Bruno Leo Zulma Nachtergaele (24 June 1962 in

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) is a Belgian mathematical physicist. Nachtergaele studied physics with a

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in 1984 from the

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. There he was awarded in 1987 a doctorate in theoretical physics under André Verbeure with dissertation ''Exacte resultaten voor het spin-Boson model'' (Exact results for the spin boson model), written in Dutch. From 1989 to 1990 Nachtergaele was an instructor at the

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. At

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, where he worked with Elliott Lieb, Nachtergaele was from 1991 to 1993 an instructor and from 1993 to 1996 an assistant professor of physics. At the

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he was from 1996 to 2000 an associate professor and is since 2000 a full professor of mathematics. From 2007 to 2010 he was the chair of the Mathematics Department of the University of California, Davis. His research concerns the mathematical physics of equilibrium and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, quantum spin systems, and

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. He was elected in 2012 a Fellow of the

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and in 2007 a Fellow of the

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. In 2002 in

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he was an Invited Speaker, with Horng-Tzer Yau, at the

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with talk ''Derivation of the Euler equations from many-body quantum mechanics''. He was co-editor of 2 volumes of selecta of Elliott Lieb.

Selected publications

* with John Hunter
''Applied Analysis''
World Scientific 2001 * with Mark Fannes & André Verbeure: ''The equilibrium states of the spin-boson model'', Comm. Math. Phys., 114, 1988, 537–548, 1988
Project Euclid
* with Mark Fannes & Reinhard Werner: ''Finitely Correlated States on Quantum Spin Chains'', Comm. Math. Phys. 144, 1992, 443–490
Project Euclid
* with

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: ''Geometric Aspects of Quantum Spin States'', Commun. Math. Phys., 164, 1994, 17–63
Arxiv
* with Elliott Lieb: The Stability of the Peierls Instability for Ring-Shaped Molecules, Phys. Rev. B, 51, 1995, 4777–4791
Arxiv
* with Horng-Tzer Yau: '' Derivation of the Euler Equations from Quantum Dynamics '', Commun. Math. Phys., 243, 2003, 485–540
Arxiv
* wit Robert Sims
'' Recent progress in quantum spin systems ''
in J.T. Lewis '' Markov Processes and related fields '' 2007 * ''Quantum Spin Systems'', Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics, Elsevier 2006
Arxiv

References

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