Eberhard Groß (physicist)

Eberhard KU Groß , also cited as Gross in English , (* 1953 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German theoretical solid-state physicist.

Groß studied mathematics and physics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , where he received his doctorate in theoretical physics in 1980 (dissertation: The density functional formalism for atoms and quasi-molecular two-center systems and its relativistic extension ). As a post-doctoral student he was at the University of California, Santa Barbara with Walter Kohn . In 1986 he completed his habilitation in Frankfurt and returned to the University of California, Santa Barbara as a Heisenberg fellow. In 1990 he became a Fiebiger Professor at the University of Würzburg . Between 2001 and 2009 he was a professor at the Free University of Berlin . He is a scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics in Halle (Saale) and headed the theory department there from 2009 until his retirement in 2019.

In 2003/04 he was a visiting scientist at Trinity College, Cambridge University, and from 2005 he was a Max Planck Fellow at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society. In 1971 he received first prize in the federal mathematics competition .

He dealt with "ab initio" calculations of the properties of solids ( density functional theory ), for example of (conventional) superconductors, the calculation of optical properties of solids and dynamics on the femtosecond scale. His group tries to find materials with special properties (e.g. strong permanent magnets) using computer simulations. With Erich Runge he developed a time-dependent density functional theory. There the Runge-Gross Theorem (1984) is named after them, which gives a description of the many-body wave function by the density alone and extends the Hohenberg-Kohn theorem (1964) to the time-dependent case.

In 2004 he received the Schlumberger Medal in Cambridge (and was Schlumberger Professor there) and in 2016 he received the Tsungming Tu Prize .

From 2005 to 2008 he was President of the Center Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire (CECAM).

Fonts

• Editor with Reiner M. Dreizler: Density Functional Theory, Springer 1995
• with Erich Runge: Many-Particle Theory, Teubner 1986
• with E. Runge: Density functional theory for time-dependent systems, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 52, 1984, p. 997
• with F. Dobson and M. Petersilka: Density-functional theory of time-dependent phenomena, Topics in Current Chemistry 181, 1996, p. 81
• with W. Kohn: Time-dependent density functional theory, Adv. Quant. Chem., Vol. 21, 1990, 255
• with W. Kohn: Local density functional theory of frequency-dependent linear response, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 55, 1985, p. 2850
• with M. Petersilka, UJ Gossmann: Excitation energies from time-dependent density-functional theory, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 76, 1996, p. 1212
• with Miguel Marques: Time Dependent Density Functional Theory, in: C. Fiolhais, F. Nogueira, M. Marques: A primer of density functional theory, Springer 2003

Web links

• Biography at the Max Planck Institute
• CV, FU Berlin, pdf
• Entry of Groß in the Gepris database of the German Research Foundation