Arno Bohm

Arno Bohm (German: Böhm, born April 26, 1936 in Stettin ) is a German-American theoretical physicist who teaches at the University of Texas at Austin .

Böhm studied physics at the Technical University of Berlin with a diploma in 1962 and a doctorate under Günther Ludwig in 1966. In between he was assistant for theoretical physics at the TH Karlsruhe in 1963/64 , in 1964 at the University of Marburg and from 1964 to 1966 at the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste as a Fellow of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Particle Physics. From 1966 to 1968 he was a Research Associate at Syracuse University . From 1968 he was Associate Professor and from 1975 Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at Austin . Among other things, he was visiting scientist and visiting professor at the Chalmers Institute of Technology in Gothenburg, the University of Brussels and the Solvay Institute in Brussels, the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich and the Los Alamos National Laboratory .

He deals with the (mathematical) basics of quantum mechanics. In the 1960s he worked on a rigged Hilbert Space formulation of quantum mechanics, in the 1970s on semigroups of the time evolution operators in quantum mechanics and in the 1990s on questions of irreversibility and time asymmetry in quantum mechanics. He also dealt with group theoretic methods in elementary particle physics, for example dynamic symmetries (spectrum-generating group, also relativistic) with applications on models of relativistic collective excitations, and in the early 1990s with geometric phases (à la Michael Berry ) with applications in the Molecular physics.

In 1981 he received the Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize for Senior US Scientists (with which he did research at the University of Würzburg) and again in 1999 (this time he went to the Max Planck Institute in Garching near Munich). In 1980 he was a Sackler Fellow at Tel Aviv University and in 1987 a Fulbright Fellow. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society .

He has been married since 1965 and has three children.

Fonts

• Quantum Mechanics: Foundations and Applications , Springer Verlag 1979, 3rd edition 1994
• with M. Loewe, P. Magnollay, M. Tarlini, RR Aldinger, LC Biedenharn, H. van Dam Quantum Relativistic Rotator , Part 1, Phys. Rev. D, Volume 31, 1985, p. 2304, Part 2, Volume 32, 1985, p. 791, Part 3, Volume 32, 1985, p. 2828
• with Yuval Neeman , AO Barut Dynamical Groups and Spectrum Generating Algebras , World Scientific, 1988
• The Geometrical Phase in Quantum Physics , Review Lectures, NATO ASI Series on Mathematical Physics, in LA Ibort, MA Rodriquez Integrable Systems, Quantum Groups and Quantum Field Theories , Kluwer 1993
• with Quian Niu, Ali Mostafazadeh, Hiroyasu Koizumi, Josef Zwanziger The geometric phase in quantum systems - foundations, mathematical concepts and applications in molecular and condensed matter physics , Springer Verlag 2003
• with M. Gadella Dirac Kets, Gamow Vectors, and Gel'fand Triplets , Lecture Notes in Physics, Springer Verlag, Volume 78, 1978, 2nd edition, Lecture Notes in Physics, Volume 348, 1989
• with S. Maxson, M. Loewe, M. Gadella Quantum Mechanical Irreversibility , Physica A, Volume 236, 1997, p. 485
• Time Asymmetric Quantum Physics , Phys. Rev. A, Vol. 60, 1999, p. 861
• with H.-D. Doebner, P. Kielanowski (editor) Irreversibility and Causality: Semigroups and Rigged Hilbert Spaces , Springer Verlag, Berlin 1998 (therein by Bohm, Harshman Quantum Theory in the Rigged Hilbert Space - Irreversibility from Causality , pp. 181-237)

Web links

• Arno Bohm on the University of Texas website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004