Shang-keng Ma

Shang-keng Ma
馬上庚
Born(1940-09-24)September 24, 1940
Chongqing,[1] Sichuan, China
DiedNovember 24, 1983(1983-11-24) (aged 43)
La Jolla, California
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
ThesisCorrelations of Photons from a Thermal Source (1966)
Doctoral advisorKenneth M. Watson

Shang-keng Ma (September 24, 1940 – November 24, 1983) was a Chinese theoretical physicist, known for his work on the theory of critical phenomena and random systems.[2] He is known as the co-author with Bertrand Halperin and Pierre Hohenberg of a 1972 paper that "generalized the renormalization group theory to dynamical critical phenomena."[2] Ma is also known as the co-author with Yoseph Imry of a 1975 paper[2] and with Amnon Aharony and Imry of a 1976 paper that established the foundation of the random field Ising model (RFIM)[3]

  1. ^ "Shang-keng Ma Papers". Online Archive California (OAC).
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  3. ^ Fytas, N.G.; Martín-Mayor, V.; Picco, M.; Sourlas, N. (2018). "Review of recent developments in the random-field Ising model". Journal of Statistical Physics. 172 (2): 665–672. arXiv:1711.09597. Bibcode:2018JSP...172..665F. doi:10.1007/s10955-018-1955-7. S2CID 115133326. arXiv preprint