Volker Heine

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Volker Heine (born September 19, 1930 in Hamburg ) is a British-New Zealand physicist .

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Volker Heine is known for his pioneering theoretical and computer-aided investigations of the electronic structure of solids and liquids and the resulting analyzes of the physical properties.

biography

Volker Heine attended the Wanganui Collegiate School and studied at the University of Otago ( New Zealand ). From 1954 to 1956 he worked as a Shell Fellow in Sir Nevill Francis Mott's group in Cambridge on his dissertation. In the following years he received a fellowship at Clare College and became a member of the new theory group of the Cavendish Laboratory . He stayed in Cambridge for almost his entire scientific career, spending only a year (1956–1957) as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at Berkeley and several sabaticals and research stays in the USA. In 1976 he took over the leadership of the "Theory of Condensed Matter" working group. He held this position until his retirement in 1997.

Volker Heine has always been extremely active in shaping the international scientific landscape, particularly in the field of atomistic, electronic computer simulations. He initiated Psi-k, a network of scientists from all over the world who deal with the further development of computer-aided materials science based on first principles. Later he took over the management of the network. Psi-k's mission is to develop fundamental theories, algorithms and software programs with the aim of understanding and predicting material properties and designing materials with desired properties. Psi-k supports the organization of conferences, workshops, tutorials and further education schools and participates in communicating scientific thinking to society.

Volker Heine was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (1974) and the American Physical Society (1987). In 1972 he received the Maxwell Medal and Prize and in 1993 the Royal Medal of the Royal Society (London). He was awarded the Dirac Medal of the Institute of Physics (1994) and the Max Born Prize (2001). He was visiting professor at several universities all over the world and an external scientific member at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart.

In 2010 he founded the Psi-k Young Investigator Award , which has been presented as the Psi-k Volker Heine Young Investigator Award since 2015 .

research

Volker Heine's research is mainly concerned with understanding (a) the behavior of materials through electronic structure calculations, (b) the origin of incommensurably modulated materials and (c) the structure and properties of minerals from an atomic point of view. His research focus was on electronic structure theory and, above all, the development of several fundamental concepts for solid state physics. His groundbreaking work on pseudopotentials forms a basis for most of the current electronic structure and total energy calculations (especially for semiconductors and so-called "sp-bonded metals"). He also developed the basic description of electron-phonon coupling and much of our understanding of structure and atomic relaxations on surfaces was established by Heine. Furthermore, his groundbreaking research on the complex band structure and his seminal contributions to the theory of surface states provide the basis for the description of the electronic properties of solids and interfaces. These include the concept of metal-induced band gap states on metal-semiconductor heterostructures and the understanding of Schottky junctions. His important contributions include the formulation of a recursion method for electronic structure studies, a theory of incommensurable structures of polytypes of silicon carbide, and a model for incommensurable and framework structures of minerals. He studied magnetic properties of solids, various aspects of crystal phase transitions, thermal expansion and much more. Volker Heine has published more than 200 scientific papers, several invited review articles and a textbook.

Fonts

  • Group theory in quantum mechanics . Dover 2007
  • with Marvin Cohen , James C. Phillips : Quantum mechanics of materials . In: Scientific American . Volume 246, June 82, pp. 82ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of TCM
  2. ↑ http://psi-k.net/
  3. ↑ Angel Rubio, Risto Nieminen, Volker Heine: An issue dedicated to the Ψk Volker Heine Young Investigator Award . In: Eur. Phys. J. B . tape 89 , 2016, p. 240 , doi : 10.1140 / epjb / e2016-70537-0 .
  4. ↑ “The Pseudopotential Concept”, V. Heine, pp. 1–36; "The Fitting of Pseudopotentials to Experimental Data and Their Subsequent Application", ML Cohen, V. Heine, pages 37-248; "Pseudopotential Theory of Cohesion and Structure", V. Heine, D. Weaire, pp. 249-463, in "Solid State Physics", Academic Press, Volume 24 (1970), pp. 1-463, Ed .: Henry Ehrenreich , Frederick Seitz, and David Turnbull
  5. ↑ "Optimized and transferable nonlocal separable ab initio pseudo potentials", JS Lin, A. Qteish, MC Payne, V. Heine, Phys. Rev. B 47, 4174 (1993)
  6. ↑ "s − d Interaction in Transition Metals", V. Heine, Phys. Rev. 153, 673 (1967)
  7. ^ A b “Theory of lattice contraction at aluminum surfaces”, MW Finnis, V. Heine, J. Phys. Q: Met. Phys. 4, L37 (1974)
  8. ^ "Theory of the temperature dependence of electronic band structures", PB Allen, V. Heine, J. Phys. C: Solid State Phys. 9, 2305 (1976)
  9. ↑ "A new method for the electronic structure of metals", V. Heine, I. Abarenkov, Phil. Mag. 9, 451 (1964)
  10. ^ A b "Electronic structure based on the local atomic environment for tight-binding bands" R. Haydock, V. Heine, MJ Kelly, J. Phys. C: Solid State Phys. 5: 2845 (1972); "Electronic structure based on the local atomic environment for tight-binding bands. II ", R. Haydock, V. Heine, MJ Kelly, J. Phys. C: Solid State Phys. 8, 2591 (1975)
  11. ↑ "The screened model potential for 25 Elements", AOE Animalu, V. Heine Philosophical Magazine, 12 (120), 1249-1270 (1965)
  12. ^ "Theory of Surface States", V. Heine, Phys. Rev. 138, A1689 (1965)
  13. ↑ "Inter-layer interactions and the origin of SiC polytypes", C. Cheng, RJ Needs, V. Heine, Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics 21, 1049 (1988)
  14. ↑ "Polarization, band lineups, and stability of SiC polytypes", A. Qteish, V. Heine, RJ Needs, Phys. Rev. B 45, 6534 (1992)
  15. ↑ "The preference of silicon carbide for growth in the metastable cubic form", V. Heine, C. Cheng, RJ Needs, J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 74, 2630-33 (1991)
  16. ↑ "The origin of incommensurate structures in insulators", V. Heine, JDC McConnell, J. Phys. C: Solid State Phys. 17, 1199 (1984)
  17. ^ "Incommensurate structure and stability of mullite" J. Desmond, C. McConnell, V. Heine, Phys. Rev. B 31, 6140 (R) (1985)
  18. ↑ “Spin density wave and soft phonon mode from nesting Fermi surfaces”, S.-K. Chan, V. Heine, J. Phys. Q: Met. Phys. 3, 795 (1973)
  19. ↑ "Effect of electron-hole pairs on phonon frequencies in Si related to temperature dependence of band gaps", V. Heine, JA Van Vechten, Phys. Rev. B 13, 1622 (1976)
  20. ^ "Magnetic, chemical and structural ordering in transition metals", V. Heine, JH Samson, J. Phys. Q: Met. Phys. 13, 2155 (1983)
  21. ^ "Magnetism in transition metals at finite temperatures. I. Computational model", MV You, V. Heine, J. Phys. Q: Met. Phys. 12, 177 (1982)
  22. ^ "The theory of fluctuations and texture embryos in structural phase transitions mediated by strain", AM Bratkovsky, SC Marais, V. Heine, EKH Salje, J. Phys .: Condens. Matter 6, 3679 (1994)
  23. ↑ "Rigid-unit phonon modes and structural phase transitions in framework silicates," KD Hammond, MT Dove, AP Giddy, V. Heine, B. Winkler, Am. Mineral. 81, 1057 (1996)
  24. ^ "Origin of the negative thermal expansion in ZrW 2 O 8 and ZrV 2 O 7 ", AKA Pryde, KD Hammonds, MT Dove, V. Heine, JD Gale, MC Warren, J. Phys .: Condens. Matter 8, 10973 (1996)
  25. ↑ “Group theory in quantum mechanics: an introduction to its present usage”, V. Heine, 2007, Courier Corporation
personal data
SURNAME Heine, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-New Zealand physicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg