Xi Yin
Xi Yin (* 1984 ) is a Chinese theoretical physicist working in the USA who deals with string theory and mathematical physics.
Yin studied physics at the University of Science and Technology in China from the age of 13 with a bachelor's degree in 2002 and received a doctorate in physics from Harvard University in 2006 . From 2006 to 2008 and in autumn 2009 he was a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard. In 2008 he became Assistant Professor at Harvard, 2012 Associate Professor and 2015 Professor. From 2011 to 2014 he was also at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai.
He dealt with three-dimensional quantum gravity, Chern-Simons theories of matter, topological strings and counting algebraic geometry and BPS states of black holes in string theory. With Simone Giombi , he found evidence of an AdS / CFT correspondence suspected by Igor Klebanov and Alexander Markowitsch Polyakow between a conformal field theory (O (N) vector model) in three dimensions and a gauge field theory of higher spin according to Mikhail Vasiliev in four dimensions. The correspondence found also promises deeper insights into the case of the AdS-CFT correspondence at Superstrings originally by Juan Maldacena and others.
For 2017 he received the New Horizons in Physics Prize with Simone Giombi. In 2013 he was a Sloan Fellow and Simons Investigator. In 2009 he received a Career Award from the National Science Foundation.
Fonts
- with Giombi: Higher Spin Gauge Theory and Holography: The Three-Point Functions, JHEP, Volume 115, 2010, p. 1009, Arxiv
- with Giombi: On Higher Spin Gauge Theory and the Critical O (N) Model, Physical Review D, Volume 85, 2012, p. 086005, Arxiv
- with Giombi: The Higher Spin / Vector Model Duality, Arxiv 2012
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| SURNAME | Yin, Xi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese-American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1984 |