Walter Schirmacher

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz — Germany

Materials Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Material Dynamics and Properties(77), Theoretical and Computational Physics(41), Glass properties and applications(33), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies(28), Quantum and electron transport phenomena(22)

Publications171 total

Internal Stresses as Origin of the Anomalous Low-Temperature Specific Heat in Glasses
Physical Review Letters·2025
Internal Stresses as Origin of the Anomalous Low-Temperature Specific Heat in Glasses
arXiv (Cornell University)·2025Open Access
Further testing the validity of generalized heterogeneous-elasticity theory for low-frequency excitations in structural glasses
arXiv (Cornell University)·2025Open Access
Three-dimensional Anderson localization of light in materials with fluctuating electric and magnetic properties
Optics Express·2024Open Access
The nature of non-phononic excitations in disordered systems
Nature Communications·2024· 16 citedOpen Access
Heterogeneous-elasticity theory of instantaneous normal modes in liquids
Scientific Reports·2023· 2 citedOpen Access
The nature of non-phononic excitations in disordered systems
arXiv (Cornell University)·2023Open Access
Observation of the boson peak in a two-dimensional material
Nature Physics·2023· 13 citedOpen Access
Vibrational excitations in disordered solids
Elsevier eBooks·2023· 2 cited
Terahertz dynamics in the glycerol-water system
Physical review. B./Physical review. B·2023· 19 citedOpen Access
Diffusion of light in turbid media and Kubelka-Munk theory
arXiv (Cornell University)·2023Open Access
The electric and magnetic disordered Maxwell equations as eigenvalue problem
arXiv (Cornell University)·2023Open Access
Instantaneous normal modes in liquids: a heterogeneous-elastic-medium approach
arXiv (Cornell University)·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Diffusion of light in turbid media with internal reflections
Condensed Matter Physics·2023· 2 citedOpen Access
Comment on “Explaining the specific heat of liquids based on instantaneous normal modes”
Physical review. E·2022· 6 cited
Terahertz Dynamics in the Glycerol-Water System
arXiv (Cornell University)·2022Open Access
Comment on “Deformations, relaxation, and broken symmetries in liquids, solids, and glasses: A unified topological field theory”
Physical review. E·2022Open Access
Heterogeneous Elasticity: The Tale of the Boson Peak
WORLD SCIENTIFIC (EUROPE) eBooks·2022· 7 cited
Comment on "Explaining the specific heat of liquids based on instantaneous normal modes"
arXiv (Cornell University)·2022Open Access
Comment on "Deformations, relaxation and broken symmetries in liquids, solids and glasses: a unified topological field theory"
arXiv (Cornell University)·2022· 2 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Giancarlo Ruocco(10), T. Scopigno(4), B. Movaghar(4), Gregor Diezemann(3), Carl Ganter(3), Bernhard Schmid(3), Michael Wagener(3), Alessia Marruzzo(2), Andrea Fratalocchi(2), W. Petry(2), Robert Evans(2), H. Ruppersberg(2), B. Pohlmann(2), C. Tomaras(2), Behnam Abaie(2), Arash Mafi(2), Marco Leonetti(2), Stephan Köhler(2), M. Ben‐Chorin(1), Friedrich Möller(1)