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Linda Reichl

Linda Reichl

Statistical physicist

Linda Elizabeth Reichl (born 1942)[1] is a statistical physicist who works in the Center for Complex Quantum Systems at the University of Texas at Austin,[2] and is known for her research on quantum chaos.[3]

Education

Reichl completed her Ph.D. in 1969 at the University of Denver with the dissertation Microscopic Theory of Quasiparticle Spin Fluctations in a Fermi Liquid.[4] She was advised by Elizabeth R. Tuttle and Ilya Prigogine.[5]

Books

Reichl's books include:

  • A Modern Course in Statistical Physics (University of Texas Press, 1980; 4th ed., Wiley, 2016)[6]
  • The Transition to Chaos: Conservative Systems and Quantum Manifestations (Springer, 1992; 2nd ed., 2004)[7]

She is also the co-editor of several volumes of collected papers.

Recognition

Reichl became a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2000 "for her original contributions to the field of quantum chaos".[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Birth year from German National Library catalog entry, retrieved 2019-01-15.
  2. [2]
    Prof. Linda E. Reichl, Center for Complex Quantum Systems, retrieved 2019-01-15
  3. [3]
    APS Fellows Nominated by the Topical Group on Statistical & Nonlinear Physics for the year 2000, retrieved 2019-01-15
  4. [4]
    Linda Reichl at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. [5]
    "Linda E. Reichl", Physics Tree, retrieved 2019-01-15
  6. [6]
    Reviews of A Modern Course in Statistical Physics:
  7. [7]
    Reviews of The Transition to Chaos:
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