Martin Lüscher (physicist)

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Martin Lüscher (born August 3, 1949 in Bern ) is a Swiss theoretical physicist who mainly deals with numerical quantum chromodynamics ( lattice theory ).

Life

Lüscher studied at the University of Bern and the University of Hamburg , where he received his doctorate . From the 1970s he worked at DESY in Hamburg and was Professor of Theoretical Physics in Hamburg. He has been at CERN since 1999 . Lüscher is one of the driving forces behind the development of “quantum chromodynamics on the grid”. Among other things, in 1991 with Peter Weisz and Ulrich Wolff he found a new recursive procedure that avoids large grids and enables studies on many length scales (Non Perturbative Renormalization Group). In the 1980s, he developed with Weisz "improved actions" for lattice law theories (in which a large number of lattice variants of the continuum effects are used) that have better convergence properties in the continuum limit.

In 2000 he received the Max Planck Medal of the German Physical Society and in 2004 the Heinrich Greinacher Prize of the University of Bern.

Fonts

  • From the pions to the fundamental parameters of QCD. In: Physikalische Blätter , No. 7/8, 2000 (speech on the award of the Planck Prize).
  • Chiral gauge theories revisited . Erice Lectures, 2000, arxiv : hep-th / 0102028 .
  • A Portable High-Quality Random Number Generator for Lattice Field Theory Simulations . 1993, arxiv : hep-lat / 9309020 .
  • Advanced Lattice QCD. Les Houches Lectures, 1997, arxiv : hep-lat / 9802029 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Physics Prizes 2000 (PDF; 2.12 MB) on onlinelibrary.wiley.com
  2. ^ Martin Lüscher: Theoretical Advances in Lattice QCD . 1997, arxiv : hep-ph / 9711205 .
  3. ↑ Laureate of the Professor Heinrich Greinacher Foundation ( Memento of the original from November 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.phinst.unibe.ch
personal data
SURNAME Lüscher, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss theoretical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern