Frederick Duncan Michael Haldane
[ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: ] (born 14 September 1951),
[ known as F. Duncan Haldane, is a British-born physicist who is currently the Sherman Fairchild University Professor of Physics at ]Princeton University
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. He is a co-recipient of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics
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, along with David J. Thouless and J. Michael Kosterlitz.
Education
Haldane was educated at St Paul's School, London
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[ ] and Christ's College, Cambridge
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, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree followed by a PhD in 1978 for research supervised by Philip Warren Anderson
Philip Warren Anderson (December 13, 1923 – March 29, 2020) was an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate. Anderson made contributions to the theories of localization, antiferromagnetism, symmetry breaking (including a paper in 1 ...
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Career and research
Haldane worked as a physicist at Institut Laue–Langevin
The Institut Laue–Langevin (ILL) is an internationally financed scientific facility, situated on the Polygone Scientifique in Grenoble, France. It is one of the world centres for research using neutrons. Founded in 1967 and honouring the ph ...
in France between 1977 and 1981. In August 1981, Haldane became an assistant professor of physics at the University of Southern California
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, where he remained until 1987. Haldane was then appointed as an associate professor of physics in 1981 and later a professor of physics in 1986. In July 1986, Haldane joined the department of physics at University of California, San Diego
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as a professor of physics, where he remained until February 1992. In 1990, Haldane was appointed as a professor of physics in the department of physics at Princeton University, where he remains to this day. In 1999, Haldane was named as the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics. In 2017, he was named the Sherman Fairchild University Professor of Physics. In the period 2013-2018 Haldane also held a Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
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Haldane is known for a wide variety of fundamental contributions to condensed matter physics
Condensed matter physics is the field of physics that deals with the macroscopic and microscopic physical properties of matter, especially the solid and liquid phases which arise from electromagnetic forces between atoms. More generally, the ...
including the theory of Luttinger liquid
A Luttinger liquid, or Tomonaga–Luttinger liquid, is a theoretical model describing interacting electrons (or other fermions) in a one-dimensional conductor (e.g. quantum wires such as carbon nanotubes). Such a model is necessary as the commonl ...
s, the theory of one-dimensional spin chains, the theory of fractional quantum hall effect
The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) is a physical phenomenon in which the Hall conductance of 2-dimensional (2D) electrons shows precisely quantized plateaus at fractional values of e^2/h. It is a property of a collective state in which elec ...
, exclusion statistics, entanglement spectra and much more.
he is developing a new geometric description of the fractional quantum Hall effect that introduces the "shape" of the "composite boson", described by a "unimodular" (determinant 1) spatial metric-tensor field as the fundamental collective degree of freedom of Fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) states. This new "Chern-Simons + quantum geometry" description is a replacement for the "Chern-Simons + Ginzburg-Landau" paradigm introduced c.1990. Unlike its predecessor, it provides a description of the FQHE collective mode that agrees with the Girvin-Macdonald-Platzman "single-mode approximation".
Awards and honours
Haldane was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1996[ and a Fellow of the ]American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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(Boston) in 1992; a Fellow of the American Physical Society
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(1986) and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics
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(1996) (UK); a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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(2001). Haldane was elected as a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
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in 2017. He was awarded the Oliver E. Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society (1993); Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow (1984–88); Lorentz Chair (2008), Dirac Medal
The Dirac Medal is the name of four awards in the field of theoretical physics, computational chemistry, and mathematics, awarded by different organizations, named in honour of Professor Paul Dirac, one of the great theoretical physicists of the 20 ...
(2012); Doctor Honoris Causae of the Université de Cergy-Pontoise (2015); Lise Meitner Distinguished Lecturer (2017); Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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(2017).
With David J. Thouless and J. Michael Kosterlitz, Haldane shared the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics
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"for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter".
Personal life
Haldane is a British and Slovenian citizen and United States permanent resident. Haldane and his wife, Odile Belmont, live in Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton is a municipality with a borough form of government in Mercer County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It was established on January 1, 2013, through the consolidation of the Borough of Princeton and Princeton Township, both of wh ...
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His father was a doctor in the British Army stationed on the Yugoslavia/Austria border and there he met young medicine student Ljudmila Renko, a Slovene, and subsequently married her and moved back to England where Duncan was born.
He received Slovenian citizenship at a ceremony at the Slovenian Embassy in Washington, DC on March 22, 2019.
See also
*Fractional quantum Hall effect
The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) is a physical phenomenon in which the Hall conductance of 2-dimensional (2D) electrons shows precisely quantized plateaus at fractional values of e^2/h. It is a property of a collective state in which elec ...
* Quantum spin Hall effect
*Photonic topological insulator Photonic topological insulators are artificial electromagnetic materials that support topologically non-trivial, unidirectional states of light. Photonic topological phases are classical electromagnetic wave analogues of electronic topological phase ...
* Spin–charge separation
References
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1951 births
Living people
People educated at St Paul's School, London
Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge
Princeton University faculty
British physicists
21st-century American physicists
Fellows of the Royal Society
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Fellows of the Institute of Physics
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
Nobel laureates in Physics
British Nobel laureates
American Nobel laureates
British people of Slovenian descent
American people of Slovenian descent
Rare earth scientists
Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize winners