Juan Maldacena

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Juan Maldacena at Harvard University

Juan Martín Maldacena (born September 10, 1968 in Buenos Aires , Argentina ) is an Argentine theoretical physicist and string theorist .

Life

Maldacena studied physics from 1985 to 1988 at the Universidad de Buenos Aires , as well as at the Instituto Balseiro of the Universidad de Cuyo in Bariloche , where he obtained a master's degree ( Licenciatura ) in 1991 . In the following year he went to Princeton University , where he achieved a Master of Arts in 1993 and received his PhD in 1996 with Curtis Callan with the work Black Holes in String Theory . He then did a postdoc at Rutgers University . From 1997 to 2001 he was a professor at Harvard University (initially Visiting Associate Professor , 1998 Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor and from 1999 Professor ). Since then he has been a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton .

Maldacena's most important scientific contribution is the AdS / CFT correspondence , a conjecture about the equivalence of string theory in an anti-de-sitter space and a conformal field theory defined on the edge of that space. This is the best explicit formulation of the holographic principle to date .

Together with Leonard Susskind , he established the ER-EPR conjecture in 2013. This postulates a connection of entangled quantum particles, the EPR pairs, through (special) wormholes, also called Einstein-Rosen bridges . The conjecture is a suggestion to resolve the information paradox of black holes , which has been exacerbated by Joseph Polchinski's Feuerwall paradox, and, according to the authors, is also a new approach to quantum gravity . After Ping Gao, Daniel Louis Jafferis and Aron C. Wall proposed traversable wormholes and their equivalent description as quantum teleportation in 2016 , this also led to a new approach to the information paradox of black holes.

Awards

From 1998 to 2000, Maldacena was a Sloan Research Fellow . In 1999 he was a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation . In 2007 he received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics , in 2008 the Dirac Medal (ICTP) and in 2012 the Pomeranschuk Prize . In the same year 2012 he was also awarded the Fundamental Physics Prize . In 2018 he received the Lorentz Medal of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences and the Albert Einstein Medal .

Maldacena has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2007 and a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences since 2013 .

According to XStructure , Maldacena's publication The Large N Limit of Superconformal Field Theories and Supergravity is the most cited article on the preprint server ArXiv .

Web links

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  1. ↑ Juan Maldacena in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  2. ↑ Maldacena, Susskind, Cool horizons for entangled black holes , Arxiv 2013
  3. ↑ Natalile Wolchover: Newfound Wormhole Allows Information to Escape Black Holes , Quanta Magazine, October 23, 2017
  4. ↑ Juan Maldacena, Douglas Stanford, Zhenbin Yang Diving into transversable wormholes, Arxiv 2017
  5. ↑ KC Cole, Wormholes Untangle a Black Hole Paradox, Quanta Magazine , April 24, 2015
  6. ↑ Articles sorted by quotes at XStructure
personal data
SURNAME Maldacena, Juan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maldacena, Juan Martín (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine physicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires , Argentina