Thomas Pruschke

Thomas Pruschke (born April 23, 1959 in Berlin ; † January 12, 2016 in Göttingen ) was a German physicist , solid-state physicist and university professor .

Life

After the Youth in Rüsselsheim am Main studied Pruschke after high school physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt with diploma in 1985. He stayed there, married in 1985 Iranistin Anke Joisten and manufactured at Norbert Grewe his dissertation model study of the particle properties of highly correlated electron systems at with which he in 1989 graduated has been. He then went to Hiroyuki Shiba at the Tokyo Institute of Technology on a grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation . From 1992–1993 he worked as a visiting scientist with Daniel Cox at Ohio State University in Columbus (Ohio) , where he and Mark Jarrell carried out the first investigations into the Hubbard model in infinite spatial dimensions . (The first review article by Pruschke, Jarrell and Jim Freericks appeared on this in 1995.) With the knowledge gained, he was able to explain the unusual transport properties of high-temperature superconductors in the normally conducting phase.

Pruschke returned to Germany and worked as a research assistant to Joachim Keller at the University of Regensburg , where he completed his habilitation in 1996 with his work on dynamic mean field theory . In 2001 he switched to Dieter Vollhardt at the University of Augsburg . In 2003 he followed a call to the University of Göttingen as professor for computational physics . In 2008 he published together with Ralf Bulla and Theo A. Costi to become the standard items essay on the numerical Renormierungsgruppenmethode for quantum - impurities . 2010–2012 Pruschke was a member of the DFG research group Dynamic Molecular Field Access with predictive power for strongly correlated electronic materials with the speakers Dieter Vollhardt and Alexander Lichtenstein .

While visiting a colleague at the University of Tōhoku in Sendai , Pruschke experienced the Tōhoku earthquake in 2011 . In the winter semester 2010/2011 he received the Robert Wichard Pohl Medal . Despite his serious illness, he worked until his death, so that his hospital room was the center of his work group.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary notice from the University of Göttingen (accessed on June 26, 2016).
2. ^ Family obituary notice (accessed on June 26, 2016).
3. ↑ Frithjof Anders, Stefan Kehrein, Dieter Vollhardt : Obituary for Thomas Pruschke . In: Physics Journal . tape 15 , no. 6 , 2016, p. 48 .
4. ↑ Seminar for Iranian Studies at the University of Göttingen: Dr. Anke Joisten-Pruschke (accessed June 26, 2016).
5. ↑ Pruschke, Jarrell, Freericks, Anomalous Normal State Properties of High-Tc Superconductors - Intrinsic Properties of Strongly Correlated Electron Systems?, Advances in Physics, Volume 44, 1995, p. 187
6. ↑ Bulla, Costi, Pruschke, Numerical renormalization group method for quantum impurity systems, Rev. Mod. Phys., Volume 80, 2008, p. 395
7. ↑ TU Clausthal : DFG research group examines materials of the future ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2016 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. (accessed June 26, 2016). 
8. ↑ Göttinger surprised by mega quakes in Sendai (accessed on June 26, 2016).
9. ↑ Mourning for Thomas Pruschke ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2016 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. (accessed June 26, 2016).