John Samson

John Samson completed his PhD in the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge in 1982, under the supervision of Volker Heine. Following postdoctoral appointments in Cornell University and the Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung at Stuttgart, he came to Loughborough in 1986.

His research interests lie in condensed matter theory and quantum theory.

• Condensed matter theory
• Correlated electrons
• Polarons and bipolarons
• Superconductivity
• Quantum computing
• Wigner functions

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• R.P. Rundle, Todd Tilma, John Samson, V.M. Dwyer, Raymond Bishop, and Mark Everitt, General approach to quantum mechanics as a statistical theory Phys. Rev. A 99, 012115 (2019)
• B.I. Davies, R.P. Rundle, V.M. Dwyer, John Samson, Todd Tilma, and Mark Everitt, Visualizing spin degrees of freedom in atoms and molecules, Phys. Rev. A 100, 042102 (2019)
• R.P. Rundle, P.W. Mills, Todd Tilma, John Samson, and Mark Everitt, Simple procedure for phase-space measurement and entanglement validation, Phys. Rev. A 96, 022117 (2017)
• Todd Tilma, Mark Everitt, John Samson, W. J. Munro, and K. Nemoto, Wigner Functions for Arbitrary Quantum Systems, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 180401 (2016)

• Senior Lecturer, Quantum Systems Engineering Group, Loughborough University, UK

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