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Frederick W. Cummings
Professor of Physics Emeritus
Ph.D. 1960, Stanford University

Biophysics of development, theoretical physics, cavity quantum electrodynamics, many-body theory, non-linear dynamics

E-mail: fredcmgs@berkeley.edu
136 Calumet Ave.
San Anselmo, CA 94960
Phone: (415) 454-1525


Selected Publications

F.W. Cummings, "Comparison of Quantum and Semiclassical Radiation Theories with application to the Beam Maser", PhD. thesis, Stanford University, 1962.

E.T. Jaynes and F.W. Cummings, "Comparison of Quantum and Semiclassical Radiation Theories with application to the Beam Maser", IEEE 51, 89 (1963).

F.W. Cummings, "Interaction of a two level atom with a stochastic e-m field", Amer. J. Physics, (1963).

E.R. Buley and F.W. Cummings, "Dynamics of a system of N atoms interacting with a radiation field", Phys. Rev. 44, (1964).

F.W. Cummings, "A single mode radiation field coupled to a two level atom", Phys. Rev. 140 A1051 (1965).

F.W. Cummings and J.R. Johnston, "Theory of Superfluidity" , Phys. Rev. 151, 105 (1966), and reprinted in Coherent States: applications in Physics and Mathematical Physics, (eds. J.R.Klauder and Bo-Sture Skagerstam, World Scientific, Singapore 1985).

M. Tavis and F.W. Cummings, "N atoms interacting with a single mode radiation field", Phys. Rev. 170, 379 (1968).

F.W. Cummings, "Macroscopic Wave Functions" in Statistical Mechanics: new concepts, new problems, new applications", IUPAP conference Proceedings, eds., S. Rice, K. Freed and J. Light (Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1972). (cf: E.C. Svensson and Sears, Physica 137B, 1986).

F.W. Cummings, "Aspects of Condensation in 4He II", in Cooperative Phenomena, eds. H. Haken and M. Wagner (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1973).

F.W. Cummings, "On morphogenesis in living systems", in Energy Transfer Dynamics: studies and essays in honor of Herbert Fröhlich, eds. T. Barrett and H.A. Pohl, (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, London, New York, Tokyo, 1987).

F.W. Cummings, "On suppression of spontaneous emission" Phys. Rev. Lett. (1985*).

F.W. Cummings and A.K. Rajagopal, "Realization of the Fock state with the micromaser", Phys. Rev. A39, 3414 (1989).

F.W. Cummings, D.D. Dixon, and P.E. Kaus, "A model of neutron star dynamics" Astrophy. Jour. 386, 221 (1992).

Frederick W. Cummings, "A model of growth and form based on adhesion molecules", J. Theor. Biol. 178, 229-238 (1996).

F. W. Cummings and J.C. Strickland, "A Model of Phyllotaxis", J. Theor. Biol., 192, 531-544 (1998).

F.W. Cummings, "Waves of pattern formation and signaling pathways", J. Theor. Biol. 196, 27-31 (1999).

A.K. Rajagopal, K.L. Jensen, and F. W. Cummings, "Quantum entangled states in the Jaynes-Cummings model", Phys. Lett. A 259, 285 290 (1999).

F. W. Cummings, "A model of pattern formation based on signaling pathways", J. Theor. Biol. 207, 107-116 (2000).

Frederick W. Cummings, "The Interaction of Surface Geometry with Morphogens" J. Theor. Biol. 212, 303-313 (2001).

F.W. Cummings, "A Model of Morphogenesis", Physica A, vol.339, 531-547 (2004).

F.W. Cummings, "Interaction of morphogens with geometry", Physica A, vol. 355/2-4, 427-438 (2005).

F.W. Cummings, "On the origin of pattern and form in early Metazoans", Int'l J. Develop. Biol. 50 (2/3) 193-208 (2006).