Michel Gaudin (2 December 1931 – 4 August 2023) was a French physicist, known for the Gaudin model, in which a central spin is coupled to many surrounding spins.[1]
Biography
editMichel Gaudin was born on 2 December 1931.[2] After graduating with the degree of ingénieur des ponts et chaussées (civil engineer), Gaudin joined in 1956 the CEA in Saclay to work on neutron experiments. Two years later, he joined Claude Bloch's theorists' working group, to which he belonged for the rest of his career.[3] In 1967 he received from the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay his doctoral degree in physics with thesis Étude d'un modèle à une dimension pour un système de fermions en interaction.[2] Gaudin's research deals with, among other topics, the quantum-mechanical description of many-body systems, in particular, spin systems.
With M. L. Mehta in 1960 he published On the density of eigenvalues of a random matrix, an important paper on random matrices.[4]
Gaudin received the Fondation Saintour Prize, awarded every two years since 1889 by the Collège de France.[5] In 2019, he received, with two other physicists, the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics from the American Physical Society.
Gaudin died on 4 August 2023, at the age of 91.[6]
Publications
edit- M. Gaudin, Modèles exactement résolus , EDP Sciences (1996) ISBN 2-86883-264-4.
- M. Gaudin, La Fonction d'onde de Bethe , Masson, Paris (1983) ISBN 2-225-79607-6.
- The Bethe wavefunction. Cambridge University Press. 2014. ISBN 9781107045859; translated by Jean-Sébastien Caux
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- The Bethe wavefunction. Cambridge University Press. 2014. ISBN 9781107045859; translated by Jean-Sébastien Caux
References
edit- ^ Feigin, Boris; Frenkel, Edward; Reshetikhin, Nikolai (1994). "Gaudin Model, Bethe Ansatz and Critical Level". Communications in Mathematical Physics. 166 (1): 27–62. arXiv:hep-th/9402022. Bibcode:1994CMaPh.166...27F. doi:10.1007/BF02099300. S2CID 17099900.
- ^ a b "Gaudin, Michel (1931-....) forme internationale". BnF. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
- ^ M. Gaudin (1995). Foreword in: Modèles exactement résolus.
- ^ Mehta, Madan Lal; Gaudin, Michel (1960). "On the density of eigenvalues of a random matrix". Nuclear Physics. 18: 420–427. Bibcode:1960NucPh..18..420M. doi:10.1016/0029-5582(60)90414-4.
- ^ Collège de France (March 2010). "Fondation Saintour". L'Annuaire du Collège de France. Cours et Travaux (109): 59–71. doi:10.4000/annuaire-cdf.226.
- ^ "Michel Gaudin 1931–2023". CERN Courier. 9 November 2023. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
- ^ Schütz, Gunter M. (2014). "The Bethe Wavefunction, by Michel Gaudin". Contemporary Physics. 56 (2): 239–240. doi:10.1080/00107514.2014.990992. ISSN 0010-7514. S2CID 120387092.