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Argentine physicist (born 1968)
Juan Martín Maldacena (born 10 September 1968) is an Argentine theoretical
physicist and the Carl P. Feinberg Professor in the School of Natural Sciences at the
Institute for Advanced Study , Princeton.
[3] He has made significant contributions to the foundations of
string theory and
quantum gravity . His most famous discovery is the
AdS/CFT correspondence , a realization of the
holographic principle in string theory.
Biography
Maldacena obtained his licenciatura (a six-year degree) in 1991 at the
Instituto Balseiro ,
Bariloche , Argentina, under the supervision of Gerardo Aldazábal. He then obtained his Ph.D. in physics at
Princeton University after completing a doctoral dissertation titled "Black holes in string theory" under the supervision of
Curtis Callan in 1996, and went on to a post-doctoral position at
Rutgers University . In 1997, he joined
Harvard University as associate professor, being quickly promoted to Professor of Physics in 1999. Since 2001 he has been a professor at the
Institute for Advanced Study in
Princeton, New Jersey and in 2016 became the first Carl P. Feinberg Professor of Theoretical Physics in the institute's School of Natural Sciences.
Contributions to physics
Maldacena has made numerous discoveries in theoretical physics.
Leonard Susskind called him "perhaps the greatest physicist of his generation... certainly the greatest theoretical physicist of his generation".
[4] His most famous discovery is the most reliable realization of the
holographic principle – namely the
AdS/CFT correspondence , a conjecture about the equivalence of
string theory on
Anti-de Sitter (AdS) space , and a
conformal field theory defined on the boundary of the AdS space.
[5] According to the conjecture, certain theories of quantum gravity are equivalent to other quantum mechanical theories (with no gravitational force) in one fewer spacetime dimensions.
In subsequent works, Maldacena elucidated several aspects of the AdS/CFT correspondence, describing how certain physical observables defined in one theory can be described in the equivalent theory. Shortly after his original work on the AdS/CFT correspondence, Maldacena showed how
Wilson lines can be computed in a corresponding string theory by considering the area swept by an evolving fundamental string.
[6] Wilson lines are non-local physical observables defined in
gauge theory . In 2001, Maldacena proposed that an eternal
black hole , an object defined in a gravitational theory, is equivalent to a certain
entangled state involving two copies of the corresponding quantum mechanical theory.
[7] Ordinary black holes emit
Hawking radiation and eventually evaporate. An eternal black hole is a type of black hole that survives forever because it eventually re-absorbs the radiation it emits.
In 2013, Maldacena co-authored an analysis of the 2012
black hole firewall paradox with
Leonard Susskind , arguing that the paradox can be resolved if
entangled particles are connected by minor
wormholes ."
[8]
[9]
[10]
Publications
Awards
Maldacena has received these awards:
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, 1998
Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering, 1998
MacArthur Fellowship , 1999
[11]
UNESCO Husein Prize for Young Scientists, 1999
Sackler Prize in Physics, 2000
Xanthopoulos International Award for Research in Gravitational Physics, 2001
[12]
Pius XI Medal , 2002
Edward A. Bouchet Award
[13] of the
American Physical Society , 2004
Member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences , elected 2007
[14]
Dannie Heineman Prize , 2007
[15]
Dirac Medal of the ICTP, 2008
Pomeranchuk Prize , 2012
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics , 2012.
[16]
Member of the
National Academy of Sciences , elected 2013
[17]
Diamond
Konex Award as the most important scientist in the last decade in Argentina, 2013
Lorentz Medal , 2018
[18]
Albert Einstein Medal , 2018
[19]
St. Albert Award , 2018
[20]
Galileo Galilei Medal , 2019
Les Houches School of Physics prize 2020
[21]
References
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"Black Holes in String Theory" .
Princeton University . Retrieved 18 September 2023 .
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"Curriculum Vitae: Juan Maldacena" (PDF) . 2020.
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"Juan Maldacena" . Institute for Advanced Study . 9 December 2019. Retrieved 13 May 2020 .
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Susskind, Leonard (30 April 2014).
Black Holes, the Conservation of Information, and the Holographic Principle (Speech). Messenger Lectures on "The Birth of the Universe and the Origin of Laws of Physics". Cornell University. 68 minutes in.
^ Juan Martin Maldacena (1998). "The Large N Limit of Superconformal Field Theories and Supergravity". Adv. Theor. Math. Phys . 2 (2): 231–252.
arXiv :
hep-th/9711200 .
Bibcode :
1998AdTMP...2..231M .
doi :
10.4310/atmp.1998.v2.n2.a1 .
^ Maldacena, Juan M. (1 June 1998). "Wilson loops in large N field theories". Physical Review Letters . 80 (22): 4859–4862.
arXiv :
hep-th/9803002 .
Bibcode :
1998PhRvL..80.4859M .
doi :
10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.4859 .
ISSN
0031-9007 .
S2CID
14386667 .
^ Maldacena, Juan M. (12 April 2003). "Eternal Black Holes in AdS". Journal of High Energy Physics . 2003 (4): 021.
arXiv :
hep-th/0106112 .
doi :
10.1088/1126-6708/2003/04/021 .
ISSN
1029-8479 .
S2CID
7767700 .
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Overbye, Dennis (12 August 2013).
"A Black Hole Mystery Wrapped in a Firewall Paradox" . New York Times . Retrieved 29 October 2013 .
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"The Firewall Paradox" . New York Times . 12 August 2013. Retrieved 29 October 2013 .
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Cool horizons for entangled black holes
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"Meet the 1999 MacArthur Fellows" . Retrieved 25 November 2013 .
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"Basilis Xanthopoulos International Award" . www.physics.uoc.gr .
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"2004 Edward A. Bouchet Award Recipient: Juan M. Maldacena" . Retrieved 24 August 2011 .
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"Juan Martin Maldacena" . American Academy of Arts & Sciences . Retrieved 13 May 2020 .
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"2007 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics Recipient: Juan Maldacena, Institute for Advance Study" .
American Physical Society . Retrieved 3 August 2018 .
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New annual US$3 million Fundamental Physics Prize recognizes transformative advances in the field
Archived 3 August 2012 at the
Wayback Machine , FPP, accessed 1 August 2012
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"Juan Maldacena" . www.nasonline.org . Retrieved 13 May 2020 .
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"LORENTZ MEDAL AWARDED TO PHYSICIST JUAN MARTÍN MALDACENA" .
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences . 27 March 2018. Archived from
the original on 20 July 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2018 .
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"Juan Maldacena Receives 2018 Einstein Medal from the Albert Einstein Society - IAS News | Institute for Advanced Study" . 3 August 2018.
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"Juan Martin Maldacena" . Archived from
the original on 18 January 2021. Retrieved 6 October 2018 .
^ Peyla, Philippe.
"2020 Prize: Juan Martin Maldacena" . Ecole des Houches . Retrieved 20 December 2023 .
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