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I am a Post-doc at the university of Cologne. I specialise in non-equilibrium statistical physics and renormalization group methods.

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31 Examples of important known universality classes besides Ising Oct 8 '14
16 Motion described by $m \frac{\mathrm{d}^2 x}{\mathrm{d}t^2}=-k\frac{\mathrm{d}^{\frac12 }x}{\mathrm{d}t^{\frac12}}$ Oct 8 '14
15 When is momentum not conserved? Sep 19 '14
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11 Why is Planck's constant the same for all particles? Oct 10 '14
11 The unreasonable effectiveness of the partition function Apr 4 '15
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8 Simple estimation of the critical temperature of water Oct 2 '14
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