Yakir Aharonov

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Yakir Aharonov (2006)

Yakir Aharonov ( Hebrew יקיר אהרונוב; * August 28, 1932 in Haifa ) is an Israeli physicist .

life and work

After attending school, Aharonov was drafted into the Israeli army on his 18th birthday . He then studied at the Technion , Haifa, where he did his bachelor's degree in 1956 . He moved to the University of Bristol , where he in 1960 with a thesis on quantum theory doctorate . From 1960 to 1961 he was a postdoctoral fellow at Brandeis University . He then returned to Israel to teach at Yeshiva University : until 1964 as a lecturer and then until 1967 as an associate professor. From 1967 to 1973 he was a full professor at Tel Aviv University and Yeshiva University. From 1973 until his retirement in 2006 he was a professor of theoretical physics in Tel Aviv and at the University of South Carolina . From 2006 to 2008 he was Professor at the Center for Quantum Studies at George Mason University and since 2008 he has been Professor of Theoretical Physics and James J. Farley Professor of Natural Philosophy at Chapman University in Orange County (California) .

Aharonov is interested in non-local and topological effects of quantum mechanics and quantum field theories as well as in the interpretation of quantum mechanics. In 1959, together with his doctoral supervisor David Bohm , he predicted the Aharonov-Bohm effect , later named after them , which was first experimentally confirmed by Robert Chambers the following year . In the sixties Aharonov published with Joel Lebowitz and Peter Bergmann an alternative formulation of quantum physics, which should avoid the measurement problem.

In his spare time, Aharonov likes to play chess . He is the uncle of the quantum computer scientist Dorit Aharonov .

Publications

  • over 150 papers in scientific journals
  • Some problems in the quantum theory of measurements and electromagnetic potentials as observables in the quantum theory . Dissertation, Bristol 1960
  • with Daniel Rohrlich: Quantum paradoxes. Quantum theory for the perplexed . Wiley-VCH, Weinheim and Cambridge 2005, ISBN 3-527-40391-4

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Y. Aharonov and D. Bohm: Significance of Electromagnetic Potentials in the Quantum Theory (PDF; 1.2 MB) . In: Physical Review . Volume 115, 1959, pp. 485-491. The effect was predicted as early as 1949: Werner Ehrenberg and Raymond Eldred Siday : The Refractive Index in Electron Optics and the Principles of Dynamics . In: Proceedings of the Physical Society B . Volume 62, 1949, pp. 8-21
  2. ^ RG Chambers: Shift of an Electron Interference Pattern by Enclosed Magnetic Flux . In: Physical Review Letters . Vol. 5, 1960, pp. 3-5. For further experimental confirmations, reference is made to the following book: Murray Peshkin and Akira Tonomura : The Aharonov-Bohm Effect (= Lecture Notes in Physics, Volume 340). Springer, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-540-51567-4
  3. ^ Y. Aharonov, PG Bergman and JL Lebowitz: Time Symmetry in the Quantum Process of Measurement . In: Physical Review . Volume 134, 1964, pp. 1410-1416
  4. ↑ Yakir Aharonov. The Franklin Institute, accessed April 16, 2019 ("For observations of electromagnetic potentials and insights into quantum mechanics.").
  5. ^ Emet Prize Laureates: Prof. Yakir Aharonov. emetprize.org, accessed on April 16, 2019 (English, "... for elucidating the principles of Quantum Theory, for being a pioneer and a leader in the exploration of the profound meanings of this theory and for his unique discoveries that have had an impact on various fields in physics ").
  6. ↑ Yakir Aharonov. National Medal of Science Foundation, 2009, accessed April 16, 2019 .
  7. ↑ APS Fellow Archive

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personal data
SURNAME Aharonov, Yakir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli physicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Haifa