John Cardy

John Lawrence Cardy ( born March 19, 1947 in England ) is a British theoretical physicist who in particular is concerned with two-dimensional critical phenomena and percolation in statistical mechanics using Conforming field theories.

Cardy studied at the University of Cambridge, where he took a bachelor's degree in 1968 and his doctorate in 1971. From 1977 he was at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He became a professor at the University of Oxford at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics in 1993. He was also at CERN.

One of him in 1988 established conjecture (a theorem), which generalizes the c- theorem of Alexander Zamolodchikov to four dimensions and concerns the irreversibility of renormalization of quantum field theories, has been proven by Zohar Komargodski and Adam Schwimmer 2011.

Cardy is since 1991 a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 2000 he was awarded the Dirac Medal (IOP ), 2011 Édouard Brézin and Alexander Zamolodchikov the Dirac Medal ( ICTP ) and the 2004 Lars Onsager - price. In 2010 he received the Boltzmann Medal. He was 1985 Guggenheim Fellow.

Writings

  • Scaling and renormalization in statistical physics. Cambridge University Press, 1996
  • With Krzysztof Gawedzki, Gregory Falkovich: Non equilibrium statistical mechanics and turbulence. London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes, Cambridge University Press, 2008
  • Conformal Invariance and Statistical Mechanics. in Les Houches Lectures, Bd.49, 1988
  • Publisher: finite -size scaling. Elsevier 1988
  • Conformal Invariance in Percolation Cardy, Self - Avoiding Walks and Related Problems, 2002
  • Cardy Conformal field theory and statistical mechanics, Les Houches Lectures 2008
  • Cardy, Pasquale Calabrese Entanglement entropy and conformal field theory, J. Phys. A, 42, 2009 ( Entanglement entropy in multiparticle systems )
  • Cardy Entanglement entropy in extended quantum systems, 2007
Percolation theory Renormalization group Dirac Prize Lars Onsager Prize
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