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Raj Mohanty Pritiraj Mohanty RESEARCH: Group Web Page: http://nano.bu.edu/ Research Interests: Quantum Information: Control and Manipulation of Coherent Signals:
Controlling Decoherence in Nanoscale Structures, Picosecond Pulse
Measurements in Time Domain and External Control of Coherence, Nanomechanics: Energy Relaxation in Micro- and Nano-Mechanical
Structure, Quantum Friction, Quantum Nanomechanics: Quantum motion of oscillators, macroscopic quantum
physics; Foundations of quantum theory Gravity: Fundamental Force Measurement: Gravitational Force
in Micron Scale in search of extra dimensions, Nanoscale Superconductivity: Nanoscale High-Tc Superconductivity and Quantum
Phase Systems Nanoscale Biosensors for Ultrasensitive Assay of Breast
Cancer Biomarkers, Nanoelectronic
& nanomechanical sensors and sensor arrays for pH & ion detection;
parallel assay of disease-specific proteins |
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TEACHING: PY351: Modern Physics (I):
Quantum Mechanics & Relativity Course Website: webct.bu.edu (BU ACS
login and password needed) Topics: Basic principles of non-relativistic quantum mechanics:
experimental basis of quantum theory, wave particle duality, free-particle
Schrodinger’s equation, matter waves, uncertainty principle, quantum
coherence and quantum measurement problem, operator formalism, bound state
problems (particle in a box, infinite walls, and quantum harmonic
oscillator), unbound state problems (tunneling and alpha decay), quantum
mechanics in three dimension (hydrogen atom and hydrogen-like atoms), atomic
spectra, quantization, transition rates, lasers, spin and angular momentum, special theory of relativity and introduction to general
relativity |
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