Absence of Diffusion in Certain Random Lattices
2005; Cambridge University Press; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1142/9789812567154_0007
ISSN1793-1207
Autores Tópico(s)Rough Sets and Fuzzy Logic
ResumoWorld Scientific Series in 20th Century PhysicsA Career in Theoretical Physics, pp. 79-93 (2005) No AccessAbsence of Diffusion in Certain Random LatticesPHILIP W. ANDERSONPHILIP W. ANDERSONPrinceton University, USAhttps://doi.org/10.1142/9789812567154_0007Cited by:2 PreviousNext AboutSectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsRecommend to Library ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail Abstract: There followed in 1957–9 a small-scale version of an Annus Mirabilis — no invidious comparison with Einstein intended, just that this kind of sudden creative flowering does happen with some generality. One possible causative factor was a change in the situation at Bell Labs — after a series of losses of major theorists including Bardeen, Kittel, and shortly H.W. Lewis and Wannier, Bill Baker, then the vice president for research, decided to encourage us to form a separate theory department rather than being beholden to experimental masters. We (Peter Wolff, Conyers Herring, and I) responded by escalating ourselves into a full-scale academic department with postdocs, an elective chairman, and many other privileges such as relatively casual travel and sabbaticals, which were standard in academic physics at the time but unprecedented in an industrial lab. Also for a couple of years we had an extensive summer visitor program including nuclear and particle physicists such as Keith Brueckner, John Taylor, and John Ward as well as an expansion of our solid state visitor program — to Walter Kohn and Quin Luttinger we added among others Philippe Nozieres, David Pines, Elihu Abrahams, and as a summer student Bob Schreiffer. To this was added substantial salary improvement, since our losses at that expansive time were often to better-paid academic jobs. In the year 1958 I produced this paper, on which my Nobel prize was mostly based, as well as the papers on gauge invariance in superconductivity, the paper on superexchange, and the dirty superconductor paper. (The soft mode paper was older work.) The gestation of this one had occurred in 1956 while I was still in my house theorist mode, but it gained from the independence and self-confidence of the new PWA… FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsCited By 2Controlling photosynthetic energy conversion by small conformational changesNaama Maroudas‐Sklare, Yuval Kolodny, Shira Yochelis, Nir Keren and Yossi Paltiel3 November 2022 | Physiologia Plantarum, Vol. 174, No. 6Numerical Simulation of Anderson LocalizationReza Sepehrinia and Ameneh Sheikhan1 May 2011 | Computing in Science & Engineering, Vol. 13, No. 3 A Career in Theoretical PhysicsMetrics History PDF download
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