Charles Hanna

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

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Address:

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

Office:

Multipurpose Building

MP-420

(208) 426-3775

Lab:

Multipurpose Building

MP-415

(208) 426-2378

E-mail:

physics@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 381 Electromagnetism I
PHYS 412 Introductory Quantum Mechanics
PHYS 422 Introduction to General Relativity
PHYS 432 Thermal Physics
PHYS 436/536 Soft Matter
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

Correlation between saturation magnetization, bandgap, and lattice volume of transition metal (M=Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, or Ni) doped Zn1-xMxO nanoparticles
J. Anghel, A. Thurber, D. A. Tenne, C. B. Hanna, and A. Punnoose, Journal of Applied Physics, 107, 09E314 (2010)

Crucial roles of charged saccharide moieties in survival of gram negative bacteria against protamine revealed by combination of grazing incidence x-ray
structural characterizations and Monte Carlo simulations
Rafael Oliveira, Emanuel Schneck, Bonnie Quinn, Oleg Konovalov, Klaus Brandenburg, Thomas Gutsmann, Tom Gill, Charles Hanna, David Pink, Motomu
Tanaka, Phys. Rev. E, 81, 041901 (2010)

Electrostatics Interactions Affect Nanoparticle-Mediated Toxicity to the Gram-Negative Bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA01
Kevin Feris, Caitlin Otto, Juliette Tinker, Denise Wingett, Alex Punnoose, Aaron Thurber, Madhu Kongara, Maryam Sabetian*,
Bonnie Quinn, Charles Hanna, and David Pink, Langmuir 26 (6), 4429-4436 (2010)

Modeling the solid-liquid phase transition in saturated triglycerides
D.A. Pink, C.B. Hanna, C. Sandt, A.J. MacDonald, R. MacEachern, R. Corkery, D. Rousseau. Journal of Chemical Physics 132, 054502 (2010)

Physical Mechanisms of Bacterial Survival Revealed by Combined Grazing-Incidence X-ray Scattering and Monte Carlo Simulation
R.G. Oliveira, E. Schneck, B.E. Quinn, O.V. Konovalov, K. Brandenburg, U. Seydel, T. Gill, C.B. Hanna, D.A. Pink, and M. Tanaka,
Comptes Rendus Chimie 12 (1-2), 209-217 (2009). </font

he Influences of Cell Type and ZnO Nanoparticle Size on Immune Cell Cytotoxicity and Cytokine Induction
Cory Hanley*, Aaron Thurber, Charles Hanna, Alex Punnoose, Jianhui Zhang, and Denise G. Wingett, Nanoscale Research Letters 4 (12), 1409-1420 (2009).

Physical Mechanisms of Bacterial Survival Revealed by Combined Grazing-Incidence X-ray Scattering and Monte Carlo Simulation
R.G. Oliveira, E. Schneck, B.E. Quinn, O.V. Konovalov, K. Brandenburg, U. Seydel, T. Gill, C.B. Hanna, D.A. Pink, M. Tanaka. Comptes Rendus Chimie 12, Issues 1-2, 209-217 (January-February 2009)

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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