Jorge A. Swieca

Jorge André Swieca (born December 16, 1936 in Warsaw , † December 22, 1980 ) was a Brazilian theoretical physicist.

When Poland was occupied by Germany and the Soviet Union, Swieca's Jewish family fled to Rio de Janeiro via Siberia and Japan. In 1963 he received his doctorate from the University of Sao Paulo under Werner Güttinger (with a thesis that he did at the Max Planck Institute for Physics ). In the 1960s and 1970s he dealt with mathematical quantum field theory, what the Rudolf Haag school called local quantum physics . In 1965 his first publication appeared with Haag, then at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . In contrast to many representatives of the school, he also tried to find applications in the then current research directions of particle physics. With H. Ezawa, Daniel Kastler and Derek W. Robinson he gave a mathematical justification of the gold stone theorem . He examined various model theories of quantum field theory a. a. by Julian Schwinger and gave a strict treatment of phenomena such as mass production and charge shielding in Abelian gauge theories and pursued ideas to explain confinement.

Swieca was at the University of Sao Paulo from 1959 to 1970. From 1971 he was at the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio and from 1978 at the State University of Sao Carlos in Sao Paulo. He died in 1980 of complications from bypass surgery.

He received the Moinho Santista Prize in 1968 as the second physicist (after Jayme Tiomno ).

He had been married since 1963 and had two children.

literature

Obituary by Bert Schroer , A. Videira, Physics Today, Volume 34, 1981, No. 5
Schroer Jorge A. Swieca's contributions to quantum field theory in the 60s and 70s and their relevance in present research , European Physics J., 35, 2010

Web links

Biography for the Bunge Prize (port.)

Individual evidence

^ R. Haag, JA Swieca When does a quantum field theory describe particles? , Communications in Mathematical Physics, Volume 1, 1965, p. 308. They found that the phase space degrees of freedom in quantum field theory of free particles were greater than in quantum mechanics, but their cardinality (although infinite) was that of a compact set.
^ Daniel Kastler, Derek W. Robinson, Swieca Conserved currents and associated symmetries. Goldstone's theorem , Comm. Math. Phys., Vol. 2, 1966, 108
↑ H. Ezawa, Swieca Spontaneous breakdown of symmetries and zero mass states , Comm. Math. Phys., Vol. 5, 1967, p. 330
^ Lowenstein, Swieca Quantum Electrodynamics in two dimensions , Annals of Physics, Volume 68, 1971, p. 172
↑ Swieca Charge screening and mass spectrum , Phys. Rev. D, Volume 13, 1976, p. 312
↑ Swieca Solitons and confinement , Advances in Physics, Volume 25, 1977, p. 303

personal data
SURNAME	Swieca, Jorge A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Swieca, Jorge André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Brazilian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 16, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH	Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH	December 22, 1980

[1] R. Haag, JA Swieca When does a quantum field theory describe particles? , Communications in Mathematical Physics, Volume 1, 1965, p. 308. They found that the phase space degrees of freedom in quantum field theory of free particles were greater than in quantum mechanics, but their cardinality (although infinite) was that of a compact set.

[2] Daniel Kastler, Derek W. Robinson, Swieca Conserved currents and associated symmetries. Goldstone's theorem , Comm. Math. Phys., Vol. 2, 1966, 108

[3] H. Ezawa, Swieca Spontaneous breakdown of symmetries and zero mass states , Comm. Math. Phys., Vol. 5, 1967, p. 330

[4] Lowenstein, Swieca Quantum Electrodynamics in two dimensions , Annals of Physics, Volume 68, 1971, p. 172

[5] Swieca Charge screening and mass spectrum , Phys. Rev. D, Volume 13, 1976, p. 312

[6] Swieca Solitons and confinement , Advances in Physics, Volume 25, 1977, p. 303