Hans-Rainer Trebin

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Hans-Rainer Trebin (born May 19, 1946 in Neustadt an der Waldnaab ) is a German physicist and university professor . From 1985 to 2012 he was full professor at the chair for theoretical and applied physics at the University of Stuttgart and managing director of the institute of the same name.

biography

Hans-Rainer Trebin grew up in Regensburg and, after high school and military service, studied physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich on a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation . He received his diploma in 1973 with the thesis "Investigation of the band structure of titanium carbide" with Helmut Bross . In 1976 he received his doctorate from the University of Regensburg with a dissertation on the subject of "polarons and excitons in valence band degeneration" under the supervision of Ulrich Schröder and Ulrich Rößler . From 1978 to 1980 he was a postdoctoral fellow with Joseph L. Birman at City College, City University in New York. In 1982 he completed his habilitation at the University of Regensburg with the thesis "The topology of non-uniform media in condensed matter physics". Several stays abroad supported by a Heisenberg grant followed . In 1985 he was appointed to the chair for theoretical and applied physics at the University of Stuttgart, where he was also the managing director of the institute of the same name (ITAP) until his retirement in 2012. In retirement he was invited as a visiting professor at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland (2015, 2016 and 2017) and at Tohoku University in Sendai (Japan, 2015).

Services

research

Up until his doctorate, Trebin dealt with electron theory in solids, first with the band structure of titanium carbide , then with pseudoparticles ( polarons and excitons ) in the semiconductor indium antimonide . During his postdoc, he researched the topological classification of defects in ordered media, mainly in liquid crystals . From 1985 he devoted his chair to the newly discovered material class of quasicrystals . Using analytical and numerical methods, he studied their atomistic structure, defects, elementary excitations such as phonons and phasons as well as behavior under mechanical stress and laser radiation . Trebin was coordinator of the DFG priority program 1031 "Quasicrystals: Structure and Physical Properties" from 1997 to 2003 and was co-chairman of the 7th International Conference on Quasicrystals in Stuttgart in 1999. In his group, the worldwide used molecular dynamics program IMD (ITAP- Molecular Dynamics). This happened within the framework of the DFG Collaborative Research Centers 382 “Computational Physics” and 716 “Dynamic Simulation of Systems with Large Numbers of Particles”. He headed the latter as speaker from 2008 to 2012. He supervised 92 diploma, state examination, bachelor and master theses as well as 44 dissertations.

voluntary work

After being appointed professor at the University of Stuttgart, Trebin was a member of the Faculty Council for Physics for almost thirty years and was dean and vice dean each for one term. He served two terms as representative of the professors in the university senate and one term in the university council .

From 1994 to 1997 Trebin was spokesman for the Association for Dynamics and Statistical Physics of the German Physical Society (DPG), and from 2006 to 2010 a member of the DPG board, responsible for scientific programs and awards. Since July 2013 he has been the company's ombudsman .

Publications

As editor

  • Quasicrystals: Structure and Physical Properties , Editor H.-R. Trebin, Wiley-VCH (2003)
  • Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Quasicrystals , Guest Editors F. Gähler, P. Kramer, H.-R. Trebin, K. Urban, Materials Science and Engineering A294-296 (2000)

Selected scientific articles

  •   MAPW band structure calculations for TiC with muffin-tin and angular dependent potentials , H.-R. Trebin, H. Bross: Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics 8, 1181 (1975)
  •   Exchange and polaron corrections for excitons in the degenerate-band case , U. Rössler, H.-R. Trebin: Physical Review B 23, 1961 (1981)  
  •   Quantum resonances in the valence bands of zinc-blende semiconductors. I. Theoretical aspects , H.-R. Trebin, U. Rössler, R. Ranvaud: Phys. Rev. B 20, 686 (1979)
  •   Excitons in cuprous oxide under uniaxial stress , H.-R. Trebin, HZ Cummins, JL Birman: Physical Review B 23, 597 (1981)
  •  The topology of non-uniform media in condensed matter physics , H.-R. Trebin, Advances in Physics 31, 195-254 (1982)
  •  Configurations in crystals, rod lattices, and lamellar systems , H.-R. Trebin: Physical Review Letters 50, 1381 (1983)
  •   Semidefects , R. Kutka, H.-R. Trebin: J. Physique Lettr. 45, 1119 (1984)
  •  An extension of the Landau-Ginzburg-de Gennes theory for liquid crystals , L. Longa, D. Monselesan, H.-R. Trebin: Liquid Crystals 2, 769 (1987)
  •  Fine structure of point defects and soliton decay in nematic liquid crystals , E. Penzenstadler, H.-R. Trebin: Journal de Physique 50, 1027 (1989)
  •  Defects in liquid crystals and cosmology , H.-R. Trebin: Liquid Crystals 24, 127 (1998)
  •  IMD: a software package for molecular dynamics studies on parallel computers , J. Stadler, R. Mikulla, H.-R. Trebin: International Journal of Modern Physics C 8, 1131 (1997)
  •  A molecular dynamics run with 5 180 116 000 particles , J. Roth, F. Gaehler, H.-R. Trebin: International Journal of Modern Physics C 11, 317 (2000)
  •  Disclinations in quasicrystals , J. Bohsung, H.-R. Trebin: Physical Review Letters 58, 1204 (1987)
  • Crack propagation in quasicrystals , R. Mikulla, J. Stadler, F. Krul, H.-R. Trebin, P. Gumbsch: Physical Review Letters 81, 3163 (1998)
  •  Self-assembly of monatomic complex crystals and quasicrystals with a double-well interaction potential , M. Engel, H.-R. Trebin: Physical Review Letters 98, 225505 (2007)
  •  Confirmation often the random tiling hypothesis for a decagonal quasicrystal , A. Kiselev, M. Engel, H.-R. Trebin: Physical Review Letters 109, 225502 (2012)
  •   Atomistic modeling of flexoelectricity in periclase , A. Chatzopoulos, P. Beck, J. Roth, H.-R- Trebin: Physical Review B93, 024105 (2016)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DFG - GEPRIS - SPP 1031: Quasicrystals: Structure and physical properties. Retrieved May 3, 2020 .
  2. ^ Website for the ITAP Molecular Dynamics Program. Retrieved May 3, 2020 .
  3. ↑ DFG - GEPRIS - SFB 382: Methods and algorithms for simulating physical processes on high-performance computers. Retrieved May 3, 2020 .
  4. ↑ DFG - GEPRIS - SFB 716: Dynamic simulation of systems with large numbers of particles. Retrieved May 3, 2020 .
  5. ^ Control bodies of the German Physical Society. Retrieved May 3, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Trebin, Hans-Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt an der Waldnaab