Walter E. Lawrence Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth since 1971

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Education

• Cornell University: Ph.D., Physics 1970

Experience

• 1986-present, Professor, Dartmouth College
• 1977-1986, Associate Professor, Dartmouth College
• 1971-1977, Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College
• 1969-1971, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Stanford University

Visiting Positions

• 2000: Visiting Scientist, University of Vienna
• 1993: Visiting Professor, University of Lausanne
• 1992: Visiting Professor, University of Lausanne
• 1991-92: Visiting Professor, Ohio State University
• 1985: Visiting Scientist, Michigan Technological University
• 1984: Visiting Associate Professor, Oklahoma University
• 1982: Visiting Scientist, University of Karlsruhe
• 1979: Visiting Scientist, NORDITA, Copenhagen
• 1977: Visiting Associate Professor, State University of New York at Stony Brook
• 1976: Dartmouth Junior Faculty Fellowship
• 1976: Visiting Scientist, NORDITA, Copenhagen

Honors and Awards

• Baush-Lomb Science Award
• CMU Academic Scholar
• Regents Scholar
• Phi Kappa Phi
• Sigma Xi
• Dartmouth Jr. Faculty Fellowship

Contact Information

• Office: 249 Wilder
• Telephone: (603) 646-2963
• E-mail: jay.lawrence@dartmouth.edu

Research Interests

Electron correlations and electron-phonon interactions, quantum information theory, decoherence and quantum measurement

Selected Recent Publications

• Persistence of Exponential Decay for Metastable Quantum States at Long Times, R. E. Parrott and J. Lawrence, Europhys. Lett. 57, 632 (2002).
• Phonon Description and the Euler Buckling Instability of a Mesoscopic Bar at Fixed Strain, W.E. Lawrence, Physica B 316, 448 (2002).
• Crossover Between Quantum and Thermal Regimes in Nanostructures, S.M. Carr, W. E. Lawrence, and M. N. Wybourne, Physica B, 316, 464 (2002).
• Nonexponential Decay at Late Times and a Different Zeno Paradox, Jay Lawrence, J. Opt. B 4, S446 (2002).
• Mutually Unbiased Binary Observable Sets on N Qubits, Jay Lawrence, Caslav Brukner, and Anton Zeilinger, Phys. Rev. A 65 032320 (2002).
• Accessibility of Quantum Effects in Mesomechanical Systems, with S. M. Carr and M. N. Wybourne, Phys. Rev. B, 64, 220101-1 (2001).
• Algebraic Identities Relating First- and Second-Quantized Operators, Am. J. Phys. 68, 167 (2000).
• Detailed Balance, Quantum Distribution Functions, and Equilibrium of Mixtures, Am. J. Phys. 67, 1132 (1999).

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