Peter Hänggi

Peter Hänggi (born November 29, 1950) is a theoretical physicist from Switzerland, Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Augsburg. He is best known for his original works on Brownian motion and the Brownian motor concept, stochastic resonance and dissipative systems (classical and quantum mechanical). Other topics include, driven quantum tunneling, such as the discovery of coherent destruction of tunneling (CDT), phononics, relativistic statistical mechanics and the foundations of classical and quantum thermodynamics.

Peter Hänggi
Born (1950-11-29) November 29, 1950
Bärschwil, Switzerland
NationalitySwiss
Alma materUniversity of Basel, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Known forStochastic resonance
Hänggi's law
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
Statistical physics
Dissipative systems
InstitutionsUniversity of Augsburg

Career

He studied physics and was awarded B.Sc (1972), M.Sc (1974) and Ph.D. (1977) at the University of Basel. [1]

He was a Postgraduate Research Associate at the University of California, San Diego (1979–80), Assistant Professor of Physics, Polytechnic Institute of New York, New York (1980–1983), Associate Professor, Polytechnic Institute of New York, New York (1983–1987) and full professor at the University of Augsburg (1986 to present).

His main research interest is in Theoretical Statistical Mechanics and Quantum mechanics.

Notable review papers
  • Reaction-rate theory: fifty years after Kramers[2]
  • Stochastic resonance[3]
  • Artificial Brownian motors: Controlling transport on the nanoscale[4]
  • Quantum fluctuation relations: Foundations and applications[5]
  • Phononics: Manipulating heat flow with electronic analogs and beyond[6]
  • Driven Quantum Tunnelling[7]

Hänggi's Law

The following statement is attributed as Hänggi's Law:

The more trivial your research, the more people will read it and agree.

It is labeled as a kind of Murphy's law and it was first seen in Arthur Bloch's work.[8] However, the attribute's relation to Professor Hänggi's research is not clear.

Corollaries:

  • The more vital your research, the fewer people will understand it.
  • You write a nontrivial paper and you likely will be the only one who will remember it.

Honors and awards

He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1988 "for distinguished contributions to nonlinear statistical physics and reaction rate theory and for elucidating the influence of non-Markovian memory effects and dissipative tunneling in equilibrium and non equilibrium systems".[9]

In 2003 was elected to membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, 2005 elected membership in American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, 2010 elected membership in the Academia Europaea (AE), 2014 elected membership in European Academy of Sciences (EURASC) and in 2015 elected foreign honorary membership in the Academiei Române.

References
  1. "Curriculum vitae-Peter Hänggi" (PDF). European Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
  2. Hänggi, Peter; Talkner, Peter; Borkovec, Michal (1990-04-01). "Reaction-rate theory: fifty years after Kramers". Reviews of Modern Physics. 62 (2): 251–341. Bibcode:1990RvMP...62..251H. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.62.251.
  3. Gammaitoni, Luca; Hänggi, Peter; Jung, Peter; Marchesoni, Fabio (1998-01-01). "Stochastic resonance". Reviews of Modern Physics. 70 (1): 223–287. Bibcode:1998RvMP...70..223G. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.70.223.
  4. Hänggi, Peter; Marchesoni, Fabio (2009-01-01). "Artificial Brownian motors: Controlling transport on the nanoscale". Reviews of Modern Physics. 83 (1): 387–442. arXiv:0807.1283. Bibcode:2009RvMP...81..387H. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.81.387. S2CID 16690300.
  5. Campisi, Michele; Hänggi, Peter; Talkner, Peter (2011-07-06). "Quantum fluctuation relations: Foundations and applications". Reviews of Modern Physics. 83 (3): 771–791. arXiv:1012.2268. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.83.771. S2CID 119200058.
  6. Li, Nianbei; Ren, Jie; Wang, Lei; Zhang, Gang; Hänggi, Peter; Li, Baowen (2012-07-17). "Phononics: Manipulating heat flow with electronic analogs and beyond". Reviews of Modern Physics. 84 (3): 1045–1066. arXiv:1108.6120. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.84.1045. S2CID 2244763.
  7. Grifoni, Milena; Hänggi, Peter (2008-10-01). "Driven Quantum Tunnelling". Physics Reports. 304 (5–6): 229–354. doi:10.1016/S0370-1573(98)00022-2.
  8. Bloch, Arthur (2003). Murphy's Law. Penguin. ISBN 9780399529306.
  9. "APS Fellow Archive". APS. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
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