Peter Wölfle

Peter Wölfle (born March 24, 1942 ) is a German theoretical solid-state physicist and university professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

Life

Wölfle studied physics at the Technical University of Munich from 1961 and received his doctorate in 1969 under Wilhelm Brenig in Munich with a dissertation on quantum transport in many-particle systems. From 1968 he was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, interrupted by a time at Cornell University (1971 to 1973). In 1974 he completed his habilitation in Munich on the theory of quantum transport in superfluid helium 3. He became professor at the Technical University of Munich in 1975 (and was there from 1976 to 1980 managing director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics). From 1986 to 1989 he was a full professor of physics at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, USA. In 1988 he became a professor at the University of Karlsruhe and from 1990 headed the Institute for Theory of Condensed Matter. From 1998 he also headed a working group at the Institute for Nanotechnology at the Karlsruhe Research Center, of which he has been a scientific member since 2000. From 1994 to 1996 he was Dean of the Physics Faculty and from 1997 to 2004 a member of the Senate of the University of Karlsruhe. In 2010 he retired.

Among other things, he was visiting scholar at Cornell University Ithaca, NY , the University of Helsinki , the University of California , Santa Barbara , Princeton University , the Weizmann Institute of Science , Rechovot , Israel (where he chaired the Advisory Board of the Albert from 1998 to 2004 -Einstein Center for Theoretical Physics), Bell Laboratories , Murray Hill , University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Los Alamos National Laboratory .

His doctoral students and / or postdocs include Dieter Vollhardt , Thilo Kopp , Johann Kroha , Achim Rosch , Michael Pfitzner , Dietrich Einzel , Raymond Frésard , Jens Paaske .

research

In the 1970s, he dealt with the transport properties and collective excitations of superfluid helium 3 and its phases. Other focal points of his research were Anderson localization and quantum interference effects of transport in disordered systems (electrons, classical waves), strongly correlated electron systems (quantum interference, Hubbard models, systems of heavy fermions), the quantum hall effect, superconductivity, mesoscopic systems, and quantum-critical phenomena.

Awards

In 2013 he received the Gentner-Kastler Prize in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the theory of systems of condensed matter, in particular for superfluids and superconductors, disordered electron systems and transport in nanostructures . He also received the Humboldt Research Prize in 2000 , the Max Planck Research Prize and, in 1975, the Physics Prize of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . He has been a Fellow of the Institute of Physics since 1999, a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences since 2004 and also in 2004 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 2014 he was awarded the Simon Memorial Prize of the Institute of Physics, London, UK, "For fundamental contributions to the theory of quantum transport processes in superfluid3 He, heavy fermion superconductors and disordered metals".

Others

From 1993 to 2001 he was co-editor of the Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 1998 to 2002 of Journal of Physics C (Condensed Matter), 2001 to 2006 he was on the editorial board of Physical Review Letters and 1998 to 2012 he was co-editor of Springer Tracts in Modern Physics .

Fonts (selection)

• Sound propagation and kinetic coefficients in superfluid Helium 3, in DF Brewer (Ed.), Progress in Low Temperature Physics, Volume 7, North Holland (1978)
• Collective modes and transport properties of superfluid Helium 3, in T. Sugaware, Physics at Ultralow Temperatures, Tokyo (1978)
• The Quantum Liquids Helium 3 and Helium 4, Solid Body Problems 25, Vieweg, 106-119 (1985)
• Collective modes in superfluid He 3, McGraw Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology, 411-418 (1986)
• with Dieter Vollhardt: Self consistent diagrammatic theory of Anderson localization, in Y. Nagaoca, H. Fukuyama (Ed.), Anderson localization, Springer Series in Solid State Science, Volume 39, (1982)
• with H. v. Loehneysen, A. Rosch, M. Vojta: Fermi liquid instabilities at magnetic quantum phase transitions, Reviews of Modern Physics 79, 1015-1075, (2007)
• with Dieter Vollhardt: The superfluid phases of Helium 3, Taylor and Francis 1990; reprinted by Dover publications 2013.

Web links

• Peter Wölfle on the KIT website

Individual evidence

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