Sheldon Goldstein

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Sheldon Goldstein (born October 24, 1947, in Augusta, Georgia)[1] is an American theoretical physicist. He introduced the term "Bohmian mechanics".[2]

Biography[edit]

Goldstein graduated from Yeshiva University with a B.A. in 1969, a B.S. in 1971, and a Ph.D. in physics in 1973. His Ph.D. thesis, supervised by Joel Lebowitz, is entitled Ergodic Theory and Infinite Systems [3] Since 1977 Goldstein has been a professor at Rutgers University.[4] His research deals with the foundations of quantum mechanics and, especially, theoretical developments of De Broglie–Bohm theory. His collaborators include Joel Lebowitz[5][6] and Detlef Dürr.[7] In a 1981 paper, Goldstein and Oliver Penrose described a new method of defining nonequilibrium entropy in statistcal mechanics.[8] Goldstein contributed the article Bohmian Mechanics to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. [9]

For two academic years from 1973 to 1975, Goldstein was at the Institute for Advanced Study.[10] He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a member of the board of governors of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics[11] (founded by Tim Maudlin).

Sheldon Goldstein and Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, a novelist and philosopher, were married from 1969 to 1999, until they divorced. They are the parents of the novelist Yael Goldstein Love[12] and the poet Danielle Blau.[13]

Selected publications[edit]

  • Goldstein, Sheldon (1980). "Remarks on the global Markov property". Communications in Mathematical Physics. 74 (3): 223–234. Bibcode:1980CMaPh..74..223G. doi:10.1007/BF01952887. S2CID 119956310.
  • De Masi, A.; Ferrari, P. A.; Goldstein, S.; Wick, W. D. (1989). "An invariance principle for reversible Markov processes. Applications to random motions in random environments". Journal of Statistical Physics. 55 (3–4): 787–855. Bibcode:1989JSP....55..787D. doi:10.1007/BF01041608. S2CID 7114282.
  • Berndl, K.; Daumer, M.; Dürr, D.; Goldstein, S.; Zanghì, N. (1995). "A survey of Bohmian mechanics". Il Nuovo Cimento B. 110 (5–6): 737–750. arXiv:quant-ph/9504010. Bibcode:1995NCimB.110..737B. doi:10.1007/BF02741477. S2CID 119340618.
  • Goldstein, Sheldon (1996). "Bohmian Mechanics and the Quantum Revolution". Synthese. 107 (1): 145–165. arXiv:quant-ph/9512027. doi:10.1007/BF00413904. JSTOR 20117507. S2CID 44120976.
  • Berndl, Karin; Dürr, Detlef; Goldstein, Sheldon; Zanghì, Nino (1996). "Nonlocality, Lorentz invariance, and Bohmian quantum theory". Physical Review A. 53 (4): 2062–2073. arXiv:quant-ph/9510027. Bibcode:1996PhRvA..53.2062B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.53.2062. PMID 9913109. S2CID 7576353.
  • Goldstein, Sheldon (1998). "Quantum Theory without Observers—Part Two". Physics Today. 51 (4): 38–42. Bibcode:1998PhT....51d..38G. doi:10.1063/1.882241.
  • Van Kampen, Nico G.; DeWitt, Bryce; Goldstein, Sheldon; Bricmont, Jean; Griffiths, Robert B.; Omnès, Roland (2000). "Quantum Histories, Mysteries, and Measurements". Physics Today. 53 (5): 76–83. Bibcode:2000PhT....53e..76V. doi:10.1063/1.883089. (4 letters independently written by 4 different authors with a reply from Griffiths and Omnès)
  • Dürr, Detlef; Goldstein, Sheldon; Tumulka, Roderich; Zanghì, Nino (2005). "Bell-type quantum field theories". Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General. 38 (4): R1–R43. arXiv:quant-ph/0407116. doi:10.1088/0305-4470/38/4/R01. S2CID 15547226.
  • Goldstein, Sheldon (2010). "Bohmian Mechanics and Quantum Information". Foundations of Physics. 40 (4): 335–355. arXiv:0907.2427. Bibcode:2010FoPh...40..335G. doi:10.1007/s10701-009-9319-4. S2CID 5670604.
  • Cushing, J. T.; Fine, Arthur; Goldstein, S. (17 April 2013). Bohmian Mechanics and Quantum Theory: An Appraisal. Springer. ISBN 9789401587150.
  • Dürr, Detlef; Goldstein, Sheldon; Norsen, Travis; Struyve, Ward; Zanghì, Nino (2014). "Can Bohmian mechanics be made relativistic?". Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 470 (2162). doi:10.1098/rspa.2013.0699. PMC 3896068. PMID 24511259.
  • Goldstein, Sheldon; Zanghì, Nino (2022). "Remarks About the Relationship Between Relational Physics and a Large Kantian Component of the Laws of Nature". Rethinking the Concept of Law of Nature. Jerusalem Studies in Philosophy and History of Science. pp. 225–257. arXiv:2111.09609. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-96775-8_9. ISBN 978-3-030-96774-1.

References[edit]

  1. ^ biographical information from American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004.
  2. ^ Freire Jr., Olival (5 September 2019). David Bohm: A Life Dedicated to Understanding the Quantum World. Springer. p. 198. ISBN 9783030227159.
  3. ^ Goldstein, Sheldon. "Ergodic Theory and Infinite Systems". Yeshiva Academic Institutional Repository (YAIR). (doctoral dissertation)
  4. ^ "Homepage of Sheldon Goldstein". Mathematics Department, Rutgers University. (with reprints & recent publications)
  5. ^ Goldstein, Sheldon; Lebowitz, Joel L. (1974). "Ergodic properties of an infinite system of particles moving independently in a periodic field". Communications in Mathematical Physics. 37 (1): 1–18. Bibcode:1974CMaPh..37....1G. doi:10.1007/BF01646030. S2CID 3560060.
  6. ^ Dürr, D.; Goldstein, S.; Lebowitz, J. L. (1981). "A mechanical model of Brownian motion". Communications in Mathematical Physics. 78 (4): 507–530. Bibcode:1981CMaPh..78..507D. doi:10.1007/BF02046762. S2CID 44757047.
  7. ^ Dürr, D.; Goldstein, S.; Tumulka, R.; Zanghí, N. (2009). "Bohmian Mechanics". Compendium of Quantum Physics. Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 47–55. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-70626-7_16. ISBN 978-3-540-70622-9. arXiv preprint
  8. ^ Goldstein, S.; Penrose, O. (1981). "A nonequilibrium entropy for dynamical systems". Journal of Statistical Physics. 24 (2): 325–343. Bibcode:1981JSP....24..325G. doi:10.1007/BF01013304. S2CID 123046920.
  9. ^ Goldstein, Sheldon (26 October 2001). "Bohmian Mechanics". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  10. ^ "Sheldon Goldstein". Institute for Advanced Study (ias.edu). 9 December 2019.
  11. ^ "John Bell Institute - Directors & Governors".
  12. ^ "About Yael Goldstein-Love". yaelgoldsteinlove.com.
  13. ^ "bio". Danielle Blau (danielleblau.com).
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