Daniel Louis Jafferis

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Daniel Louis Jafferis (born July 23, 1983 in West Haven (Connecticut) ) is an American theoretical physicist who studies quantum gravity , supersymmetric quantum field theory, and string theory.

Jafferis was privately home-schooled and began studying at Yale University at age 14 with a bachelor's degree in math and physics in 2001. He received his PhD in physics from Harvard University in 2007 with Cumrun Vafa , and was a post-doctoral student at Rutgers University and in 2010/11 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study . He is an Associate Professor at Harvard University.

Jafferis was in 2008 with Juan Maldacena and others one of the discoverers of the AdS-CFT - correspondence from superconformal (N = 6) Chern-Simons theory in three dimensions to M theory in , described by M2 branes - these are special branes that Solutions of eleven-dimensional supergravity are with three-dimensional world volume - in (four-dimensional anti-de-sitter space).

In 2012, together with Igor Klebanov and others, he formulated a conjecture (F-theorem) about the behavior of the free energy F in renormalization group flows of a three-dimensional supersymmetric quantum field theory.

In 2016, together with Ping Dao and Aron C. Wall , he proposed a mechanism for traversable wormholes without exotic matter with a mathematically equivalent description to quantum teleportation .

In 2012 he received the Henry Primakoff Award from the American Physical Society for the construction and investigation of three-dimensional supersymmetric quantum field theories . For 2019 he received the New Horizons in Physics Prize for fundamental insights into quantum information, quantum field theory and gravitation (laudation).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prabook
  2. ^ Academic Tree by Cumrun Vafa
  3. ↑ IAS website on Jafferis
  4. ↑ 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
  5. ↑ Jafferis, Igor Klebanov, S. Pufu, B. Safdi, Towards the F-Theorem: N = 2 field theories on the 3-sphere, JHEP 1106: 102, 2011, Arxiv
  6. ↑ Natalie Wolchover: Newfound Wormhole Allows Information to Escape Black Holes , Quanta Magazine, October 23, 2017
  7. ↑ Ping Dao, Daniel Jafferis, Aron C. Wall: Traversable Wormholes via a Double Trace Deformation, JHEP 2017, Arxiv 2016
  8. ↑ Primakoff Award 2012, APS
personal data
SURNAME Jafferis, Daniel Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theoretical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH West Haven, Connecticut