Professor em. Dr. rer. nat. Dr. h.c. mult. Achim Richter

My research fields are
- Nuclear Reactions with Light and Heavy Ions
- Symmetries and Invariance Principles
- Atomic Physics
- Nuclear Structure and Electromagnetic Interactions in Nuclei
- Accelerator Physics
- Nuclear Astrophysics
- Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
Curriculum Vitae
1940 | Born in Dresden |
1959 | Begin of the study of Physics at the University of Heidelberg |
1963 | Admission to the “Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes” |
1965 | Final exam (“Diplom”) in Physics |
1966 | Scientific Assistant at the Max-Planck-Institute of Nuclear Physics at Heidelberg and work on the experimental doctoral thesis |
1967 | Doctorate degree (“Dr. rer. nat.”) in Physics |
1967-1968 | Research Associate at the Department of Physics at the Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.A. |
1968-1970 | Postdoctoral Fellow at the Physics Division of the Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, U.S.A. |
1971 |
Research Associate at the Max-Planck-Institute of Nuclear Physics at Heidelberg Habilitation in Physics at the University of Heidelberg and University Lecturer (“Privatdozent”) |
1971-1973 | Associate Professor (H3) at the Ruhr University of Bochum |
Since 1974 |
Professor (H4/C4) of Physics at the Darmstadt Institute of Technology (now: Darmstadt University of Technology) and Director of the Institute of Nuclear Physics |
1978-1979 | Sabbatical leave at the Département de Physique Nucléaire à Haute Energie, Saclay, France |
1983-1984 | Sabbatical leave at the Département de Physique Nucléaire à Haute Energie, Saclay, France |
1988-1989 | Sabbatical leave at CERN, Geneva, as Scientific Associate |
1998-1999 | Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin (“Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin”) |
2003-2004 | Sabbatical leave at the Institut de Physique Nucléaire and the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques at Orsay, France, at TRIUMF in Vancouver, Canada, at the Physics Division of the Argonne National Laboratory at Argonne, U.S.A., and at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University, East Lansing, U.S.A. |
2005 | Foreign Member of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Göteborg, Sweden |
2006 | Tage Erlander Professorship of the Swedish Research Council |
2007 | Order of Merit of the State of Hessen |
2007-2008 | Sabbatical leave at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University, East Lansing, U.S.A., at the Institute of Nuclear Theory at the University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A., at the Laboratory of Nuclear Structure of MIT Boston, U.S.A., at the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques at Orsay, France, and at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden |
2008 |
October 01, Professor Emeritus at TUD November 01, Director of the European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas (ECT*) in Trento, Italy, until October 31, 2012 |
2012 | November 01, return to the Institute of Nuclear Physics at TUD |
Awards and Honors
1964 | University Award of Physics for the Diploma Thesis |
1988 | German-French Alexander von Humboldt Award |
1990 | Foreign Associate of the Royal Society of South Africa |
1992 | Max Planck Research Price |
1995 | Honorary Doctorate of the Chalmers University of Technology at Gothenburg, Sweden |
1996 | Honorary Doctorate of the University of Gent, Belgium |
1996 | Corresponding Member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences |
2000 | Honorary Doctorate of the University of Witwatersrand at Johannesburg, South Africa |
2000 | Honorary Doctorate of the Kharkiv National University, Ukraine |
2001 | Stern-Gerlach Medal of the German Physical Society |
2002 | Fellow of the American Physical Society |
2005 | Foreign Member of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Göteborg, Sweden |
2006 | Tage Erlander Professorship of the Swedish Research Council |
2007 | Order of Merit of the State of Hessen |
2010 | Member of the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund, Sweden |
2010 | Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, Halle (Saale) |
2012 | Member of the Academia Europaea |
2017 | Johann-Heinrich-Merck-Ehrung der Stadt Darmstadt |
Latest Publications
- Nuclear physics in Reviews of Modern Physics
George Bertsch, Witold Nazarewicz and Achim Richter
Physics Today, 56 (March 2019) - From graphene to fullerene: experiments with microwave photonic crystals
B. Dietz and A. Richter
Phys. Scr. 94, 014002 (2019) - Chaos and regularity in the spectra of the low-lying dipole excitations of 50, 52, 54 Cr
B. Dietz et al.
Phys. Rev. C98, 054314 (2018) - Origin of fine structure of the giant dipole resonance in sd-shell nuclei
R.W. Fearick et al.
Phys. Rev. C97, 044325 (2018) - Studies of the Giant Dipole Resonance in 27Al, 40Ca, 56Fe, 58Ni and 208Pb with high energy – resolution inelastic proton scattering under 00
M. Jingo et al.
Eur. Phys. J. A54(2018): 234 - Comparison of electromagnetic and nuclear dissociation of 17Ne
F. Wamers et al.
Phys. Rev. C97, 034612 (2018) - Wavelet signatures of K-splitting of the Isoscalar Giant Quatrupole Resonanz in deformed nuclei from high-resolution (p,p') scattering off 146,148,150Nd
C.O. Kureba et al.
Phys. Lett. B 779, 269 (2018) - Deformation dependence of the isovector giant dipole resonance:
The neodymium chainrevisited
L.M. Donaldson et al.
Phys. Lett. B. 776, 133 (2018) - Distribution of Off-Diagonal Cross Sections in Quantum Chaotic Scattering:
Exact Results and Data Comparison
Santosh Kumar, Barbara Dietz, Thomas Guhr and Achim Richter
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 244102 (2017) - Test of the Brink-Axel Hypothesis for the Pygmy Dipole Resonance
D. Martin et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett.119, 182503 (2017) - Electric Dipole Polarizability of 48 Ca and Implications for the Neutron Skin J. Birkhan et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett.118, 252501 (2017) - E2 decay strength of the M1 scissors mode of 156Gd and its first excited rotational state
T. Beck et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 212502 (2017) - Search for weak M1 transitions in 48Ca with inelastic proton scattering
M. Mathy, J. Birkhan, H. Matsubara, P. von Neumann-Cosel, N. Pietralla, V. Yu Ponomarev, A. Richter and A. Tamii
Phys. Rev. C95, 054316 (2017) - Chaos and Regularity in the Doubly Magic Nucleus 208Pb
B. Dietz, A. Heusler, K.H. Maier, A. Richter
Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 012501 (2017) - Cross-section fluctuations in chaotic scattering systems
Torleif E. O. Ericson, Barbara Dietz and Achim Richter
Phys. Rev. E 94, 042207 (2016) - Fine structure of the isoscalar giant quadrupole resonance in 28Si and 27Al
I.T. Usman et al.
Phys. Rev. C94, 024308 (2016) - Coulomb and nuclear excitations of narrow resonances in 17Ne
J.Marganiec et al.
Phys. Lett. B 759, 200 (2016) - Electromagnetic M1 transition strengths from inelastic proton scattering: The cases of 48Ca and 208Pb
J. Birkhan, H. Matsubara, P. von Neumann-Cosel, N. Pietralla, V. Yu. Ponomarev, A. Richter, A. Tamii, and J. Wambach
Phys. Rev. C 93, 041302(R) (2016) - Spectral Properties of Dirac Billiards at the van Hove Singularities
B. Dietz, T. Klaus, M. Miski-Oglu, A. Richter, M. Wunderle, and C. Bouazza
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 023901 (2016) - Dipole polarizability of 120Sn and nuclear energy density functionals
T. Hashimoto, A. M. Krumbholz, P.G. Reinhard et al.
Phys. Rev. C 92, 031305(R) (2015) - Nonquenched Isoscalar Spin-M1 Excitations in sd-Shell Nuclei
H. Matsubara, A. Tamii, H. Nakada et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 102501 (2015) - Cross-section fluctuations in open microwave billiards and quantum graphs: The counting-of-maxima method revisited
B. Dietz, A.Richter, and R. Samajdar
Phys. Rev. E92, 022904 (2015) - Fullerene C 60 Simulated with a Superconducting Microwave Resonator and Test of the Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem
B. Dietz, T. Klaus, M. Miski-Oglu, A. Richter, M. Bischoff, L. von Smekal and J. Wambach
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 026801 (2015) - Algebraic theory of crystal vibrations: Singularities and zeros in vibrations of one- and two-dimensional lattices
F. Iachello, B. Dietz, M. Miski-Oglu and A. Richter
Phys. Rev. B 91, 214307 (2015) - Low-energy electric dipole response in 120Sn
A. M. Krumbholz et al.
Phys. Lett. B 744, 7 (2015) - Studies of continuum states in 16Ne using three-body correlation techniques
J. Marganiec et al.
Eur. Phys. J. A 51 (2015) : 9 - Quantum and wave dynamical chaos in superconducting microwave billiards
B. Dietz and A. Richter
Chaos 25, 097601 (2015) - Spectral properties of superconducting microwave photonic crystals modeling Dirac billiards
B. Dietz, T. Klaus, M. Miski-Oglu, and A. Richter
Phys. Rev. B. 91, 035411 (2015) - Dielectric square resonator investigated with microwave experiments
S. Bittner, B. Dietz, M. Miski-Oglu, and A. Richter
Phys. Rev. E 90, 052909 (2014) - Low-energy dipole strength in 112,120Sn
B. Özel-Tashenov et al.
Phys. Rev. C. 90, 024304 (2014) - Spectral properties and dynamical tunneling in constant-width billiards
B. Dietz, T. Guhr, B.Gutkin, M. Miski-Oglu, and A. Richter
Phys. Rev. E 90, 022903 (2014) - Fine structure of the isovector giant dipole resonance in 208Pb: Characteristic scales and level densities
I. Poltoratska et al.
Phys. Rev. C. 89, 054322 (2014) - First Observation of the Unbound Nucleus 15Ne
F. Wamers et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 132502 (2014) - Scattering experiments with microwave billiards at an exceptional point under broken time-reversal invariance
S. Bittner, B. Dietz, H.L. Harney, M. Miski-Oglu, A. Richter, and F. Schäfer
Phys. Rev. E 89, 032909 (2014) - Properties of the first excited state of 9Be derived from (gamma,n) and (e,e') reactions
V.D. Efros, P. von Neumann-Cosel, and A. Richter
Phys. Rev. C 89, 027301 (2014) - Analytic approach to nuclear rotational states and the role of spin: A minimal model
W. Bentz, A. Arima, A. Richter, and J. Wambach
Phys. Rev. C 89, 024314 (2014) - Study of the 14Be Continuum: Identification and Structure of its Second 2+ State
Yu. Aksyutina et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 242501 (2013) - Experimental observation of localized modes in a dielectric square resonator
S. Bittner, E. Bogomolny, B. Dietz, M. Miski-Oglu, and A. Richter
Phys. Rev. E 88, 062906 (2013). - Constraint on Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Matrix Elements from a Novel Decay Channel of the Scissors Mode: The Case of 154Gd
J. Beller et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 172501 (2013) - Lifshitz and excited-state quantum phase transitions in microwave Dirac billiards
B. Dietz, F. Iachello, M. Miski-Oglu, N. Pietralla, A. Richter, L. von Smekal, and J. Wambach
Phys. Rev. B 88, 104101 (2013) - Structure of the unbound nucleus 13Be: One-neutron knockout reaction data from 14Be analyzed in a holistic approach
Yu. Aksyutina et al.
Phys. Rev. C 87, 064316 (2013) - Distribution of Scattering Matrix Elements in Quantum Chaotic Scattering
S. Kumar, A. Nock, H.-J. Sommers, T. Guhr, B. Dietz, M. Miski-Oglu, A. Richter, and F. Schäfer
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 030403 (2013) - Bound states in sharply bent waveguides: Analytical and experimental approach
S. Bittner, B. Dietz, M. Miski-Oglu, A. Richter, C. Ripp, E. Sadurní, and W. P. Schleich
Phys. Rev. E 87, 042912 (2013) - Momentum profile analysis in one-neutron knockout from Borromean nuclei
Yu. Aksyutina et al.
Phys. Lett. B 718, 1309 (2013) - Pygmy dipole resonance in 208Pb
I. Poltoratska et al.
Phys. Rev. C 85, 041304(R) (2012) - Trace formula for chaotic dielectric resonators tested with microwave experiments
S. Bittner, B. Dietz, R. Dubertrand, J. Isensee, M. Miski-Oglu, and A. Richter
Phys. Rev. E 85, 056203 (2012). - Application of a trace formula to the spectra of flat three-dimensional dielectric resonators
S. Bittner, E. Bogomolny, B. Dietz, M. Miski-Oglu, and A. Richter
Phys. Rev. E 85, 026203 (2012). - PT Symmetry and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in a Microwave Billiard
S. Bittner, B. Dietz, U. Günther, H. L. Harney, M. Miski-Oglu, A. Richter, and F. Schäfer
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 024101 (2012). - Complete Electric Dipole Response and the Neutron Skin in 208Pb
A. Tamii et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 062502 (2011). - Exceptional Points in a Microwave Billiard with Time-Reversal Invariance Violation
B. Dietz, H. L. Harney, O. N. Kirillov, M. Miski-Oglu, A. Richter, and F. Schäfer
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 150403 (2011). - Random Matrices and Chaos in Nuclear Physics: Nuclear Reactions
G. E. Mitchell, A. Richter, and H. A. Weidenmüller
Rev. Mod. Phys. 82, 2845 (2010). - Magnetic dipole excitations in nuclei: elementary modes of nucleonic motion
K. Heyde, P. von Neumann-Cosel, and A. Richter
Rev. Mod. Phys. 82, 2365 (2010).
Selected Talks
- 2017
- ECT*Final
- Wolfgang Schleich 60_Ulm2017
- Nice2017_Final
- 2016
- MSU (Seminar)
- MSU (Colloquium)
- 2015
- Bonn
- Trento
- Dresden
- 2014
- Hamburg
- Paris (Colloquium in memory of Oriol Bohigas)
- 2013
- Heidelberg (Festkolloquium Prof. Dr. H.-A.Weidenmüller)
- KIT
- Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Trento
- Ein Gedi
- Porquerolles
- Mainz
- Yale
- Warschau
- 2012
- Dresden
- Cocoyoc