Andrew Jordan

Andrew Jordan is professor of physics at the University of Rochester. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2009 and in 2017 was named a Simons Fellow in theoretical physics. He is also a member of the Center for Coherence and Quantum Optics and the Rochester Theory Center for Optical Science and Engineering and joined the Institute for Quantum Studies at Chapman University 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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