Physics Department Personnel

Dr. Jan Engelbrecht

Associate Professor of Physics

617-552-0642
Higgins Hall 330C
jan@bc.edu

Education

• Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana, 1993

Areas of Research
Theory of strongly correlated electron systems, including pairing correlations in high-temperature superconductors, Fermi Liquid vs. non-Fermi Liquid metals, local Fermi liquids and the metal-insulator transition.

Selected Publications

• KB Blagoev, JR Engelbrecht and KS Bedell S-wave Superconductivity in Weak Ferromagnetic Metals Philosophical Magazine Letters 1998
  
• JR Engelbrecht, A Nazarenko, M Randeria and E Dagotto Pseudogap above Tc in a model with d_{x2-y2} pairing Phys Rev B 57: (21) June 1 1998
  
• JR Engelbrecht The spin susceptibility pseudogap due to Gaussian pairing in 3D Philosophical Magazine B 77: 1617-1623 1998
  
• JR Engelbrecht, M Randeria, CAR Sa de Melo BCS to Bose crossover: Broken-symmetry state Phys Rev B 55: (22) 15153-15156 Jun 1 1997
  
• JR Engelbrecht, KS Bedell Robustness of a local Fermi-liquid against ferromagnetism and phase separation Phys Rev Lett 74: (21) 4265-4268 May 22 1995
  
• M Randeria, JR Engelbrecht, and N Trivedi Search for deviations from Fermi liquid behaviour in 2D repulsive and attractive Hubbard models in The Physics and Mathematical Physics of the Hubbard Model ed D Baeriswyl et al (Plenum, 1994)
  
• JR Engelbrecht, M Randeria, CAR Sa de Melo Short coherence length superconductors: intermediate regime between BCS and bosons in Strongly Correlated Electronic Materials: The Los Alamos Symposium, ed K Bedell et al (Addison Wesley, 1994)
  
• M Randeria, CAR Sa de Melo, JR Engelbrecht Crossover from BCS to Bose superconductivity - a functional integral approach Physica B 194: 1409-1410 Part 2 Feb 1994
  
• CAR Sa de Melo, M Randeria, JR Engelbrecht Crossover from BCS to Bose superconductivity - transition temparetaure and time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau Theory Phys Rev Lett 71: (19) 3202-3205 Nov 8 1993
  
• JR Engelbrecht, M Randeria Low-density repulsive Fermi gas in 2 Dimensions - bound-pair excitations and Fermi-liquid behavior Phys Rev B 45: (21) 12419-12434 Jun 1 1992
  
• JR Engelbrecht, M Randeria, L Zhang Landau f function for the dilute Fermi gas in 2 dimensions Phys Rev B 45: (17) 10135-10138 May 1 1992
  
• JR Engelbrecht, M Randeria Is there a breakdown of Fermi-liquid behavior in the 2-dimensional Fermi gas Phys Rev Lett 66: (24) 3225-3225 Jun 17 1991
  
• CA Engelbrecht, JR Engelbrecht Fermi gas descriptions of nuclear-level densities Ann Phys-New York 207: (1) 1-37 Apr 1991
  
• JR Engelbrecht, M Randeria New collective mode and corrections to Fermi-liquid theory in 2 dimensions Phys Rev Lett 65: (8) 1032-1035 Aug 20 1990
  
• JR Engelbrecht, FM Wahl Polyhedral object recognition using Hough-space features Pattern Recogn 21: (2) 155-167 1988
  
• JR Engelbrecht, P Kritzinger , H Rudin Predicting protocol performance from a meta-implementation Proc. 5th Intl Wrkshp on Protocol Specification, Testing and Verification,
  Toulouse-Moissac 1985, North Holland
  
• JR Engelbrecht, CA Engelbrecht,  `Toestandvergelykings by uiterste toestande' [Equations of state under extreme conditions] Proc. 22nd Annual Seminar on Theoretical Physics,
  Durban 1987, ed. HB Geyer,Organisation of Theoretical Physics (South Africa), p 223