Daniel L. Stein
Daniel L. Stein (born August 19, 1953 in New York City ) is an American solid-state physicist.
Stein studied physics and mathematics at Brown University with a bachelor's degree in 1975 and at Princeton University with a master's degree in 1977 and a doctorate with Philip Warren Anderson in 1979. He became an assistant professor at Princeton in 1980, which he remained until 1987. He was then Associate Professor and from 1993 Professor at the University of Arizona (from 1995 head of the physics faculty and from 1997 mathematics professor) and also at the Santa Fe Institute (from 1989 External Faculty, from 1991 member of the Scientific Board, from 1999 in Scientific Steering Committee). From 2005 he was a professor at New York University . From 2006 to 2012 he was Dean of Science there.
He was also at ATT Bell Laboratories from 1984 to 1986 and a consultant at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1980. In the 1990s he was a trustee on the Space Launch Strategy Task Force and the Defense Science Board of the Aspen Center for Physics . In 1988 (and 1990-1998) he was the first director of the Complex Systems Summer School at the Santa Fe Institute.
He mainly dealt with spin glasses and similar disordered systems, stochastic processes in non-equilibrium systems (for example "escaping" in the event of large fluctuations) and protein dynamics. With Charles M. Newman he investigated short-range spin glasses and introduced the Newman-Stein meta-state to investigate the thermodynamics of disordered systems. He is also known for a study with Anderson and Elihu Abrahams and Richard G. Palmer on hierarchical dynamics of vitreous systems from 1984. He also dealt with nanowires and nanomagnets, amorphous semiconductors, quantum liquids, topology of spaces of order parameters, liquid crystals, neutron stars and astroparticle physics .
He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . He was a Sloan Research Fellow in 1985 and a Guggenheim Fellow in 2014/15.
He has been married since 1986 and has two daughters.
Fonts (selection)
- with Richard G. Palmer, Elihu Abrahams, PW Anderson: Models of Hierarchically Constrained Dynamics for Glassy Relaxation, Phys. Rev. Lett. Volume 53, 1984, pp. 958-961
- A Model of Protein Conformational Substates, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., Vol. 82, 1985, pp. 3670-3672
- with AT Ogielski: Dynamics on ultrametric spaces, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 55, 1985, p. 1634
- Spin Glasses, Scientific American, July 1989, p. 52
- with RS Maier: Effect of Focusing and Caustics on Exit Phenomena in Systems Lacking Detailed Balance, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 71, 1993, pp. 1783-1786
- with Charles M. Newman: Non-Mean-Field Behavior of Realistic Spin Glasses, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 76, 1996, pp. 515-518
- with Charles M. Newman: Spatial inhomogeneity and thermodynamic chaos, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 76, 1996, pp. 4821-4824.
- with Charles M. Newman: Metastate approach to thermodynamic chaos, Phys. Rev. E, Vol. 55, 1997, pp. 5194-5211.
- with Charles M. Newman: Thermodynamic chaos and the structure of short-range spin glasses, in: A. Bovier, P. Picco (Ed.), Mathematics of Spin Glasses and Neural Networks, Birkhauser, 1998, pp. 243-247.
- with Charles M. Newman: Topical Review: Ordering and Broken Symmetry in Short-Range Spin Glasses, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Volume 15, 2003, R1319 – R1364
- with J. Buerki, CA Stafford: Theory of Metastability in Simple Metal Nanowires, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 95, 2005, pp. 090601-1-090601-4
- with Kirsten Martens, AD Kent: Magnetic Reversal in Nanoscopic Ferromagnetic Rings, Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 73, 2006, pp. 054413-1-054413-10
- with Charles M. Newman: Spin glasses and complexity, Princeton UP 2013
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Date of birth according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stein, Daniel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 19th August 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |