Dr. John M. Vail

Position: Senior Scholar

E-Mail: John.Vail@umanitoba.ca

Education: B.Sc.(Hons.), M.Sc.(Manitoba), Ph.D.(Brandeis), FInstP (UK)


Research and Teaching Interests

    Dr. John M. Vail is a senior scholar in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manitoba.

    He pursues research studying properties of graphene and modeling defects in solid state systems.

Research Expertise

    Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, Defects in Solids

Selected Publications

  1. Vail, J. M., Topics in the Theory of Solid Materials (Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol UK, and Philadelphia PA, 2003), 368+xvi pages.
    (books authored)

  2. Vail, J. M., "New Elementary Particles", The Advancement of Science, 13, pp. 364-372 (1957)
    (The Endeavour Prize of the British Association)

  3. Harding, J. H., Harker, A. H., Keegstra, P. B. Pandey, R., Vail, J. M., and Woodward, C., "Hartree Fock Cluster
    Computations of Defect and Perfect Ionic Crystal Properties", Physica 131 B+C, pp. 151 156 (1985).

  4. Vail, J. M., "The Adiabatic and Related Approximations for Quantum Particles in Harmonic Systems", Journal of Chemical Physics 86, pp. 2194 2200 (1987).

  5. Vail, J. M., Pandey, R., and Kunz, A. B., "Embedded Quantum Cluster Simulation of Point Defects and Electronic Band Structures of Ionic Crystals", Reviews of Solid State Science 5, pp. 241-283 (1991).

  6. Vail, J. M., McMullen, T., and Meng, J., "Electronic-Structure Determination of
    Light-Impurity-Phonon Interactions in Solids", Physical Review B 49, pp. 193-200 (1994).

  7. McMullen, T., Meng, J., Vail, J. M., and Jena, P., "Quantum Diffusion of Muonium in
    Alkali Halides", Physical Review B 51, pp. 15879-15884 (1995).

  8. Vail, J. M. and Rao, B. K., "Electronic Structure of Crystals: Embedded Quantum Cluster with Overlap", International Journal of Quantum Chemistry 53, pp. 67-76 (1995).

  9. Vail, J. M., Emberly, E., Lu, T., Gu, M., and Pandey, R., "Simulation of Point Defects in High-density Luminescient Crystals: Oxygen in Barium Fluoride",
    Physical Review B 57, pp. 764-772 (1998).

  10. Vail, J. M., Coish, W. A., He, H., and Yang, A., "F Center in BaF2: Diffuse excited state", Physical Review B 66, 01409-1-01409-8 (2002).

  11. Vail, J. M., Haroon, T, Hernandez-Melgar, J. Chevrier, D. K., and Pandey, R., "Nitrogen Vacancy and Oxygen Impurity in AlN: Spintronic Quantum Dots",
    Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids 164, 585-591 (2009).

  12. Vail, J.M., Hernandez, O.J., Si, M., and Wang, Z., "Graphene Electronic Sturcuture in Charge Density Waves",
    Journal of Materials Research, 32, pp.3494-3506 (2017).