Biography:Bernhard Keimer

Short description: German physicist

Bernhard Keimer (* 24. August 1964 in Ratingen) is a Germany physicist and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research. His research group uses spectroscopic methods to explore quantum many-body phenomena in correlated-electron materials and metal-oxide heterostructures.

Life

Keimer obtained his physics education at the Technical University of Munich and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received his Ph.D. degree in 1991. He spent a year as postdoctoral associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and seven years on the faculty of Princeton University, where he was appointed Full Professor in 1997. In 1998 he was appointed Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research. In 2000 he was named Honorary Professor at the University of Stuttgart. He serves as Speaker of the International Max Planck Research School for Condensed Matter Science and Co-Director of the Max Planck Society – University of British Columbia Center for Quantum Materials.

Awards

• 2011 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation
• 2010 Elected Fellow, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo
• 2006 Elected Member, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
• 1996 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
• 1995 David & Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering

Publications

• Hinkov, V.; Haug, D.; Fauque, B.; Bourges, P.; Sidis, Y. et al. (2008-01-10). "Electronic Liquid Crystal State in the High-Temperature Superconductor YBa₂Cu₃O_6.45". Science 319 (5863): 597–600. doi:10.1126/science.1152309. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 18187621. 
• Dahm, T.; Hinkov, V.; Borisenko, S. V.; Kordyuk, A. A.; Zabolotnyy, V. B.; Fink, J.; Büchner, B.; Scalapino, D. J. et al. (2009-01-18). "Strength of the spin-fluctuation-mediated pairing interaction in a high-temperature superconductor". Nature Physics 5 (3): 217–221. doi:10.1038/nphys1180. ISSN 1745-2473. Bibcode: 2009NatPh...5..217D. 
• Le Tacon, M.; Ghiringhelli, G.; Chaloupka, J.; Sala, M. Moretti; Hinkov, V. et al. (2011-07-10). "Intense paramagnon excitations in a large family of high-temperature superconductors". Nature Physics 7 (9): 725–730. doi:10.1038/nphys2041. ISSN 1745-2473. Bibcode: 2011NatPh...7..725L. 
• Bayrakci, S. P.; Tennant, D. A.; Leininger, Ph.; Keller, T.; Gibson, M. C. R.; Wilson, S. D.; Birgeneau, R. J.; Keimer, B. (2013-07-03). "Lifetimes of Antiferromagnetic Magnons in Two and Three Dimensions: Experiment, Theory, and Numerics". Physical Review Letters (American Physical Society (APS)) 111 (1): 017204. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.111.017204. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 23863025. Bibcode: 2013PhRvL.111a7204B. 
• Le Tacon, M.; Bosak, A.; Souliou, S. M.; Dellea, G.; Loew, T. et al. (2014). "Inelastic X-ray scattering in YBa₂Cu₃O_6.6 reveals giant phonon anomalies and elastic central peak due to charge-density-wave formation". Nature Physics 10 (1): 52–58. doi:10.1038/nphys2805. ISSN 1745-2473. 
• Chakhalian, J.; Freeland, J. W.; Habermeier, H.-U.; Cristiani, G.; Khaliullin, G.; van Veenendaal, M.; Keimer, B. (2007-11-16). "Orbital Reconstruction and Covalent Bonding at an Oxide Interface". Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)) 318 (5853): 1114–1117. doi:10.1126/science.1149338. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 17932255. Bibcode: 2007Sci...318.1114C. 
• Benckiser, Eva; Haverkort, Maurits W.; Brück, Sebastian; Goering, Eberhard; Macke, Sebastian et al. (2011-02-06). "Orbital reflectometry of oxide heterostructures". Nature Materials 10 (3): 189–193. doi:10.1038/nmat2958. ISSN 1476-1122. PMID 21297622. Bibcode: 2011NatMa..10..189B. 
• Boris, A. V.; Matiks, Y.; Benckiser, E.; Frano, A.; Popovich, P. et al. (2011-05-19). "Dimensionality Control of Electronic Phase Transitions in Nickel-Oxide Superlattices". Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)) 332 (6032): 937–940. doi:10.1126/science.1202647. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 21596986. Bibcode: 2011Sci...332..937B. 
• Driza, N.; Blanco-Canosa, S.; Bakr, M.; Soltan, S.; Khalid, M. et al. (2012-07-15). "Long-range transfer of electron–phonon coupling in oxide superlattices". Nature Materials 11 (8): 675–681. doi:10.1038/nmat3378. ISSN 1476-1122. PMID 22797829. Bibcode: 2012NatMa..11..675D. 
• Frano, A.; Schierle, E.; Haverkort, M. W.; Lu, Y.; Wu, M.; Blanco-Canosa, S.; Nwankwo, U.; Boris, A. V. et al. (2013-09-05). "Orbital Control of Noncollinear Magnetic Order in Nickel Oxide Heterostructures". Physical Review Letters 111 (10): 106804. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.111.106804. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 25166693. Bibcode: 2013PhRvL.111j6804F. 

External links

• Homepage at Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
• International Max Planck Research School for Condensed Matter Science
• Max Planck-UBC Center for Quantum Materials