Günter Mahler

Günter Mahler (born February 9, 1945 in Freudenstadt ; † October 12, 2016 in Stuttgart ) was a German physicist .

Life

Mahler studied physics at the University of Frankfurt am Main . Then he was assistant to Heinz Bilz at the Technical University of Munich and at Ulrich Schröder at the University of Regensburg , where he in 1972 with his dissertation On the theory of bound excitons in semiconductors doctorate was. As a postdoctoral fellow , he went to Joseph L. Birman at New York University .

Mahler completed his habilitation and became a professor at the University of Stuttgart in 1977 , where he stayed until his retirement in 2011. His field of work was quantum thermodynamics . In 1987 he published a work with Klaus Obermayer and Hermann Haken on information processing in quantum networks and in 1999 with Ilki Kim a work on pattern formation in quantum Turing machines . He was critical of the concept of the quantum computer because of the high technical effort required. In addition, he published the work Work exchange between quantum systems: the spin-oscillator model with Heiko Schröder . Research stays in Strasbourg , Phoenix (Arizona) , Santa Fe (New Mexico) , Eugene (Oregon) , Brisbane , Sydney and Cape Town led to many fruitful collaborations. He was a member of the Editorial Board of Physical Review Letters .

Web links

• Literature by and about Günter Mahler in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry at prabook.com , accessed on June 19, 2017
2. ↑ 1. Institute for Theoretical Physics: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Günter Mahler (accessed June 19, 2017).
3. ↑ ^{a b} Hermann Haken, Günter Wunner: Obituary for Günter Mahler . In: Physics Journal . tape 16 , no. 6 , 2017, p. 53 .
4. ↑ Günter Mahler, Volker A. Weberruß: Quantum networks: dynamics of open nanostructures . 2nd Edition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg 1998, ISBN 3-540-63668-4 .