Lev Kaplan , Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

 

 

Office: 5046 Percival Stern Hall

Office Phone: (504) 862-3176

 

Lab(s):

Lab Phone:

 

Fax: (504) 862-8702

 

Email: lkaplan@tulane.edu

Research Interests:

Quantum Chaos

 

Recent Courses:

PHYS 131/2 – General Physics I & II

PHYS 121 – Introductory Physics I

PHYS 101 – Great Ideas In Science

PHYS 706 – Theoretical Mechanics

PHYS 717/8 – Quantum Mechanics I & II

 

Education:

B.A., University of Penssylvania (1991)

M.A., Harvard University (1993)

Ph.D., Harvard University (1996)

 

Recent Publications:

K. Damborsky and L. Kaplan, "Scar Intensity Statistics in the Position Representation," Phys. Rev. E 72, 066204 (2005), arXiv:nlin.CD/0510040.

Kh. Kh. Shakov, J. H. McGuire, L. Kaplan, A. Chalastaras, and D. Uskov, "Sudden Switching in Qubits," J. Phys. B 39, 1361 (2006), arXiv:quant-ph/0503086.

L. Kaplan, "Brownian Motion Model of Quantization Ambiguity and Semiclassical Accuracy in Chaotic Systems," Phys. Rev. E 72, 036214 (2005), arXiv:nlin.CD/0507046.

L. Kaplan, "Correlation Function Bootstrapping in Quantum Chaotic Systems," Phys. Rev. E 71, 056212 (2005), arXiv:nlin.CD/0503058.

L. Kaplan, Kh. Kh. Shakov, A. Chalastaras, M. Maggio, A. L. Burin, and J. H. McGuire, "Time Ordering in Kicked Qubits," Phys. Rev. A 70, 063401 (2004), arXiv:quant-ph/0406177, also in Virtual Journal of Quantum Information and Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science.

L. Kaplan, "Semiclassical Accuracy in Phase Space for Regular and Chaotic Dynamics," Phys. Rev. E 70, 026223 (2004), arXiv:nlin.CD/0406054.

L. Kaplan, "Statistics of Branched Flow in a Weak Correlated Random Potential," Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 184103 (2002), arXiv:nlin.CD/0206040.