Research Team 'Condensed Matter Physics and Computing'

The research team was founded in April 1996. We are doing (mainly, but not exclusively, computer assisted) research on many-body systems in Condensed Matter Physics and Statistical Physics, dealing with a wide range of interesting bulk and surface properties of crystals.

PRESENT members:

Mukul S. Laad Postdoc
  • Pnictides, Mott transition
David Peters  Dipl.- Phys.; PhD candidate
  • Heisenberg antiferromagnets; DMRG and quantum Monte Carlo
Walter Selke Prof

FORMER members (with the following profession):

Georg Bannasch  Diploma student, 2007/8 (PhD candidate at MPI für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden)
  • spin-flop and related structures in magnets
Maximilian Bisani Diploma student, 1998 (PhD candidate at RWTH Aachen, Informatik VI)
  • random walks and step motions
Alexei Brener Diploma student, 2009/10 (Systems analyst at Thinking Networks, Aachen)
  • Interfacial adsorption
Daniel Catrein Diploma student, 2000 (PhD candidate at RWTH Aachen, Stochastik)
  • ANNNI model in thin films
Thanh-Chung Dinh Wilhelm Macke scholar, 2009 (Diploma student in Linz)
  • Anisotropic Heisenberg antiferromagnets
Sven Fischer Diploma student, 1998/9 (Software engineer at Deuta Werke, Bergisch-Gladbach)
  • subdiffusive step dynamics
Johannes Hager Postdoc, 1999-2001 (Postdoc at University of Maryland)
  • polymers and proteins
Martin Holtschneider  Diploma student, 2003/2004; PhD candidate, 2004/7 (Staff member at freiheit.com technologies gmbh)
  • anisotropic Heisenberg antiferromagnets (classical and quantum)
Jan Klärs  Diploma student, 2005/6 (PhD candidate at University of Tübingen, quantum optics)
  • preroughening at crystal surfaces
Markus Klöckner Staatsexamenskandidat, 1999 (Studienreferendar in Krefeld)
  • computer simulations in high school (Leistungskurs)
Karsten Kühn Diploma student (Fraunhofer-ISE in Freiburg), 2002/3 (scientific assistant at ISE)
  • PEM fuel cells
Reinhard Leidl Postdoc, 2002-2006 (Postdoc at Simon Fraser University, Canada)
  • surface criticality, anisotropic Heisenberg antiferromagnets
Sven Lübeck Postdoc, 2006 (Studienreferendar in Esslingen)
  • nonequilibrium phase transitions, driven dissipative systems
Thorsten Müller Diploma student, 1997/8 (PhD candidate at FZ Jülich, Reaktorbau)
  • diffusion and stability of clusters on crystal surfaces
Michel Pleimling Postdoc, 1996-1999 (C1-Hochschulassistent at Universität Erlangen). Now: Professor at Virginia Tech
  • spatially modulated structures
  • critical phenomena at surfaces, edges, and corners
  • metamagnets
Andre Stebens Diploma student, 1997/8 (PhD candidate at University of Duisburg, physics of transport and traffic)
  • step fluctuations on Ag(110) surface
Ferenc Szalma (DFG)/DAAD (post)/doctoral fellow, 1997-2001 (Postdoc at Szeged University, Hungary)
  • dilute Ising models
  • wetting in Potts models
  • step dynamics

Selected other coauthors since 1998:

Bernd Büchner  Prof, IFW and TU Dresden
  • experiments: magnets with coupling of spin and charge
Enrico Carlon  Prof, Leuven
  • interfacial adsorption in Potts models
Ming-Chiang Chung  Postdoc, FU Berlin
  • density-matrix renormalization group
Cesur Ekiz Prof, Aydin (Turkey)
  • Ferrimagnets
Ferenc Igloi  Prof, Budapest (Hungary)
  • boundary effects in Potts and Ising models
Rüdiger Klingeler  Prof, University of Heidelberg
  • experiments: magnets with coupling of spin and charge
Peter Lajko  Prof, Kuwait University
  • surface criticality of dilute 2d magnet
Jaan Oitmaa  Emeritus Professor, U. of New South Wales
  • ferrimagnets
Ian McCulloch  Senior Lecturer, U. of Queensland
  • S=1 spin chains
Ingo Peschel Prof, FU Berlin
  • surfaces with topological defects
Valery Pokrovsky Prof, Landau Institute and Texas A&M; Humboldt awardee
  • free fermion approach in Ising models
Lev Shchur Scientist and Prof., Landau Institute
  • site diluted magnets
Stefan Wessel Prof., RWTH Aachen University
  • quantum Monte Carlo simulations

List of PUBLICATIONS of our research group

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Last modified: Mon Apr 23 17:38:52 CEST 2012 by
Walter Selke