Igor Klebanov
Igor R. Klebanov | |
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| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS) Princeton University (PhD) |
| Known for | AdS/CFT correspondence, Klebanov-Strassler solution, Higher-spin theory |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics String theory |
| Doctoral advisor | Curtis Callan |
| Doctoral students | Steven Gubser |
| Website | www |
Igor R. Klebanov (born 1962) is an American theoretical physicist. Since 1989, he has been a faculty member at Princeton University, where he is currently a Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and the director of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science.[1] In 2016, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.[2] Since 2022, he is the director of the Simons Collaboration on Confinement and QCD Strings.[3]
Klebanov received his undergraduate education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, class of 1982, and his Ph.D. degree at Princeton University in 1986 as a student of Curtis Callan. In his thesis he made advances in the Skyrme model of hadrons, which included the first paper on a Skyrmion crystal.[4] Klebanov worked as a post-doc in the SLAC Theory Group. His main contributions to string theory are in matrix model approaches to two-dimensional strings, in brane dynamics, and in the gauge theory-gravity duality. His work in 1996-97 on relations between branes in supergravity and their gauge theory description[5] anticipated the gauge theory-gravity correspondence.
Klebanov's 1998 paper[6] with his graduate student Steven Gubser, and Alexander M. Polyakov, which made a precise statement of the AdS/CFT duality, is among the top cited papers in theoretical high-energy physics. A series of papers by Klebanov and collaborators on D-branes on the conifold has led to discovery[7] of cascading gauge theory. Its dual warped throat provides a geometric description of color confinement and chiral symmetry breaking; it has been used in model building for cosmology and particle physics. The relation between 3-dimensional critical O(N) model and bosonic higher-spin gauge theory in 4-dimensional AdS space[8] has been called the Klebanov-Polyakov correspondence.
Klebanov's more recent work includes the Entanglement Entropy in confining gauge theories,[9] the F-theorem for Renormalization Group flows,[10] large N tensor models,[11] field theory descriptions of critical phenomena, and quantum many-body scars as group invariant states.[12]
Honors
[edit | edit source]- 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship[13]
- 2010 Princeton University Graduate Mentoring Award[14]
- 2012 Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- 2014 Tomassoni awards[15]
- 2016 Elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.[16]
- 2017 Pomeranchuk Prize[17]
- 2022 Oskar Klein Medal[18]
- 2023 Dirac Medal (ICTP)
Works
[edit | edit source]- hep-th/9108019 "String Theory in Two Dimensions", High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) Igor R. Klebanov, 26 Aug 1991
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- "Some stringy aspects of the AdS/CFT duality", Strings 2002, Igor Klebanov
- Solving Quantum Field Theories via Curved Spacetimes, Physics Today, Igor Klebanov and Juan Maldacena
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References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- List of his papers on Arxiv
- List of his papers on Google Scholar
- An interview on his most famous work
- List of most cited physicists in brane physics
- Igor R Klebanov" Archived 2018-03-18 at the Wayback Machine, Scientific commons
- Igor Klebanov at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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- 21st-century American physicists
- Soviet emigrants to the United States
- Living people
- American string theorists
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
- Princeton University alumni
- Princeton University faculty
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- 1962 births