Publications

Preprints

  • J. Riddell, W. Kirkby, D. H. J. O'Dell, E. S. Sørensen, Scaling at the OTOC Wavefront: Integrable versus chaotic models. (2021). Submitted to Physical Review Letters. https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.01336

Academic Publications

  • W. Kirkby, Y. Yee, K. Shi, and D. H. J. O’Dell. Caustics in quantum many-body dynamics. Phys. Rev. Research 4, 013105 (2022). https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.00288

  • W. Kirkby, D. H. J. O’Dell, and J. Mumford. False signals of chaos from quantum probes. Phys. Rev. A 104, 043308 (2021). https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.09391

  • J. Mumford, W. Kirkby, and D. H. J. O’Dell. Measuring out-of-time-ordered correlation functions with a single impurity qubit in a bosonic Josephson junction. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 53, 145301 (2020). https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.00258

  • W. Kirkby, J. Mumford, and D. H. J. O’Dell. Quantum caustics and the hierarchy of light cones in quenched spin chains. Physical Review Research 1, 033135 (2019). https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.01289

  • J. Mumford, W. Kirkby, and D. H. J. O’Dell. Catastrophes in non-equilibrium many-particle wave functions: universality and critical scaling. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 50 (Special Issue), 044005 (2017). https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.04502

  • B. P. van Zyl, W. Kirkby, and W. Ferguson. Density-functional theory for the crystalline phases of a two-dimensional dipolar Fermi gas. Physical Review A. 92(2), 023614 (2015). https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.00870

  • J. Towers, B. P. van Zyl, and W. Kirkby. Testing the nonlocal kinetic energy functional of an inhomogeneous, two-dimensional degenerate Fermi gas within the average density approximation. Physical Review B. 92(7), 075129 (2015). https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.03118

Non-peer reviewed

  • S. Dawson, C. Lee, W. Kirkby, J. Wightman, and R. Pillsworth. (Accepted for publication) Equity Diversity and Inclusion: A Graduate Student Perspective. Physics in Canada: Special Issue on Inclusion for Excellence in the Physics Community in Canada, (2020).