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Jean-Francois Van Huele

Jean-Francois VAN HUELE

 

Current students:                                                                 Research Night Slide:

  • Bailey Hsu (PhD) is studying  Spintronic propagators
  • Tim Wendler (PhD) is studying quantum structures
  • Nathan Steiger (Honors) is studying  Weak measurement of incompatible observables and fidelity of quantum gates

Recent student theses:

 

Adam HALL (Senior thesis 2009)

Describing two charged particles in a magnetic field using trajectories and wave functions through matrix factorization

(Adam is now a System Engineer at Northrop Grumman in Aurora, Colorado)

 

Lucas EARL (Senior thesis 2008)

Explorations in Quantum Relativity

(Lucas tutors physics and math at UVU until the start of his mission for the LDS church)

 

Mark TRANSTRUM (Honor's thesis 2006)  

Quantum mechanics in Snyder space

(Mark is now a PhD student at Cornell University)

 

 

Vern HART (Senior thesis 2006)  

Airy wave packets as quantum solutions for recovering classical trajectories

(Vern now teaches physics in Texas, and will start graduate school soon)

 

 

Jared STENSON (MS thesis 2005)   

Representations for understanding the Stern-Gerlach effect

(Jared is now a PhD student at Oregon State University)

 

 

Jason EVANS (MS thesis 2004)  

On the variability of the fine structure constant

(Jason is now a PhD student at the University of Michigan)

 

 

Philip DU TOIT (Honor's thesis 2000)    

Spin current: the contribution of spin to the probability current for nonrelativistic particles

(Philip is now a PhD student in control and dynamical systems at the California Institute of Technology)

 
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