Scientists / Open questions
弗兰克·维尔切克
Frank Wilczek
量子场论、粒子物理
2004 年诺贝尔物理学奖
48 个问题
What is dark matter, what is dark energy, and which high-energy framework completes the Standard Model? The open core of Wilczek's 'The Universe is a Strange Place'
Validity of Standard Model Higgs inflation as an effective field theory: graviton-induced operators, quantum corrections, and the reliability of the Higgs-mass-spectral-index prediction
From anomaly-canceling flux to the thermal spectrum: completing the gravitational-anomaly derivation of Hawking radiation
Beyond-subleading corrections to the color-superconducting gap in dense QCD and the domain of validity of the weak-coupling asymptotics
Rigorous microscopic derivation of Laughlin quasiparticle fractional charge and anyonic braiding statistics from realistic quantum Hall Hamiltonians
Quantitative cross section for dyon-mediated baryon-number-violating fermion scattering in a spontaneously broken SU(2)×U(1) theory
Microscopic determination of the QCD-scale surface tension of the nuclear-CFL interface: sharp interface versus mixed phase in compact stars
All-loop consistency and vacuum selection of twisted (Scherk-Schwarz) heterotic string compactifications on self-dual lorentzian lattices
Fate of the non-Fermi-liquid fixed point of a two-dimensional Fermi surface coupled to gauge fluctuations: the endpoints of the Nayak-Wilczek expansion and its physical applications
Extending the quench-based spectral diagnostic for false-vacuum metastability beyond the two-fermion, one-dimensional, idealized regime
Landau-Ginzburg theory of the Pfaffian quantum Hall state and its controlled duality to the Chern-Simons effective field theory
Topological order of the fractional quantum Hall state: Pfaffian, anti-Pfaffian, or particle-hole Pfaffian?
The open agenda of the superdensity-operator formalism: efficient spacetime tomography, the physical meaning of quantum Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy growth, continuum and holographic extensions, and long-time transfer-matrix structure
Optimal shape-change reorientation of a free deformable body: most efficient deformation sequences for finite deformations in the gauge-covariant framework
Structure-aware quantum overlapping tomography: minimal measurement families for geometric, symmetry-constrained, and nonlocal-observable targets
Quantum-gravity treatment of near-extreme charged dilaton black holes: alpha-prime- and loop-corrected thermodynamics, the interpretation of extremal states, and unitary scattering with back-reaction
Order of the QCD chiral phase transition and effective restoration at the transition: the Pisarski–Wilczek open questions
Axion cosmology and the energy scale of inflation: completing the joint exclusion map and deciding the fate of the anthropic window
The familon problem: constructing a fully realistic theory of spontaneously broken family symmetry with a light Nambu-Goldstone familon
Stringy and quantum fate of the Shapere–Trivedi–Wilczek axion–dilaton dyon black holes: the strong-coupling singularity, probe-dependent causal structure, and near-extremal physics
Schwarzschild-Planck moving mirror at general coupling : closed-form particle spectrum, non-thermal interpolation, and wave-packet resolution
Ultraviolet completion of the black hole entropy-Newton constant renormalization relation: graviton loops, non-minimal couplings, induced gravity, and microscopic state counting
Realizing the tunable axion plasma haloscope: wire-metamaterial tuning mechanics and quality factor, quantum-limited readout above 40 GHz, finite-velocity coherence, and alternative plasmas
Practical entanglement-enabled intensity interferometry (E²I²) of different wavelengths of light: deployment on weak incoherent sources, quantitative sensitivity limits