Hans-Arwed Weidenmüller

Hans- Arwed Weidenmüller ( born July 26, 1933, Dresden ) is a German theoretical physicist who is primarily concerned with nuclear physics.

Life and work

Weidenmüller studied in Bonn and from 1956 to 1957 in Heidelberg with J. Hans D. Jensen, in which he talks about stripping reactions doctorate (Journal of Physics Bd.150, 1958, 389), in which the core projectile nucleons in the target nucleus loses. He was from 1963 Professor of Theoretical Physics in Heidelberg. From 1968 he also worked at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, from 1972 until his retirement in 2001 as a director.

Weidenmüller is mainly known for his work in the theory of nuclear reactions. He studied nuclear reactions in the shell model with the inclusion of continuum states and developed a microscopic statistical theory of nuclear reactions, which had as transport theory applications to the interpretation of collision experiments with heavy ions as well as on highly excited compound nuclei. He also investigated chaotic dynamics in atomic nuclei and nuclear reactions (as well as Bose -Einstein condensates ) using the method of random matrices.

Awards and prizes

Weidenmüller an honorary doctorate from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot in Israel ( 1991) and member of the Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina ( since 1997) and the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences.

Literature (selection )

  • Mang, Weidenmüller ". Shell model theory of the nucleus" Annual Review Nuclear Physics Bd.18, 1968, pp. 1-26
  • Weidenmüller, Claude Mahaux: "Shell model approach to nuclear reactions. " North Holland, 1969
  • Weidenmüller, Wolfgang Nörenberg: "Introduction to the theory of heavy ion collisions. " Springer 1976, Lecture Notes in Physics
  • Weidenmüller: "Transport theories of heavy ion reactions. " Progress in Nuclear and Particle Physics, Vol.3, 1980, p.49
  • Verbaarschot, Weidenmüller, Zirnbauer ". Grassmann integration and stochastic quantum physics ," Physics Reports Bd.129, 1985, S.367 -438
  • Guhr, Müller- Groening, Weidenmüller: "Random matrix theories in quantum physics: common concepts. " Physics Reports, Bd.299, 1998, p.189 -425
  • Pape Brock, Weidenmüller: "Random matrices and chaos in nuclear spectra. " Reviews of Modern Physics, Bd.79, 2007, S.997
  • Weidenmüller: "Chaos in atomic nuclei. " Physik Journal March 2004
  • Weidenmüller, Zhang: " Nuclear fission viewed as a diffusion process: case of very large friction. " Physical Review C, vol 29, 1984, S.879
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