Allan Peter Young

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Allan Peter Young (born June 18, 1948 ) is a British theoretical solid-state physicist.

He is also cited as A. Peter Young or AP Young.

Young studied physics from 1967 at Oxford University with a bachelor's degree in 1970 and a doctorate with Roger Elliott in 1973 (phase transitions in spin-phonon systems). 1975 to 1977 he was at the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble and 1977/78 as a post-doctoral student at Cornell University . He became a lecturer and later reader in mathematics at Imperial College London in 1978 and professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1985 .

In 2001/02 he was a Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford University.

He deals with phase transitions in disordered systems such as spin glasses and quantum phase transitions . He is also concerned with algorithms for quantum computers.

In 1985 he received the Maxwell Medal with Alan Bray . In 2009 he received the Aneesur Rahman Prize for his innovative and definitive numerical studies on spin glasses and the vortex glass state of high-temperature superconductors (laudation). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1989) and became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012 . In 2012 he received a Humboldt Research Award and in 2014 he was a Martin Gutzwiller Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Kurt Binder : Spin-Glasses. Experimental Facts, Theoretical Concepts, and Open Questions, Reviews of Modern Physics, Volume 58, 1986, pp. 801-976
  • Quantum Phase Transitions, in: Lattice 94, Bielefeld, Nuclear Physics B (Proc. Suppl.), Volume 42, 1995, p. 201
  • with H. Bokil: Absence of a Phase Transition in a Three-Dimensional Vortex Glass Model with Screening, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 74, 1995, p. 3021
  • as editor: Spin glasses and random fields, World Scientific 1997
  • Phase Transitions in random System, in K. Binder, G. Ciccotti, Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics of Condensed Matter Systems, Como, Italy, Euroconference on Computer Simulation in Condensed Matter Physics and Chemistry, Bologna 1996
  • with H. Rieger: Quantum spin glasses, in: M. Rubi, C. Perez-Vicente, XIV Sitges Conference: Complex Behavior of Glassy Systems, Lecture Notes in Physics 492, 1996
  • Computer Science in Physics, in: R. Wilhelm, Informatics - 10 Years Back, 10 Years Ahead, Springer 2001
  • with Matteo Palassini: Nature of the Spin Glass State, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 85, 2000, p. 3017, Arxiv
  • with Guy Hed, Eytan Domany: Lack of Ultrametricity in the Low Temperature phase of 3D Ising Spin Glasses, Phys. Rev. Letters, Volume 92, 2004, p. 157201, Arxiv
  • with Itay Hen: Solving the Graph Isomorphism Problem with a Quantum Annealer, Phys. Rev. A, Volume 86, 2012, p. 042310, Arxiv

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Aneesur Rahman Prize
personal data
SURNAME Young, Allan Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British physicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1948