Seyed Vahid Mousavi

Assistant Professor
E-Mail: vmousavi@qom.ac.ir,  s.v.mousavi@gmail.com (Google Scholar)

Research Interests: Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
Address: Department of Physics, University of Qom, Qom, Iran.
P.O.Box: 3716146611
Tel: +98 25 32103074
Fax: +98 25 32854973

Education:

• Sept 2003 - Sept 2008, PhD in Foundation Physics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran-Iran
      Supervisor: Prof. Mehdi Golshani
      Thesis title: Investigation of the reality of paths within the Bohmian mechanics
• Sept 1998 - Jul 2002, BSc in SolidState Physics, KashanUniversity, Kashan-Iran

 

Positions:

• Feb 2009 - Present, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Qom, Qom-Iran

 

Administrative duties:

• Jan 2010 - Jan 2011, Vice-chair for education and graduate studies of the science department of the QomUniversity

• Nov 2009 - Jan 2010, Vice-chair for research of the science department of the QomUniversity

 

Visits:

• Oct 2011- Dec 2011, School of Physics, IPM, Tehran-Iran

• July 2010, S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Calcutta-India

• Feb 2007-June 2007, Physical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Bilbao-Spain

 

Workshops and Conferences Attended:

• Apr 22 - 26 2013, Quantum Theory without Observers III, ZIF, Bielefeld-Germany

• Jan 6 - 10 2011, 75 Years of Quantum Entanglement: Foundations and Information Theoretic Applications, Calcutta-India

• Dec 8 - 9 2010, National Conference on Recent Progress in Foundations of Physics, IPM, Tehran-Iran

• Dec 12 - 13 2007, National Conference on Foundations of Physics, IPM, Tehran-Iran

• May 28 - 29 2007, Quantum Optics and Foundations of Quantum Mechanics Workshop: Interaction in Ultra-Cold Gases, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Bilbao-Spain

 

Collaborating co-authors:

• M. R. Mozaffari (Qom - Iran)
• P. Chowdhury, D. Home, A. S. Majumdar & S. Sinha (Kolkata - India)
• M. Golshani (Tehran - Iran)
• I. Lizuain, D. Seidel, M. Pons, A del Campo & J. G. Muga (Bilbao - Spain)

 

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

 

• S. V. Mousavi, Quantum effective force and Bohmian approach to time-dependent traps , Phys. Scr. 89, 065003 (2014)

 

• S. V. Mousavi , Quantum dynamics in a time-dependent cylindrical trap , Phys. Lett. A 377, 1513 (2013) [Corrigendum]

• S. V. Mousavi, Quantum effective force in an expanding infinite square-well potential and Bohmian perspective , Phys. Scr. 86, 035004 (2012)

 

• S. V. Mousavi , Quantum dynamics in a time-dependent hard-wall spherical trap , Euro. Phys. Lett. 99, 30002 (2012)

 

• P. Chowdhury, D. Home, A. S. Majumdar, S. V. Mousavi , M.R. Mozaffari and S.Sinha, Strong quantum violation of the gravitational weak equivalence principle by a non-Gaussian wave-packet, Class. Quantum Grav. 29 025010 (2012)

 

• S. V. Mousavi , Quantum-mechanical effects in a linear time-dependent potential , Euro. Phys. J. D, 57, 3 (2010)

 

• S. V. Mousavi , Diffraction in time of a confined particle and its Bohmian paths , J. Phys. A: Math. Theor., 43 035304 (2010)

 

• I. Lizuain, S. V. Mousavi , D. Seidel, and J. G. Muga, Quantum Motion Effects in an Ultraold-Atom Mach-Zehnder interferometer , Phys. Rev. A, 78, 013633 (2008)

 

• S. V. Mousavi and M. Golshani, Causal description of the interaction of a two-level atom with a classical field, Physica Scripta , 78 035007 (2008)

 

• S. V. Mousavi and M. Golshani, Bohmian Approach to Spin-Dependent Time of Arrival for Particles in a Uniform Field and for Particles passing through a Barrier , J. Phys. A: Math. Theor., 41 375304 (2008)

 

• S. V. Mousavi , A.del Campo, I. Lizuain, and J. G. Muga, Ramsey interferometry with a two-level generalized Tonks-Girardeau gas , Phys. Rev. A, 76, 033607 (2007)

 

Conference Proceedings:

 

• S. V. Mousavi , A.del Campo, I. Lizuain, M. Pons and J. G. Muga, Seeking better times: atomic clocks in the generalized Tonks-Girardeau regime , J. Phys.: Conf. Ser., 99, 012014 (2008)

 

Teaching: Graduate level

• Advanced Statistical Mechanics I
• Theoretical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
• Advanced Quantum Mechanics I & II
• Classical Electrodynamics I

 

Teaching: Undergraduate level

• English for Physics Students
• Quantum Mechanics I & II
• Modern Physics
• Statistical Mechanics
• Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
• Electromagnetic II
• Analytical Mechanics I & II
• Mathematical Methods in Physics I, II & III
• Special Relativity
• Basic Physics I & II

 

Current M. Sc. Students:

• Masoumeh Bakhtiyarian
      Thesis title: Trajectory-based description of interference phenomenon

Former M. Sc. Students:

• Hamid Karami
      Thesis title: Investigation of quantum Super-Arrivals
• Mohammad Javad Khosravanipour
      Thesis title: Phase and dwell time; and the relation between them in quantum tunneling process
• Fatemeh Vatandoust
      Thesis title: Investigation of quantum effects in systems with moving boundary conditions
• Nafiseh Karimimanesh
      Thesis title: Investigation of bosons in relativistic quantum mechanics and the possibility of attributing Bohm trajectories to them