JEFFREY GOLDSTONE, Cecil
and Ida Green Professor of Physics, Emeritus
Research Interests
Algorithms for quantum computers.
Biographical Sketch
Professor Jeffrey Goldstone received his education at Cambridge
University (B.A. 1954, Ph.D. 1958). He worked on the theory of nuclear
matter under the guidance of Hans
Bethe and developed the use of Feynman diagrams for non-relativistic
many-fermion systems.
Goldstone was a research fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge,
from 1956-60 and held visiting research posts at Copenhagen, CERN
and Harvard. During this time, his research focus shifted to particle
physics and he investigated the nature of relativistic field theories
with spontaneously broken symmetries. With Abdus
Salam and Steven
Weinberg, he proved that in such theories zero-mass particles
(Nambu-Goldstone bosons) must exist.
From 1962 to 1976, Goldstone was a faculty member at Cambridge.
In the early 1970s, with Peter
Goddard, Claudio
Rebbi and Charles
Thorn, he worked out the light-cone quantization theory of relativistic
strings. He moved to the USA in 1977 as Professor of Physics at
MIT, where he has been the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics
since 1983 and was Director of the MIT
Center for Theoretical Physics from 1983-89.
Goldstone published research on solitons in quantum field theory
with Roman Jackiw and Frank
Wilczek, and on the quantum strong law of large numbers with
Edward Farhi and Samuel
Gutmann. Since 1997, he has been working , with Farhi, Gutmann,
Michael Sipser
and Andrew Childs,
on quantum computation algorithms.
Goldstone is a Fellow of the Royal Society (elected 1977), of
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1977), and of the American
Physical Society (1987). He is also an Honorary Fellow of Trinity
College, Cambridge (2000). Goldstone was awarded the 1981 Dannie
Heineman Prize of the American Physical Society, the 1983 Guthrie
Medal of the Institute of Physics (London), and the 1991 Dirac Medal
of the International Center for Theoretical Physics (Trieste).
[top] Selected Publications
Professor Goldstone's publications can be found online at SPIRES.
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