Duncan Haldane

Duncan Haldane
F. Duncan M. Haldane during Nobel press conference in Stockholm, Sweden, December 2016
Born	Frederick Duncan Michael Haldane (1951-09-14) September 14, 1951 (age 65) London, UK
Residence	Princeton, New Jersey, US
Citizenship	British
Nationality	British
Fields	Condensed matter theory
Institutions	Princeton University University of California San Diego University of Southern California Bell Laboratories
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Thesis	An extension of the Anderson model as a model for mixed valence rare earth materials (1978)
Doctoral advisor	Philip Warren Anderson
Doctoral students	Ashvin Vishwanath Srinivas Raghu
Known for	Haldane pseudopotentials in the Fractional quantum Hall effect
Notable awards	Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1993) Fellow of the Royal Society (1996) Nobel Prize in Physics (2016)
Website physics.princeton.edu/~haldane/

Frederick Duncan Michael Haldane FRS (born 14 September 1951), known as F. Duncan Haldane, is a British born physicist who is Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at the physics department of Princeton University, and a Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics with David J. Thouless and John Michael Kosterlitz.

Haldane was educated at St Paul's School, London and Christ's College, Cambridge where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree followed by a PhD in 1978 for research supervised by Philip Warren Anderson.

Haldane worked as a physicist at Institut Laue–Langevin in France between 1977 and 1981, before joining the University of Southern California. Haldane is known for a wide variety of fundamental contributions to condensed matter physics including the theory of Luttinger liquids, the theory of one-dimensional spin chains, the theory of fractional quantum hall effect, exclusion statistics, entanglement spectra and much more.

As of 2011^[update] he is developing a new geometric description of the fractional quantum Hall effect that introduces the "shape" of the "composite boson", described by a "unimodular" (determinant 1) spatial metric-tensor field as the fundamental collective degree of freedom of Fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) states. This new "Chern-Simons + quantum geometry" description is a replacement for the "Chern-Simons + Ginzburg-Landau" paradigm introduced c.1990. Unlike its predecessor, it provides a description of the FQHE collective mode that agrees with the Girvin-Macdonald-Platzman "single-mode approximation".