Dam T. Son

University Professor
Dept. of Physics, Enrico Fermi Institute, James Franck Institute, Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics, and the College

Address:: MCP 465

Phone:: 773-834-9032
Email:: dtson@uchicago.edu

Research

I have a broad research program encompassing several areas of theoretical physics.

String Theory: applications of gauge-gravity duality in the physics of the quark-gluon plasma and other strongly interacting systems.
Nuclear Physics: properties of the hot and dense states of matter, e.g., the quark gluon plasma and dense quark matter (color superconductors).
Condensed matter physics: physics of the quantum Hall system, graphene; applications of quantum field theory.
Atomic physics: many-body physics of cold trapped atoms, BCS-BEC crossover, applications of quantum field theoretical techniques.

Selected Publications

R. Baier, A.H. Mueller, D. Schiff, and D.T. Son, "Bottom-up" thermalization in heavy ion collisions, Phys. Lett. B 502, 51 (2001).
P. Kovtun, D.T. Son, and A.O. Starinets, Viscosity in Strongly Interacting Quantum Field Theories from Black Hole Physics, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 111601 (2005).
Y. Nishida and D.T. Son, Epsilon Expansion for a Fermi Gas at Infinite Scattering Length, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 050403 (2006).
C. Hoyos and D.T. Son, Hall Viscosity and Electromagnetic Response, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 066805 (2012).
Papers from arXiv.org

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