Linda Reichl

Linda Elizabeth Reichl 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
The Transition to Chaos: Conservative Systems and Quantum Manifestations

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".