Sneaking a Peek at a Tunneling Particle

ABSTRACT

If you manage to catch a tunneling particle in its energetically forbidden region, it cannot be there without you giving it energy. Our speaker, Andrew Jordan, Managing Director of the Institute for Quantum Studies and Professor of Physics, Chapman University, will describe different predictions about what happens in continuously monitored tunneling systems, including the measurement-assisted tunneling effect and how the energy the measurement process gives can be harnessed to make a thermoelectric engine and refrigerator.

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Andrew Jordan received his B.S. in Physics and Mathematics (1997) from Texas A&M University and his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics (2002) from the University of California, Santa Barbara, supervised by Professor Mark Srednicki. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Geneva (2002-2005) with Professor Markus Büttiker. He joined the faculty of the University of Rochester in 2006. Dr. Jordan joined Chapman University in 2021 where he is the Managing Director of the Institute for Quantum Studies and Professor of Physics.