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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2005 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • 2000 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1995 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1982 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Michael V Berry is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the broad field of Physics and Astronomy, with a focus on subfields such as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Biomedical Engineering.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
  • Quantum Mechanics and Non-Hermitian Physics
  • Quantum Mechanics and Applications
  • Quantum chaos and dynamical systems
  • Mechanical and Optical Resonators
  • Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates
  • Optical Polarization and Ellipsometry

Major publication venues for Michael V Berry encompass:

  • Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical
  • European Journal of Physics
  • Journal of Optics
  • Journal of the Optical Society of America A
  • Light Science & Applications

Recent papers include:

  • The singularities of light: intensity, phase, polarisation (2023), published in Light Science & Applications
  • No general relation between phase vortices and orbital angular momentum (2022), published in Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical
  • Superoscillations and the quantum potential (2020), published in European Journal of Physics
  • Exact and approximate energy sums in potential wells (2020), published in Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical
  • Quantum metric statistics for random-matrix families (2020), published in Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Michael V Berry include Pragya Shukla, Howard Burton, Leah Knoor, Matthew O. Schrenk, and Wei Liu.

In addition to journal articles, they have published books with Open Agenda Publishing eBooks and Columbia University Press, including titles such as "China, Culturally Speaking" (2021) and "The Musha Incident" (2022).

Michael V Berry has been recognized by multiple scientific societies, having been awarded fellowships and memberships including Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom in 1982, Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1995, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2005.

Best Publications

  • Quantal phase factors accompanying adiabatic changes

    Michael Victor Berry

  • Dislocations in wave trains

    John Frederick Nye;Michael Victor Berry

  • Level Clustering in the Regular Spectrum

    Michael Victor Berry;M. Tabor

  • Nonspreading wave packets

    M. V. Berry;N. L. Balazs

  • Semiclassical approximations in wave mechanics

    Michael V. Berry;K.E. Mount

  • Regular and irregular semiclassical wavefunctions

    M V Berry

  • Semiclassical Theory of Spectral Rigidity

    Michael Victor Berry

  • Roadmap on structured light

    Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop;Andrew Forbes;Michael V Berry;Mark R Dennis

  • The Adiabatic Phase and Pancharatnam's Phase for Polarized Light

    M.V. Berry

  • On the Weierstrass-Mandelbrot fractal function

    M. V. Berry;Z. V. Lewis

  • Physics of Nonhermitian Degeneracies

    Michael V Berry

  • Transitionless quantum driving

    M V Berry

  • Semiclassical level spacings when regular and chaotic orbits coexist

    M V Berry;Marko Robnik

  • Optical vortices evolving from helicoidal integer and fractional phase steps

    MV Berry

  • Semi-classical mechanics in phase space: A study of Wigner’s function

    Michael Victor Berry

  • IV Catastrophe Optics: Morphologies of Caustics and Their Diffraction Patterns

    M.V. Berry;C. Upstill

  • Closed Orbits and the Regular Bound Spectrum

    Michael Victor Berry;M. Tabor

  • Of flying frogs and levitrons

    Michael V. Berry;A.K. Geim

  • Quantization of linear maps on a torus-fresnel diffraction by a periodic grating

    J.H. Hannay;M.V. Berry

  • Quantizing a classically ergodic system: Sinai's billiard and the KKR method

    M.V. Berry

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark R. Dennis
Mark R. Dennis University of Birmingham
Jon P Keating
Jon P Keating University of Oxford
Carl M. Bender
Carl M. Bender Washington University in St. Louis
Marko Robnik
Marko Robnik University of Maribor
Sandu Popescu
Sandu Popescu University of Bristol
Andrew M. Weiner
Andrew M. Weiner Purdue University West Lafayette
Kieron Burke
Kieron Burke University of California, Irvine
Guodong Xie
Guodong Xie University of Southern California
Alan E. Willner
Alan E. Willner University of Southern California
Reuven Gordon
Reuven Gordon University of Victoria

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