Undergraduate Research
Publications of StFX Physics Undergraduate Students Since 2007
At a primarily undergraduate university like StFX, faculty members rely heavily on undergraduate students to perform their research projects. The Physics Department has a very active research program.
Here, it’s very common for undergraduate students to get involved, see how research in physics works, and apply techniques learned in class. Nothing demonstrates this better than a paper co-authored by an undergraduate student. The list below displays all papers since 2007 that represent research done by undergraduate StFX physics students. This includes work done under the supervision of faculty members in and outside of the Department.
If you’re interested in getting involved, have a look at our summer research opportunities or simply email the Chair or the researcher you’d like to work with.
- L.M. Farrell, D. Eaton, P. Chitnelawong, K. Bencheikh and B.P. van Zyl
Preserving the Hermiticity of the one-body density matrix for a non-interacting Fermi gas
Journal of Physics A 57, 395201 (2024) (link) - L.B. Taylor and M.R. Baker
The general set of Noetherian energy-momentum tensors in linearized gravity: mathematical framework
Physica Scripta 99, 035258 (2024) (link) - K.-P. Marzlin and M.P. Kinach
Exactly Solvable 2D Model for Photon Propagation in Curved Space: Loss of Interference and Bell Inequality Violation
Classical and Quantum Gravity 39, 065005 (2022) (link) - K.-P. Marzlin, B. Canam and N.R. Agarwal
Nonlinear atomic force microscopy: Squeezing and skewness of micro-mechanical oscillators interacting with a surface
Physical Review A 105, 012211 (2022) (link) - K. Le Bris, C. MacDougall, P.J. Godin and K. Strong
Absorption cross-sections, radiative efficiency and global warming potential of HFE-347pcf2 (1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethyl 2,2,2-trifluoroethyl ether)
J. Molec. Spectrosc. 379, 111494 (2021) (link) - D. Eaton, I. Saika-Voivod, R.K. Bowles, and P.H. Poole
Free energy surface of two-step nucleation
J. Chem. Phys. 154, 234507 (2021) (link) - N. Callaghan-Patrachar, F. Peyronel, D.A. Pink, A.G. Marangoni, C.P. Adams
USANS and SANS investigations on the coagulation of commercial bovine milk: Microstructures induced by calf and fungal rennet
Food Hydrocolloids 116, 106622 (2020) (link) - S. Mohandas, R.J. van den Hoogen, D. Winters, and M. Dala
Kantowski-Sachs Einstein-aether scalar field cosmological models: the sequel
J. Cosmol. Astroparticle Phys. 21 (2020) (link) - K. Le Bris, J. DeZeeuw, P.J. Godin and K. Strong
Radiative efficiency and global warming potential of the hydrofluoroether HFE-356mec3 (CH3OCF2CHFCF3) from experimental and theoretical infrared absorption cross-sections
J. Molec. Spectrosc. 367, 111241 (2020) (link) - C. P. Adams, N. Callaghan-Patrachar, F. Peyronel, J. Barker, D. A. Pink, and A. G. Marangoni
Small and ultra-small angle neutron scattering studies of commercial milk
Food Structure 21, 100120 (2019) (link) - P. Chitnelawong, F. Sciortino, and P. H. Poole
The stability-limit conjecture revisited
J. Chem. Phys. 150, 234502 (2019)(link) - A. Candian, M. Gomes Rachid, H. MacIsaac, V. N. Staroverov, E. Peeters, and J. Cami
Searching for stable fullerenes in space with computational chemistry
Monthly Not. Royal Astron. Soc. (2019) (link) - D. James, S. Beairsto, C. Hartt, O. Zavalov, I. Saika-Voivod, R.K. Bowles, and P.H. Poole
Phase transitions in fluctuations and their role in two-step nucleation
J. Chem. Phys. 150, 074501 (2019) (link) - R.J. van den Hoogen, A.A. Coley, B. Alhulaimi, S. Mohandas, E. Knighton and S. O'Neil
Kantowski-Sachs Einstein-aether scalar field cosmological models
J. Cosmol. Astrop. Phys. (2018) (link) - K. Le Bris, J. DeZeeuw, P. Godin, and K. Strong
Infrared absorption cross-sections, radiative efficiency and global warming potential of HFC-43-10mee
J. Mol. Spec., 348, 64 (2018) (link) - K.-P. Marzlin and B. Fitzgerald
Spontaneous emission and atomic line shift in causal perturbation theory
J. Math. Phys. 59, 042103 (2018) (link) - K. Le Bris, J. DeZeeuw, P. Godin, and K. Strong
Cis- and trans-perfluorodecalin: infrared spectra, radiative efficiency and global warming potential
J. Quant. Spectrosc. Rad. Transfer, 203, 538 (2017) (link) - B. P. van Zyl and W. Ferguson
Ordered phases in a bilayer system of dipolar fermions
Phys. Rev. A 993, 053626 (2016) (link) - R.K.W. Spencer, P. F. Curry, and R.A. Wickham
Nucleation of the BCC phase from disorder in a diblock copolymer melt: Testing approximate theories through simulation
J. Chem. Phys. 145, 144902 (2016) (link) - B. P. van Zyl, W. Kirkby, and W. Ferguson
Density-functional theory for the crystalline phases of a two-dimensional dipolar Fermi gas
Phys. Rev. A 92, 023614 (2015) (link) - J. Towers, B.P. van Zyl, and W. Kirkby
Testing the nonlocal kinetic energy functional of an inhomogeneous, two-dimensional degenerate Fermi gas within the average density approximation
Phys. Rev. B 92, 075129 (2015) (link) - K.-P. Marzlin and T. Landry
On the connection between the theorems of Gleason and of Kochen and Specker
Can. J. Phys. e-publication (2015) (link) - Connor R.C. Buhariwalla, R.K. Bowles, I. Saika-Voivod, F. Sciortino, and P.H. Poole
Free energy of formation of small ice nuclei near the Widom line in simulations of supercooled water
Eur. Phys. J. E 38, 39 (2015) (link) - K.-P. Marzlin and S. Deering
The Moyal Equation for open quantum systems
J. Phys. A 48, 205301 (2015) (link) - K. Le Bris and L. Graham
Quantitative comparisons of absorption cross-section spectra and integrated intensities of HFC-143a
J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer 151, 13 (2015) (link) - K.-P. Marzlin and T. Lee
Interferometry with relativistic electrons
Phys. Rev. A 89, 062103 (2014) (link) - B. Scheifele, I. Saika-Voivod, R.K. Bowles, and P.H. Poole
Heterogeneous Nucleation in the Low Barrier Regime
Phys. Rev. E 87, 042407 (2013) (link) - Z. MacDonald and B.P. van Zyl
Finite temperature analytical results for a harmonically confined gas obeying exclusion statistics in d-dimensions
J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 46, 045001 (2013) (link) - J. Roberts, L. L. Graham, B. Quinn, and D. A. Pink
Modeling the surface of campylobacter fetus: Protein surface layer stability and resistance to cationic antimicrobial peptides
Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1828, 1143 (2013) (no link given) - A. Farrell, Z. MacDonald and B.P. van Zyl
The Zel'dovich effect in harmonically trapped, ultracold quantum gases
J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 45, 045303 (2012) (link) - A. Farrell, B.P. van Zyl, Z. MacDonald
Evaluation of inverse integral transforms for undergraduate physics students
Can. J. Phys. 90, 1 (2012) (link) - K. Le Bris, J. McDowell, and K. Strong
Measurements of the infrared absorption cross-sections of HCFC-141b (CH3CFCl2)
J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer 113, 1913 (2012) (link) - C. J. MacDougall, M. S. Razul, E. Papp-Szabo, F. Peyronel, C. B. Hanna, A. G. Marangoni and D. A. Pink
Nanoscale characteristics of triacylglycerol oils: phase separation and binding energies of two-component oils to crystalline nanoplatelets
Faraday Discuss. 158, 425 (2012) (link) - D.R. Jackson, A. Mohareb, Jennifer MacNeil, M.S.G. Razul, D.G. Marangoni, and P.H. Poole
Simulations of a lattice model of two-headed linear amphiphiles: influence of amphiphile asymmetry
J. Chem. Phys. 134, 204503 (2011) (link) - M. J. Cuthbertson and P.H. Poole
Mixturelike Behavior Near a Liquid-Liquid Phase Transition in Simulations of Supercooled Water
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 115706 (2011) (link) - B.P. van Zyl, K. Berkane, K. Bencheikh, and A. Farrell
Gradient corrections to the kinetic energy density functional of a two-dimensional Fermi gas at finite temperature
Phys. Rev. B 83, 195136 (2011) (link) - A. Farrell and B.P. van Zyl
s-wave scattering and the zero-range limit of the finite square well in arbitrary dimensions
Can. J. Phys 88, 817 (2010) (link) - A. Farrell and B.P. van Zyl
Universality of the energy spectrum for two interacting harmonically trapped ultra-cold atoms in one and two dimensions
J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 43, 015302 (2010) (link) - M. O. Musa, A. MacDonald, L. Tidswell, J. Holmes and B. Wallbank
Laser-induced free–free transitions in elastic electron scattering from CO2
J. Phys. B 43, 175201 (2010) (link) - T.D. Hatchard, A.E. George, S.P. Farrell, M.O. Steinitz, C.P. Adams, M. Cormier and R.A. Dunlap
Production and characterization of 〈1 0 0〉 textured magnetostrictive Fe–Ga rods
J. Alloys Compd. 494, 420 (2010) (link) - P. Shea and B.P. van Zyl
Thermodynamic properties of a harmonically trapped, two-dimensional charged quantum gas in a magnetic field
J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 41, 135305 (2008) (link) - P. Shea and B.P. van Zyl
Simple analytical results for harmonically trapped quantum gases
J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 40, 10589 (2007) (link)
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