Department of Physics & Astronomy

Martin Ligare, Associate Professor

• email: mligare@bucknell.edu
• phone: (570) 577-1213, 577-1207
• FAX: (570) 577-3153
• Mail: Department of Physics & Astronomy, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837

Recent Papers:

• Transit times of radiation through photonic bandgap materials: Pulse reshaping of classical and quantum fields in the time domain
  Martin Ligare, Aaron Gee-Clough, and Charles Doersam
  Submitted for publication.
  physics/0210064, PS, PDF

• Atomic decay and re-absorption in inhomogeneous one-dimensional cavities: An example with an analytical solution
  Martin Ligare
  Unpublished complement to "Transit times of radiation ..." (see above)
  PS, PDF

• Elementary thermodynamics of trapped particles
  Martin Ligare
  Submitted for publication.
  physics/0210055, Corrected version: PS, PDF

• Electromagnetically induced transparency and reduced light speeds for single photons in a fully quantized model
  Thomas Purdy and Martin Ligare
  J. Opt. B: Quantum Semiclass. Opt., 5 (3), 289-299 (2003)
  PDF (Copyright 2003, Institute of Physics Publishing); quant-ph/0204173,

• Manifestation of classical wave delays in a fully-quantized model of the scattering of a single photon
  Thomas Purdy, Daniel R. Taylor, and Martin Ligare
  J. Opt. B: Quantum Semiclass. Opt., 5 (1), 85-94 (2003)
  PS, PDF (Copyright 2003, Institute of Physics Publishing); quant-ph/0204009

• The calculated photon: Visualization of a quantum field
  Martin Ligare and Ryan Oliveri
  Am. J. Phys., 70 (1), 58-66 (2002)
  PS, PDF, published abstract (Copyright 2002, American Association of Physics Teachers. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Association of Physics Teachers.)

• Atomic decay and re-absorption in a one-dimensional cavity: Analytical results
  Martin Ligare
  Unpublished complement to "The calculated photon ..." (see above)
  PS, PDF

• Comment on `Numerical analysis of Bose-Einstein condensation in three-dimensional harmonic oscillator potential' by Martin Ligare [Am. J. Phys. 66 (3), 185-190 (1998)] - An extension to anisotropic traps and lower dimensions
  Martin Ligare
  Am. J. Phys., 70 (1), 76-78 (2002)
  PS, PDF, published abstract (Copyright 2002, American Association of Physics Teachers. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Association of Physics Teachers.)

• Manifestation of classical phase in a single spontaneously emitted photon
  Martin Ligare and Daniel R. Taylor
  Presented at the Eighth Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics, June 2001 (Published in Coherence and Quantum Optics VIII, N.P. Bigelow, J.H. Eberly, C.R. Stroud, and I.A. Walmsley, eds., Plenum, 2003)
  PS, PDF

• Numerical analysis of Bose-Einstein condensation in a three-dimensional harmonic oscillator potential
  Martin Ligare
  Am. J. Phys. 66, 185 (1998)
  PS, PDF, (Copyright 1998, American Association of Physics Teachers. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Association of Physics Teachers.)

• Simple soluble models of quantum damping applied to cavity quantum electrodynamics
  Martin Ligare and Stephen Becker
  Am. J. Phys. 63, 788 (1995)
  PS, PDF, (Copyright 1995, American Association of Physics Teachers. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Association of Physics Teachers.)