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