Horizon Physics Prize|date=October 17, 2018|website=Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature, High Energy Theory Group, Harvard University|url=https://hetg.physics.harvard.edu/news/professor-daniel-jafferis-awarded-new-horizons-physics-prize}}</ref>

==Selected publications==
* {{cite journal|doi=10.1088/1126-6708/2008/10/091 |title=𝒩 = 6 superconformal Chern-Simons-matter theories, M2-branes and their gravity duals |date=2008 |last1=Aharony |first1=Ofer |last2=Bergman |first2=Oren |last3=Jafferis |first3=Daniel Louis |last4=Maldacena |first4=Juan |journal=Journal of High Energy Physics |issue=10 |pages=091 |arxiv=0806.1218 }}
* {{cite journal|doi=10.1088/1126-6708/2008/10/101 |title=A simple class of 𝒩 = 3 gauge/Gravity duals |date=2008 |last1=Jafferis |first1=Daniel Louis |last2=Tomasiello |first2=Alessandro |journal=Journal of High Energy Physics |issue=10 |pages=101 |arxiv=0808.0864 }}
* {{cite journal|doi=10.1088/1126-6708/2008/11/043 |title=Fractional M2-branes |date=2008 |last1=Aharony |first1=Ofer |last2=Bergman |first2=Oren |last3=Jafferis |first3=Daniel Louis |journal=Journal of High Energy Physics |issue=11 |pages=043 |arxiv=0807.4924 |bibcode=2008JHEP...11..043A }}
* {{cite journal|doi=10.1007/JHEP06(2011)102 |title=Towards the F-theorem: N=2 field theories on the three-sphere |date=2011 |last1=Jafferis |first1=Daniel L. |last2=Klebanov |first2=Igor R. |last3=Pufu |first3=Silviu S. |last4=Safdi |first4=Benjamin R. |journal=Journal of High Energy Physics |issue=6 |page=102 |arxiv=1103.1181 |bibcode=2011JHEP...06..102J }}
* {{cite journal|doi=10.1007/JHEP05(2012)159 |title=The exact superconformal R-symmetry extremizes Z |date=2012 |last1=Jafferis |first1=Daniel L. |journal=Journal of High Energy Physics |issue=5 |page=159 |arxiv=1012.3210 |bibcode=2012JHEP...05..159J }}
* {{cite journal|doi=10.1007/JHEP05(2014)032 |title=Exact results for five-dimensional superconformal field theories with gravity duals |date=2014 |last1=Jafferis |first1=Daniel L. |last2=Pufu |first2=Silviu S. |journal=Journal of High Energy Physics |issue=5 |page=32 |bibcode=2014JHEP...05..032J |doi-access=free |arxiv=1207.4359 }}
* {{cite journal|doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.091601 |title=String Theory Origin of Dyonic 𝒩 = 8 Supergravity and Its Chern-Simons Duals |date=2015 |last1=Guarino |first1=Adolfo |last2=Jafferis |first2=Daniel L. |last3=Varela |first3=Oscar |journal=Physical Review Letters |volume=115 |issue=9 |page=091601 |pmid=26371639 |arxiv=1504.08009 |bibcode=2015PhRvL.115i1601G }}
* {{cite journal|doi=10.1007/JHEP06(2016)004 |title=Relative entropy equals bulk relative entropy |date=2016 |last1=Jafferis |first1=Daniel L. |last2=Lewkowycz |first2=Aitor |last3=Maldacena |first3=Juan |last4=Suh |first4=S. Josephine |journal=Journal of High Energy Physics |issue=6 |page=4 |arxiv=1512.06431 |bibcode=2016JHEP...06..004J }}
* {{cite journal|doi=10.1007/JHEP09(2016)068 |title=The gravity duals of modular Hamiltonians |date=2016 |last1=Jafferis |first1=Daniel L. |last2=Suh |first2=S. Josephine |journal=Journal of High Energy Physics |issue=9 |page=68 |bibcode=2016JHEP...09..068J |doi-access=free |arxiv=1412.8465 }}
* {{cite journal|doi=10.1007/JHEP12(2017)151 |title=Traversable wormholes via a double trace deformation |date=2017 |last1=Gao |first1=Ping |last2=Jafferis |first2=Daniel Louis |last3=Wall |first3=Aron C. |journal=Journal of High Energy Physics |issue=12 |page=151 |arxiv=1608.05687 |bibcode=2017JHEP...12..151G }}

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