Jonathan Paul Wrubel, BS, PhD

Associate Professor

Physics

J Wrubel

Contact

JonathanWrubel@creighton.edu
College of Arts and Sciences
Graduate School
Medical Physics (Master of Science)
Physics (Master of Science)
Physics
HLSB - Hixson Lied Science Building - G68

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

Publications

  • Physical review. A
    DalFavero Benjamin, etal Constant-time quantum search with a many-body quantum system
    110:5 2024
  • Review of scientific instruments
    Aboyewa O. B., etal Design of a simple radio frequency circuit for implementing the open-ended coaxial probe method for permittivity measurement
    93:11, p. 114705 - 114705 2022
  • Physical Review A
    Wrubel J. P., etal Spinor Bose-Einstein-condensate phase-sensitive amplifier for SU(1,1) interferometry
    98:2 2018
  • Physical Review Letters
    Pechkis H. K., etal Spinor Dynamics in an Antiferromagnetic Spin-1 Thermal Bose Gas
    111:2, p. 025301 - 1 2013
  • Nano Letters
    Hyun Byung Ryool, etal Far-infrared absorption of PbSe nanorods
    11:7, p. 2786 - 2790 2011
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
    Wrubel J., etal Pumped helium system for cooling positron and electron traps to 1.2 K
    640:1, p. 232 - 240 2011
  • Physical Review Letters
    Gabrielse G., etal Centrifugal separation of antiprotons and electrons
    105:21 2010
  • Physical Review Letters
    Gabrielse G., etal Antihydrogen production within a penning-ioffe trap
    100:11 2008
  • AIP Conference Proceedings
    Storry C. H., etal Cryogenic particle accumulation in ATRAP and the first antihydrogen production within a magnetic gradient trap for neutral antimatter
    1037, p. 254 - 265 2008
  • Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
    Levitt B., etal Single-component plasma of photoelectrons
    656:1-3, p. 25 - 29 2007
  • Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
    Speck A., etal Density and geometry of single component plasmas
    650:2-3, p. 119 - 123 2007
  • Physical Review Letters
    Gabrielse G., etal Antiproton confinement in a penning-ioffe trap for antihydrogen
    98:11 2007
  • Physical Review Letters
    Wrubel J. P., etal Glasslike two-level systems in minimally disordered mixed crystals
    96:23 2006
  • Physical Review Letters
    Wrubel J. P., etal Controlled switching of intrinsic localized modes in a one-dimensional antiferromagnet
    95:26 2005

Grants

  • RII Track-1: Emergent Quantum Materials and Technologies (EQUATE)/Sponsor: University of Nebraska, Lincoln/UNL

  • Emergent Quantum Materials and Technologies (EQUATE) Cost Share/Sponsor: State of Nebraska - LB692

  • Federal award match/Sponsor: State of Nebraska - LB692

Awards

  • 2015 Teaching Achievement Award
    Creighton University Graduate Student Government