Phone: 828-227-7260
Email: mrave@email.wcu.edu
Office Address: Natural Science Building, Room 231

Education:

• Ph.D., Wake Forest University
• M.S., Wake Forest University
• B.A., Wake Forest University

Areas of Interest:

• Solid state theory, low dimensional quantum systems, Berry’s phase, and phase transitions.

Publications & Presentations:

• M. J. Rave and W. C. Kerr, "Berry's phase for an electron in a periodic potential without inversion symmetry,” Eur. Phys. J. B. 45, 473 (2005).
• W. C. Kerr, M. J. Rave, and L. A. Turski, "Phase-Space Dynamics of Semiclassical Spin-1/2 Bloch Electrons,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 176403 (2005).
• W. C. Kerr and M. J. Rave, "Mean-field theory of entropy-driven structural phase transitions," Phys. Rev. B. 48, 16234 - 16245 (1993)