Staff Profile
Professor David Toms
Professor of Theoretical Physics
- Email: david.toms@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 5354
- Fax: +44 (0) 191 208 8020
- Personal Website: http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/d.j.toms/
- Address: School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
Research
Research Interests
- Quantum field theory
- General relativity
- Quantum gravity
- Bose-Einstein condensation
- Statistical mechanics
Publications
- Toms DJ. Faddeev-Jackiw quantization and the path integral. Physical Review D 2015, 92(10).
- Moss IG, Toms DJ. Invariants of the heat equation for non-minimal operators. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 2014, 47(21), 215401.
- Toms DJ. Local momentum space and the vector field. Physical Review D 2014, 90(4), 044072.
- Noronha JMB, Toms DJ. Bose-Einstein condensation in the three-sphere and in the infinite slab: Analytical results. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 2013, 392(18), 3984-3996.
- Toms DJ. Renormalization and vacuum energy for an interacting scalar field in a delta-function potential. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 2012, 45(37), 374026.
- Toms DJ. Does gravity correct gauge couplings? [reply]. Nature 2011, 479(7374), E6.
- Toms DJ. Quadratic divergences and quantum gravitational contributions to gauge coupling constants. Physical Review D 2011, 84(8), 084016.
- Toms DJ. Cosmological Constant and Quantum Gravitational Corrections to the Running Fine Structure Constant. Physical Review Letters 2008, 101(13), 131301.
- Toms DJ. Low energy quantum gravity, the cosmological constant and gauge coupling constants. International Journal of Modern Physics D 2008, 17(13-14), 2447-2451.
- Toms DJ. Quantum gravity and charge renormalization. Physical Review D 2007, 76(4), 045015.
- Toms DJ. The Schwinger Action Principle and Effective Action. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Toms DJ. Statistical mechanics of an ideal Bose gas in a confined geometry. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 2006, 39(4), 713-722.
- Toms DJ. zeta-function regularization of the effective action for a delta-function potential. Physics Letters. Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 2006, 632(2-3), 422-426.
- Toms DJ. Ideal Fermi gases in harmonic oscillator potential traps. Annals of Physics 2005, 320(2), 487-520.
- Knapman A, Toms DJ. Non-constant ground states for symmetry-breaking fields in brane world models. Physics Letters B 2004, 594(1-2), 213-217.
- Knapman A, Toms DJ. Stress-energy tensor for a quantized bulk scalar field in the Randall-Sundrum brane model. Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 2004, 69(4), 044023.
- Toms DJ. Thermodynamics of partially confined Fermi gases at low temperatures. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 2004, 37(9), 3111-3124.
- Toms DJ. Ground state solutions for a self-interacting scalar field confined in a cavity. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 2003, 36(18), 5121-5134.
- Toms DJ. zeta-function regularization and the interacting Bose gas at low temperature. Physical Review A 2002, 66(1), 013619.
- Toms DJ. ζ-function regularization and the interacting Bose gas at low temperature. Physical Review A 2002, 66(1), 136191-136198.
- Flachi A, Moss IG, Toms DJ. Fermion vacuum energies in brane world models. Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 2001, 518(1-2), 153-156.
- Flachi A, Moss IG, Toms DJ. Fermion vacuum energies in brane world models. PHYSICS LETTERS B 2001, 518(1-2), 153-156.
- Flachi A, Moss IG, Toms DJ. Quantized bulk fermions in the Randall-Sundrum brane model. Physical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology) 2001, 64(10), 105029.
- Flachi A, Moss IG, Toms DJ. Quantized bulk fermions in the Randall-Sundrum brane model. Physical Review D 2001, 64(10), 105029.
- Flachi A, Toms DJ. Quantized bulk scalar fields in the Randall-Sundrum brane model. Nuclear Physics B 2001, 610(1-2), 144-168.
- Flachi A, Toms DJ. Analyticity of AdS scalar exchange graphs in the crossed channel. Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 2000, 478(1-3), 320-326.
- Flachi A, Toms DJ. Higgs mechanism in the Randall-Sundrum model. Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 2000, 491(1-2), 157-160.
- Flachi A, Toms DJ. Higgs mechanism in the Randall-Sundrum model. Physics Letters B 2000, 491(1-2), 157-160.
- Flachi A, Toms DJ. Measurability of the non-minimal scalar coupling constant. Physics Letters B 2000, 478(1-3), 280-284.
- Toms DJ. Quantised bulk fields in the Randall-Sundrum compactification model. Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 2000, 484(1-2), 149-153.
- Toms DJ. Quantised bulk fields in the Randall-Sundrum compactification model. Physics Letters B 2000, 484(1-2), 149-153.
- Noronha JMB, Toms DJ. The specific heat of a trapped Fermi gas: An analytical approach. Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics 2000, 267(4), 276-280.
- Kirsten K, Toms DJ. Bose-Einstein condensation in arbitrarily shaped cavities. Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics 1999, 59(1), 158-167.
- Kirsten K, Toms DJ. Bose-Einstein condensation in arbitrarily shaped cavities. Physical Review E 1999, 59(1), 158-167.
- Standen GB, Toms DJ. Statistical mechanics of nonrelativistic charged particles in a constant magnetic field. Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics 1999, 60(5A), 5275-5286.
- Standen GB, Toms DJ. Statistical mechanics of-nonrelativistic charged particles in a constant magnetic field. Physical Review E 1999, 60(5), 5275-5286.
- J. J. McKenzie-Smith and D. J. Toms. ζ-function regularization, the multiplicative anomaly, and finite temperature quantum field theory. Phys. Rev. D 1998, 58, 105001-1-10.
- G. B. Standen and David J. Toms. Bose-Einstein condensation of the magnetized ideal Bose gas. Physics Letters A 1998, 239, 401-405.
- K. Kirsten and David J. Toms. Bose-Einstein condensation under external conditions. Physics Letters A 1998, 243, 137-141.
- K. Kirsten and D. J. Toms. Bose-Einstein condensation of atomic gases in a general harmonic-oscillator confining potential trap. Phys. Rev. A 1996, 54(5), 4188-4203.
- Toms DJ. Effective action for the Yukawa model in curved spacetime. Journal of High Energy Physics 2018, 2018(5), 139.