Experiments
As an undergraduate I built a microprocessor-controlled photon
correlator for my final-year project at the Indian Institute of
Technology, Delhi, guided by Subhash Chopra, as well as a large number
of analog and digital projects (high-current amplifiers, controllers
for laser stabilization, low-noise input stages, bizarre audio
systems, etc.). In graduate school I worked on several experiments:
with Joe Weber on gravitational wave detectors and low temperature
NMR, and with fellow-graduate student Karen Gruner and her adviser
Sandra Greer on critical phenomena. At UBC I shared an office with CMB
experimentalist Mark Halpern. Partly because of this previous history
and a continual hankering to build something with my hands, I have
tried to maintain strong links with experimental programs. At present,
I am working on theoretical analysis related to quantum chaos
experiments undertaken by Mark Raizen's group at the University of
Texas, Austin and on feedback control of quantum systems -- among
other issues -- with Hideo Mabuchi's group at Caltech. This last work
would not have been possible without the contributions of Kurt Jacobs
(ex-LANL postdoc, now at Griffith) and Dan Steck (ex-LANL postdoc, now
faculty at Oregon). In the past, I have worked with experimentalists
from P-Division (Tom Bowles, Todd Haines, Andrew Hime, and Gus Sinnis)
looking for particle dark matter via both direct and indirect
methods. Finally, my collaboration with geophysicists has now resulted
in a geosolid acoustics experiment migrating to T-Division, hopefully
soon.
- Nonequilibrium and Nonlinear Dynamics in Geomaterials I: The
Low Strain Regime, Donatella Pasqualini, Katrin Heitmann, James
A. TenCate, Salman Habib, David Higdon, and Paul A. Johnson, JGR 112,
B01204 (2007) cond-mat/0601120
- Nonlinear and Nonequilibrium Dynamics in Geomaterials,
James A. TenCate, Donatella Pasqualini, Salman Habib, Katrin Heitmann,
David Higdon, and Paul A. Johnson, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 065501 (2004)
cond-mat/0403004
- The Shear Viscosity and the Mass Density near the Liquid-Liquid
Critical Point of Polystyrene in Diethyl Malonate, Karen Gruner,
Salman Habib, and Sandra Greer, Macromolecules 23, 510 (1990)
- Automatic Capillary Viscometer for Fluids with Variable Opacity,
Salman Habib and Karen Gruner, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 59, 2290 (1988)
- A New NMR Detector: The Bridged-T Network, Salman Habib,
University of Maryland Technical Report (1988)
- Development of Gravitational Wave Antennas at Maryland, K. R.
Carroll, H. A. Chan, F. Desrosier, W. M. Folkner, D. J. Gretz,
S. Habib, J. J. Hamilton, M. V. Moody, R. A. Nelson, H. J. Paik,
Y. Pang, J.-P. Richard, J. Weber, and G. Wilmot, Proceedings of the
Fourth Marcel Grossmann Conference on General Relativity, edited by
R. Ruffini (North-Holland, 1986)
- A Microprocessor-Based Photon Correlator, Salman Habib,
Undergraduate Thesis, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (1981).
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T-Division Research
Highlights for 2005: Nonlinear and Nonequilibrium
Dynamics in Geomaterials [PDF].