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Overview

Jürgen Horbach is affiliated with Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in Germany and conducts research at the intersection of materials science and physics. Their work primarily explores the dynamics and properties of materials, including glasses, liquids, and crystalline substances, often using theoretical and computational physics methods.

The main fields of study for Horbach's research are materials science, with a focus on materials chemistry, ceramics and composites, and physics and astronomy, emphasizing condensed matter physics and atomic and molecular physics.

The subfields associated with their research include:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Ceramics and Composites
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

The topics they have covered in publications include:

  • Material Dynamics and Properties
  • Theoretical and Computational Physics
  • Glass properties and applications
  • Nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions
  • Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
  • Liquid Crystal Research Advancements
  • Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics

Horbach's recent publications reveal a focus on the mechanical and thermal behaviors of glassy and supercooled liquids, crystalline growth from melts, and computational algorithm methodology in glassformers. Significant recent papers include:

  • Response of glassy liquids to thermal gradients, 2020, Physical Review E
  • Flow heterogeneities in supercooled liquids and glasses under shear, 2020, Physical Review E
  • The origin of deformation induced topological anisotropy in silica glass, 2023, Acta Materialia
  • Crystal growth of bcc titanium from the melt and interfacial properties: A molecular dynamics simulation study, 2021, The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Understanding the swap Monte Carlo algorithm in a size-polydisperse model glassformer, 2023, Physical Review E

Frequent publication venues for Horbach comprise:

  • Physical Review E
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Soft Matter
  • Physical Review B

Collaborations play a role in Horbach's research, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Pinaki Chaudhuri
  • Niklas Küchler
  • Vinay Vaibhav
  • Sudheer Ganisetti
  • Achraf Atila

Best Publications

  • Static and dynamic properties of a viscous silica melt

    Jürgen Horbach;Walter Kob

  • Towards Ultrastrong Glasses

    Lothar Wondraczek;John C. Mauro;Jürgen Eckert;Uta Kühn

  • Molecular Dynamics Simulations

    Kurt Binder;Jürgen Horbach;Walter Kob;Wolfgang Paul

  • Finite size effects in simulations of glass dynamics.

    Jürgen Horbach;Walter Kob;Kurt Binder;Charles Angell

  • Channel Formation and Intermediate Range Order in Sodium Silicate Melts and Glasses

    A. Meyer;J. Horbach;W. Kob;Florian Kargl

  • Structural and dynamical properties of sodium silicate melts: an investigation by molecular dynamics computer simulation

    Jürgen Horbach;Walter Kob;Kurt Binder

  • Confinement effects on phase behavior of soft matter systems

    Kurt Binder;Jürgen Horbach;Richard Vink;Andres De Virgiliis

  • High frequency sound and the boson peak in amorphous silica

    J. Horbach;W. Kob;K. Binder

  • From equilibrium to steady state: the transient dynamics of colloidal liquids under shear

    Jochen Zausch;Jürgen Horbach;Jürgen Horbach;Marco Laurati;Stefan Ulrich Egelhaaf

  • Relaxation dynamics of a viscous silica melt: the intermediate scattering functions.

    Jürgen Horbach;Walter Kob

  • Dynamics of sodium in sodium disilicate: channel relaxation and sodium diffusion.

    Jürgen Horbach;Walter Kob;Kurt Binder

  • Structure and diffusion in amorphous aluminum silicate: A molecular dynamics computer simulation

    Anke Winkler;Jürgen Horbach;Walter Kob;Kurt Binder

  • New fitting scheme to obtain effective potential from Car-Parrinello molecular-dynamics simulations: Application to silica

    Antoine Carre;Antoine Carre;Jürgen Horbach;Jürgen Horbach;Simona Ispas;Walter Kob

  • Grand canonical Monte Carlo simulation of a model colloid–polymer mixture: Coexistence line, critical behavior, and interfacial tension

    R. L. C. Vink;J. Horbach

  • Amorphous silica modeled with truncated and screened Coulomb interactions: A molecular dynamics simulation study

    Antoine Carré;Ludovic Berthier;Jürgen Horbach;Simona Ispas

  • Residual Stresses in Glasses

    Matthias Ballauff;Joseph M. Brader;Stefan U. Egelhaaf;Matthias Fuchs

  • Influence of chemical short-range order on atomic diffusion in Al–Ni melts

    S. K. Das;J. Horbach;M. M. Koza;S. Mavila Chatoth

  • Double Transition Scenario for Anomalous Diffusion in Glass-Forming Mixtures

    Thomas Voigtmann;Jürgen Horbach

  • Structure and diffusion in amorphous aluminium silicate: A molecular dynamics computer simulation

    Anke Winkler;Jurgen Horbach;Walter Kob;Kurt Binder

  • Specific Heat of Amorphous Silica within the Harmonic Approximation

    Jürgen Horbach;Walter Kob;Kurt Binder

  • Molecular-dynamics computer simulation of crystal growth and melting in Al50Ni50

    Ali Kerrache;Jürgen Horbach;Jürgen Horbach;Kurt Binder

Frequent Co-Authors

Kurt Binder
Kurt Binder Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Peter Sollich
Peter Sollich University of Göttingen
Stefan U. Egelhaaf
Stefan U. Egelhaaf Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Gerhard Wilde
Gerhard Wilde University of Münster
Sergiy V. Divinski
Sergiy V. Divinski University of Münster
Hartmut Löwen
Hartmut Löwen Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Sauro Succi
Sauro Succi Italian Institute of Technology
Marcus Müller
Marcus Müller University of Göttingen
Wilson C. K. Poon
Wilson C. K. Poon University of Edinburgh
Lothar Wondraczek
Lothar Wondraczek Friedrich Schiller University Jena

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