
Dr Paul Stevenson MA (Oxon) MSc DPhil MInstP
Academic and research departments
Department of Physics, Quantum Foundations Centre, Theoretical Nuclear Physics Group.Biography
Paul Stevenson studied physics at the University of Oxford, worked for one year at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, and has been at the University of Surrey since 2000. He works on nuclear structure and reaction theory, quantum computation, mathematical and computational physics, and some quantum biology. Since 2020 he has been an AWE William Penney Fellow
Areas of specialism
University roles and responsibilities
- Head of Nuclear Theory Group
- Physics Senior Personal Tutor
- Panel chair for University course validation
My qualifications
Affiliations and memberships
Research
Research interests
I work on nuclear structure and nuclear reactions using density-functional theory techniques, with a particular interest in time-dependent methods and the kinds of nuclear processes that you can describe with them: Nuclear fusion, fission, giant resonance states, reaction mechanisms, creation of superheavy elements, nuclear size, shape, structure and how all these physical observables and processes are influenced by the assumed nuclear interaction. I am the author of a recent (2019) review on the role of the nuclear interaction in the reactions between nuclei, available as an Open Access publication in Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics.
My teaching
Surrey courses I currently teach / coordinate are: PHY3038: Special Relativity, PHY3042: Modern Computational Techniques, PHY3002: Final Year Project, and PHYM051: Research Year Dissertation.
My publications
Highlights
"Low-Energy Heavy-Ion Reactions and Effective Forces", P. D. Stevenson and M. C. Barton, Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 104, 142 (2019) [ open access journal download | arxiv download (1809.05801) | surrey epubs download ]
"Two-body dissipation effect in nuclear fusion reactions", Kai Wen, M. C. Barton, Arnau Rios Huguet, and P. D. Stevenson, Phys. Rev. C 98, 014603 (2018) [ journal download | arxiv download (1805.08152) | surrey epubs download ]
"The Skyrme tensor force in heavy ion collisions", P. D. Stevenson, E. B. Suckling, S. Fracasso, M. C. Barton and A. S. Umar, Phys. Rev. C 93, 054617 (2016) [ journal download | arxiv download (1507.00645) | surrey epubs download ]
"The TDHF Code Sky3D", J. A. Maruhn, P.-G. Reinhard, P. D. Stevenson and A. S. Umar, Comput. Phys. Commun. 185, 2195 (2014) [ open access journal download | arxiv download (1310.5946) | surrey epubs download ]