Daniel Mattis

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Daniel Charles Mattis (born September 8, 1932 in Brussels ) is an American physicist who deals with theoretical solid-state physics and many-particle theory.

Life

Mattis studied physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in 1953 and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a master's degree in 1954 and a doctorate in 1957. He was a post-doctoral student in France and then from 1958 to 1965 at IBM . In 1965 he became associate professor and later professor at the Belfer Graduate School at Yeshiva University and from 1978 to 1981 he was professor at the Polytechnic Institute of New York and at the same time adjunct professor at the State University of New York in Buffalo and at the University of Utah . Since 1981 he has been a professor at the University of Utah. In 1971 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society .

He deals with electronic conduction in metals and semiconductors, many-particle theory of alloys and magnetism. With Elliott Lieb and T. Schultz, he dealt with the two-dimensional Ising model in 1964 (with a new derivation of Lars Onsager's exact solution via a Jordan-Wigner transformation of the transfer matrices) and in 1961 solved the XY model , an exactly solvable one-dimensional spin 1/2 -Model.

He is at the Nano Institute of the University of Utah and has recently focused on nano-superconductors and nano-ferromagnets. He wrote textbooks on the theory of magnetism.

In 1997 he was Wei-Lun Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 1966 he gave the Sterling Lectures at Yale.

Fonts

  • The theory of magnetism; an introduction to the study of cooperative phenomena, Harper and Row 1965
  • Theory of Magnetism, Springer Verlag 1981, 1988
  • Theory of Magnetism made simple: an introduction to physical concepts and to some useful mathematical methods, World Scientific 2006
  • with Robert Swendsen : Statistical mechanics made simple, World Scientific 2008
  • Magnetic Semiconductors, in Siegfried Flügge : Handbuch der Physik , Volume 18-1, 1968
  • Editor with Elliott Lieb : Mathematical physics in one dimension; exactly soluble models of interacting particles, Academic Press 1966 (reprint volume with comments)
  • Editor with Vieri Mastropietro: Luttinger model: the first 50 years and some new directions, World Scientific 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Lieb, Schultz, Mattis, Rev. Mod. Phys., Volume 36, 1964, p. 856
  3. ^ Lieb, Schultz, Mattis, Annals of Physics, Volume 16, 1961, p. 407
personal data
SURNAME Mattis, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mattis, Daniel Charles (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels