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    Book, "The Quantum Measurement Problem" by Michael Steiner and Ronald Rendell

    From review by Peter Bussey, Contemporary Physics:

    "...Steiner and Rendell present a detailed mathematical argument that the Schrödinger equation on its own cannot normally lead to an outcome that resembles a random measurement event...its conclusion is quite important since some eminent physicists, such as Feynman, seem to have believed otherwise...The most important chapter of the book is devoted to a thorough and extensive survey of all the approaches to the measurement problem...These are all presented, discussed and evaluated in a very extensive collection that is more complete than in many other works on the subject...The historical discussion is very readable and informative in its own right, and of great value to have. It includes quite a lot of material that I had not encountered before…This book is idiosyncratic but full of information, and its treatment of the quantum physics is in my opinion comprehensive, sound and reasonable...It is a book, then, that will be helpful to open-minded experts in the field, on the whole, and for those who seek to embark on further research in this area."

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    • A.K. Rajagopal and R.W. Rendell, Separability and Correlations in Composite Systems Based on Entropy Methods – Symmetry and Models,, Invited presentation at IUPAP International Conference on “Quantum Entanglement, Complexity and the Physical Basis for Quantum Computation”, Rio de Janeiro, 2002



    • A.K. Rajagopal and R.W. Rendell, Effect of Entangled Initial State on Decoherence, Information, and Entropy of a Damped Jaynes-Cummings Model, First International Workshop “Decoherence, Information, Complexity and Entropy”, DICE 2002, Piombino, Italy , 2002



    • M. Steiner and R.W. Rendell, The Measurement Problem and Entanglement, Invited presentation at First Feynman Festival, U. of Maryland, College Park, MD, 2002



    • AK Rajagopal and RW Rendell, Dissipative quantum theory: implications for quantum entanglement , International School and Workshop on Non Extensive Thermodynamics and Physical Applications (NEXT 2001), VILLASIMIUS, ITALY , 2002



    • R.H. Esser, K.D. Hobart, R.W. Rendell, and F.J. Kub, Observation and Simulation of Aniosotropic Diffusion of Hydrogen at Hydrophobic Wafer Bonded Interface, 44th Electronic Materials Conference, Santa Barbara, CA , 2002



    • N.S. Saks, M.G. Ancona, R.W. Rendell and A.K. Agarwal, Measurement of the interface trap density in SiC MOS devices using the Hall Effect, International Conference on Silicon Carbide and Related Materials 2001(ICSCRM 2001), Tsukuba, Japan, 2001



    • M. Steiner and R.W. Rendell, Entanglement in particle-detector interactions, International Conference on Quantum Information, Rochester, NY, 2001



    • N.S. Saks, M.G. Ancona, and R.W. Rendell, Using the Hall Effect to measure interface trap densities in silicon and SiC MOS devices, Semiconductor Interface Specialists Conference (SISC), Washington, DC, 2001



    • R.W. Rendell, M.G. Ancona, W.Kruppa, A.W. Snow, D. Park, and J.B. Boos, Transport in Au Nanocluster Films, National Academy of Sciences Colloquium on Nanoscience, 2001



    • R.W. Rendell, W. Kruppa, A.W. Snow, M.G. Ancona, D. Park, and J.B. Boos, Fabrication and Electrical Properties of Au Nanocluster Films, Gordon Research Conference on Nanostructure Fabrication, Tilton, NH, 2000



    • W. Kruppa, R.W. Rendell, M.G. Ancona, A.W. Snow, D. Park and J.B. Boos, Fine Structure and Discreteness in the I-V Characteristics of Au Nanocluster Films, 4th Proc. International Workshop on Quantum Functional Devices, Kanazawa, Japan, 2000



    • M.G. Ancona, W. Kruppa, A.W. Snow, R.W. Rendell, D. Park and J.B. Boos, Electron Transport in Ultra-Thin Au Nanocluster Films, APS March Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, 2000



    • R.W. Rendell, A.K. Rajagopal and W.M. Golding, Quantum Simulation of Quantum Systems by Adiabatically Pumped Quantum Dots, Workshop on The Physics of Quantum Dots for Quantum Computing, NRL, Washington, DC, 1999



    • E.S. Snow, P.M. Campbell, R.W. Rendell, F.A. Buot and D. Park, A Metal/Insulator-Based Nanoelectronics , 2nd Workshop on Scanned Probes and Nanoelectronics, Tsukuba, Japan, 1999



    • F.A. Buot, R.W. Rendell, E.S. Snow, P.M. Campbell, D. Park, C.R.K. Marrian and R. Magno, Fundamental Operation and Design Considerations for Metal-Oxide Tunnel Transistors, Sixth International Workshop on Computational Electronics, Osaka, Japan , 1998



    • R.W. Rendell, Adaptive Control of Single-Electron Circuit Signatures for Computation, Fifth International Symposium on Quantum Confinement : Nanostructures, Electrochemical Society Meeting, Boston, MA, 1998



    • KL Ngai and RW Rendell, A coupling model analysis of dynamics of concentrated colloidal suspensions , 6th International Workshop on Disordered Systems, ANDALO, ITALY , 1997



    • KL Ngai, RW Rendell, DJ Plazek, General applicability of the coupling model to viscoelasticity of polymers: From local segmental motion to terminal flow , 11th International Conference on Internal Friction and Ultrasonic Attenuation in Solids (ICIFUAS 11), Poitiers, France , 1996



    • KL Ngai and RW Rendell, Basic Physics of the Coupling Model: Direct Experimental Evidences, ACS Symposium on Supercooled liquids, advances and novel applications, Orlando, FL, 1996



    • N.S. Saks, R.B. Klein,R.E. Stahlbush, B.J. Mrstik, and R.W. Rendell , Effects of Past-Stress Hydrogen Annealing on MOS Oxides after CO-60 Irradiation or Fowler-Nordheim Injection, IEEE 30th Annual International Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC), SNOWBIRD, UT , 1993



    • KL Ngai and RW Rendell, Fundamental Issues Confronting Models of Nonlinear Structural Relaxation, 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONF ON PHYSICS OF NON-CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS, AUG 04-09, 1991 CHURCHILL COLL, CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND, 1992



    • NS Saks and RW Rendell, The Time-Dependence of Postirradiation Interface Trap Buildup in Deuterium-Annealed Oxides, 29TH IEEE ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR AND SPACE RADIATION EFFECTS CONF AND SHORT COURSE, NEW ORLEANS, LA , 1992



    • NS Saks, DB Brown, RW Rendell, EFFECTS OF SWITCHED GATE BIAS ON RADIATION-INDUCED INTERFACE TRAP FORMATION , 28TH INTERNATIONAL CONF ON NUCLEAR AND SPACE RADIATION EFFECTS, SAN DIEGO, CA, 1991



    • BJ Mrstik and RW Rendell, SI-SIO2 INTERFACE STATE GENERATION DURING X-RAY-IRRADIATION AND DURING POSTIRRADIATION EXPOSURE TO A HYDROGEN AMBIENT , 28TH INTERNATIONAL CONF ON NUCLEAR AND SPACE RADIATION EFFECTS, SAN DIEGO, CA, 1991



    • RW Rendell, KL Ngai and DJ Plazek, VOLUME-DEPENDENT RATE-PROCESSES PREDICTED BY THE COUPLING MODEL , INTERNATIONAL DISCUSSION MEETING ON RELAXATION IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS, CRETE, GREECE , 1990



    • RW Rendell and KL Ngai, CONVOLUTION INTEGRAL FORMULATION OF DISPERSIVE DIFFUSION TRANSPORT – NUMERICAL-SOLUTIONS FOR THE COUPLING MODEL WAITING TIME DISTRIBUTION , INTERNATIONAL DISCUSSION MEETING ON RELAXATIONS IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS, CRETE, GREECE, 1990



    • CH Wang, BY LI, RW Rendell, et al., LOCALIZED SEGMENTAL MOTION AND BRILLOUIN-SCATTERING IN A POLYMER LIQUID , INTERNATIONAL DISCUSSION MEETING ON RELAXATIONS IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS, CRETE, GREECE, 1990



    • KL Ngai and RW Rendell, FROM CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITIONS IN A POLYMER-CHAIN TO SEGMENTAL RELAXATION IN A BULK POLYMER , INTERNATIONAL DISCUSSION MEETING ON RELAXATIONS IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS, CRETE, GREECE , 1990



    • KL Ngai and RW Rendell, TOWARD A THEORY OF RELAXATION IN CORRELATED SYSTEMS – DIFFUSION IN THE PHASE-SPACE OF A CHAOTIC HAMILTONIAN , INTERNATIONAL DISCUSSION MEETING ON RELAXATION IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS, CRETE, GREECE , 1990



    • Ngai and RW Rendell, THE SYMMETRICAL AND FULLY DISTRIBUTED SOLUTION TO A GENERALIZED DINING PHILOSOPHERS PROBLEM – AN ANALOG OF THE COUPLING THEORY OF RELAXATIONS IN COMPLEX CORRELATED SYSTEMS , NATO ADVANCED RESEARCH WORKSHOP ON RELAXATION IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS AND RELATED TOPICS, TURIN, ITALY , 1989



    • KL Ngai and RW Rendell, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF CHAIN NORMAL-MODES AND SEGMENTAL MODE DIELECTRIC DATA IN ENTANGLED CIS-POLYISOPRENE , Meeting of the American Chemical Society, 1989



    • RW Rendell, KL Ngai, DJ Plazek, et al., DISCUSSION OF THE SELF-DIFFUSION AND VISCOSITY BEHAVIOR OF POLYMER MELTS AND SOLUTIONS WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF THE COUPLING MODEL , Meeting of the American Chemical Society, 1987



    • KL Ngai and RW Rendell, Molecular Interpretation of Anomalous Polymer Dynamics by the Coupling Model, Society of Rheology Meeting, Santa Monica, CA, 1987



    • RW Rendell, A Coupling Model for Kohlrausch Relaxation in Dielectrics, Invited presentation at Gordon Research Conference on Dielectric Phenomena, Holderness School, Holderness, NH, 1986



    • RW Rendell and KL Ngai, The Concentration Dependence of the Viscosity of Polymer Solutions: An Analysis from the Coupling Model,, Invited presentation at Gordon Conference on Polymer Physics, Proctor Academy, Andover, NH , 1986



    • RW Rendell and KL Ngai, Nonlinear Viscoelasticity and Yield: Application of a Coupling Model, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, 1986



    • RW Rendell and KL Ngai, The Concentration Dependence of the Viscosity of Polymer Solutions: An Analysis from the Coupling Model, The Society of Rheology 58th Annual Meeting , Tulsa, OK, 1986



    • K.L. Ngai and R.W. Rendell, Coupling to Complexity in Lithium Borate Glasses: Anomalous Isotope-Mass Effect and Activation Enthalpies, Second University of California Conference on Statistical Mechanics, 1986



    • KL Ngai, RW Rendell, AF Yee, et al., NONLINEAR VISCOELASTICITY AND YIELD OF GLASSY-POLYMERS – A NEW APPROACH , Meeting of the American Chemical Society, 1985



    • A.K. Rajagopal, R.W. Rendell and S. Teitler, Empirical Requirements on Models of Relaxation, The New York Academy of Sciences Conference on Dynamic Aspects of Structural Change in Liquids and Glasses, New York, NY, 1985



    • KL Ngai, AK Rajagopal, RW Rendell, S Teitler, Mechanisms for Kohlrausch relaxations in charging and polarization phenomena, 5th International Symposium on Electrets (ISE 5), Heidelberg, West Germany , 1985



    • KL Ngai, RW Rendell, STRESS-RELAXATION AND LOSS MODULI MEASUREMENTS IN LINEAR AND BRANCHED POLYMER SYSTEMS CORRELATED WITH STEADY-STATE VISCOSITY-MOLECULAR-WEIGHT DEPENDENCES, Meeting of the American Chemical Society, 1982



    • RW Rendell, DR Penn, INELASTIC MEAN FREE-PATH OF POLARIZED ELECTRONS IN FERROMAGNETS, APS March Meeting, New Orleans LA , 1981



    • RW Rendell, DJ Scalapino , THEORY OF LIGHT-EMISSION FROM SMALL STRUCTURES ON TUNNEL-JUNCTIONS, APS March Meeting, Washington DC, 1979



    Publication List

    • MG Ancona, W Kruppa, RW Rendell, AW Snow, D Park, JB Boos, Coulomb blockade in single-layer Au nanocluster films, Physical Review B 64 (3), 033408, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.64.033408, 2001



    • M Steiner, RW Rendell, Entanglement in particle-detector interactions, International Conference on Quantum Information, PB18, https://doi.org/10.1364/ICQI.2001.PB18, 2001



    • M Steiner, RW Rendell, Entanglement of a double dot with a quantum point contact, Physical Review A 63 (5), 052304, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.63.052304, 2001



    • RW Rendell, AK Rajagopal, Control of decoherence and correlation in single quantum dissipative oscillator systems, Physics Letters A 279 (3-4), 175-180, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0375-9601(00)00821-5 , 2001



    • AK Rajagopal, RW Rendell, Decoherence, correlation, and entanglement in a pair of coupled quantum dissipative oscillators, Physical Review A 63 (2), 022116, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.63.022116, 2001



    • KL Ngai, RW Rendell, Interpreting the real part of the dielectric permittivity contributed by mobile ions in ionically conducting materials, Physical Review B 61 (14), 9393, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.61.9393, 2000



    • R.W. Rendell, Adaptive Control of Single-Electron Circuit Signatures for Computation, Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Quantum Confinement: Nanostructures, https://books.google.com/books?id=ByRTAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PP5&pg=PP5#v=onepage&q&f=false



    • RW Rendell, FA Buot, ES Snow, PM Campbell, D Park, CRK Marrian, and R. Magno , Operation and design of metal-oxide tunnel transistors, Journal of applied physics 84 (9), 5021-5031, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.368749, 1998



    • FA Buot, RW Rendell, ES Snow, PM Campbell, D Park, CRK Marrian, R. Magno, Fundamental operation and design considerations for metal-oxide tunnel transistors, 1998 Sixth International Workshop on Computational Electronics, https://doi.org/10.1109/IWCE.1998.742738, 1998



    • ES Snow, PM Campbell, RW Rendell, FA Buot, D Park, CRK Marrian, R Magno, A metal/oxide tunnelling transistor, Semiconductor science and technology 13 (8A), A75, https://doi.org/10.1088/0268-1242/13/8A/023, 1998



    • FA Buot, RW Rendell, ES Snow, PM Campbell, D Park, CRK Marrian, R Magno, Dependence of gate control on the aspect ratio in metal/metal-oxide/metal tunnel transistors, Journal of applied physics 84 (2), 1133-1139, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.368114, 1998



    • ES Snow, PM Campbell, RW Rendell, FA Buot, D Park, CRK Marrian, R Magno, A metal/oxide tunneling transistor, Applied physics letters 72 (23), 3071-3073, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.121544, 1998



    • KL Ngai, RW Rendell, A coupling model analysis of dynamics of concentrated colloidal suspensions, Philosophical Magazine B 77 (2), 621-631, https://doi.org/10.1080/13642819808204989, 1998



    • KL NGAI, RW RENDELL, GENERAL DYNAMICS OF DIFFUSION IN INTERACTING SYSTEMS: CONCENTRATED COLLOIDAL SUSPENSIONS “Invited”, Non-Crystalline and Nanoscale Materials, 529-539, https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814447225_0079, 1998



    • KL Ngai, DJ Plazek, RW Rendell, Some examples of possible descriptions of dynamic properties of polymers by means of the coupling model, Rheologica acta 36 (3), 307-319, https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00366672, 1997



    • KL Ngai, RW Rendell, Basic physics of the coupling model: direct experimental evidences, Supercooled Liquids. Advances and Novel Applications, Editor(s): John T. Fourkas, Daniel Kivelson, Udayan Mohanty, Keith A. Nelson, Volume 676, American Chemical Society 1997, Chapter 4, 45-66, https://doi/org/10.1021/bk-1997-0676.ch004, 1997



    • RW Rendell, MG Ancona, Adaptive computation by interacting quantum dots, Superlattices and microstructures 20 (4), 479-491, https://doi.org/10.1006/spmi.1996.0105 , 1997



    • KL Ngai, RW Rendell, DJ Plazek, General applicability of the coupling model to viscoelasticity of polymers: from local segmental motion to terminal flow, Le Journal de Physique IV 6 (C8), C8-555-C8-566, https://doi.org/10.1051/jp4:19968121, 1996



    • RW Rendell, Effect of polarization screening length on electron-pump cotunneling errors, Physical Review B 52 (7), 4684, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.52.4684, 1995



    • MG Ancona, RW Rendell, Simple computation using Coulomb blockade‐based tunneling arrays, Journal of applied physics 77 (1), 393-395, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.359599, 1995



    • RW Rendell, Role of dynamical cooperativity for an enhanced isotope effect during transport, Journal of applied physics 75 (12), 7626-7632, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.356593, 1994



    • NS Saks, RB Klein, RE Stahlbush, BJ Mrstik, RW Rendell, Effects of post-stress hydrogen annealing on MOS oxides after/sup 60/Co irradiation or Fowler-Nordheim injection, IEEE transactions on nuclear science 40 (6), 1341-1349, https://doi.org/10.1109/23.273533, 1993



    • KL Ngai, RW Rendell, Cooperative dynamics in relaxation: A coupling model perspective, Journal of Molecular Liquids 56, 199-214, https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-7322(93)80027-S, 1993



    • RW Rendell, Interaction of a relaxing system with a dynamical environment, Physical Review E 48 (1), R17, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.48.R17, 1993



    • BJ Mrstik, PJ McMarr, NS Saks, RW Rendell, RB Klein, Hydrogen permeability in thermally grown films of  on silicon substrates, Physical Review B 47 (7), 4115, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.47.4115, 1993



    • RW Rendell, K.L. Ngai, The Coupling Model for Cooperative Relaxations and Its Applications, Macromolecules; Prague, Czechoslovakia, 13-18 July 1992, J. Kohovec (Ed),VSP Utrecht, The Netherlands 1993, Pp. 83-95, https://www.worldcat.org/title/macromolecules-1992-invited-lectures-of-the-34th-iupac-international-symposium-on-macromolecules/oclc/29810406, 1993



    • NS Saks, RW Rendell, Time‐dependence of the interface trap build‐up in deuterium‐annealed oxides after irradiation, Applied physics letters 61 (25), 3014-3016, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.108479, 1992



    • NS Saks, RW Rendell, The time-dependence of post-irradiation interface trap build-up in deuterium-annealed oxides (n-MOSFET), IEEE transactions on nuclear science 39 (6), 2220-2229, https://doi.org/10.1109/23.211424, 1992



    • KL NGAI, RW RENDELL, Fundamental Issues Confronting Models of Nonlinear Structural Relaxation, 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONF ON PHYSICS OF NON-CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS, AUG 04-09, 1991 CHURCHILL COLL, CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND, PHYSICS OF NON-CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS, 309-314, 1992, https://www.worldcat.org/title/physics-of-non-crystalline-solids/oclc/757617695?referer=di&ht=edition, 1992



    • BJ Mrstik, RW Rendell, Model for Si–SiO2 interface state formation during irradiation and during post‐irradiation exposure to hydrogen environment, Applied physics letters 59 (23), 3012-3014, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.105801, 1991



    • BJ Mrstik, RW Rendell, Si-SiO/sub 2/interface state generation during X-ray irradiation and during post-irradiation exposure to a hydrogen ambient (MOSFET), IEEE transactions on nuclear science 38 (6), 1101-1110, https://doi.org/10.1109/23.124081, 1991



    • NS Saks, DB Brown, RW Rendell, Effects of switched gate bias on radiation-induced interface trap formation (MOS transistors), IEEE transactions on nuclear science 38 (6), 1130-1139, https://doi.org/10.1109/23.124085, 1991



    • RW Rendell, KL Ngai, DJ Plazek, Volume-dependent rate processes predicted by the coupling model, Journal of non-crystalline solids 131, 442-450, https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-3093(91)90337-6, 1991



    • KL Ngai, RW Rendell, Toward a theory of relaxation in correlated systems: diffusion in the phase space of a chaotic Hamiltonian, Journal of non-crystalline solids 131, 233-237, https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-3093(91)90308-S, 1991



    • CH Wang, BY Li, RW Rendell, KL Ngai, Localized segmental motion and Brillouin scattering in a polymer liquid, Journal of non-crystalline solids 131, 870-876, https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-3093(91)90694-2, 1991



    • KL Ngai, RW Rendell, From conformational transitions in a polymer chain to segmental relaxation in a bulk polymer, Journal of non-crystalline solids 131, 942-948, https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-3093(91)90706-C, 1991



    • RW Rendell, KL Ngai, Convolution integral formulation of dispersive diffusion transport: numerical solutions for the coupling model waiting time distribution, Journal of non-crystalline solids 131, 667-670, https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-3093(91)90665-S, 1991



    • KL Ngai, RW Rendell, DJ Plazek, Couplings between the cooperatively rearranging regions of the Adam–Gibbs theory of relaxations in glass‐forming liquids, The Journal of chemical physics 94 (4), 3018-3029, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.459825, 1991



    • KL Ngai, RW Rendell, AF Yee, DJ Plazek, Antiplasticization effects on a secondary relaxation in plasticized glassy polycarbonates, Macromolecules 24 (1), 61-67, https://doi.org/10.1021/ma00001a010, 1991



    • RW Rendell, KL Ngai, Evidence for anomalous structural relaxation in SiO2 films, Applied physics letters 57 (23), 2428-2430, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.103866, 1990



    • KL Ngai, RW Rendell, The Symmetric and Fully Distributed Solution to a Generalized Dining Philosophers Problem: An Analogue of the Coupling Theory of Relaxations in Complex Correlated Systems, Relaxation in Complex Systems and Related Topics 222, 309, edited by I.A. Campbell, Carlo Giovannella, Springer Science+Business Media, New York, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4899-2136-9_42, 1990



    • KL Ngai, RW Rendell, Comparison between frequency-dependent specific heat and dielectric relaxation of glycerol and propylene glycol, Physical Review B 41 (1), 754, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.41.754, 1990



    • KL Ngai, RW Rendell, AK Rajagopal, S Teitler, Comment on ‘‘Relation between stretched‐exponential relaxation and Vogel–Fulcher behavior above the glass transition’’, The Journal of chemical physics 91 (12), 8002-8003, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.457223, 1989



    • KL Ngai, RW Rendell, CH Wang, L Borjesson, LM Torell, Comments on Brillouin scattering studies of structural relaxations in poly (propylene glycol). Reply, Polymer (Guildford) 30 (2), 369-372, https://doi.org/10.1016/0032-3861(89)90132-8, 1989



    • KL Ngai, RW Rendell, AF Yee, Local molecular motions in glassy and dissolved polycarbonates, Macromolecules 21 (12), 3396-3401, https://doi.org/10.1021/ma00190a009, 1988



    • KL Ngai, RW Rendell, Explanation of mechanical and electrical relaxation due to mobile ions in a superionic glass over the range 1 Hz–20 GHz by the coupling theory, Physical Review B 38 (14), 9987, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.38.9987, 1988



    • AF Yee, RJ Bankert, KL Ngai, RW Rendell, Strain and temperature accelerated relaxation in polycarbonate, Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics 26 (12), 2463-2483, https://doi.org/10.1002/polb.1988.090261206, 1988



    • AK Rajagopal, KL Ngai, RW Rendell, S Teitler, Comparison of some master equation descriptions of relaxation in complex systems, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 149 (1-2), 358-368, https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-4371(88)90225-7, 1988



    • RW Rendell, KL Ngai, Structural Relaxation and Growth of SiO2 Films on Si, The Physics and Chemistry of SiO2 and the Si-SiO2 Interface, 149-157, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4899-0774-5_16, 1988



    • RW Rendell, KL Ngai, A Framework for Incorporating Memory Effects of Structural Relaxation in Models for Thermal Oxidation of Silicon, The Physics and Technology of Amorphous SiO2, 307-313, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4613-1031-0_42, 1988



    About Me

    Ronald Rendell

    Senior Scientist

    Dr. Rendell received a Ph.D. in theoretical physics (1980) from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Rendell has performed basic theoretical research in a variety of areas with over 80 publications in archival journals. These include significant contributions to relaxations and transport in complex material systems, transport in electronic materials, plasmonics in nanostructures and metamaterials, quantum information, quantum decoherence and entanglement, and quantum measurement. In his Ph.D. work, Dr. Rendell originated the concept of the localized surface plasmon and identified the first experimental observation of these excitations. He later developed theory and modeling of plasmo-photonic nanostructured arrays and protein-based plasmonic nanostructures. Dr. Rendell developed theory and modeling on relaxation in complex material systems (such as polymers, glasses, electronic materials, dielectrics, ionic conductors) which exhibit time-dependent phenomena related to many-body correlations in the materials. He first identified diffusion in the phase space of relaxing chaotic Hamiltonians as the origin of such time-dependences as successfully described by Ngai’s coupling model of relaxation. Dr. Rendell developed theory in the area of quantum information and entanglement and worked on research projects involving qubits in semiconductor quantum dots, integrated atom optics, and atomic slow light devices. His current research is in the area of foundations of quantum mechanics, specifically on the quantum measurement problem. During 2005-2006, Dr. Rendell was a member of Prof. Yakir Aharonov's Center for Quantum Studies where he conducted fundamental quantum mechanics research. In 2006 Dr. Rendell was a founding member of Inspire Institute, and is currently on the board of directors. In 2018, Dr. Rendell coauthored with Dr. Michael Steiner the book “The Quantum Measurement Problem”, published by Inspire Institute, Inc.

    To the extent there is entanglement, there is no measurement.

    Michael Steiner and Ronald Rendell