Kyozi Kawasaki

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kyozi Kawasaki ( Japanese 川 崎 恭 治 , Kawasaki Kyōji ; born August 4, 1930 in Ōtsu , Shiga Prefecture ) is a Japanese theoretical physicist who deals with statistical mechanics and solid-state theory.

Life

Kawasaki studied at Kyushu University (bachelor's degree in 1953, master's degree in 1955) and received his doctorate in 1959 from Duke University . As a post-doctoral student he was at Kyushu University and from 1960 to 1962 at Kyōto University . In 1962 he was an instructor at Nagoya University before joining MIT in 1963 . From 1966 he was an associate professor at Kyushu University and from 1970 at Temple University , where he became a professor in 1972. From 1973 he was a professor at the University of Kyoto and from 1976 at the University of Kyushu. From 2001 until his retirement in 2007 he was Professor of Physics at Chūbu University . In 2001/02 he was Ulam Scholar at Los Alamos National Laboratory . From 2008 he was at the Electronics Research Laboratory of Fukuoka University of Technology .

In 2001, Kawasaki and Bernie Alder received the Boltzmann Medal, especially for his theory of coupled modes (mode coupling theory, MCT) to study the dynamics of liquids, the transport of which near critical points (phase transitions) is determined by the nonlinear interactions of long-wave modes. It is based on the Mori-Twenty formalism, in which "slow variables" are identified and kinetic equations in the form of generalized Langevin equations (with a memory term , memory function, as a convolution integral) are derived for them or their temporal correlation function.

In 1972 he received the Nishina Prize and in 1992 the Humboldt Prize.

literature

  • Kyozi Kawasaki - Biographical Sketch , Physica A, Vol. 204, 1994, pp. 800-801.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Report to the 2002 General Assembly for 1999-2002 Berlin, Germany October 7-12, 2002. IUPAP (English, report on conference including awarding of the medal). ;
  2. ↑ Kawasaki Correlation function approach to transport coefficients near the critical point , Physical Review Vol. 150, 1966, p. 291, Kinetic equations and time correlation functions of critical fluctuations , Annals of Physics, Vol. 61, 1970, p. 1, with Takao Ohta Mode coupling theory of dynamic critical phenomena for classical liquids 1 , Progress theoretical physics, Vol. 55, 1976, p. 1384.
  3. ↑ Shown e.g. B. in Yves Pomeau, Pierre Resibois Time dependent correlation functions and mode-mode coupling theories , Physics Reports C, Vol. 19, Issue 2, 1975, pp. 63-139, Dieter Forster Hydrodynamic fluctuations, broken symmetry and correlation functions , Benjamin , Frontiers in Physics, 1975, Jean-Louis Barrat, Jean-Pierre Hansen Basic concepts for simple and complex liquids , Cambridge University Press 2003, Kurt Binder, Walter Kob Glassy materials and disordered solids , World Scientific 2005 (to the glass transition).
  4. ↑ Verbatim in the laudation for the Boltzmann Prize: For his contribution to our understanding of dynamical phenomena in condensed matter systems, in particular the mode-coupling theory of fluids near criticality, and nonlinear problems, such as critical phenomena in sheared fluids and phase separations .
personal data
SURNAME Kawasaki, Kyozi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 川 崎 恭 治 (Japanese); Kawasaki Kyōji (Hepburn Romanization)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese theoretical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Ōtsu , Shiga Prefecture