Mikhail Shifman

Mikhail Shifman
Born	(1949-04-04)April 4, 1949 Riga, Latvia
Fields	Theoretical High Energy Physics
Institutions	William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP)
Alma mater	Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Academic advisors	Boris L. Ioffe
Known for	Penguin mechanism Quantum Chromodynamics Invisible axion Nonperturbative supersymmetry Supersymmetric gauge theories
Notable awards	Humboldt Research Award (1993) Sakurai Prize (1999) Lilienfeld Prize (2006) Chaires Blaise Pascal (2007) Pomeranchuk Prize (2013)

Mikhail "Misha" Arkadyevich Shifman (Russian: Михаи́л Арка́дьевич Ши́фман; born 4 April 1949) is a theoretical physicist (high energy physics), formerly at Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, currently Ida Cohen Fine Professor of Theoretical Physics, William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota.

Important discoveries

He is known for a number of basic contributions to Quantum Chromodynamics, the theory of strong interactions, and to understanding of supersymmetric gauge dynamics. The most important results due to M. Shifman are diverse and include (i) the discovery of the penguin mechanism in the flavor-changing weak decays (1974); (ii) introduction of the gluon condensate and development of the SVZ sum rules relating properties of the low-lying hadronic states to the vacuum condensates (1979); (iii) introduction of the invisible axion (1980) (iv) first exact results in supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories (NSVZ beta function, gluino condensate,1983–1988); (v) heavy quark theory based on the operator product expansion (1985–1995); (vi) critical domain walls (D-brane analogs) in super-Yang-Mills (1996); (vii) non-perturbative (exact) planar equivalence between super-Yang-Mills and orientifold non-supersymmetric theories (2003); (viii) non-Abelian flux tubes and confined monopoles (2004). His paper with A. Vainshtein and Zakharov on the SVZ sum rules is among the all-time top cited papers in high-energy physics.

Honors and awards

Mikhail Shifman received the Alexander-von-Humboldt Award in 1993, the Sakurai Prize in 1999, the Ida Cohen Fine Chair in Theoretical Physics and the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize in 2006; he is the 2007 laureate of the Blaise Pascal Chair. 2013 Pomeranchuk Prize. Fellow of the American Physical Society.

See also

• KSVZ axion (Kim-Shifman-Vainshtein-Zakharov axion model)
• SVZ sum rules (Shifman-Vainshtein-Zakharov sum rules)
• Penguin mechanism
• QCD vacuum
• NSVZ beta function
• Gluon condensation
• Gluino condensation
• Critical (BPS saturated) domain walls in super-Yang–Mills
• Non-Abelian flux tubes in super-Yang–Mills
• Planar equivalence in non-Abelian orientifold theories

External links

• 1999 Sakurai Prize citation
• 2006 Lilienfeld Prize citation
• 2007 Blaise Pascal Chair citation
• Shifman homepage at the University of Minnesota
• BIO at the University of Minnesota
• FTPI homepage at the University of Minnesota