Édouard Brézin

Édouard Brézin (b. December 1, 1938 Paris) is a French theoretical physicist. He is professor at Université Paris 6, working at the laboratory for theoretical physics (LPT) of the École normale supérieure.

Édouard Brézin studied at École polytechnique before doing a PhD. He worked for some years at the "Commissariat à l'énergie atomique".

Brezin contributed to the field of physics that deals with the macroscopic physical properties of matter and high energy physics. He was a leader in critical behavior theory and developed methods for distilling testable predictions for critical exponents. In using field theoretic techniques in the study of condensed matter, Brezin helped further modern theories of magnetism and the quantum Hall effect.

Édouard Brézin was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences on February 18, 1991, and served as president of the academy in 2005-2006. He also is a foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences (since 2003) and a member of the Academia Europaea (since 2003). He is a commander in the French National order of merit [ [http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/WAspad/UnTexteDeJorf?numjo=PREX0407341D Decree of May 14, 2004] ] and an officer in the Legion of Honor [ [http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/WAspad/UnTexteDeJorf?numjo=PREX9903892D Decree of December 31, 1999] ] .

Notable publications

* E Brezin and N Deo, "Smoothed Correlators For Symmetric Double-Well Matrix Models: Some Puzzles and Resolutions". Arxiv preprint cond-mat/9805096, 1998, arxiv.org.
* JC Toledano, L Michel, P Toledano, and E Brezin, "Renormalization-group study of the fixed points and of their stability for phase transitions with four-component order parameters." Physical Review B, 1985.
* E Brezin and N Deo "Correlations and symmetry breaking in gapped matrix models". Physical Review Series E, 1999.
* E Brezin and J Zinn-Justin, "Renormalization Group Approach to Matrix Models". Arxiv preprint hep-th/9206035, 92, arxiv.org.
* MJ Bowick and E Brezin, "Universal scaling of the tail of the density of eigenvalues in random matrix models". Phys. Lett. B, 1991.
* E Brezin, "Critical wetting in three dimensions: A Ginzburg criterion". Physical Review Letters, 1987.
* E Brezin and S Feng, "Amplitude of the surface tension near the critical point". Physical Review B, 1984.
* E Brezin and S Hikami, "Characteristic polynomials of random matrices at edge singularities". Physical Review E, 2000.Département de PhysiqueLaboratoire de physique théorique de l’École normale supérieure24, rue LhomondF-75231 Paris Cedex 0

References

ee also

* List of members of the National Academy of Sciences

External links

* [http://www.academie-sciences.fr/membres/B/Brezin_Edouard.htm Pr Brézin's page on the Academy's site]
* [http://www.academie-sciences.fr/membres/B/Brezin_Edouard_bio.htm Pr Brézin's biography on the Academy's site]
* [http://www.academie-sciences.fr/actualites/communiques/pdf/elections_30_11_04_communique.pdf Communiqué of November 30, 2004] including a biography
* " [http://www.cyprusinstitute.ac.cy/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=665 CREF Board of Trustees] ". The Cyprus Institute, 2006.