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Vierzig Jahre Fachverband Atomphysik DEUTSCHE PHYSIKALISCHE GESELLSCHAFT E.V. Vierzig Jahre Fachverband Atomphysik 1972 - 2012 Herausgegeben von Uwe Becker, Rainer Hentges, Bernd Lohmann, Burkhard Langer Please help us to improve this document by mailing your corrections to Rainer Hentges, Schönhauser Allee 68, 10437 Berlin, [email protected]. In particular it would be nice to get all the names correctly spelled. t Inhalt v06 [ i \ 23. Mai 2013 t Register Vorwort Vor 40 Jahren fanden die ersten Sitzungen des neugegründeten Fachverbands Atomphysik auf der Frühjahrstagung der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft in Hannover statt. In den davorliegenden Tagungen wurden die Bereiche Atom-, Kern- und Teilchenphysik noch in ge- meinsamen Sitzungen behandelt. Die Gründungsperiode des Fachverbands Atomphysik fand in einer Zeit statt, in der sich das spezifische Fachgebiet in keiner besonders guten Position im Hinblick auf seinen Bei- trag zum Fortschritt der Physik im Allgemeinen befand. Dieser Fortschritt wurde in zuneh- mendem Maße in Fachkreisen mit den faszinierenden Entdeckungen in der Hochenergie- Physik gleichgesetzt. Dass Atomphysik in der breiteren Öffentlichkeit immer noch als Syn- onym für Atom-, Kern- und Elementarteilchenphysik stand, der Titel eines Buches meines Doktorvaters Hans Bucka, ein Schüler von Hans Kopfermann, war in Fachkreisen längst ver- gessen und das Gesamtgebiet in seine jeweiligen Unterdisziplinen aufgeteilt. Hier stand die Hochenergie-Physik, welche die klassische Kernphysik bereits in atemberaubendem Tempo überholt hatte, eineindeutig als Speerspitze der Physik im Vordergrund des Interesses. Es war eine Zeit, in der ich mich manchmal entschuldigen musste, meine Doktorarbeit noch auf ei- nem Gebiet durchzuführen, von dem viele meinten, dies sei doch die „Physik der Frühphase der Quantenphysik“ also die Physik der zwanziger Jahre. Die Entwicklungen auf dem Gebiet der Laser- und Synchrotronstrahlung haben der Atom- physik aber zu neuer Bedeutung verholfen. Der entscheidende Durchbruch kam aber nicht von der Anregungs- oder Nachweisseite eines atomaren oder molekularen Streuprozesses, sondern von der Präparation eines Quantenobjekts das mittels einer Streuung durch ein an- deres Quantenobjekte analysiert wurde. Das war die Geburtsstunde der experimentellen Ana- lyse der von Satyendranath Bose und Albert Einstein bereits ein halbes Jahrhundert voraus- gesagten Bose-Einstein-Kondensation. Dieser Erfolg hat der heutigen Atomphysik, trotz der Separation der Quantenoptik, zu einem großen Bedeutungsgewinn verholfen. Heute steht die Atomphysik neben den anderen Diszi- plinen der Physik auf gleicher Augenhöhe und es ist höchst wahrscheinlich, dass zukünftige bahnbrechende Entwicklungen der Physik aus diesem Gebiet kommen werden. Ich bin fest davon überzeugt, dass sie ihre führende Rolle, die sie in den zwanziger Jahren gehabt hat, zurückgewinnen wird. Vielleicht werden die kommenden Jahre ein weiteres Beispiel für die Bedeutung der Atomphysik in Bezug auf die mit hohem Tempo fortschreitenden Erkenntnis- se in der Quanten-Verschränkung und deren Anwendung in Form des Quanten-Computers, liefern. ii Die vollständigen Texte der „Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft“ kön- nen ab Jahrgang 1997 online1 im Archiv der DPG gefunden werden, frühere Jahre sind z.B. in der Bibliothek des Fritz-Haber-Instituts der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft enthalten. Berlin, den 10. März, 2012 Uwe Becker Leiter des DPG Fachverbands Atomphysik von 2009 bis 2011 1http://www.dpg-verhandlungen.de t Inhalt v06 [ iii \ 23. Mai 2013 t Register Preface 40 years ago, the first sessions of the newly founded Atomic Physics Division of the German Physical Society took place at the DPG spring meeting in Hannover. In the meetings before the sub-disciplines Atomic, Nuclear, and Elementary Particle Physics had been discussed in joint sessions. The foundation of the Atomic Physics Division took place in a time period in which this spe- cific field was generally not in a particular good position. The progress in physics was incre- asingly considered by the community being due to the fascinating progress made in High Energy Physics. That Atomic Physics was still regarded as synonym for Atomic, Nuclear, and Elementary Particle Physics, the title of a book of my thesis adviser Hans Bucka, a scholar of Hans Kopfermann, in broader public, was long forgotten and the overall science had been di- vided into its corresponding sub-disciplines. In this respect High Energy Physics, which had overtaken Nuclear Physics already in amazing speed, unambiguously the spear head field of physics, was in the foreground of the interest. It was the time in which I had sometimes to apologize to do my doctoral thesis work still on a field of which many had the opinion that it represents the early years of Quantum Physics, that means the physics of the twen- ties. The development in the field of lasers and synchrotron radiation helped Atomic Physics to gain region importance. The decisive break through came, however, not from the excitation and detection side of an atomic or molecular scattering process, but from the preparation of a quantum object being analyzed by the scattering by another quantum object. This was the birth hour of the experimental analysis of the Bose-Einstein-Condensate being predicted by Satyendranath Bose and Albert Einstein already half a century ago. This success helped the present Atomic Physics despite the separation of the Quantum Optics to a large importance increase. Nowadays Atomic Physics is at the same eye level with the other disciplines of physics and it is very probably that future spectacular developments in physics will come from this field. I am completely convinced, that it will recover its leading role, that it had in the twenties. Maybe the upcoming years will give a further example for the importance of Atomic Physics by the breathtaking development in quantum entanglement and its applications in form of the quantum computer. The late years, since 1997, of the full text of the Verhandlungen of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG) can be found in the online2 archive of the DPG. Earlier years are present in the library e.g. of the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society. 2http://www.dpg-verhandlungen.de iv Berlin, March 2012 Uwe Becker Chair of the DPG Atomic Physics Division from 2009 to 2011 t Inhalt v06 [ v \ 23. Mai 2013 t Register Inhaltsverzeichnis Vorwort.............................................. ii Preface.............................................. iv Inhaltsverzeichnis....................................... vii 1 Die 1970er Jahre1 Regensburg 1972........................................2 München 1973.........................................6 Stuttgart 1974.......................................... 11 Köln 1975............................................. 16 Hannover 1976......................................... 20 Mainz 1977............................................ 23 München 1978......................................... 28 Berlin 1979............................................ 39 2 Die 1980er Jahre 50 Bielefeld 1980, 44. Physikertagung.............................. 51 Würzburg 1982......................................... 58 Gießen 1984........................................... 66 Heidelberg 1986, 50. Physikertagung............................. 72 Bonn 1988............................................ 84 3 Die 1990er Jahre 89 München 1990, 54. Physikertagung............................. 90 Freiburg 1991.......................................... 109 Hannover 1992......................................... 117 Berlin 1993............................................ 127 Hamburg 1994, 58. Physikertagung............................. 136 Edinburgh 1995, ECAMP V.................................. 148 Rostock 1996........................................... 157 Mainz 1997............................................ 165 Konstanz 1998.......................................... 171 Heidelberg 1999......................................... 176 4 Die 2000er Jahre 186 Bonn 2000............................................ 187 Berlin 2001, ECAMP VII.................................... 198 Osnabrück 2002......................................... 208 vi Inhaltsverzeichnis Hannover 2003, 67. Physikertagung............................. 218 München 2004, 68. Physikertagung............................. 233 Berlin 2005, 69. Jahrestagung................................. 250 Frankfurt 2006.......................................... 261 Düsseldorf 2007......................................... 272 Darmstadt 2008......................................... 283 Hamburg 2009.......................................... 295 5 Die 2010er Jahre 311 Hannover 2010......................................... 312 Dresden 2011, 75. Jahrestagung................................ 328 Stuttgart 2012.......................................... 348 6 Register 362 Tagungsorte........................................... 363 Plenarvortragende....................................... 364 Leiter Atomphysik....................................... 369 Wissenschaftliche Tagungsleiter............................... 370 Örtliche Tagungsleiter..................................... 372 t Inhalt v06 [ vii \ 23. Mai 2013 t Register 1 Die 1970er Jahre 1 DEUTSCHE PHYSIKALISCHE GESELLSCHAFT E.V. FRÜHJAHRSTAGUNG REGENSBURG 1972 Fachauschuß Atomphysik Fachauschuß Molekülphysik Sektion Atomare und Molekulare Stöße in der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Massenspektroskopie Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vakuum und Regionalverband Bayern
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