Gerald Vincent DUNNE
Professor of Physics
University of Connecticut


Education:

1984 : B. Sc. (First Class Honours), Mathematical Physics, University of Adelaide

1985 : M. Sc., Theoretical Physics, University of Adelaide
Thesis : Deep Inelastic Scattering and the EMC Effect
Advisor : A. W. Thomas

1988 : Ph. D., Theoretical Physics, Imperial College, London
Thesis : Methods of Quantization
Advisor : I. G. Halliday

Experience:

1988-90 : Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Theoretical Physics, MIT

1990-92 : Instructor in Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, MIT

1992-96 : Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut

1996-02 : Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut

2002- Professor, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut


Professional Societies:

Life Member, American Physical Society

Fellow, Institute of Physics (U.K.)


Honours or Distinctions:

1984        First Class Honours, Department of Mathematical Physics, University of Adelaide

1985-88 Commonwealth Scholar (U.K. Award) , Association of Commonwealth Universities and The British Council

1987        Full Athletics Colours (Squash), Imperial College, London

1998        Chancellor's Research Excellence Award, University of Connecticut

1999        Visiting Associate Professor, Technion, Israel, Fall 1999

2000        PPARC (UK Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council) Research Fellow, Oxford, Spring 2000

2000        Visiting Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford, Spring 2000

2000        Visiting Professor, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, November 2000

2002         Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency, Bellagio (Italy), Summer 2004      

International Panels: Editorial Board, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General; Section Editor (Classical and Quantum Field Theory).

Field of Specialization: Theoretical Physics

Research Interests: Quantum Field Theory, Theoretical Particle Physics, Mathematical Methods of Quantum Theory .


Gerald Vincent DUNNE - Publications


Books

Editorships

Lecture Notes and Major Reviews

Research Papers Published in Refereed Journals

  1. G. Dunne and A. Thomas, ``On the Interpretation of the EMC Effect'', Physical Review D33 (1986) 2061.
  2. G. Dunne and A. Thomas, ``The Effect of Conventional Nuclear Binding on Nuclear Structure Functions'', Nuclear Physics A455 (1986) 701.
  3. G. Dunne and I. Halliday, ``Negative Dimensional Integration II: Path Integrals and Fermionic Equivalence'', Physics Letters 193B (1987) 247.
  4. G. Dunne and I. Halliday, ``Negative Dimensional Oscillators'', Nuclear Physics B308 (1988) 589.
  5. C. Bender and G. Dunne, ``Exact Operator Solutions to Euler Hamiltonians'', Physics Letters 200B (1988) 520.
  6. C. Bender and G. Dunne, ``Polynomials and Operator Orderings'', Journal of Mathematical Physics 29 (1988) 1727.
  7. G. Dunne, ``Quantum Canonical Invariance -- A Moyal Approach,'' Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 21 (1988) 2321.
  8. G. Dunne and A. Kakas, ``Anomalous Chiral Current Commutators and Divergence'', Physics Letters 211B (1988) 445.
  9. G. Dunne, I. Halliday and P. Suranyi, ``Generalized Bosonic Construction of Virasoro Generators'', Physics Letters 213B (1988) 139.
  10. G. Dunne, ``Negative Dimensional Groups in Quantum Physics,'' Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 22 (1989) 1719.
  11. G. Dunne, I. Halliday and P. Suranyi, ``Bosonization of Parafermionic Conformal Field Theories'', Nuclear Physics B325 (1989) 526.
  12. G. Dunne and C. Trugenberger, ``Kinetic Normal Ordering and the Hamiltonian Structure of U(1) Chiral Anomalies in 3+1 Dimensions'', Annals of Physics 195 (1989) 356.
  13. G. Dunne, R. Jackiw and C. Trugenberger, ``Chern-Simons Theory in the Schrödinger Representation'', Annals of Physics 194 (1989) 197.
  14. G. Dunne and C. Trugenberger, ``Schrödinger Representation for Abelian Chern-Simons Theories on Nontrivial Space-Times'', Modern Physics Letters A4 (1989) 1635.
  15. C. Bender and G. Dunne, ``Exact Solutions to Operator Differential Equations'', Physical Review D 40 (1989) 2739.
  16. C. Bender and G. Dunne, ``Integration of Operator Differential Equations'', Physical Review D 40 (1989) 3504.
  17. G. Dunne, R. Jackiw and C. Trugenberger, ``Topological (Chern-Simons) Quantum Mechanics'', Physical Review D 41 (1990) 661.
  18. G. Dunne and C. Trugenberger, ``Non-Abelian Anomalous Commutators'', Physics Letters 247B (1990) 81.
  19. G. Dunne and C. Trugenberger, ``Covariant Gauss Law Anomaly'', Physics Letters 248B (1990) 305.
  20. G. Dunne and C. Trugenberger, ``Odd Dimensional Gauge Theories and Current Algebra'', Annals of Physics 204 (1990) 281.
  21. G. Dunne and C. Trugenberger, ``Current Algebra from Chern-Simons Theories'', Physics Letters 248B (1990) 311.
  22. G. Dunne and C. Trugenberger, ``Self-Duality and Non-Relativistic Maxwell-Chern-Simons Solitons'', Physical Review D 43 (1991) 1323.
  23. G. Dunne, R. Jackiw, S-Y. Pi and C. Trugenberger, ``Self-Dual Chern-Simons Solitons and Two-Dimensional Non-Linear Equations'', Physical Review D 43 (1991) 1332 .
  24. G. Dunne, A. Lerda and C. Trugenberger, ``Landau Levels and Vertex Operators for Anyons'', Modern Physics Letters A6 (1991) 2819.
  25. G. Dunne, A. Lerda, S. Sciuto and C. Trugenberger, ``Exact Multi-Anyon Wave Functions in a Magnetic Field'', Nuclear Physics B 370 (1992) 601.
  26. C. Bender and G. Dunne, ``Covariance of the Gauge Field in Three Dimensional Quantum Electrodynamics'', Physical Review D 44 (1991) 2565.
  27. G. Dunne, ``Hilbert Space for Charged Particles in Perpendicular Magnetic Fields'', Annals of Physics 215 (1992) 233.
  28. G. Dunne, A. Lerda, S. Sciuto and C. Trugenberger, ``Magnetic Moment and Third Virial of Non- Relativistic Anyons'', Physics Letters B 277 (1992) 474.
  29. G. Dunne, ``Chern-Simons Solitons, Toda Theories and the Chiral Model'', Communications in Mathematical Physics 150 (1992) 519.
  30. G. Dunne and N. Rius, ``A Comment on the Relationship between Differential and Dimensional Renormalization'', Physics Letters B 293 (1992) 367.
  31. G. Dunne and R. Jaffe, ``Bound States in Twisted Aharonov-Bohm Tubes'', Annals of Physics 223 (1993) 180.
  32. A. Cappelli, G. Dunne, C. Trugenberger and G. Zemba, ``Conformal Symmetry and Universal Properties of Quantum Hall States'', Nuclear Physics B 398 (1993) 531.
  33. G. Dunne, ``Slater Decomposition of Laughlin States'', Int. Journal of Modern Physics B 7 (1993) 4783.
  34. D. Cangemi and G. Dunne, ``Extended de Sitter Theory of Two Dimensional Gravitational Forces'', Physical Review D 48 (1993) 5721.
  35. G. Dunne, ``Edge Asymptotics of Planar Electron Densities'', International Journal of Modern Physics B, 8 (1994) 1625.
  36. G. Dunne, ``Relativistic Self-Dual Chern-Simons Vortices with Adjoint Coupling'', Physics Letters B 324 (1994) 359.
  37. G. Dunne, ``Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in the Schrödinger Representation for Chern-Simons Theories'', Physical Review D 50 (1994) 5321.
  38. C. Bender and G. Dunne, ``Operator-reordering Solutions to Quantum Problems'', UCONN-Washington U. Preprint, submitted to Physical Review A.
  39. G. Dunne, ``Vacuum Mass Spectra for SU(N) Self-Dual Chern-Simons-Higgs Systems'', Nuclear Physics B 433 (1995) 333.
  40. D. Cangemi, E. D'Hoker and G. Dunne, ``Derivative Expansion of the Effective Action and Vacuum Instability for QED in 2+1 Dimensions'', Physical Review D (Rapid Communciations) 51 (1995) R2513.
  41. L. Chen, G. Dunne, K. Haller and E. Lim-Lombridas, ``Integer Quantization of the Chern-Simons Coefficient in a Broken Phase'', Physics Letters B 348 (1995) 468.
  42. G. Dunne, ``Mass Degeneracies in Self-Dual Models'', Physics Letters B 345 (1995) 452.
  43. L. Chen, G. Dunne, K. Haller and E. Lim-Lombridas, ``Canonical Quantization of Spontaneously Broken Topologically Massive Gauge Theory'', Journal of Mathematical Physics 37 (1996) 2602.
  44. D. Cangemi, E. D'Hoker and G. Dunne, ``Effective Energy for QED_2+1 with Semi-localized Static Magnetic Field: A Solvable Model'', Physical Review D (Rapid Communications) 52 (1995) R3163.
  45. C. Bender and G. Dunne, ``Quasi-Exactly Solvable Models and Orthogonal Polynomials'', Journal of Mathematical Physics 37 (1996) 6.
  46. G. Dunne and T. Hall, ``Inhomogeneous Condensates in Planar QED'', Physical Review D 53 (1996) 2220.
  47. D. Cangemi and G. Dunne, ``Temperature Expansions for Magnetic Systems'', Annals of Physics 249 (1996) 582-602.
  48. G. Dunne and T. Hall, ``Renormalization in Coupled-Abelian Self-Dual Chern-Simons Systems'', Physics Letters B 392 (1997) 123.
  49. C. Bender, G. Dunne and M. Moshe, ``Semiclassical Analysis of Quasi-Exact Solvability'', Physical Review A 55 (1997) 2625.
  50. G. Dunne, ``An All-Orders Derivative Expansion'', International Journal of Modern Physics A12 (1997) 1143.
  51. G. Dunne, K. Lee and C. Lu, ``The Finite Temperature Chern-Simons Coefficient'', Physical Review Letters 78 (1997) 3434.
  52. G. Dunne and J. Feinberg, ``Self-Isospectral Periodic Potentials and Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics'', Physical Review D 57 (1998) 1271.
  53. G. Dunne and T. Hall, ``An Exact QED_3+1 Effective Action'', Physics Letters B 419 (1998) 322.
  54. G. Dunne and J. Mannix, ``Supersymmetry Breaking with Periodic Potentials'', Physics Letters B 428 (1998) 115.
  55. A. Das and G. Dunne, ``Finite Temperature Perturbation Theory and Large Gauge Invariance'', Physical Review D 57 (1998) 5023.
  56. G. Gibson, G. Dunne and K. Bergquist, ``Tunneling Ionization Rates from Arbitrary Potential Wells'', Physical Review Letters 81 (1998) 2663.
  57. S. Deser, G. Dunne, L. Griguolo, K. Lee, C. Lu and D. Seminara, ``Comment on "Non-thermalizability of a Quantum Field Theory"'', hep-th/9802075.
  58. G. Dunne and T. Hall, ``QED effective action in time dependent electric backgrounds'', Physical Review D 58 (1998) 105022.
  59. C. Bender, G. Dunne and P. Meisinger, ``Complex Periodic Potentials with Real Band Spectra'', Physics Letters A 252 (1999) 272.
  60. C. Bender and G. Dunne, ``Large-Order Perturbation Theory for Nonhermitean PT-Symmetric Hamiltonians'', J. Math. Phys. 40 (1999) 4616.
  61. G. Dunne and T. Hall, ``Borel Summation of the Derivative Expansion and QED Effective Actions'',Phys. Rev. D 60 (1999) 065002.
  62. A. Das and G. Dunne, ``Non-static Dimensional Reduction of QED_3 at Finite Temperature'', Phys. Rev. D 60 (1999) 085010.
  63. G. Dunne and K. Rao, ``Lam'e Instantons'', Journal of High Energy Physics 0001 (2000) 019.
  64. G. Dunne, ``Instantons and Asymmetric Vacua'', Foundations of Physics 30 (2000) 463.
  65. G. Dunne and C. Schubert, ``Two-Loop Euler-Heisenberg QED Pair Production Rate'', Nuclear Physics B 564 (2000) 591.
  66. G. Dunne, ``Derivative Expansion and Soliton Masses'', Physics Letters B 467 (1999) 238.
  67. A. Das, G. Dunne, and J. Frenkel, ``Large Gauge Ward Identity'', Physics Letters B 472 (2000) 332.
  68. G. Dunne and J. Feinberg, ``Finite Temperature Effective Action in Monopole Background'', Physics Letters B 477 (2000) 474.
  69. I. Aitchison and G. Dunne, ``Nontopological Finite Temperature Induced Fermion Number'', Phys. Rev. Lett. 86 (2001) 1690.
  70. G. Dunne, A. Kovner and B. Tekin, ``Magnetic Symmetries and Vortices in Chern-Simons Systems'', Phys. Rev. D 63 (2001) 025009.
  71. G. Dunne, A. Kovner, I. Kogan and B. Tekin, ``Deconfining Phase Transition in 2+1 D: the Georgi-Glashow Model'', Journal of High Energy Physics 0101 (2001) 032.
  72. G. Dunne and B. Tekin, ``Calorons in Weyl gauge'', Phys. Rev. D 63 (2001) 085004.
  73. C. Bender, G. Dunne, P. Meisinger and M. Simsek, ``Quantum Complex H'enon-Heiles Potentials'', Physics Letters A 281 (2001) 311.
  74. C. Bender, G. Dunne and L. R. Mead, ``Underdetermined systems of partial differential equations'', J. Math. Phys. 41 (2000) 6388-6398.
  75. G. Dunne and K. Rao, ``Thermal Fluctuations of Induced Fermion Number'', Phys. Rev. D 64 (2001) 025003.
  76. G. Dunne, A. W. Thomas, S. Wright, ``Chiral Extrapolation: An Analogy with Effective Field Theory'', Physics Letters B 531 (2002) 77.
  77. V.S. Alves, A. Das, G. Dunne, S. Perez, ``Parity Violating Bosonic Loops at Finite Temperature'', Physical Review D 65 (2002) 085011.
  78. G. Dunne and C. Schubert, ``Closed-form two-loop Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangian in a self-dual background'', Physics Letters B 526 (2002) 55.
  79. F. T. Brandt, A. Das, G. Dunne, J. Frenkel, J. C. Taylor, ``Non-Abelian Thermal Large Gauge Transformations in 2+1 Dimensions'', Physical Review D65 (2002) 065006.
  80. J. Ruostekoski, G. Dunne and J. Javanainen, ``Particle number fractionization of an atomic Fermi-Dirac gas in an optical lattice'', Physical Review Letters 88 (2002) 180401.
  81. G. Dunne, J. Lopez and K. Rao, ``Finite temperature induced fermion number in the nonlinear sigma model in 2+1 dimensions'', Phys. Rev. D 66, 025004 (2002)
  82. G. Dunne and C. Schubert, ``Two-loop self-dual Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangians (I): spinor and scalar QED'', preprint, April 2002, submitted to JHEP.
  83. G. Dunne and C. Schubert, ``Two-loop self-dual Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangians (II): imaginary part and Borel analysis'', Journal of High Energy Physics 0206, 042 (2002).
  84. G. Dunne and M. Shifman, ``Duality and self-duality (energy-reflection symmetry) in periodic quasi-exactly solvable potentials'', Annals of Physics 299 (2002) 143.
  85. G. Dunne, A. Kovner and S. Nishigaki, ``Fundamental matter and the deconfining phase transition in 2+1 D'', Phys. Lett. B 544, 215 (2002); [arXiv:hep-th/0207049].
  86. G. Dunne and K. Rao, ``Finite temperature induced fermion number for quarks in a chiral field,'' Phys. Rev. D 67, 045013 (2003).
  87. G. Dunne and S. Nishigaki, ``Two-color QCD in 3D at finite baryon density,'' Nucl. Phys. B 654, 445-465 (2003); arXiv:hep-ph/0210219.
  88. G. Dunne, H. Gies and C. Schubert, ``Zero modes, beta functions and IR/UV interplay in higher-loop QED,'' Journal of High Energy Physics 0211, 032 (2002); [arXiv:hep-th/0210240].
  89. G. Dunne and S. M. Nishigaki, ``3D two-color QCD at finite temperature and baryon density'', Nucl. Phys. B 670, 307 (2003); [arXiv:hep-ph/0306220].
  90. S. Bilson-Thomson, G. Dunne, D. Leinweber and A. Williams, ``Cooling Comparison of |Q|=1 and |Q|=2 Instantons on the Lattice Four-Torus'', Annals of Physics 311, 267 (2004).
  91. G. Dunne, ``Two-loop diagrammatics in a self-dual background,'' Journal of High Energy Physics 0402, 013 (2004); [arXiv:hep-th/0311167].
  92. G. Dunne and C. S. Gauthier, ``Simple Soluble Molecular Ionization Model,'' Physical Review A 69, 053409 (2004),  [arXiv:physics/0402051].
  93. G. Dunne and C. Schubert, ``Bernoulli Number Identities from Quantum Field Theory,'' arXiv:math.nt/0406610.
  94. G. Dunne, J. Hur, C. Lee and H. Min, ``Instanton determinant with arbitrary quark mass: WKB phase-shift method and derivative expansion,'' Physics Letters B 600, 302  (2004), [arXiv:hep-th/0407222].
  95. G. Dunne, J. Hur, C. Lee and H. Min, ``Precise quark mass dependence of instanton determinant,'' arXiv:hep-th/0410190.



Published Conference Proceedings

  1. G. Dunne and A. Thomas, ``Deep Inelastic Scattering as a Probe of Nucleon and Nuclear Structure'', Invited talk presented at the 11th Europhysics Conference on Nuclear Physics with Electromagnetic Probes, Paris, July 1985: Nuclear Physics A446 (1985) 437c.
  2. G. Dunne, A. Lerda and C. Trugenberger, ``Anyons in a Magnetic Field: Landau Levels and Vertex Operator Representation'', International Journal of Modern Physics B5 (1991) 1675.
  3. G. Dunne, ``Self-Duality and Chern-Simons Theories'', Proceedings of XXth International Conference on Differential Geometric Methods in Theoretical Physics , S. Catto and A. Rocha (Eds.), World Scientific 1991, pgs. 962-971.
  4. A. Cappelli, G. Dunne, C. Trugenberger and G. Zemba, ``Symmetry Aspects and Finite-Size Scaling of Quantum Hall Fluids'', Nuclear Physics B (Proc. Suppl.) 33C (1993) 21.
  5. G. Dunne and R. Jackiw, `` 'Peierls Substitution' and Chern-Simons Quantum Mechanics'', Nuclear Physics B (Proc. Suppl.) 33C (1993) 114.
  6. G. Dunne, ``Classification of NonAbelian Chern-Simons Vortices'', in Proceedings of the International Conference on Differential Geometric Methods in Theoretical Physics (XXII), Ixtapa (Mexico), J. Keller and Z. Oziewicz, Eds.; also published as: Adv. in Applied Clifford Algebras (Proc. Suppl.) 4 (1994) 229-238.
  7. G. Dunne, ``Planar QED in Magnetic or Electric Solitonic Backgrounds'', in Solitons : Properties, Dynamics, Interactions, Applications, R. MacKenzie, M. Paranjape and W. Zakrewski, Eds. (Springer-Verlag, NY, 1999).
  8. G. Dunne, ``QED Effective Actions in Inhomogeneous Backgrounds: Summing the Derivative Expansion'', invited talk at QED2000, 2nd Workshop on Frontier Tests of Quantum Electrodynamics and Physics of the Vacuum, Trieste (Italy) October 2000, published in the Proceedings, Quantum Electrodynamics and Physics of the Vacuum, G. Cantatore (Ed.), page 247-254, (AIP Press, New York, 2001).
  9. K. Tsushima, A.W. Thomas and G. Dunne, ``Distortions in the negative energy Dirac sea: violation of the Gottfried sum rule and delta-anti-u in proton'', Presented at Workshop on Lepton Scattering, Hadrons and QCD, Adelaide, Australia, 26 Mar - 6 Apr 2001. e-Print Archive: hep-ph/0107042.
  10. G. Dunne and C. Schubert, ``Two-loop Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangians and Borel Analysis'', Int. Journal of Mod Phys A 17 (2002), 956; Proceedings of Leipzig 2001 Workshop on Quantum Field Theory in External Conditions.
  11. G. Dunne, ``Finite Temperature Fermion Number'', talk given at Workshop on Lattice Hadron Physics, Cairns, Australia, 9-18 Jul 2001, and Talk given at ECT* International Conference on Light-cone Physics: Particles and Strings (Trento 2001), Trento, Italy, 3-11 Sep 2001, and Talk given at 5th Workshop on Quantum Field Theory Under the Influence of External Conditions, Leipzig, Germany, 10-14 Sep 2001. Published in Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl.108: 155, 2002, Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl.109: 168, 2002, Int. J. Mod. Phys. A17: 890, 2002.
  12. G. Dunne and C. Schubert, ``Two-loop self-dual QED,'' Talk given at 3rd International Sakharov Conference on Physics, Moscow, Russia, 24-29 Jun 2002; e-Print Archive: hep-ph/0210419.
  13. G. Dunne and M. Shifman, ``Perturbative - nonperturbative duality in QES systems'', to appear in Proceedings of Wigner Centennial Conference, Hungary, June 2002.
  14. G. Dunne and C. Schubert, ``Self-duality, helicity and higher-loop Euler-Heisenberg effective actions,''
    arXiv:hep-th/0312116; Based on talks given at 3rd International Symposium on Quantum Theory and Symmetries (QTS3), Cininnati, Ohio, 10-14 Sep 2003, and at 6th Workshop on Quantum Field Theory under the Influence of External Conditions (QFEXT03), Norman, Oklahoma, 15-19 Sep 2003. Published in *Norman 2003, Quantum field theory under the influence of external conditions* 258-264, K. Milton (Ed.).
  15. G. Dunne and C. Schubert, ``Multiloop information from the QED effective Lagrangian,'' To appear in the proceedings of 9th Mexican Workshop on Particles and Fields: Physics Beyond the Standard Model, Colima, Mexico, 17-22 Nov 2003;  arXiv:hep-th/0409021.
  16. G. Dunne, ``Self-duality, helicity and background field loopology,'' Plenary talk at Workshop on Continuous Advances in QCD 2004, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 13-16 May 2004; [arXiv:hep-th/0410125].
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