Andrew Jordan

Andrew Jordan is the Kennedy Chair in Physics and Managing Director of the Institute for Quantum Studies at Chapman University. Previously a professor of physics at the University of Rochester, he received an NSF CAREER Award in 2009 and was named a Simons Fellow in theoretical physics in 2017. He joined Chapman University's Institute for Quantum Studies as an affiliated scholar in 2012.

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letter Some Like It Hot
In response to “A Hot Mess”
[short_description] Rather than it being a hot mess, Landauer’s principle is easily understood, easily derivable from basic principles of thermodynamics and statistical physics, and in accordance with experimental tests.
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Physics High Temperature Superconductivity [long_description] Superconductivity in liquid helium, a very cold substance, was discovered in 1908. Ever since, researchers have aimed to fabricate materials that exhibit superconductivity at room temperature, which would offer a host of practical applications, from lossless power transmission to magnetically levitated trains. Andrew Jordan examines recent experimental results published by Sven Badoux et al.
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Mathematics Woit’s Way [long_description] Peter Woit’s book Quantum Theory, Groups and Representations is based on a series of lectures that he gave at Columbia University. Woit is a fine teacher. Andrew Jordan finds much to admire.
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Physics Odd Man Out [long_description] A review of Roger Penrose’s recent book, Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe by physicist Andrew Jordan. The book reflects an ironic tension: Penrose attacks the cosmologies of contemporary physics as fanciful, while proposing improvements that are just as farfetched.

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