Statistical Mechanics

People Involved

Directors:

Dr. Hiroshi Matsuoka

Research Projects

Statistical mechanics applied to lattice QCD, atomic clusters, the integer quantum Hall effect, and chaos

Publications

The textbook: "Thermal Physics - a contemporary perspective" by H. Matsuoka

H. Matsuoka and R. F. Martin, Jr.,
"Long Time Tails of the Velocity Autocorrelation Functions for the Triangular Periodic
Lorentz Gas," [6]
Journal of Statistical Physics 88, 81(1997).

H. Matsuoka
"Random Hamiltonian in the Universality Class for the Delocalization Transition in the
Lowest Landau Band,"
Rapid Communication, Physical Review B55, R7327 (1997).

H. Matsuoka and R. Grobe
"Calculation of the Scattering Amplitude from Discrete Eigenvalues," [3 by Physical Review
Online Archive database]
Physical Review Letters 91, 130405 (2003).

H. Matsuoka and R. Grobe
“Effect of eigenmodes on the optical transmission through one-dimensional random media"
Physical Review, E71, 046606 (2005). [2]

D. L. Holland, J. A. Ansher, R. F. Martin Jr., V. Jhaveri, and H. Matsuoka, “Comparison of the Current Sheet Thickness as Deytermined Using Nonlinear Dynamics Modelling and Cluster Measurements” American Geophysical Union Meeting, New Orleans,May 23-27 2005.

R. F. Martin Jr., H. Matsuoka, D. L. Holland, and J. Bradford, “Phase Space Structural Changes in Magnetotail Particle Dynamics” American Geophysical Union Meeting, Baltimore May 23-26 2006.

D. L. Holland, R. Rappa, R. F. Martin, Jr., and H. Matsuoka, "Quantitative Measures of Chaos in the Magnetotail," American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 15-19, 2008.