Stephan Rachel Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) email: rachel (at) tkm.uni-karlsruhe.de phone: +49 (0) 721 608 - 33 66 fax: +49 (0) 721 608 - 77 79 Visitor Address: Physikhochhaus (Geb.Nr. 30.23), 10. OG/floor, room 10-07 Wolfgang-Gaede-Str. 1, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany

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• From October 2009 I have moved to Yale University (New Haven, CT, USA): my new homepage

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• Teaching
  • SS 2009: Exercise lecturer for 'Statistical mechanics' (lecturer Alexander Shnirman) homepage
  • WS 2008/09: Exercise lecturer for 'Condensed matter theory I (TKM I)' (lecturer Alexander Shnirman) homepage
  • SS 2008: Tutorial for 'Statistical mechanics' (lecturer Peter Wölfle) homepage
  • WS 2007/08: Tutorial for 'Advanced Quantum mechanics' (lecturer Frans Klinkhammer) homepage
  • WS 2006/07: Graduate Seminar 'Macroscopic quantum phenomena in metals and ultra cold gases' homepage
  • SS 2006: Tutorial for 'Statistical mechanics' (lecturer Gerd Schön) homepage
  • SS 2005: Exercise lecturer for 'Many body theory' (lecturer Matthias Vojta)


• Research Interests
  • Charge solitons in Josephson juction arrays
  • Cold atoms in optical lattices (with and without artificial vector potentials)
  • One- and twodimensional spin liquids
  • SU(N) spin models


• Publications  


• Impact factor of selected physical journals


• Lecture notes Theo F - 'Statistical mechanics' (Lecturer Matthias Vojta, SS 2003)
  pdf-file (943364 B)

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