Lincoln Carr
Professor, Department of Physics
I have a broad range of theoretical interests covering many disciplines, using an even balance of analytical and numerical methods, and often work closely with experimentalists. Subjects I have worked on include entangled quantum dynamics, quantum phase transitions, and ultracold quantum gases; artificial lattice systems, from optical lattices to graphene to millimeter waves; solitons, vortices, chaos, fractals, and other nonlinear phenomena in nonlinear Schrodinger and nonlinear Dirac equations as realized in Bose-Einstein condensates, spin waves in ferromagnetic films, and optics; the quark-gluon plasma at CERN and RHIC; and a variety of topics in mathematical physics and the physics of complex systems. I am honored to mentor an intense, active, diverse research group averaging 15 persons and including undergraduates, MS and PhD graduate students, and post-docs.
I have a broad range of theoretical interests covering many disciplines, using an even balance of analytical and numerical methods, and often work closely with experimentalists. Subjects I have worked on include entangled quantum dynamics, quantum phase transitions, and ultracold quantum gases; artificial lattice systems, from optical lattices to graphene to millimeter waves; solitons, vortices, chaos, fractals, and other nonlinear phenomena in nonlinear Schrodinger and nonlinear Dirac equations as realized in Bose-Einstein condensates, spin waves in ferromagnetic films, and optics; the quark-gluon plasma at CERN and RHIC; and a variety of topics in mathematical physics and the physics of complex systems. I am honored to mentor an intense, active, diverse research group averaging 15 persons and including undergraduates, MS and PhD graduate students, and post-docs.
Research Interests
- Quantum physics
- Complexity theory
- Theoretical condensed matter physics
- Theoretical atomic, molecular, and optical physics
- Computational and mathematical physics
- Nonlinear dynamics
Education
- PhD, University of Washington
- MS, University of Washington
- BS, University of California, Berkeley
Honors and Awards
- Distinguished International Fellow of the National Science Foundation
- National Science Foundation Career Award
- Colorado School of Mines Research Excellence Award
- Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences
- Alexander von Humboldt Fellow
- Colorado School of Mines McBride Honors Faculty Fellow
- Fellow of the American Physical Society
- Jefferson Science Fellow