Paul Steinhardt

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Paul J. Steinhardt is the Albert Einstein Professor of Science at Princeton University and a professor of theoretical physics. He was an undergraduate at the California Institute of Technology, completed his doctorate at Harvard University and was formerly a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He is best known for his work in theoretical cosmology, where he helped develop the theories of cosmic inflation and quintessence, and helped elucidate how cosmological observations can explain features of the underlying cosmological model. His recent work has been on brane cosmology, especially the ekpyrotic and cyclic models. He also works in condensed matter physics on quasicrystals.

[edit] Homepage

• Princeton homepage

[edit] References

• P. J. Steinhardt and N. Turok, Cosmic evolution in a cyclic universe, Phys. Rev. D 65, 126003 (2002) arXiv:hep-th/0111098.
• J. Khoury, B. A. Ovrut, P. J. Steinhardt and N. Turok, "The ekpyrotic universe: Colliding branes and the origin of the hot big bang", Phys. Rev. D 64, 123522 (2001) arXiv:hep-th/0103239.
• D. N. Spergel and P. J. Steinhardt, "Observational evidence for self-interacting cold dark matter", Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 3760 (2000) arXiv:astro-ph/9909386.
• N. A. Bahcall, J. P. Ostriker and P. J. Steinhardt, "The Cosmic Triangle: Revealing the State of the Universe", Science 284, 1481 (1999) arXiv:astro-ph/9906463.
• I. Zlatev, L. M. Wang and P. J. Steinhardt, "Quintessence, Cosmic Coincidence, and the Cosmological Constant", Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 896 (1999) arXiv:astro-ph/9807002.
• R. R. Caldwell, R. Dave and P. J. Steinhardt, "Cosmological Imprint of an Energy Component with General Equation-of-State", Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1582 (1998) arXiv:astro-ph/9708069.
• P. J. Steinhardt and S. Ostlund, The Physics of Quasicrystals (World Scientific, Singapore, 1987).
• J. M. Bardeen, P. J. Steinhardt and M. S. Turner, "Spontaneous Creation Of Almost Scale-Free Density Perturbations In An Inflationary Universe," Phys. Rev. D 28, 679 (1983).
• A. Albrecht and P. J. Steinhardt, "Cosmology For Grand Unified Theories With Radiatively Induced Symmetry Breaking," Phys. Rev. Lett. 48, 1220 (1982).