Cached Nov. 22, 2007, from http://www.physics.harvard.edu/people/facpages/coleman.html
Physics Department Faculty:
Sidney R. Coleman
Donner Professor of Science, EmeritusPhD 1962, Caltech
The bulk of Sidney Coleman's research has been in high-energy theoretical physics, in particular quantum field theory. He has contributed to the theories of strong-interaction symmetries, of spontaneous symmetry breakdown, of duality in two-dimensional field theories, of solitons and instantons, of the cosmological constant, and of quantum effects in black-hole dynamics
Selected Publications:
- S. Coleman and S. Glashow, "High-Energy tests of Lorentz invariance." Phys. Rev. Lett. D59: 116008 (1999).
- S. Coleman, J. Preskill, and F. Wilczek, "Growing hair on black holes." Phys. Rev. Lett. 67: 1975 (1991).
- S. Coleman, "Why there is nothing rather than something: a theory of the cosmological constant." Nucl. Phys. B 310: 643 (1988).
- S. Coleman, Aspects of Symmetry: Selected Erice Lectures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
- S. Coleman, "The fate of the false vacuum," Phys. Rev. D 15: 2929 (1977).
- S. Coleman, "Quantum Sine-Gordon equation as the massive thirring model." Phys. Rev. D 11: 2088 (1975).
- S. Coleman and E. Weinberg, "Radiative corrections as the origin of spontaneous symmetry breaking." Phys. Rev. D 7: 1889 (1973).