Dieter Vollhardt

Dieter Vollhardt's Academic­Influence.com Rankings

Dieter Vollhardt

Physics

#2214

World Rank

#3317

Historical Rank

physics Degrees

Download Badge

• Physics

Dieter Vollhardt's Degrees

• PhD Physics University of California, Santa Barbara

Why Is Dieter Vollhardt Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Dieter Vollhardt is a German physicist and Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Augsburg. Scientific work Vollhardt is one of the founders of the Dynamical Mean-Field Theory for strongly correlated materials such as transition metals and their oxides, i.e. materials with electrons in open d- and f-shells. The properties of these systems are determined by the Coulomb repulsion between the electrons which makes these electrons strongly correlated. The repulsion has the tendency to localize electrons. This leads to a multitude of phenomena such as the Mott-Hubbard metal insulator transition. Conventional band theory or density functional theory cannot describe these systems adequately. In 1989 Vollhardt and his doctoral student Walter Metzner introduced electronic models with local interaction on a lattice with infinitely many nearest neighbors, which Gabriel Kotliar and Antoine Georges then developed into the DMFT. The DMFT may be viewed as a self-consistent, field-theoretical generalization of a quantum impurity model by Philip W. Anderson, where the mean-field describes the coupling of the impurity to an "electronic bath".

Dieter Vollhardt's Published Works

This paper list is powered by the following services:

Other Resources About Dieter Vollhardt

• en.wikipedia.org

What Schools Are Affiliated With Dieter Vollhardt?

Dieter Vollhardt is affiliated with the following schools:

• University of Augsburg
• University of California, Santa Barbara
• University of Hamburg
• RWTH Aachen University