Daniel L. Jafferis
Daniel Louis Jafferis (born July 23, 1983, in West Haven, Connecticut)Template:Cn is an American theoretical physicist, known for his research on quantum gravity, supersymmetric quantum field theory, and string theory.[1]
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.[2][3] Jafferis was from 2007 to 2010 a post-doctoral fellow at Rutgers UniversityTemplate:Cn and from June 2010 to March 2011 a temporary member at the Institute for Advanced Study.[4] He is a tenured professor of physics at Harvard University.[1]
In 2008, Jafferis was, with Ofer Aharony,[5] Oren Bergman,[6] and Juan Maldacena,[7] one of the discoverers of the AdS-CFT correspondence of superconformal (N=6) Chern-Simons theory in three dimensions to M-theory in , described by M2-branes – these are special branes, the solutions of eleven-dimensional supergravity having three-dimensional world-volume – in (four-dimensional anti-DeSitter space).
In 2012, with Silviu Pufu,[8] Benjamin Safdi,[9] 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.[10]
In 2016, with Ping Gao[11] and Aron C. Wall, Jafferis proposed a mechanism for traversable wormholes without exotic matter[12][13] 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."[14] In 2019 he was awarded the New Horizons in Physics Prize for "fundamental insights about quantum information, quantum field theory, and gravity."[15]
Selected publications
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References
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- ↑ 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, Arxiv
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- ↑ Jafferis, Igor Klebanov, S. Pufu, B. Safdi, Towards the F-Theorem: N=2 field theories on the 3-sphere, JHEP 1106:102, 2011, Arxiv
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- ↑ Natalie Wolchover: Newfound Wormhole Allows Information to Escape Black Holes, Quanta Magazine, October 23, 2017
- ↑ Ping Gao, Daniel Jafferis, Aron C. Wall: Traversable Wormholes via a Double Trace Deformation, JHEP 2017, Arxiv 2016
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