Peter Hänggi (physicist)

Peter Hänggi (born November 29, 1950 in Bärschwil ) is a Swiss theoretical physicist . He is a professor at the University of Augsburg .

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Hänggi studied physics at the University of Basel with a diploma in 1974 and a doctorate in 1977. He was a post-doctoral student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , at the University of Stuttgart (visiting professorship 1978/79) and at the University of California, San Diego . In 1980 he became Assistant Professor and 1983 Associate Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University . He has been a professor in Augsburg since 1986.

He deals with statistical mechanics and thermodynamics with applications, for example, to classical and quantum ratchets or Brownian motors (modern versions of Maxwell's demon ) and stochastic resonance to amplify weak signals / information. He also dealt with nonlinear dynamics, granular matter, path integrals and quantum tunneling, Coherent Destruction of Tunneling (CDT), transport theory, relativistic thermodynamics and Brownian motion, quantum thermodynamics and fluctuation theorems (taking into account quantum mechanical measurement processes), microfluidics, stochastic processes Biophysics and molecular electronics.

Among other things, he was visiting professor at the Weizmann Institute and the Autonomous University of Madrid and in 1998 a fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in Kyoto. In 2001 he became an external member of the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPI-PKS) in Dresden. In 2003 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , in 2005 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , 2010 member of Academia Europaea , 2014 member of the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC) and in 2015 he was elected as a foreign honorary member of the Academiei Române.

In 1988 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society and in 1999 a Fellow of the Institute of Physics . He has ten honorary doctorates (Universitat Barcelona, Katowice, Camerino, Kazan, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Humboldt University Berlin, Universdidad Sevilla, Bogoljubow Institute Kiev, Lobachevsky University Nizhny Novgorod) and also Honorary Professor at Huaqiao University, Xiamen , China. In 2010 he received the Lindhard Lectureship Prize, in 2011 the Lars Onsager Lecture and the Onsager Medal, in 2014 the Distinguished Scientist Award and Medal from Ben-Gurion University, in 2018 the Blaise Pascal Medal and in 2019 the Marian Smoluchowski Emil Warburg Prize .

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with R. Bartussek Brownsche Motoren: How Brownian Movement Becomes Macroscopic Transport , Physikalische Blätter 51/6, 506-507 (1995), online

with T. Dittrich Tunneln mit Antrieb , Physikalische Blätter, Volume 51, 1995, No. 10, online

with Peter Jung Stochastic Resonance: A New Method to Amplify Weak Noisy Signals , Physikalische Blätter, 47, 1991, No. 11, Online

with Peter Jung Amplification of Small Signals via Stochastic Resonance , Phys. Rev. A 44, 1991, 8032-8042

with F. Grossmann, T. Dittrich, P. Jung Coherent Destruction of Tunneling , Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 1991, 516-519

with P. Reimann, R. Grifoni Quantum Ratchets , Phys. Rev. Lett., 79, 1997, 10-13

with Peter Talkner, M. Borkovec Reaction Rate Theory: Fifty Years After Kramers , Rev. Mod. Phys. 62, 1990, 251-342

with Luca Gammaitoni, Peter Jung, Fabio Marchesoni Stochastic Resonance , Rev. Mod. Phys., 70, 1998, 223-288

with Milena Grifoni Driven Quantum Tunneling , Physics Reports 304, 1998, 229-354

with Fabio Marchesoni, Artificial Brownian motors: Controlling transport on the nanoscale , Rev. Mod. Phys. 81, 2009, 387-442

with Michele Campisi, Peter Talkner Colloquium: Quantum fluctuation relations: Foundations and applications , Rev. Mod. Phys. 83, 2011, 771-791

with N. Li, J. Ren, L. Wang, G. Zhang, BW Li, Colloquium: Phononics: Manipulating heat flow with electronic analogs and beyond , Rev. Mod. Phys. 84, 2012, 1045-1066

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personal data
SURNAME	Hanggi, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 29, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bärschwil