physics                                                                      

Position: Graduate Student* & Teaching Fellow, Yale University

Key Responsibilities

1)     Completion of Academic Requirements for Ph.D. in Physics, Yale University

2)     Head Teaching Fellow, Physics 200a & 201b, Yale University, Fall, 2002 (taught by Prof. & Chairman of Physics, R. Shankar)

3)  Research as part of the Girvin and DeMille Groups

*On leave until September, 2003

Yale-Affiliated Research Groups

W.M. Keck Foundation Center for Quantum Information Physics

 

q       Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics

Many-Body Physics and Quantum Computation

The Girvin Group (Prof. Steven Girvin, Faculty Advisor)

q       Atomic and Molecular Physics

Ultra-Cold Polar Molecules as Qubits

DeMille Group (Prof. David DeMille, Faculty Advisor)

Recent Preprints and Papers in Physics (See books and cv  for publications on other subjects)

Modeling Decoherence and Decoherence-Free Subspaces (quant-ph/0212003, (2002))

Decoherence-Free Subspaces in Supersymmetric Oscillator Networks (quant-ph/0211172, [2002, revised 2003] submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett.)  

Identification of High Transverse Momentum Particles with the STAR-RICH Detector (as part of the Yale-Bari-CERN STAR-RICH collaboration nucl-ex/0211028 [2002])

Cleaning and recirculation of perfluorohexane (C6F14) in the STAR-RICH detector (as part of the STAR-RICH Collaboration), Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 486:590-609 (2002)

The STAR-RICH Detector, STAR-RICH Collaboration, Nucl. Phys. A 698:452-455 (2002)

Physics-related Interests and Activities

I am presently completing coursework and other academic requirements prior to taking up full-time research activity in the Girvin and de Mille groups at Yale in pursuit of a Ph.D. in condensed matter theoretical* physics. I am especially interested in fundamental quantum theory and its application to quantum computation, as also in quantum effects in biological systems (e.g., protein-folding as a form of quantum annealing, which as a minimization problem may be considered an alternate, “parallel”  form of [already-parallel] quantum computation). A recent paper explores supersymmetric quantum many-body systems (combined boson and fermion sites) as fertile ground for the decoherence-free subspaces useful in quantum information processing (see Decoherence-Free Subspaces in Supersymmetric Oscillator Networks (quant-ph/0211172). During the 2002-2003 school year, I have been privileged to serve as the head teaching fellow for the introductory physics sequence for physical science majors at Yale. The course is taught by Professor R. Shankar, chairman of physics and long-standing member of the Condensed Matter Theoretical Physics group.

 

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*"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is." -- Yogi Berra

 

 On Physics, Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence...

THE QUANTUM BRAIN

The Search for Freedom and

the Next Generation of Man

John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

"The Quantum Brain is an adventure in the science of ideas. It is the first book on the brain that combines a grasp of the physics of the microcosm and the technologies of artificial intelligence, neural networks, and self-organizing systems, with a recognition of the transcendent properties that define the mind and differentiate it from matter. Although the subject is inherently difficult and novel, Jeffrey Satinover is an inspired guide through the fertile areas of convergence among the pivotal sciences of the age. From such insights will emerge both new technologies and new philosophies and theologies for the twenty-first century. The best book I have read  in over ten years”

— George Gilder, Editor, Gilder Technology Report

 

  

In Italian, Il Cervello Quantico

 

  

Wiley Press Release.

 

Powerpoint Slides of Selected illustrations

from a lecture to Physics 200a

November 22, 2002, Yale University

 

For more information see Books

 
 

Richard Feynman's blackboard at his death. "What I cannot create I do not understand."