Prof.Hans-Thomas Elze

Department of Physics

University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Professor

Email: elze@df.unipi.it

Qualifications

1985 Ph.D., University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, Theoretical Physics

1979 Diploma (M.Sc.), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Theoretical Physics

Publications (Selected)

1. H. T. Elze, W. Greiner, Phys. Lett. B179 (1986) 385: Finite Size Effects for Quark-Gluon Plasma Droplets.
2. H. T. Elze, U. Heinz, K. Kajantie, T. Toimela, Z. Phys. C37 (1988) 305: High Temperature Gluon Matter in the Background Gauge.
3. H. T. Elze, K. Kajantie, J. Kapusta, Nucl. Phys. B304 (1988) 832: Screening and plasmon in QCD on a finite lattice.
4. H. T. Elze, U. Heinz, Phys. Rep. 183 (1989) 81: Quark-Gluon Transport Theory.
5. H. T. Elze, I. Sarcevic, Phys. Rev. Lett. 68 (1992) 1988: A Statistical Field Theory of Multiparticle Density Fluctuations.
6. H. T. Elze, Nucl. Phys. B436 (1995) 213: Quantum Decoherence, Entropy, and Thermalization in Strong Interactions at High Energy: I. Noisy and Dissipative Vacuum Effects in Toy Models.
7. H. T. Elze, Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 39B,C (1995) 169: Vacuum-Induced Quantum Decoherence and the Entropy Puzzle.
8. H. T. Elze, Phys. Lett. B369 (1996) 295: Entropy, Quantum Decoherence and Pointer States in Scalar "Parton" Fields.
9. H. T. Elze, Y. Hama, T. Kodama, M. Makler, J. Rafelski, J. Phys. G25 (1999) 1935: Variational Principle for Relativistic Fluid Dynamics.
10. H. T. Elze, Mod. Phys. Lett. A14 (1999) 2259: The Functional Derivation of Master Equations.
11. H. T. Elze, T. Kodama and R. Opher, Phys. Rev. D63 (2001) 013008: Collective Modes in Neutrino Beam Electron-Positron Plasma Interactions.
12. H. T. Elze, J. Rafelski and L. Turko, Phys. Lett. B506 (2001) 123: Entropy Production in Relativistic Hydrodynamics.
13. H. T. Elze and O. Schipper, Phys. Rev. D66 (2002) 044020: Time without time: a stochastic clock model.
14. H. T. Elze, Phys. Lett. A310 (2003) 110: Emergent discrete time and quantization: relativistic particle with extra dimensions.
15. H. T. Elze, Phys. Lett. A335 (2005) 258: On quantum mechanics as constrained N=2 supersymmetric classical dynamics.
16. H. T. Elze, J. Phys.: Conf. Series 33 (2006) 399: Deterministic Models of Quantum Fields.
17. H. T. Elze, Int. J. Theor. Phys. 46, No. 8 (2007) 2063: Quantum fields, cosmological constant and symmetry doubling.
18. H. T. Elze, Int. J. Theor. Phys. 47, No. 2 (2008) 455: A relativistic gauge theory of nonlinear quantum mechanics and Newtonian gravity.
19. H. T. Elze, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 41 (2008) 304020: Note on the existence theorem in "Emergent Quantum Mechanics and Emergent Symmetries".
20. H. T. Elze, J. Phys.: Conf. Series 174 (2009) 012009: Does quantum mechanics tell a discrete spacetime?
21. H. T. Elze, Fourth Prize in FQXI's 2009 essay contest: Spacetime and Matter -- a duality of partial orders.
22. H. T. Elze, G. Gambarotta and F. Vallone, Int. J. Qu. Inf. (IJQI) 9 Suppl. 1 (2011) 203: A path integral for classical dynamics, entanglement, and Jaynes-Cummings model at the quantum-classical divide.
23. H. T. Elze, Phys. Rev. A 85, 052109 (2012): Linear dynamics of quantum-classical hybrids.
24. H. T. Elze, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 361 (2012) 012004: Four questions for quantum-classical hybrid theory.
25. H. T. Elze (ed.), Decoherence and Entropy in Complex Systems, Lecture Notes in Physics, Vol. 633 (Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York, 2004).