Walter Metzner
Walter Metzner (born July 21, 1961 in Munich ) is a German solid-state physicist who deals with the solution of quantum mechanical many-body problems, especially in the context of strongly correlated electrons in metals and superconductors.
Metzner studied physics at the Technical University of Munich from 1981 to 1987 and received his doctorate in 1989 from the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule in Aachen under Dieter Vollhardt (dissertation: Correlated Lattice Fermions in high dimensions). As a post-doctoral student he was with Carlo Di Castro and Claudio Castellani in Rome, and with Duncan Haldane at Princeton University . In 1995 he completed his habilitation at RWTH Aachen University (habilitation thesis: Normal Phases of Interacting Fermi Systems). In 1996 he became associate professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and in 1998 full professor at RWTH Aachen University. Since 2001 he has been director at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart. There he heads the department for quantum mechanical many-body theory.
Together with Dieter Vollhardt, Metzner laid the foundations for the Dynamical Mean Field Theory (DMFT), a dynamic molecular field theory for strongly correlated electronic systems, which Antoine Georges and Gabriel Kotliar developed from their preliminary work . He is also instrumental in the development of functional renormalization group methods for correlated Fermi systems.
In 2006, Metzner and Antoine Georges , Gabriel Kotliar and Dieter Vollhardt received the Europhysics Prize of the European Physical Society for the development of the Dynamical Mean Field Theory. In 1991 he received the Physics Prize of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and in 1995 the Gustav Hertz Prize of the German Physical Society.
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- with D. Vollhardt: Ground-state properties of correlated fermions - exact analytic results for the Gutzwiller wave function, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 59, 1987, p. 121
- with D. Vollhardt: Correlated lattice fermions in d = infinity dimensions, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 62, 1989, p. 324
- with C. Halboth: Renormalization group analysis of the two-dimensional Hubbard model, Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 61, 2000, p. 7364
- with C. Halboth: d-wave superconductivity and Pomeranchuk instability in the two-dimensional Hubbard model, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 85, 2000, p. 5162
- with M. Salmhofer, C. Honerkamp, V. Meden, K. Schönhammer: Functional renormalization group approach to correlated fermion systems, Rev. Mod.Phys., Volume 84, 2012, p. 299
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| SURNAME | Metzner, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 21, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |