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Statistical physicist

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

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. She was advised by Elizabeth R. Tuttle and Ilya Prigogine.

Books

Reichl's books include:

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

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".

References

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

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