David Tong (physicist)
David Tong is a professor of theoretical physics at DAMTP in Cambridge, a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge,[1] and joint recipient of the 2008 Adams Prize.[2] He is an Adjunct Professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR).[3]
His most-cited paper, "DBI in the sky", provides a possible observational test of one mechanism for inflation in the very early universe.
Works
- "Quantum Vortex Strings: A Review",
- Alishahiha, Mohsen; Silverstein, Eva; Tong, David (2004). "DBI in the sky: Non-Gaussianity from inflation with a speed limit". Physical Review D 70 (12). doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.70.123505.
- Sakai, Norisuke; Tong, David (2005). "Monopoles, Vortices, Domain Walls and D-Branes: The Rules of Interaction". High Energy Physics – Theory 2005 (03): 019–019. doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2005/03/019.
- "An Open-Closed String Duality in Field Theory?", Continuous Advances in QCD 2006, Editors M. Peloso, M. Shifman, World Scientific, 2007, ISBN 978-981-270-552-5
References
- ↑ http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/
- ↑ "University newsletter May/June 2008" (PDF).
- ↑ http://www.cambridge-india.org/research/physical/mathematics.html
External links
- "David Tong's Vortices", The References Frame
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