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Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Bernhard Kramer



Acting Provost and Vice President
School of Engineering & Science - SES
Physics
http://ses.jacobs-university.de/ses
Mailing Address:

Campus Ring 1
28759 Bremen
Germany

Email: b.kramer@jacobs-university.de
Telephone: +49 421 200-4331/-4330
Fax: +49 421 200-4333
Office: Reimar Lüst Hall, Room 220
Research Interests:
Bandstructure theory
Main achievement: relativistic KKR calculation of spin-splitting of the valence band edge of Se and Te
 
The theory of electrons in amorphous semiconductors
Main achievement: development of theory of complex band structures; structure dependence of optical properties of amorphous semiconductors
 
Localization and disorder-induced metal-insulator transition (Anderson transition)
Main achievement: development of numerical scaling theory for localization and evaluation of critical behaviors for different symmetry classes
 
Inelastic x-ray (Compton) scattering on semiconductors
Main achievement: interpretation of Compton spectra of solids in terms of Brillouin zone shapes
 
Theory of non-Fermi liquid systems in reduced dimensions
Main achievement: prediction of correlation-induced nonlinear frequencydependent transport properties of tunnel barriers in a Luttinger liquid; identification of Luttinger liquid parameters in transport properties
 
Raman scattering and non-Fermi liquid behavior
Main achievement: explanation of so-called single particle excitations in terms of collective excitations in Luttinger liquid; prediction of non-analytic power laws in Raman cross section as function of photon energy
 
Theory of the quantum Hall effect
Main achievements: development of localization theory; precision determination of universal critical exponent; pairing mechanisms of Composite Fermions
 
Theory of spin dependent quantum processes in quantum dots
Main achievement: prediction of spin blockade effects; prediction of enhancement by correlation effects of spin-polarization in transport
 
Theory of time and frequency dependent transport processes
Main achievement: prediction of phonon-induced relaxation of the Coulomb blockade effect in double quantum dots
University Education:
1962-1966
Study of Physics at University of Marburg
1966-1967
Diploma and PhD Theses with Prof. Dr. O. Madelung
1974
Habilitation in Theoretical Physics at University of Dortmund
 
Fellowships and Awards:
1990-1999
Several NATO awards for organizing the NATO Advanced Study Institutes
2003
Honorary degree of the Technische Universität Chemnitz
2005
Fellowship of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science
 
 
Other Professional Activities:
Editing of Journals
1992-1997
Coeditor of Europhysics Letters
1993-2001
Editor of "Physik in unserer Zeit"
1997-2004
Associated Editor of European Physical Journal
1997-2005
Editor of Advances in Solid State Physics (Springer Verlag)
1997
Associated Editor of Annalen der Physik (Leipzig) (Wiley VCH-Verlag)
Management and Activities in the Scientific Community
1969
Member of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
1980-1993
On behalf of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt member of the "Task Group for Units and Fundamental Constants in Physics and Chemistry" of the IUPAP
1983-1984
Founder and chairman of "LOCALISATION 1984”, the 1st International Conference on Disorder and Interaction in Transport Phenomena held in Braunschweig 1984
1996
Member of the council of the Dr. Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Foundation
1991-1996
Member of the Walter-Schottky Preiskommitee of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
1995-1998
Elected Dean of the Department of Physics of Universität Hamburg
1997-2001
Chairman of the Semiconductor Physics Section of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
1997-2001
Member of the Vorstandsrat of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
1998-1999
Chairman of "LOCALISATION 1999”, the 6th International Conference on Disorder and Interaction in Transport Phenomena held in Hamburg 1999
2000-2001
Member of the Commission and coauthor for the "Denkschrift zum Jahr der Physik" of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
2000-2001
Chairman of the Spring Meeting of the Division of Solid State Physics and the 65th General Conference of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft held in Hamburg 2001
2001-2005
Chairman of the Division of Solid State Physics of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft scientific organization of the yearly spring meetings of the Division of Solid State Physics of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft with more than 3000 participants
2001
Member of the von Helmholtz Preiskommitee of the von Helmholtz Foundation and the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt
2004
Member of Advisory committee for Internet Portal Welt der Physik of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft in collaboration with Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Scientific Refereeing
1979
Referee for several scientific journals such as Europhysics Letters, Zeitschrift für Physik, Journal of Physics, Solid State Communications, European Physical Journal, and Nature
1980
Referee for Physical Review and Physical Review Letters
1995
Referee for Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
1999
Referee for several foreign funding organizations such as GIF, BSF, NSF, Institute of Physics (UK), Fonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaften (Österreich)
2000-2004
Elected Referee of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
2000
Referee for Landesstiftung Baden-W¨urttemberg
2000
Referee for the Italian Ministry of Research (MIUR)
2001
Member of Expert Panels of the EU within the 5th and 6th frameworks
 

Organization of Conferences
(Co-)organized worldwide more than 50 scientific workshops, national and international summer schools and conferences, Physikschulen of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, several NATO Advanced Study Institutes and NATO Advanced Research Workshops, for instance

  • NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Physics of Structurally Disordered Solids", Rhode Island (USA) 1974
  • PTB Seminar on "Fundamental Constants in Physics and Metrology", Braunschweig 1985
  • Symposium on "Metrology in Physics" at the occasion of the PTB/PTR centenary, Braunschweig 1987
  • 1st International Workshop on "Quantum Phase Transitions" within the European SCIENCE network Localisation and Transport Fluctuations in Microstructures, PTB NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Quantum Coherence in Mesoscopic Systems","Les Arcs" (France) 1990
  • NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "Quantum Dynamics of Submicron Structures", Trieste (Italy) 1994
  • NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Quantum Transport in Semiconductor Submicron Structures", Bad Lauterberg 1996
  • LOCALISATION 1999, the 6th International Conference on Localisation, Interaction and Transport, Hamburg 1999
  • Spring Meeting of the Division of Solid State Physics and the 65th General Conference of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, Hamburg 2001

Research Projects
Conducted and involved in more than 20 theoretical scientific projects financed by

  • the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
  • the Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft
  • the Volkswagenstiftung
  • the NATO
  • the DAAD

Involved in several national collaborative research programs and in a total of six SCIENCE, HCM, TMR, RTN, and MCRTN international networks of the EU on (conducting as the coordinator) SCC-CT90-0020 (1990-1995):Localization and Transport Fluctuations in MicrostructuresERB-CHRX-CT93-0136 (1993-1998):Quantum Dynamics of Phase Coherent StructuresERB-FMRX-CT96-0042 (1996-2001):Phase Coherent Dynamics of Hybrid NanostructuresERB-FMRX-CT98-0180 (1998-2003):Quantum Transport in the Frequency and Time Domains HPRN-CT2000-00144 (2000-2004): Nanoscale Dynamics, Coherence, and Computation MCRTN-CT2003-504574 (2003-2007): Fundamentals of Nanoelectronics

  • Co-founder and member of SFB 508 "Quantenmaterialien" at Universität Hamburg of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (since 1996)
  • Co-founder and member of the Graduiertenkolleg "Nanostrukturierte Festkörper" of Universität Hamburg of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (1996-2005)
  • Co-founder and member of the Schwerpunktprogramm "Quanten-Hall-Systeme" of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (2000-2005)
  • Founding member of the new SFB 2022 "Magnetismus: vom Atom zur Nanostruktur" at Universität Hamburg of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (stage of application since 2004)
Research and Teaching Positions:
Professional Career
1969-1971
Postdoctoral Researcher at Institut für Theoretische Physik II der Universität Marburg
1971-1974
Assistant at Institut für Physik of the Universität Dortmund
1974-1990
Privatdozent at Universität Dortmund
1974-1977
Senior Assistant at Universität Dortmund
1977-1978
In charge of a Chair for Theoretical Physics at Universität Essen
1978-1993
Director and Professor at Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt in Braunschweig, Head of Gruppe 8.1 "Physikalische Grundlagen”
1990-1993
Extraordinary Professor at Universität Dortmund
1993-2005
Full Professor for Theoretical Physics at Universität Hamburg
Since October 2005
Vice President and Dean of the School of Engineering and Science at Jacobs University Bremen (formerly International University Bremen)
 
 
1976
Visiting scientist at Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
1980/1981
Guest Scientist at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
1986
Guest Professor at Karl-Marx Universität Leipzig, GDR
1988
Guest Professor at Toho University, Funabashi (Chiba), Japan
1991
Guest Professor at Gakushuin University, Tokyo, Japan
1992
Guest Scientist at Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
1999
Guest Scientist at Università di Genova, Italy
2004
Guest Scientist at Università di Genova, Italy
2005
Guest Professor at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan
 

Teaching
All standard lectures in theoretical physics including

  • Theoretical Mechanics
  • Electrodynamics
  • Quantum Mechanics I and II
  • Statistical Physics
  • Theoretical Physics for teachers

Undergraduate lectures such as

  • 1st and 2nd semester integrated experimental/theoretical courses
  • experimental laboratory courses

Special theoretical lectures on topics like

  • Modern Physics
  • Solitary Waves
  • The Theory of Disordered Systems
  • The Quantum Hall Effect
  • Special Topics in Quantum Mechanics
  • Mesoscopic Quantum Physics
  • Luttinger Liquid Theory
  • Special Topics in Solid State Theory

Student seminars including especially long term student theory projects on topics as

  • Special Relativity
  • The Route to Deterministic Chaos
  • Solitary Waves
  • Classical Dynamics of two and Three Body Systems
  • Geometrical Phases in Quantum Physics
  • Composite Fermion Physics
  • Hartree-Fock Approach for the Water Molecule

(Co-)conducted more than theoretical 30 diploma theses and more than 20 PHD-thesesin the field of Solid State Theory and Mesoscopic Quantum Physics

Publications:

More than 250 refereed scientific articles, more than 10 books.

Most important publications

  • B. Kramer, K. Maschke, P. Thomas, and J. Treusch: Optical properties of amorphous Selenium; Phys. Rev. Lett. 25, 1020-1022 (1970)
  • L. D. Laude, B. Fitton, B. Kramer, and K. Maschke: Direct evidence of disorder effects on the electronic structure of Selenium; Phys. Rev. Lett. 27, 1053-1057 (1971)
  • A. MacKinnon and B. Kramer: One parameter scaling of localization length and conductance in disordered systems; Phys. Rev. Lett. 47, 1546-1549 (1981)
  • A. MacKinnon, B. Kramer: The scaling theory of localisation: additional numerical results; Z. Phys. B 53, 1-13 (1983)
  • B. Huckestein and B. Kramer: One parameter scaling in the lowest Landau band: precise determination of the critical behaviour of the localization length; Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 1437-1440 (1990)
  • B. Kramer, A. MacKinnon: Localization: Theory and Experiment; Rep. Progr. Phys. 56, 1469 (1993)
  • T. Brandes, L. Schweitzer, and B. Kramer: Multifractal wave functions and inelastic scattering in the integer Quantum Hall Effect; Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 3582-3585 (1994)
  • D. Weinmann, W. Häusler, and B. Kramer: Spin blockades in linear and non-linear transport through quantum dots; Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 984-987 (1995)
  • M. Batsch, L. Schweitzer, I. Kh. Zharekeshev, and B. Kramer: Crossover from critical orthogonal to critical unitary statistics at Anderson transition; Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 1552-1555 (1996)
  • I. Kh. Zharekeshev and B. Kramer: Asymptotics of universal probability of neighboring level spacings at Anderson transition; Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 717-720 (1997)
  • M. Sassetti and B. Kramer: Resonant Raman scattering by collective modes of the one dimensional electron gas; Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1485-1488 (1998
  • T. Brandes, B. Kramer: Spontaneous emission of phonons by coupled quantum dots; Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3021-3024 (1999)
  • A. Braggio, M. Sassetti, and B. Kramer: Control of spin in quantum dots with non-Fermi liquid correlations; Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 146802 (2001)
  • A. Fechner, M. Sassetti, B. Kramer, and E. Galleani d'Agliano: Nonlinear ac transport and local field in quantum wires; Phys. Rev. B 64, 195315 (2001)
  • E. Mariani, N. Magnoli, F. Napoli, M. Sassetti, and B. Kramer: Spin pairing instabilities at the coincidence of two Landau levels; Phys. Rev. B 66, 241303 (2002) (Rapid Communication)
  • F. Cavaliere, A. Braggio, J. T. Stockburger, M. Sassetti, B. Kramer: Negative differential conductance induced by spin-charge separation; Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 036803 (2004)
  • B. Kramer, T. Ohtsuki, S. Kettemann: The random network model for the Quantum Hall Effect and its ramifications: Physics Reports (2004) (invited review article, accepted for publication); condmat/0409625; to be published in 2005

Monographs

  • T. Dittrich, P. Hänggi, G.-L. Ingold, B. Kramer, G. Schön, W. Zwerger: Quantum Transport and Dissipation, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 1997

Edited Books

  • B. Kramer (Ed.), The Art of Measurement, VCH-Verlag, Weinheim 1988
  • J. Bortfeldt and B. Kramer (Eds.) Landolt-Börnstein "Numerical Data and Functional Relationships in Science and Technology", O. Madelung, Ed. in Chief, New Series: "Units and Fundamental Constants in Physics and Chemistry", Subvolume a Springer Verlag, Berlin 1991; Subvolume b, Springer Verlag, Berlin 1992
  • B. Kramer (Ed.) Landolt-Börnstein "Numerical Data and Functional Relationships in Science and Technology", W. Martienssen, Ed. in Chief, Structured Semiconductors: Electronic transport, Subvol III/34B(1), Springer Verlag, Berlin 2001

Edited Conference Volumes

  • B. Kramer, G. Bergmann, Y. Bruynseraede (Eds.): Localization, Interaction and Transport Phenomena, Springer Verlag, Berlin 1985
  • V. Kose, B. Kramer (Eds.): Fundamental Constants in Physics and Metrology (Special Issue of Metrologia, Vol 22), Springer Verlag, Berlin 1986
  • B. Kramer, G. Schön (Eds.): Anderson Transition and Mesoscopic Fluctuations (Special issue of Physica A 167), Elsevier Science Publ., North Holland 1990
  • B. Kramer (Ed.); Quantum Coherence in Mesoscopic Systems, Plenum Press, New York 1991
  • H. A. Cerdeira, B. Kramer, G. Schön (Eds.): Quantum Dynamics of Submicron Structures, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht 1995
  • B. Kramer (Ed.): Quantum Transport in Semiconductor Submicron Structures, Kluwer Acad. Publ., Dordrecht 1996
  • B. Kramer (Ed.): Festkörperprobleme/Advances in Solid State Physics 38 - 40, Vieweg Verlag, Braunschweig 1998; 41 - 44, Springer Verlag, Berlin 2001