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Home > People > faculty > Walter E. Lawrence

Walter E. Lawrence Professor of Physics and Astronomy Education Cornell University: Ph.D., Physics 1970 Carnegie-Mellon: B.S., Physics 1964

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

Contact Information

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

Research Interests

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

Selected Recent Publications

Compressional Mode Softening and Euler Buckling Patterns in Mesoscopic Beams, W.E. Lawrence, M.N. Wybourne, and S.M. Carr, New Journal of Physics, 8, 223 (2006).

Buckling Cascade of Free-Standing Mesoscopic Beams, S.M. Carr, W.E. Lawrence, and M.N. Wybourne, Europhys. Lett. 69, 952 (2005).

Mutually Unbiased Bases and Trinary Operator Sets for N Qutrits, Jay Lawrence, Phys. Rev. A 70, 012302 (2004).

Persistence of Exponential Decay for Metastable Quantum States at Long Times, R. E. Parrott and J. Lawrence, Europhys. Lett. 57, 632 (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).