Peter Lunkenheimer

 Three most cited articles:
  1. Origin of Apparent Colossal Dielectric Constants
    P. Lunkenheimer, V. Bobnar, A.V. Pronin, A.I. Ritus, A.A. Volkov, and A. Loidl
    Phys. Rev. B 66, 052105 (2002). [PDF (copyright 2002 by the American Physical Society)]
    times cited: 899
  2. Non-intrinsic origin of the Colossal Dielectric Constants in CaCu3Ti4O12
    P. Lunkenheimer, R. Fichtl, S.G. Ebbinghaus, and A. Loidl
    Phys. Rev. B 70, 172102 (2004). [PDF (copyright 2004 by the American Physical Society)]
    times cited: 675
  3. Glassy Dynamics
    P. Lunkenheimer, U. Schneider, R. Brand and A. Loidl
    Contemp. Phys. 41, 15 (2000).
    times cited: 606
(updated Aug. 2026)


Most significant publications:
 (personal selection, chronological order)
  1. Dielectric Spectroscopy in SrTiO3
    R. Viana, P. Lunkenheimer, J. Hemberger, R. Böhmer, and A. Loidl
    Phys. Rev. B 50, 601 (1994). [PDF (copyright 1994 by the American Physical Society)]

  2. Fast Dynamics of Glass-Forming Glycerol Studied by Dielectric Spectroscopy
    P. Lunkenheimer, A. Pimenov, M. Dressel, Yu. G. Goncharov, R. Böhmer, and A. Loidl
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 318 (1996). [PDF (copyright 1996 by the American Physical Society)]

  3. Fast Dynamics in CKN and CRN Investigated by Dielectric Spectroscopy
    P. Lunkenheimer, A. Pimenov, and A. Loidl
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 2995 (1997). [PDF (copyright 1997 by the American Physical Society)]

  4. Excess Wing in the Dielectric Loss of Glass Formers: A Johari-Goldstein β Relaxation?
    U. Schneider, R. Brand, P. Lunkenheimer, and A. Loidl
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5560 (2000). [PDF (copyright 2000 by the American Physical Society)]

  5. Origin of Apparent Colossal Dielectric Constants
    P. Lunkenheimer, V. Bobnar, A.V. Pronin, A.I. Ritus, A.A. Volkov, and A. Loidl
    Phys. Rev. B 66, 052105 (2002). [PDF (copyright 2002 by the American Physical Society)]

  6. Response of disordered matter to electromagnetic fields
    P. Lunkenheimer and A. Loidl
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 207601 (2003). [PDF (copyright 2003 by the American Physical Society)]

  7. Non-intrinsic origin of the Colossal Dielectric Constants in CaCu3Ti4O12
    P. Lunkenheimer, R. Fichtl, S.G. Ebbinghaus, and A. Loidl
    Phys. Rev. B 70, 172102 (2004). [PDF (copyright 2004 by the American Physical Society)]

  8. Orbital freezing and orbital glass state in FeCr2S4
    R. Fichtl, V. Tsurkan, P. Lunkenheimer, J. Hemberger, V. Fritsch, H.-A. Krug von Nidda, E.-W. Scheidt, and A. Loidl
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 027601 (2005). [PDF (copyright 2005 by the American Physical Society)]
    (see also: Physics News Update, Number 716 #3; Physics Today, March 2005, p. 9, and Physik in unserer Zeit 36, 112 (2005))

  9. Relaxor ferroelectricity and colossal magneto-capacitive coupling in ferromagnetic CdCr2S4
    J. Hemberger, P. Lunkenheimer, R. Fichtl, H.-A. Krug von Nidda, V. Tsurkan, and A. Loidl
    Nature 434, 364 (2005). (cond-mat/0503434)

  10. Glassy Aging Dynamics
    P. Lunkenheimer, R. Wehn, U. Schneider, and A. Loidl
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 055702 (2005). [PDF (copyright 2005 by the American Physical Society)]

  11. Route to resource-efficient novel materials
    S. Krohns, P. Lunkenheimer, S. Meissner, A. Reller, B. Gleich, A. Rathgeber, T. Gaugler, H.U. Buhl, D.C. Sinclair, and A. Loidl
    Nature Mater. 10, 899 (2011). (see also article in "Frankfurter Allgemeine")

  12. Multiferroicity in an organic charge-transfer salt that is suggestive of electric-dipole driven magnetism
    P. Lunkenheimer, J. Müller, S. Krohns, F. Schrettle, A. Loidl, B. Hartmann, R. Rommel, M. de Souza, C. Hotta, J.A. Schlueter, and M. Lang
    Nature Mater. 11, 755 (2012). (arXiv:1111.2752)

  13. Nonlinear dielectric response at the excess wing of glass-forming liquids
    Th. Bauer, P. Lunkenheimer, S. Kastner, and A. Loidl
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 107603 (2013). [PDF (copyright 2013 by the American Physical Society)]

  14. Cooperativity and the freezing of molecular motion at the glass transition
    Th. Bauer, P. Lunkenheimer, and A. Loidl
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 225702 (2013). [PDF (copyright 2013 by the American Physical Society)]
    [see also viewpoint article in: Physics 6, 128 (2013)]

  15. Multiferroicity and skyrmions carrying electric polarization in GaV4S8
    E. Ruff, S. Widmann, P. Lunkenheimer, V. Tsurkan, S. Bordacs, I. Kézsmárki, and A. Loidl
    Science Advances 1, e1500916 (2015). (arXiv:1504.00309)

  16. Fifth-order susceptibility confirms growth of thermodynamic amorphous order in glass-formers
    S. Albert, Th. Bauer, M. Michl, G. Biroli, J.-P. Bouchaud, A. Loidl, P. Lunkenheimer, R. Tourbot, C. Wiertel-Gasquet, and F. Ladieu
    Science 352, 1308 (2016). (arXiv:1606.04079) (see also News article in: Materials Today)

  17. Electromagnetic-radiation absorption by water
    P. Lunkenheimer, S. Emmert, R. Gulich, M. Köhler, M. Wolf, M. Schwab, and A. Loidl
    Phys. Rev. E 96, 062607 (2017). [PDF (copyright 2017 by the American Physical Society)]

  18. Johari-Goldstein relaxation far below Tg: Experimental evidence for the Gardner transition in structural glasses?
    K. Geirhos, P. Lunkenheimer, and A. Loidl
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 085705 (2018). [PDF (copyright 2018 by the American Physical Society)]

  19. Supercooled water confined in a metal-organic framework
    J.K.H. Fischer, P. Sippel, D. Denysenko, P. Lunkenheimer, D. Volkmer, and A Loidl
    Commun. Phys. 3, 95 (2020). [PDF]

  20. Thermal expansion and the glass transition
    P. Lunkenheimer, A. Loidl, B. Riechers, A. Zaccone, and K. Samwer
    Nature Phys. 19, 694 (2023). [PDF] (see also: press release of the University of Augsburg)

  21. Exploring water's no-man's land
    P. Lunkenheimer, D. Reuter, A. Schulz, M. Wolf, and A. Loidl
    Phys. Rev. E 111, 065408 (2025). [PDF (copyright 2025 by the American Physical Society)]


Review articles:
  1. Glassy Dynamics
    P. Lunkenheimer, U. Schneider, R. Brand and A. Loidl
    Contemp. Phys. 41, 15 (2000).

  2. Relaxation Dynamics in Plastic Crystals
    R. Brand, P. Lunkenheimer, and A. Loidl
    J. Chem. Phys. 116, 10386 (2002). [PDF (copyright 2002 by the American Institute of Physics)]

  3. Dielectric spectroscopy of glass-forming materials: α-relaxation and excess wing
    P. Lunkenheimer and A. Loidl
    Chem. Phys. 284, 205 (2002).

  4. Glassy dynamics beyond the α-relaxation
    P. Lunkenheimer and A. Loidl
    in: Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy, eds. F. Kremer and A. Schönhals (Springer, Berlin, 2003), p. 131.

  5. Colossal dielectric constants in transition-metal oxides
    P. Lunkenheimer, S. Krohns, S. Riegg, S.G. Ebbinghaus, A. Reller, and A. Loidl
    Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 180, 61 (2010). [PDF (copyright EDP Sciences, Springer-Verlag 2010. With kind permission of The European Physical Journal (EPJ))]

  6. Dielectric spectroscopy of glassy dynamics
    P. Lunkenheimer, M. Köhler, S. Kastner, and A. Loidl
    in: Structural Glasses and Supercooled Liquids: Theory, Experiment, and Applications, eds. P.G. Wolynes and V. Lubchenko (Wiley, Hoboken, 2012), chapter 3, p. 115.

  7. Dielectric spectroscopy on organic charge-transfer salts
    P. Lunkenheimer and A. Loidl
    J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 7, 373001 (2015). (arXiv:1507.01800)

  8. Investigation of nonlinear effects in glassy matter using dielectric methods
    P. Lunkenheimer, M. Michl, Th. Bauer, and A. Loidl
    Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 226, 3157 (2017). [arXiv:1704.07348 (The original publication is available at www.epj.org)]

  9. Glassy dynamics: From millihertz to terahertz
    P. Lunkenheimer and A. Loidl
    in: The scaling of relaxation processes, eds. F. Kremer and A. Loidl (Springer, Cham, 2018), p. 23. [PDF (final manuscript)]

  10. Nonlinear dielectric response of plastic crystals
    P. Lunkenheimer, M. Michl, and A. Loidl
    in: Nonlinear Dielectric Spectroscopy, ed. R. Richert (Springer, Cham, 2018), p. 277. [PDF (final manuscript)]

  11. Ferroelectric polarization in multiferroics
    S. Krohns and P. Lunkenheimer
    Phys. Sci. Rev. 4, 20190015 (2019). [PDF (The final publication is available at www.degruyter.com.)]

  12. On the complexity of spinels: Magnetic, electronic, and polar ground states
    V. Tsurkan, H.-A. Krug von Nidda, J. Deisenhofer, P. Lunkenheimer, and A. Loidl
    Physics Reports 926, 1 (2021). [PDF]

  13. Optical, dielectric, and magnetoelectric properties of ferroelectric and antiferroelectric lacunar spinels
    K. Geirhos, S. Reschke, S. Ghara, S. Krohns, P. Lunkenheimer, and I. Kézsmárki
    Phys. Status Solidi B 259, 2100160 (2022). [PDF]

  14. Ferroelectric and multiferroic properties of quasi-2D organic charge-transfer salts: A review
    M. Lang, P. Lunkenheimer, O. Ganter, S. Winter, and J. Müller
    J. Electron. Mater. 54, 5087 (2025). [PDF]

  15. Broadband dielectric and THz spectroscopy on bio-related matter: Water, amino acids, proteins, and blood
    P. Lunkenheimer, S. Emmert, M. Wolf, and A. Loidl
    in: Dynamics of Biomolecules Studied by Dielectric Spectroscopy, eds. S. Cerveny and J. Swenson (Springer, Cham, 2026), p. 1. [PDF (subnitted manuscript)]


Patent:

Bauteil mit dielektrischer Komponente mit hoher relativer Permittivität, seine Verwendung und kristallines Substrat mit integrierten Schaltungen
(Patent DE 102008013513 B4)   English version



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