Edouard Brezin

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Edouard Brezin (1938 - ) is a French physicist who is the Physics Professor at the University of Pierre and Marie Curie (ENS).

Brezin contributed to the field of physics that deals with the macroscopic physical properties of matter and high energy physics. He was a leader in critical behavior theory and developed methods for distilling testable predictions for critical exponents. In using field theoretic techniques in the study of condensed matter, Brezin helped further modern theories of magnetism and the quantum Hall effect. Brezin became a member of the French National Academy of Sciences in 1991 and became the President of the Academy in November 2004.

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E Brezin and N Deo, "Smoothed Correlators For Symmetric Double-Well Matrix Models: Some Puzzles and Resolutions". Arxiv preprint cond-mat/9805096, 1998, arxiv.org.
JC Toledano, L Michel, P Toledano, and E Brezin, "Renormalization-group study of the fixed points and of their stability for phase transitions with four-component order parameters." Physical Review B, 1985.
E Brezin and N Deo "Correlations and symmetry breaking in gapped matrix models". Physical Review Series E, 1999.
E Brezin and J Zinn-Justin, "Renormalization Group Approach to Matrix Models". Arxiv preprint hep-th/9206035, 92, arxiv.org.
MJ Bowick and E Brezin, "Universal scaling of the tail of the density of eigenvalues in random matrix models". Phys. Lett. B, 1991.
E Brezin, "Critical wetting in three dimensions: A Ginzburg criterion". Physical Review Letters, 1987.
E Brezin and S Feng, "Amplitude of the surface tension near the critical point". Physical Review B, 1984.
E Brezin and S Hikami, "Characteristic polynomials of random matrices at edge singularities". Physical Review E, 2000.