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James D. D. Martin


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Associate Professor of Physics, University of Waterloo

Contact information:

Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Waterloo
200 University Ave West
Waterloo, ON
N2L 3G1 Canada

E-mail: jddmartin@uwaterloo.ca
Office: Room 357, Physics Building, 519-888-4567 Ext. 33201
Laboratories: Rooms 140 and 139, Physics Building, 519-888-4567 Ext. 35426 and Ext. 36279
FAX: 519-746-8115


I sometimes hire undergraduate students for part-time research assistant positions. If you have good marks in your courses and some practical experience (e.g., electronics, amateur radio, fpgas, machining, optics, 3-d printing, ...) --- perhaps obtained through your hobbies --- please get in contact with me (send CV/resume and unofficial grades report).

Research Interests:

Experimental Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (AMO) (laser cooling and trapping, Rydberg atoms, atom chips, decoherence).

For more information, please see our publications.

News:

January 2024: Comment on "Matter-wave interferometry with helium atoms in low-l Rydberg states", Published, Physical Review A
November 2023: (Editor's Pick!) Thermal physics in the data age --- students judge the applicability of the equipartition theorem, Am. J. Phys. v. 91, pg 988 (2023).
March 2021: A simple derivation of Floquet's theorem, as normally applied to unitary evolution in quantum mechanics is available here.
March 2020: We have recently identified the precise relationship between Many-Mode Floquet Theory (MMFT) and "regular" Floquet theory (as formulated by Shirley), in the case of commensurate frequencies.

If you are interested in joining our group as a graduate student, you are welcome to contact me to discuss potential research projects.

Teaching:

I have taught a wide variety of courses here at UW, ranging from introductory second year optics to graduate quantum mechanics. I have assembled a small selection of problems from these courses, that may be of interest to others.

I also have a selection of third year thermal physics problems available here

I'm working on a set of notes concerning special relativity and electromagnetic radiation: Accelerate to radiate They are suitable for upper-year and graduate students. They are currently incomplete.

Current:

  1. Phys 706, Electromagnetic Theory (graduate), Winter 2024.

Future:

  1. Phys 267, Probability, Statistics, and Data Analysis in Physics and Astronomy, Spring 2024, Winter 2025.
  2. Phys 701, Quantum Mechanics (graduate), Fall 2024.

Recent Past:

  1. I taught Phys 701, Quantum Mechanics (graduate), in the Fall 2023 term.
  2. I taught Phys 706, Electromagnetic Theory (graduate), in the Winter 2022 term.
  3. I taught Phys 442, Electricity and Magnetism 3, in the Fall 2021 term.
  4. I taught Phys 358, Thermal Physics, in the Spring 2020 and Fall 2020 terms.
  5. I taught Phys 263, Classical Mechanics and Special Relativity, in the Winter 2019 term.
  6. I taught Phys 701, Quantum Mechanics (graduate), in the Fall 2018 term.
  7. I taught Phys 706, Electromagnetic theory (graduate), in the Winter 2018 term.


Last modified: January 24, 2024
J. D. D. Martin
jddmartin@uwaterloo.ca