Jonathan Paul Wrubel, BS, PhD

Associate Professor

Physics

J Wrubel

Contact

JonathanWrubel@creighton.edu
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Jonathan Paul Wrubel, BS, PhD

Associate Professor

Physics

Dr. Jonathan Wrubel joined the faculty in 2012. His research is in the field of ultracold atomic physics and Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). Besides his research, he is also keenly interested in issues of science and faith. Prior to joining the faculty at Creighton, Dr. Wrubel was a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow with the Joint Quantum Institute at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland. From 2006-2009 he was a postdoctoral fellow with Harvard University as part of a collaboration seeking to produce, trap and study anti-hydrogen (the anti-matter opposite of the hydrogen atom).

Research Focus

I study the magnetic interactions between potassium-41 atoms at temperatures approaching absolute zero. I am primarily interested in studying how magnetism manifests itself when these ultracold atoms behave quantum-mechanically (i.e. like waves instead of particles).

Department

Physics

Position

Associate Professor

Articles

  • Physical Review A
    J. P. Wrubel, H. K. Pechkis, A. Schwettmann, P. F. Griffin, R. Barnett, E. Tiesinga, and P. D. Lett. Spinor Bose-Einstein-condensate phase-sensitive amplifier for SU(1,1) interferometry.
    98, p. 023620 2018
  • Physical Review Letters
    Pechkis, H. K., Wrubel, J. P., Schwettmann, A., Griffin, P. F., Barnett, R., Tiesinga, E., Lett, P. D. Spinor Dynamics in an Antiferromagnetic Spin-1 Thermal Bose Gas
    111, p. 025301 2013
  • Nano Letters
    B.-R. Hyun, A. C. Bartnik, W.-k. Koh, N. I. Agladze, J. P. Wrubel, A. J. Sievers, C. B. Murray, and F. W. Wise. Far-Infrared Absorption of PbSe Nanorods.
    11, p. 2786 2011
  • Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A
    J. P. Wrubel, et al. (ATRAP collaboration). Pumped Helium System for Cooling Positron and Electron Traps to 1.2 K
    640, p. 232 2011
  • Physical Review Letters
    G. Gabrielse, et al. (ATRAP collaboration). Centrifugal Separation of Antiprotons and Electrons
    105, p. 213002 2010
  • Physical Review Letters
    G. Gabrielse, et al. (ATRAP collaboration). Antihydrogen Production within a Penning-Ioffe Trap
    100, p. 113001 2008
  • Physics Letters B
    A. Speck, G. Gabrielse, et al. (ATRAP collaboration). Density and Geometry of Single Component Plasmas
    650, p. 119 2007
  • Physics Letters B
    B. Levitt, G. Gabrielse, et al., (ATRAP collaboration). Single-component Plasma of Photoelectrons
    656, p. 25 2007
  • Physical Review Letters
    G. Gabrielse, et al. (ATRAP collaboration). Antiproton Confinement in a Penning-Ioffe Trap for Antihydrogen
    98, p. 113002 2007
  • Physical Review Letters
    J. P. Wrubel, B. E. Hubbard, N. I. Agladze, A. J. Sievers, P. P. Fedorov, D. I. Klimenchenko, A. I. Ryskin, and J. A. Campbell. Glasslike Two-Level Systems in Minimally Disordered Mixed Crystals
    96, p. 235503 2006
  • Physical Review Letters
    J. P. Wrubel, M. Sato, and A. J. Sievers. Controlled Switching of Intrinsic Localized Modes in a One-Dimensional Antiferromagnet
    95, p. 264101 2005

Presentations

  • A. Tarter, J. P. Wrubel. Student Presentation: A compact atomic source and radio-frequency circuit for ultra-cold atoms. Sigma Xis Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference, Kansas City, MO 2015
  • J. P. Wrubel. Laser-cooled atoms, clocks, and strange quantum mechanics. Department of Physics, University of Nebraska, Omaha. 2015
  • A. Tarter, J. P. Wrubel. Student Presentation: A compact atomic source and radio-frequency circuit for ultra-cold atoms. Ferlic Scholar Poster Presentation, Creighton University, Omaha, NE. 2015
  • N. Holman, S. Prathivadhi-Bhayankaram, A. Tarter, and J. P. Wrubel (P.I.). Contributed Student Talk: Development of a laser-cooling and trapping apparatus to study the magnetic phases of a spinor 41K BEC via radio-frequency Fano-Feshbach resonances. Nebraska Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, Lincoln, NE. 2015
  • N. Holman, B. Gruberg. Student Presentation: Passive magnetic field cancellation device for use in atom trapping experiments. Creighton University St. Alberts Day Presentation, Omaha, NE. 2015
  • N. Holman, S. Prathivadhi-Bhayankaram, B. Schmachtenberger, L. Slattery, A. Tarter, and J. P. Wrubel (P.I.). Student Poster Presentation: Progress towards a 41K Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate. APS DAMOP Annual Meeting, Madison, WI. 2014
  • S. Prathivadhi and J. P. Wrubel. Student Poster Presentation: High Precision, Low-Cost Michelson Interferometry. Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physical Sciences, Lincoln, NE. 2013
  • A. Schwettmann, H. K. Pechkis, J. P. Wrubel, R. Barnett, E. Tiesinga, P. D. Lett. Contributed Poster: Decoherence of spin oscillations in an ultracold F=1 sodium gas. APS DAMOP Annual Meeting, Quebec City, Canada. 2013
  • J. P. Wrubel. Laser-cooled atoms, clocks, and strange quantum mechanics. Department of Physics, University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, NE. 2013
  • J. P. Wrubel. Invited Talk: Interactions between atomic coherent states: spinor dynamics manipulated by microwaves. New Laser Scientists Conference, Rochester, NY. 2012
  • J. P. Wrubel, H. K. Pehckis, A. Schwettmann, P. F. Griffin, R. Barnett, E. Tiesinga, and P. D. Lett. Contributed Talk: Matter-wave amplification in a seeded 23Na spinor Bose-Einstein condensate. 2012 APS DAMOP Annual Meeting, Orange County, CA 2012
  • J. P. Wrubel, P. F. Griffin, H. K. Pechkis, J. Han, R. Barnett, E. Tiesinga, and P. D. Lett. Contributed Talk: Nonlinear matter-wave amplification in a 23Na spinor Bose-Einstein condensate. 2011 APS DAMOP Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA. 2011
  • J. P. Wrubel, P. F. Griffin, H. K. Pechkis, R. Barnett, E. Tiesinga, and P. D. Lett. Contributed Poster: Nonlinear matter-wave amplification in a 23Na spinor Bose-Einstein condensate. Quantum Science and Technologies Conference, Rovereto, Italy. 2011
  • J. P. Wrubel, et al. (ATRAP Collaboration). Contributed Poster: Cold Antihydrogen Production in the ATRAP2 Apparatus. 2008 APS March Meeting, New Orleans, LA. 2008
  • J. P. Wrubel, B.-R. Hyun, N. I. Agladze, F. W. Wise, and A. J. Sievers. Contributed Talk: Frohlich Phonon Modes in PbSe and PbS Colloidal Quantum Dots, 2008 APS March Meeting, New Orleans, LA. 2008
  • J. P. Wrubel, M. Sato, and A. J. Sievers. Contributed Talk: Correlation of intrinsic localized mode properties with sample temperature, 2005 APS March Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, March 21-25, 2005. 2005
  • J. P. Wrubel, N. I. Agladze, and A. J. Sievers. Contributed Poster: Influence of processing conditions on the low temperature properties of glasses, 2002 NASA Materials Science Conference, Huntsville, AL. 2002
  • N. I. Agladze, J. P. Wrubel, and A. J. Sievers. Contributed Poster: Impurity-Induced mm-Wave Absorption in Amorphous Ice, NASA Laboratory Astrophysics Workshop, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA. 2002
  • J. P. Wrubel, N. I. Agladze, and A. J. Sievers. Contributed Talk: Influence of impact milling on two-level systems in solids, 2002 March Meeting of the American Physical Society, Indianapolis, IN, March 18-22, 2002. 2002

Awards

  • 2015 Teaching Achievement Award
    Creighton University Graduate Student Government