Professor Peter McClintock
Research Professor, Emeritus ProfessorProfile
Biographical Sketch:
- Born: Omagh, co. Tyrone, 17 October 1940
- Educated: Queen's University, Belfast (BSc 1962), University of Oxford (DPhil 1966)
- Employment: Junior Demonstrator, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford 1963-1966; Research Associate, Duke University, 1966 - 1968; Research Associate 1968, Lecturer 1970, Senior Lecturer 1979, Reader 1983, Professor 1991, all a Lancaster University
- Miscellaneous: DSc, Queen's University, Belfast 1983; FInstP 1983; SERC/EPSRC Senior Fellowship 1990 - 1995; Chair, Standing Conference of Professors of Physics (UK and Ireland) 2003 - 2005.
- Head of Department of Physics, Lancaster University 1997 - 2003.
Research Interests
Research has included work on: (a) magnetism including, especially, studies of spin-phonon interactions in rare-earth ethylsulphate crystals; (b) quantum fluids and liquid helium-4 in particular; (c) nonlinear dynamics and fluctuational phenomena including applications to physiology.
Current research centres on low temperature physics and nonlinear dynamics and biomedical physics.
External Collaborations:
Active collaborations, supported mainly by EPSRC and the Royal Society, include links with:
- Institute for Semiconductor Physics, Kiev
- Institute of Solid State Physics RAL, Chernogolovka
- Michigan State University
- Moscow State University
- Pisa University
- University of Birmingham
- University of Florida
- University of Manchester
- University of Ljubljana
- Redeemer's University
Conferences
ESGCO-2016 International Conference on Biological Oscillations
Workshop on Fluctuations and Coherence 2011
Editorial:
Editor in Chief of Fluctuation and Noise Letters. Currently serving on the Scientific Advisory Committee of Nonlinear Biomedical Physics and the Editorial Boards of Contemporary Physics, and Nonlinear Phenomena in Complex Systems.
Research Overview
My research interests centre on nonlinearity in physical and biomedical systems. Work with colleagues and international collaborators focuses on the superfluidity of liquid He-4 and its breakdown through production of rotons or quantized vortices above critical velocities – requiring the preparation and use of isotopically pure He-4. Research on the stochastic dynamics of nonlinear oscillators and large fluctuations illuminates: classical turbulence; wave turbulence and quantum turbulence in superfluids; neutron dynamics in fluid helium; origins of rogue waves; selective passage of ions through biological ion channels; and the nonlinear dynamics of ageing, anaesthesia, autism, brain function and cardiovascular diseases.
PhD Supervision Interests
Physics of biological ion channels
Selected Publications
Diffusion Phenomena in a Mixed Phase Space
Palmero, M., Diaz, G.I., McClintock, P.V.E., Leonel, E. 7/01/2020 In: Chaos. 30
Journal article
Race-specific differences in the phase coherence between blood flow and oxygenation: A simultaneous NIRS, white light spectroscopy and LDF study
Abdulhameed , Y.A., McClintock, P.V.E., Stefanovska, A. 1/04/2020 In: Journal of Biophotonics. 13, 4, 15 p.
Journal article
Mechanism of the Resonant Enhancement of Electron Drift in Nanometre Semiconductor Superlattices Subjected to Electric and Inclined Magnetic Fields
Soskin, S.M., Khovanov, I.A., McClintock, P.V.E. 15/12/2019 In: Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. 100, 23, 25 p.
Journal article
Exploring the pore charge dependence of K+ and Cl- permeation across a graphene monolayer: a Molecular Dynamics study
Guardiani, C., Gibby, W.A.T., Barabash, M.L., Luchinsky, D.G., McClintock, P.V.E. 1/07/2019 In: RSC Advances. 9, 35, p. 20402-20414. 13 p.
Journal article
Vibrational resonance in an oscillator with an asymmetrical deformable potential
Vincent, U.E., Roy-Layinde, T.O., Popoola, O.O., Adesina, P.O., McClintock, P.V.E. 5/12/2018 In: Physical Review E. 98, 6, 11 p.
Journal article
Coupling functions: universal insights into dynamical interaction mechanisms
Stankovski, T., Pereira, T., McClintock, P.V.E., Stefanovska, A. 6/11/2017 In: Reviews of Modern Physics. 89, 4, 50 p.
Journal article
Ionic Coulomb blockade and anomalous mole fraction effect in the NaChBac bacterial ion channel and its charge-varied mutants
Kaufman, I.K., Fedorenko, O., Luchinsky, D., Gibby, W., Roberts, S.K., McClintock, P.V.E., Eisenberg, R.S. 11/09/2017 In: EPJ Nonlinear Biomedical Physics. 5, 8 p.
Journal article
Calorimetric observation of single He2* excimers in a 100 mK He bath
Carter, F.W., Hertel, S.A., McClintock, P.V.E., McKinsey, D.N., Prober, D.E. 02/2017 In: Journal of Low Temperature Physics. 186, 3, p. 183-196. 14 p.
Journal article
All Publications
Workshop on non-autonomous oscillatory systems and their applications in the life sciences
01/06/2018 → 30/11/2019
Research
Conduction and selectivity between monovalent ions within the potassium channel
01/11/2017 → 30/10/2021
Research
Microscopic dynamics of quantized vortices in turbulent superfluid in the T=0 limit
01/04/2017 → 30/09/2021
Research
A device to detect and measure the progression of dementia by quantifying the interactions between neuronal and cardiovascular oscillations
01/05/2015 → 31/10/2018
Research
Ionic Coulomb blockade oscillations and the physical origins of permeation, selectivity, and their mutation transformations in biological ion channels
01/04/2015 → 30/09/2018
Research
H2020: COSMOS
01/01/2015 → 31/08/2019
Research
Superfluid 3He at UltraLow Temperatures
01/07/2013 → 31/03/2018
Research
Quasiparticle imaging and superfluid flow experiments at ultralow temperatures
01/10/2011 → 30/09/2015
Research
Physics of non-autonomous systems in the life sciences
01/05/2011 → 31/03/2015
Research
Transition to turbulence in spatially inhomgeneous systems
01/05/2011 → 30/09/2011
Research
Interdiciplinary workshop on fluctuations and coherence: from superfluids to living systems
01/04/2011 → 31/03/2012
Research
Materials World Network: Collaborative research on simple forms of Quantum Turbulence
01/10/2010 → 30/09/2014
Research
Supersolidity of crystalline helium
01/10/2010 → 31/03/2014
Research
Dynamics of cardiovascular ageing
01/10/2009 → 31/03/2012
Research
FEC code for PYA7886: Dynamics of cardiovascular ageing
01/10/2009 → …
Research
Nonlinear dynamics of selectivity, conductivity, and gating in biological ion channels
01/08/2009 → 30/06/2013
Research
Development of turbulence in submerged jets
01/04/2009 → 28/06/2009
Research
Synchronization and transport control in ensemble of globally coupled ratchets (Dr Uchechukwu Vincent)
30/03/2009 → 16/04/2011
Research
Critical and surface phenomena of quantum fluids
01/10/2008 → 31/10/2012
Research
Stochastic Webs: Fundamentals and applications
01/10/2008 → 30/09/2011
Research
Wave Turbulence in and on quantum fluids
01/04/2008 → 31/03/2011
Research
FP6 BRACCIA; Brain, respiration and cardiac causalities in anaesthesia
01/01/2005 → 01/09/2009
Other
Dynamics of quasiparticles: from molecular dynamics to ionic current
Oral presentation
- DSI - Health
- Low Temperature Physics
- Nonlinear and Biomedical Physics