Theory Group - Zillich

				Robert E. Zillich
office: P 207				tel.: (+43) 732 / 2468-8546 fax.: (+43) 732 / 2468-8585		email: robert.zillich

Life

since 2007: assistant professor

2004-2006: post-doc / researcher at the Fraunhofer ITWM , Kaiserslautern, Germany

2001-2004: post-doc (Miller Fellow) at the Department of Chemistry , University of California, Berkeley, USA

1997-2001: graduate studies here at ITP, PhD thesis "Atom Scattering off Superfluid He-4 Clusters and Films" (gzipped ps)

(curriculum vitae (pdf))

Teaching Activities

Computational Physics II (SS07;08;09)

Uebungen zu Theoretische Physik IV, V (SS07;08;09)

Seminar (WS07/08) and Lecture (WS09/10): Bose-Einstein Condensation and cold Fermi gases

Research Interests

Quantum Many-Body Theory:

development of microscopic many-body methods based on correlated basis function theory, and application to strongly correlated systems, e.g. superfluid Helium, Bose-Einstein condensates in the large scattering length regime, dipolar quantum gases

Quantum Monte Carlo:

Variational, Diffusion and Path Integral Monte Carlo simulations of e.g. solvation and spectra of chromophores in and the condensate fraction
of helium-4 nanodroplets (the basic idea of Quantum Monte Carlo is summarized here)

Molecular Dynamics and CFD:

development of multiscale MD simulations techniques; atomistic simulations of hydrodynamic flow (nanofluidics, turbulence);
CFD with Lattice Boltzmann Method (see corresponding diploma topic)

Collaborators

K. Birgitta Whaley, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Yongkyung Kwon, Department of Physics, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea

Klaus von Haeften, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, GB
Alexandra Viel, SIMPA, PALMS, Universite de Rennes 1, Rennes, France
Ferran Mazzanti, Gregory Astrakharchik, Jordi Boronat, Dep. de Fisica i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya

Selected Publications

(full list of publications)

F. Mazzanti, R. E. Zillich, G. Astrakharchik, and J. Boronat , ''Dynamics of a two-dimensional system of quantum dipoles", Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 110405 (2009)

M. Leino, A. Viel, and R. E. Zillich, ''Electronically excited rubidium atom in helium clusters and films'', J. Chem. Phys. 129, 184308 (2008)

E. Krotscheck and R. E. Zillich, ``Hydrogen and $^3$He Atoms on $^4$He Surfaces: Bound states and scattering features'', Phys. Rev. B 77, 094507 (2008)

K. von Haeften, S. Rudolph, I. Simanovski, M. Havenith, R. E. Zillich, and K. B. Whaley, "Probing phonon-rotation coupling in helium nanodroplets: Infrared spectroscopy of CO and its isotopomers", Phys. Rev. B 73, 054502 (2006), (abstract)

Robert E. Zillich, Francesco Paesani, Yongkyung Kwon, and K. Birgitta Whaley "Path integral methods for rotating molecules in superfluids", J. Chem. Phys. 123, 114301 (2005) (abstract)

Robert E. Zillich, Yongkyung Kwon, and K. Birgitta Whaley "Roton-Rotation Coupling of Acetylene in He-4", Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 250401 (2004) (abstract)

Robert E. Zillich and K. Birgitta Whaley "Quantum Rotation of HCN and DCN in He-4", Phys. Rev. B 69, 104517 (2004) (abstract)

E. Krotscheck and R. Zillich "Dynamics of He-4 droplets", J. Chem. Phys. 115, 10161--10174 (2001) (abstract)

E. Krotscheck, M. Saarela, K. Schörkhuber, and R. Zillich, "Concentrations Dependence of the Effective Mass of 3He Atoms in 3He-4He Mixtures", Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 4709 (1998) (abstract)

Miscellaneous

A presantation about BEC which I gave to a audience of physics school teachers

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