Martin Holthaus
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Prof. Dr. Martin Holthaus
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Martin Holthaus
Short Biography
Martin Holthaus has studied Physics and Mathematics at the Universities of Münster and Bonn, where he received his Ph.D. in 1990. After one more year as postdoc in Bonn he spent two years as Feodor Lynen fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of California Santa Barbara. He then moved to the University of Marburg in 1993, working as assistant to Professor Siegfried Großmann, and completed his Habilitation there in 1996. In 1999 he changed to the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, first as substitute professor at the chair of Professor Herbert Wagner, then as Heisenberg fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
Since 2000 he is full professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Oldenburg.
Research
During his scientific career, Martin Holthaus has worked on diverse topics such as
- adiabatic-diabatic following of Floquet states,
- semiclassical analysis of periodically driven quantum systems,
- quantum dynamics in periodically modulated lattice potentials,
- energy dissipation in turbulent shear flow,
- Bose-Einstein condensation,
- near-field heat transfer,
- metal-insulator transition in the Bose-Hubbard model,
- periodically driven many-body quantum systems, and
- periodic thermodynamics.
Hallmarks of his work are his manifold contributions to the foundation and various applications of the Floquet approach to quantum systems which are subjected to an external time-periodic or almost time-periodic driving force, now spanning more than three decades.
Web of Science ResearcherID: B-3655-2012
ORCID Number: 0000-0002-4676-4896
Institutional and Editorial Responsibilities
Martin Holthaus has taken on several administrative duties and responsibilities, and accomplished a number of services to the scientific community. Among others, he acted as dean of the School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Oldenburg (2011-2013) and as the university's vice-president for research (2013-2015). He also was editor-in-chief of the tradition-honored Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A - A Journal of Physical Sciences (2015-2023).
Publications
Selected Publications prior to 2000
- H.P. Breuer, M. Holthaus:
Adiabatic processes in the ionization of highly excited hydrogen atoms
Z. Phys. D 11, 1-14 (1989). - H.P. Breuer, M. Holthaus:
A semiclassical theory of quasienergies and Floquet wave functions
Ann. Phys. (N.Y.) 211, 249-291 (1991). - M. Holthaus:
Pulse-shape-controlled tunneling in a laser field
Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1596-1599 (1992). - M. Holthaus:
Collapse of minibands in far-infrared irradiated superlattices
Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 351-354 (1992). - M. Holthaus, M.E. Flatté:
Subharmonic generation in quantum systems
Phys. Lett. A 187, 151-156 (1994). - M. Holthaus, G.H. Ristow, D.W. Hone:
ac-field-controlled Anderson localization in disordered semiconductor superlattices
Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3914-3917 (1995). - K. Drese, M. Holthaus:
Exploring a metal-insulator transition with ultracold atoms in standing light waves?
Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 2932-2935 (1997). - S. Grossmann, M. Holthaus:
Fluctuations of the particle number in a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate
Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 3557-3560 (1997). - R. Nicodemus, S. Grossmann, M. Holthaus:
Variational bound on energy dissipation in turbulent shear flow
Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4170-4173 (1997). - K. Drese, M. Holthaus:
Floquet theory for short laser pulses
Eur. Phys. J. D 5, 119-134 (1999).
Full list of publications prior to 2000