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Adolph received his BS degree in Chemistry from Fort Hays Kansas State College. He received his PhD in 1966 from the University of Kansas. He performed his research in Thermo-gravitational Thermal Diffusion under the direction of Professor R.J. Bearman. Although his research with Professor Bearman was primarily experimental, during his time with Professor Bearman’ group he developed an interest in statistical thermodynamics. Following his PhD studies, he moved to Rice University to perform research with Professor Z. W. Salsburg on the statistical thermodynamics of solids. After Rice University Adolph Beyerlein joined the faculty at Clemson University Chemistry Department in 1967 and served that Department as a regular faculty until 1995 and then as faculty and Chair until his retirement in 2001. After retirement he became an active member of the Clemson University Emeritus College and served that College as Chair of their Language Skills Committee for International Students from 2014 until 2018. As Chair of that program the English Testing program's written tests were replaced with the Clemson English Speaking Testing Program (CESP), which used an interview method for testing. The English courses for international students were replaced by a mentoring program called Conversations with International Students (CIS). The Emeritus College was one of three Emeritus Colleges, nationally, that received the Association of Retirement Organizations in Higher Education (AROHE) Inaugural Innovation Award in 2018 for these international student programs. In addition to academic pursuits Adolph Beyerlein takes time out for his woodworking hobby.
Research Interests
As Emeritus College faculty member Adolph Beyerlein does not maintain a research group and performs his research in collaboration with an active faculty member. Adolph Beyerlein’s research interests include Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics, and the semi-classical spin models, Ising Model and Blume, Emery Griffiths Spin-1 model. He uses semi-classical quantized spin models with Coulombic pair interactions as simplified models to study phase transitions in electrolytes and polyelectrolytes. More recently his research on Coulombic spin-systems with thermodynamic applications has transitioned to magnetic spin systems with application in modern computing systems. Examples are quasi particles (skyrmions) which have application as dense carriers of non-volatile memory (no power required to sustain the memory) and Heisenberg like spin systems which account for both spin-spin quantized coupling interactions as well as fractional deviations from quantization needed for anisotropic spin interactions and spin-orbit coupling. The latter research has application in quantum computing and is being performed in collaboration with Clemson Professor, Joseph Kolis. The following are publications which exemplify Adolph Beyerlein’s current research interests.
Joseph Kolis and Adolph Beyerlein “Magnetic energy investigations on Ni2(PO4)(OH) and NaNiPO4”, J. Chem. Phys. 163 (21) 214705 (2025).
A. L. Beyerlein and Irene Beyerlein, “Bessel function descriptions of magneto-chiral interactions (DMI) magnetic and spin flexoelectric skyrmions”, Physica B,613 412980 (2021).
Behnam Ahmadikia, Adolph L. Beyerlein, Jonathan M. Hestroffer, Arul M. Kumar, and Irene J. Beyerlein, "Designing Ti-6Al-4V microstructure for strain delocalization using neural networks,"Journal of Materials Science: Materials Theory 8 , 4 (2024)
A. L. Kholodenko and A. L. Beyerlein, "Gap Problem for the Hubbard Chain at Finite Temperatures: Solution Via the Bethe-Ansatz Method", A. L. Kholodenko and A. L. Beyerlein, Phys. Rev. B 36, 409 (1987).
