Academic

I am an Associate Professor of Physics in the Oregon Center for Optics and Department of Physics at the University of Oregon.

I did a postdoc in what was formerly knows as the T-8 group at Los Alamos National Laboratory, working on issues related to quantum measurement, quantum chaos, and quantum technology. I did my Ph.D. work in the Physics Department at The University of Texas at Austin. There I did experimental research on laser-cooled atoms and quantum chaos in Mark Raizen's Atom Optics Laboratory. I did my undergraduate studies at the University of Dayton in physics and mathematics.

Publications and Resources:

• My curriculum vitae (hyperlinked pdf).
• A list of my publications.
• My teaching page, which includes an online optics textbook, a quantum/atom optics textbook, and a quantum mechanics textbook, among others.
• Reference data for some of the alkali atoms.
• My dissertation can be found here.
• Some other unpublished resources that I have written can be found here.
• Lecture notes for the 2002 Los Alamos Summer school.
• Postscript phase space generators, for the chaotically inclined.

Calculations:

• Plots of Floquet states (pdf, 5MB) for comparison with chaos-assisted tunneling results.
• Some fits to experimental data for a quantum diffusion front theory.
• Some calculations for nondestructive imaging of an atomic cloud (pdf, 120kB), along with a MathCAD worksheet for playing around with numbers.
• Group 4 calculations for PHY 387N: Relativity Theory II.

Physics Links:

• A collection of quantum optics and atom optics links.
• Here you can find the answers to all your space-related questions.