Ariel Zhitnitsky

Ariel R. Zhitnitsky ( Russian Ариэль Житницкий ) is a Soviet theoretical physicist working in Canada.

Zhitnitsky received his doctorate from Novosibirsk University and was there from 1980 to 1995 at the Institute of Nuclear Physics. In 1989 and 1992 he was at CERN , in 1990 at the Institute for Advanced Study , in 1991 at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, from 1993 at Uppsala University and in 1995 at SLAC . From 1995 he is at the University of British Columbia , where he is a professor.

He deals with particle physics, astroparticle physics, vacuum structure of non-Abelian gauge field theories and quantum chromodynamics under extreme conditions, dark matter and dark energy, axions . In the 1980s he developed a model with an almost invisible axion to solve the strong CP problem (also called the DFSZ model after the first letters of Michael Dine , Willy Fischler , Mark Srednicki and Zhitnisky). With VL Chernyak he introduced light cone wave functions for exclusive QCD interactions at high energies (CZ wave function). With D. Son he investigated anomalous non-scattering currents (of topological origin) in dense matter with the help of an effective field theory. He investigated their possible role in superconductivity and kicks in neutron stars and in explaining dark matter as being composed of antibaryons. With Dmitri Kharzeev he explained in 2007 CP-odd quantum anomalies in QCD matter (observed in heavy ion collisions, for example at RHIC). In 2018 he proposed the emergence of inflationary de Sitter universes as a consequence of a topologically non-trivial sector of QCD-like gauge field theories.

In 2002 he received the Killam Research Prize and in 2003 was a Killam Fellow. In 2018 he received the CAP-CRM Prize .

Fonts (selection)

with VL Chernyak, VG Serbo: Asymptotic hadronic form-factors in quantum chromodynamics, JETP Lett., Volume 26, 1977, p. 594
with VL Chernyak: Asymptotic form of hadronic form factors in the quark model, JETP Lett., Volume 25, Issue 11, 1977
with VL Chernyak: Asymptotics of Hadronic Form-Factors in the Quantum Chromodynamics, Sov. J. Nucl. Phys., 1980
On Possible Suppression of the Axion Hadron Interactions, Sov. J. Nucl. Phys., Volume 31, 1980, p. 260 (his contribution to the DFSZ model)
with VL Chernyak: Exclusive decays of heavy mesons, Nucl. Phys. B, Volume 201, 1982, pp. 492-526
with VL Chernyak: Asymptotic behavior of exclusive processes in QCD, Physics Reports, 1984
with John B. Kogut , MA Stephanov, D. Toublan, JJM Verbaarschot: QCD-like theories at finite baryon density, Nuclear Physics B, Volume 582, 2000, pp. 477-513, Arxiv
with DT Son: Quantum anomalies in dense matter, Physical Review D, Volume 70, 2004, p. 074018, Arxiv
with KB Buckley, MA Metlitski : Neutron stars as type-I superconductors, Physical Review Letters, Volume 92, 2004, p. 151102, Arxiv
with MA Metlitski: Anomalous axion interactions and topological currents in dense matter, Physical Review D, Volume 72, 2005, p. 045011, Arxiv
with D. Kharzeev: Charge separation induced by P-odd bubbles in QCD matter, Nucl. Phys. A, Volume 797, 2007, pp. 67-79, Arxiv
with J. Charbonneau: A Novel Mechanism for Type-I Superconductivity in Neutron Stars, Phys. Rev. C, Volume 76, 2007, p. 015801, Arxiv
with Federico Urban: The cosmological constant from the QCD Veneziano ghost, Phys. Lett. B, Volume 688, 2010, pp. 9-12, Arxiv
with F. Urban: The QCD nature of dark energy, Nucl. Phys.B, Volume 835, 2010, pp. 135-173, Arxiv
QCD as a topologically ordered system, Annals of Physics, Volume 336, 2013, pp. 462-481, Arxiv
with S. Ge, X. Liang: Cosmological CP odd axion field as the coherent Berry's phase of the Universe, Phys. Rev. D, Volume 96, 2017, p. 063514, Arxiv
with Andrey Barvinsky: Topological Inflation, Phys. Rev. D, Volume 98, 2018, p. 045008, Arxiv

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Honored on the occasion of the CAP CRM Prize , University of Montreal

personal data
SURNAME	Zhitnitsky, Ariel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Zhitnitsky, Ariel R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	soviet physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century