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Dr. Lev Kaplan

Dept. of Physics

2001 Percival Stern Hall

Tulane University

New Orleans, LA 70118

 

 

 

Lev Kaplan , Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

 

 

Office: 5046 Percival Stern Hall

Office Phone: (504) 862-3176

 

Fax: (504) 862-8702

 

Email: lkaplan@tulane.edu


Other Sites: Group Website

Research Interests:

Quantum Chaos

 

Recent Courses:

PHYS 101 – Great Ideas In Science

PHYS 122 – Introductory Physics II

PHYS 317/617 – Computational Physics and Engineering

PHYS 706 – Theoretical Mechanics

PHYS 717/8 – Quantum Mechanics I & II

TIDES 135 – Mysteries of the Quantum World

 

Education:

B.A., University of Pennsylvania (1991)

M.A., Harvard University (1993)

Ph.D., Harvard University (1996)

 

Recent Publications:


L. Kaplan and Y. Alhassid, "Interaction Matrix Element Fluctuations in Ballistic Quantum Dots: Random Wave Model," Phys. Rev. B 78, 085305 (2008), arXiv:0802.2410.


E. J. Heller, L. Kaplan, and F. Pollmann, "Inflationary Dynamics for Matrix Eigenvalue Problems," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105, 7631 (2008), arXiv:0712.4093.


L. Kaplan, F. Leyvraz, C. Pineda, and T. H. Seligman "A Trivial Observation on Time Reversal in Random Matrix Theory," J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 40, F1063 (2007), arXiv:0709.3353.


S. A. Fulling, L. Kaplan, and J. H. Wilson, "Vacuum Energy and Repulsive Casimir Forces in Quantum Star Graphs," Phys. Rev. A 76, 012118 (2007), arXiv:quant-ph/0703248.


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.


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


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.





 

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