Charles Hanna

Professor and Associate Chair of Physics
Affiliate Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering graduate program


Address:

Department of Physics
Boise State University
1910 University Drive
Boise, ID 83725-1570

Office:

Multipurpose Building MP-423
(208) 426-4812
Lab:
Multipurpose Building MP-415
(208) 426-2378

E-mail:

channa@boisestate.edu

Fax:

 (208) 426-4330

 

Doctoral Degree and Research Area

Ph.D. in Physics, Stanford University

Condensed-Matter Theory

Course Syllabi

PHYS 125 Introductory Physics Colloquium
PHYS 309 Introduction to Modern Physics
PHYS 311 Modern Physics
PHYS 412 Introductory Quantum Mechanics
PHYS 422 Introduction to General Relativity
PHYS 432 Thermal Physics
PHYS 499 Senior Seminar
PHYS 522 Solid-State Physics

Research Interests: primarily theory, computation, and modeling

  • Interactions in quantum and in biophysical systems
  • Bose-Einstein Condensates
  • Quantum effects in low-dimensional and nanoscale electron and boson systems
  • Effects of interactions between electrons in semiconductor structures
  • Quantum Hall effect, especially in multicomponent systems
  • Many-body physics and statistical physics
 
Dr. Hanna and two research assistants

Selected Recent Publications

Case for Discotic Liquid Crystals in Molten Triglycerides
R.W. Corkery, D. Rousseau, P. Smith, D. A. Pink, C.B. Hanna, Langmuir 23, 7241 (2007)

Modelling electrostatic interactions in complex soft systems
D.A. Pink, C.B. Hanna, B.E. Quinn, V. Levadny, G.L. Ryan, L. Filion, A.T. Paulson, Food Research International 39, 1031 (2006)

Van der Waals interactions with soft interfaces
C.B. Hanna, D.A. Pink, B.E. Quinn, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 18, 8129 (2006)

Evolution of the bilayer nu=1 quantum Hall state under charge imbalance
W.R. Clarke, A.P. Micolich, A.R. Hamilton, M.Y. Simmons, C.B. Hanna, J.R. Rodriguez, M. Pepper, D.A. Ritchie, Phys. Rev. B 71, 081304 (2005)

 Measuring the condensate fraction of rapidly rotating trapped boson systems: off-diagonal order from the density
Jairo Sinova, C.B. Hanna, A.H. MacDonald, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 120401 (2003)

 Rippled state of double-layer quantum Hall systems
C.B. Hanna, Phys. Rev. B 66, 165325 (2002)

 Quantum Melting and Absence of Bose-Einstein Condensation in Two-Dimensional Vortex Matter
Jairo Sinova, C.B. Hanna, A.H. MacDonald, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 030403 (2002)

 Exchange-driven bilayer-to-monolayer charge transfer in an asymmetric double-quantum-well
A.R Hamilton, M.Y. Simons, C.B. Hanna, J.C. Díaz-Vélez, M. Pepper, D.A. Ritchie, Physica E 12, 304 (2002)

 Broken-Symmetry States in Quantum Hall Superlattices
C. B. Hanna, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, A. H. MacDonald, Phys. Rev. B 65, 115323 (2002)

 Incommensurate ground state of double-layer quantum Hall systems
C. B. Hanna, A. H. MacDonald, S. M. Girvin, Phys. Rev. B 63, 125305 (2001)

 Eliminating non-logical states from linear quantum-dot cellular automata
J.C. Lusth, C.B. Hanna, J.C. Díaz-Vélez, Microelectronics Journal 32, (1) 81 (2001)

 Double-Layer Systems at Zero Magnetic Field
C. B. Hanna, Dylan Haas, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, Phys. Rev. B 61, (20) 13882 (2000)

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