Peter Hänggi
University of Augsburg
Peter Hänggi 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. 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.
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Peter Hänggi 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. 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.
Affiliation
University of Augsburg
Top Publications
- Reaction-rate theory: fifty years after Kramers (1990) - 6,205 citations
- Stochastic resonance (1998) - 5,402 citations
- Driven quantum tunneling (1998) - 1,602 citations
- Artificial Brownian motors: Controlling transport on the nanoscale (2009) - 1,584 citations
- Colloquium : Phononics: Manipulating heat flow with electronic analogs and beyond (2012) - 1,360 citations
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- Full name
- Peter Hänggi
- ORCID
- 0000-0001-6679-2563
- OpenAlex ID
- https://openalex.org/A5058886467
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- Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, stochastic dynamics and bifurcation, Statistical Mechanics and Entropy, Quantum and electron transport phenomena, Quantum Mechanics and Applications
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- Reaction-rate theory: fifty years after Kramers ↗1990 · Reviews of Modern Physics6,205OpenAlex citations
- Stochastic resonance ↗1998 · Reviews of Modern Physics5,402OpenAlex citations
- Driven quantum tunneling ↗1998 · Physics Reports1,602OpenAlex citations
- Artificial Brownian motors: Controlling transport on the nanoscale ↗2009 · Reviews of Modern Physics1,584OpenAlex citations
- Colloquium : Phononics: Manipulating heat flow with electronic analogs and beyond ↗2012 · Reviews of Modern Physics1,360OpenAlex citations
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- Reaction-rate theory: fifty years after Kramers ↗1990 · Reviews of Modern Physics
- Stochastic resonance ↗1998 · Reviews of Modern Physics
- Driven quantum tunneling ↗1998 · Physics Reports
- Artificial Brownian motors: Controlling transport on the nanoscale ↗2009 · Reviews of Modern Physics
- Colloquium : Phononics: Manipulating heat flow with electronic analogs and beyond ↗2012 · Reviews of Modern Physics
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