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ResearcherID, ORCID, Google Scholar Theoretische Physik II Physikalisches Institut Universität Bayreuth D-95440 Bayreuth Germany Room 1.2.01.443, Building NWII Tel +49 (0)921 55 3313 Tel -3226 (Sabrina Süss, secretary) |
Professor Matthias Schmidt |
Smile because of sun. Bayreuth (2018) |
News. 7 January 2025. Our work on gauge invariance in statistical physics (PRL 2024) is featured in Physics 17, 163 (2024) by Benjamin Rotenberg and covered in Physics Today by Johanna L. Miller.
News. 13 December 2023. Neural functional theory for soft matter is based on machine learning deep functional relationships of statistical mechanics; see Press Release for PNAS, Review, and Tutorial.
News. 28 June 2023. An overview of power functional machine learning for nonequilibrium Statistical Physics is here, including video content. And a video on fluctuations (19.9.2023).
News. 28 March 2022. An overview of power functional theory for many-body dynamics has appeared in Rev. Mod. Phys. 94, 015007 (2022) doi. A summary of corresponding original papers can be found in the power functional nutshell. UBT press release is here (German version).
News (Münchhausen). Details about our use of Noether's Theorem in Statistical Mechanics can be found on this webpage, in this press release and this TV performance at ARD alpha.
I hold the Chair for Theoretical Physics II in the Department of Physics of the University of Bayreuth, Germany.
My research covers the physics of soft
condensed matter, and in particular dispersions of colloidal
particles and polymer solutions. Of interest are
collective phenomena such as phase transitions (condensation,
demixing, and freezing) and the influence of gravity, substrates, and
random disorder on such phenomena. Methods to handle the
Statistical Mechanics are density functional theory and
computer simulations. We have developed a novel approach for
nonequilibrium many-body physics, dubbed power functional theory.
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An experimentalist in Bayreuth who shares similar research interests is Professor Thomas Fischer.
Previous teaching. Announcement of the new winter 2018/2019 course on Variational Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics.
See details illustrating our story about sheared interfaces in driven Ising models.
| German pronounciation is Buy-raw-it. |
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