Prof. Dr. A. Ravi Prakash Rau

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsTheoretical Chemistry: Electron Structure, Dynamics, Simulation,Quantum Optics,Theoretical Physics
Keywordsquantum information, entanglement decay, decoherence
Honours and awards

2011: Robert Stobaugh Alumni Professor, LSU

2008: Outstanding Referee, American Physical Society

2003: Distinguished Teaching Award, LSU

2001: Distinguished Faculty Award, LSU

1999: Alexander von Humboldt Preistraeger

1987: Distinguished Research Master, LSU

1985: Hannan Rosenthal Memorial Lecturer, Yale and Columbia Univs

1984: Visiting Fellow, JILA, U of Colorado, Boulder

1980: Fellow, American Physical Society

1977: Alfred P Sloan Fellowship

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityBaton Rouge
InstitutionLouisiana State University
InstituteDepartment of Physics and Astronomy

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Farhad H. FaisalFakultät für Chemie, Theoretische Chemie, Atom- und Molekülphysik, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld
Prof. Dr. Jürgen HinzeFakultät für Chemie, Theoretische Chemie, Atom- und Molekülphysik, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld
Prof. Dr. John Stuart BriggsPhysikalisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg
Prof. Dr. Gernot AlberInstitut für Angewandte Physik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt
Start of initial sponsorship01/07/1999

Programme(s)

1999Humboldt Research Award Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2007A. R. P. Rau: Metaphors of physics. In: Sampark, 2007, 2
2006V. Gueorguiev, A. R. P. Rau and J. P. Draayer: Confined one-dimensional harmonic oscillator as a two-mode system. In: American Journal of Physics, 2006, 394-403
2006I.Mazumdar, A. R. P. Rau and V. S. Bhasin: Efimov states and their Fano resonances in neutron-rich nuclei. In: Physical Review Letters, 2006, 062503
2006D. Uskov and A. R. P. Rau: Geometric Phases for N-level systems through unitary integration. In: Physical Review A, 2006, 030304
2005G. Selvaraj, A. R. P. Rau and D. Uskov: Four-level and two-qubit systems, sub-algebras and unitary integration. In: Physical Review A, 2005, 062316
2005W. Zhao and A. R. P. Rau: Time-dependent treatment of a general three-level system. In: Physical Review A, 2005, 063822
2004A. R. P. Rau: Perspectives on the Fano resonance formula. In: Physica Scripta, 2004, C10-C13
2004A. R. P. Rau: Supersymmetry in Quantum Mechanics: An extended view. In: Journal of Physics A, 2004, 10421-10427
2002A. Ravi Prakash Rau: Astronomy-Inspired Atomic And Molecular Physics. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002
2002R. A. Wendell and A. R. P. Rau: Embedding dissipation and decoherence in unitary evolution schemes. In: Physical Review Letters, 2002, 220405
2001A. Ravi Prakash Rau, Jürgen Hinze: Relations between parameters of density functional theories through exactly solvable many-fermion models. In: Journal of Chemical Physics, 2001, 9754-9757
2001A. Ravi Prakash Rau, Howard S. Cohl, Joel E. Tohline, Dana A. Browne, John E. Cazes, Eric I. Barnes: Useful alternative to the multipole expansion of 1/r potentials. In: Physical Review A, 2001, 052509-1-052509-5
2000A. Ravi Prakash Rau, G. Brad Armen: Effective Potentials for high Rydberg States in a Magnetic Field. In: Physics Essays, 2000, 400-407