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185:, he formulated a conjecture (conjectural F-theorem) about the behavior of the free energy F in renormalization group flows of a three-dimensional supersymmetric quantum field theory. 131: 649:
Ofer Aharony, Oren Bergman, Daniel Louis Jafferis, Juan Maldacena: N=6 superconformal Chern-Simons-matter theories, M2-branes and their gravity duals, JHEP 0810:091, 2008,
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Aharony, Ofer; Bergman, Oren; Jafferis, Daniel Louis; Maldacena, Juan (2008). "𝒩 = 6 superconformal Chern-Simons-matter theories, M2-branes and their gravity duals".
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Jafferis, Daniel L.; Klebanov, Igor R.; Pufu, Silviu S.; Safdi, Benjamin R. (2011). "Towards the F-theorem: N=2 field theories on the three-sphere".
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Guarino, Adolfo; Jafferis, Daniel L.; Varela, Oscar (2015). "String Theory Origin of Dyonic 𝒩 = 8 Supergravity and Its Chern-Simons Duals".
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Jafferis, Daniel L.; Lewkowycz, Aitor; Maldacena, Juan; Suh, S. Josephine (2016). "Relative entropy equals bulk relative entropy".
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Jafferis, Igor Klebanov, S. Pufu, B. Safdi, Towards the F-Theorem: N=2 field theories on the 3-sphere, JHEP 1106:102, 2011,
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for "construction and study of three-dimensionals supersymmetric quantum field theories." In 2019 he was awarded the
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Gao, Ping; Jafferis, Daniel Louis; Wall, Aron C. (2017). "Traversable wormholes via a double trace deformation".
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Ping Gao, Daniel Jafferis, Aron C. Wall: Traversable Wormholes via a Double Trace Deformation, JHEP 2017,
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Jafferis, Daniel Louis; Tomasiello, Alessandro (2008). "A simple class of 𝒩 = 3 gauge/Gravity duals".
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correspondence of superconformal (N=6) Chern-Simons theory in three dimensions to M-theory in
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for "fundamental insights about quantum information, quantum field theory, and gravity."
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Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature, High Energy Theory Group, Harvard University
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Aharony, Ofer; Bergman, Oren; Jafferis, Daniel Louis (2008). "Fractional M2-branes".
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Jafferis, Daniel L. (2012). "The exact superconformal R-symmetry extremizes Z".
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Natalie Wolchover: Newfound Wormhole Allows Information to Escape Black Holes
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Jafferis was privately home-schooled and at age 14 began his studies at
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without exotic matter with a description mathematically equivalent to
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In 2008, Jafferis was, with Ofer Aharony, Oren Bergman, and
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In 2012 Jafferis received the Henry Primakoff Award of the
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and from June 2010 to March 2011 a temporary member at the
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DPF Newsletter, APS Division of Particles and Fields
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Topological string theory from D-brane bound states
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Jafferis was from 2007 to 2010 a 13: 14: 835: 804:21st-century American physicists 753:"DPF Prizes and Awards for 2012" 81:, one of the discoverers of the 763: 745: 733: 721: 703: 691: 673: 655: 643: 629: 615: 597: 586: 571: 511:Journal of High Energy Physics 484:Journal of High Energy Physics 445:Journal of High Energy Physics 428:10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.091601 371:Journal of High Energy Physics 332:Journal of High Energy Physics 297:Journal of High Energy Physics 262:Journal of High Energy Physics 245:Journal of High Energy Physics 228:Journal of High Energy Physics 1: 582:Mathematics Genealogy Project 544: 288:10.1088/1126-6708/2008/11/043 253:10.1088/1126-6708/2008/10/101 236:10.1088/1126-6708/2008/10/091 214:New Horizons in Physics Prize 609:Institute for Advanced Study 593:Academic Tree of Cumrun Vafa 72:Institute for Advanced Study 7: 188:In 2016, with Ping Gao and 10: 840: 824:Harvard University faculty 819:Harvard University alumni 809:American string theorists 210:American Physical Society 141:having three-dimensional 54:in 2007. His PhD thesis 19:(born July 23, 1983, in 605:"Daniel Louis Jafferis" 537:10.1007/JHEP12(2017)151 501:10.1007/JHEP09(2016)068 471:10.1007/JHEP06(2016)004 398:Physical Review Letters 388:10.1007/JHEP05(2014)032 358:10.1007/JHEP05(2012)159 323:10.1007/JHEP06(2011)102 171:{\displaystyle AdS_{4}} 21:West Haven, Connecticut 814:Yale University alumni 172: 127: 578:Daniel Louis Jafferis 220:Selected publications 198:quantum teleportation 173: 128: 17:Daniel Louis Jafferis 561:"Daniel L. Jafferis" 149: 89: 64:post-doctoral fellow 42:Education and career 32:quantum field theory 777:. October 17, 2018. 759:. October 23, 2011. 529:2017JHEP...12..151G 492:2016JHEP...09..068J 463:2016JHEP...06..004J 420:2015PhRvL.115i1601G 379:2014JHEP...05..032J 350:2012JHEP...05..159J 315:2011JHEP...06..102J 280:2008JHEP...11..043A 625:. 9 December 2019. 611:. 9 December 2019. 168: 133:, described by M2- 123: 68:Rutgers University 58:was supervised by 52:Harvard University 715:Simons Foundation 204:Awards and honors 831: 779: 778: 767: 761: 760: 749: 743: 737: 731: 725: 719: 718: 707: 701: 695: 689: 688: 677: 671: 670: 659: 653: 647: 641: 640: 633: 627: 626: 619: 613: 612: 601: 595: 590: 584: 575: 569: 568: 557: 540: 522: 505: 503: 474: 456: 439: 413: 392: 390: 361: 343: 326: 308: 291: 273: 256: 239: 177: 175: 174: 169: 167: 166: 132: 130: 129: 124: 122: 121: 107: 106: 839: 838: 834: 833: 832: 830: 829: 828: 784: 783: 782: 769: 768: 764: 751: 750: 746: 738: 734: 726: 722: 709: 708: 704: 696: 692: 679: 678: 674: 661: 660: 656: 648: 644: 635: 634: 630: 621: 620: 616: 603: 602: 598: 591: 587: 576: 572: 559: 558: 551: 547: 222: 206: 162: 158: 150: 147: 146: 117: 113: 102: 98: 90: 87: 86: 48:Yale University 44: 25:quantum gravity 12: 11: 5: 837: 827: 826: 821: 816: 811: 806: 801: 796: 781: 780: 762: 744: 732: 720: 702: 690: 672: 654: 642: 628: 614: 596: 585: 570: 548: 546: 543: 542: 541: 506: 475: 440: 393: 362: 327: 292: 257: 240: 221: 218: 205: 202: 165: 161: 157: 154: 120: 116: 111: 105: 101: 97: 94: 79:Juan Maldacena 43: 40: 29:supersymmetric 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 836: 825: 822: 820: 817: 815: 812: 810: 807: 805: 802: 800: 799:Living people 797: 795: 792: 791: 789: 776: 772: 766: 758: 754: 748: 742: 736: 729: 724: 716: 712: 706: 700: 694: 686: 685:U.C. 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West Haven, Connecticut
quantum gravity
supersymmetric
quantum field theory
string theory
Yale University
Harvard University
Cumrun Vafa
post-doctoral fellow
Rutgers University
Institute for Advanced Study
Juan Maldacena
AdS-CFT
branes
supergravity
world-volume
Igor Klebanov
Aron C. Wall
wormholes
quantum teleportation
American Physical Society
New Horizons in Physics Prize
doi
10.1088/1126-6708/2008/10/091
doi
10.1088/1126-6708/2008/10/101
arXiv
0807.4924
Bibcode
2008JHEP...11..043A

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