Quantum Mechanics of Charged Particle Beam Optics: Understanding Devices from Electron Microscopes to Particle Accelerators

About Ramaswamy JagannathanSameen Ahmed Khan

Professor Ramaswamy Jagannathan retired in 2009 as a senior professor of physics from The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc) Chennai India. He is currently an adjunct professor of physics at the Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI) Chennai. He got his PhD (Theor. Phys.) from the University of Madras Chennai India in 1976 working at IMSc. His PhD work on generalized Clifford algebras was done under the guidance of Professor Alladi Ramakrishnan the founder director of IMSc known popularly as MATSCIENCE at that time. He has authored/coauthored about 80 research papers in various branches of Physical Mathematics like Generalized Clifford Algebras and Their Physical Applications Finite-Dimensional Quantum Mechanics Applications of Classical Groups Quantum Groups Nonlinear Dynamics Deformed Special Functions and Quantum Theory of Charged Particle Beam Optics with Applications to Electron Microscopy and Accelerator Optics. In particular his paper with Professors R. Simon E. C. G. Sudarshan and N. Mukunda (1989) on the quantum theory of magnetic electron lenses based on the Dirac equation initiated a systematic study of the Quantum Theory of Charged Particle Beam Optics. This theory was subsequently developed vastly by him and his collaborators (in particular his PhD student Dr Sameen Ahmed Khan).Dr Sameen Ahmed Khan is an associate professor at the Department of Mathematics and Sciences College of Arts and Applied Sciences Dhofar University Salalah Sultanate of Oman (http://du.edu.om/). He got his PhD (Theor. Phys.) at the University of Madras Chennai India in 1997. His PhD thesis done at The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc) Chennai under the supervision of Professor Ramaswamy Jagannathan was on the quantum theory of charged particle beam optics. He did postdoctoral research at INFN Padova Italy and Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Cuernavaca Mexico. He has 16 years of teaching experience in Oman. He has developed a unified treatment of light beam optics and light polarization using quantum methodologies. This formalism describes the beam optics and light polarization from a parent Hamiltonian which is exact and derived from Maxwells equations. He has authored three books fifteen book chapters and about 75 technical publications in journals and proceedings of repute. He has more than 250 publications on science popularization. Dr Sameen is one of the founding members of the Ibn al Haytham LHiSA Light: History Science and Applications (LHiSA) International Society set up during the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies. He is a signatory to six of the reports on the upcoming International Linear Collider.