Celebrating Dover publication of two books: Linear Operators for Quantum Mechanics Dover Publications, New York (2007) Quantum Mechanics in Simple Matrix Form Dover Publications, New York (2005).

Thomas F. Jordan

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• Recent Publications

Contact Information

Office: 358 Marshall W. Alworth Hall (MWAH)
E-mail: tjordan at d.umn.edu
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Research Interests

Jordan's recent work is on the foundations of quantum mechanics. This has included nonlinear quantum dynamics, Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlations, quantum histories, and open quantum dynamics.

Recent Publications

1. Thomas F. Jordan, Anil Shaji, and E. C. G. Sudarshan, "One qubit almost completely reveals the dynamics of two," Phys. Rev. A 76, 012101 (2007).
2. Thomas F. Jordan, Anil Shaji, and E. C. G. Sudarshan, "Entanglement increase from local interactions and not completely positive maps," Phys. Rev. A 76, 022102 (2007). 
3. T.F. Jordan, A. Shaji, and E.C.G. Sudarshan, "Lorentz transformations that entangle spins and entangle momenta," Phys. Rev. A 75, 022101 (2007).
4. T.F. Jordan, A. Shaji, and E.C.G. Sudarshan, "Maps for Lorentz transformations of spin," Phys. Rev. A 73, 032104 (2006).
5. T.F. Jordan, "Assumptions that imply quantum dynamics is linear," Phys. Rev. A 73, 022101 (2006).
6. T.F. Jordan, A. Shajhi, and E.C.G. Sudarshan, "Mapping the Schrodinger picture of open quantum dynamics," Phys. Rev. A 73, 012106 (2006), quant-ph/0505123.
7. T.F. Jordan, "Cosmology calculations almost without general relativity," Am. J. Phys. 73, 653 (2005).
8. T.F. Jordan, "Affine maps of density matrices," Phys. Rev. A 71, 034101 (2005).
9. T.F. Jordan, A. Shaji, and E.C.G. Sudarshan, "Dynamics of initially entangled open quantum systems," Phys. Rev. A 70, 052110 (2004).
10. T.F. Jordan, "Steppingstones in Hamiltonian dynamics," Am. J. Phys. 72, 1095 (2004).
11. T.F. Jordan, "How relativity determines the Hamiltonian description of an object in classical mechanics," Phys. Lett. A 310, 123 (2003).
12. T.F. Jordan, "Simplified quantum oscillator solution," Am. J. Phys. 69, 1082 (2001).
13. T.F. Jordan, "Choosing and rechoosing to have or have not interference," Am. J. Phys. 69, 155 (2001).
14. T.F. Jordan and Z.-E. Sariyianni, "Signals faster than light in nonlinear quantum dynamics," Phys. Lett. A 263, 263 (1999).
15. T.F. Jordan, "Quantum correlations violate Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen assumptions," Phys. Rev. A 60, 2726 (1999).
16. E. Chisholm, T.F. Jordan, and E.C.G. Sudarshan, "Weak decoherence and quantum trajectory graphs." Intern. J. Theor. Phys. 35, 485 (1996).
17. T.F. Jordan, "Quantum mysteries explored," Am. J. Phys. 62, 874 (1994).
18. T.F. Jordan, "Testing Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen assumptions without inequalities with two photons or particles with spin 1/2," Phys. Rev. A 50, 62 (1994).
19. T.F. Jordan, "Nonlinear quantum spin dynamics. Symmetries without conservation laws," Phys. Rev. A 49, 5086 (1994).
20. T.F. Jordan, "Reconstructing a nonlinear dynamical framework for testing quantum mechanics," Ann. Phys. 225, 83 (1993).

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